Liam Neeson

Acting

1952-06-07 · Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an Irish actor. He was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and educated at Saint Patrick's College, Ballymena Technical College and Queen's University Belfast. He moved to Dublin after university to further his acting career, joining the renowned Abbey Theatre. In the early 1990s, he moved again to the United States, where the wide acclaim for his performance in Schindler's List led to more high-profile work. He is widowed and lives in New York with his two sons. He has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards. He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey, Ras Al Ghul in Batman Begins and the voice of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. He has also starred in several other notable films, from major Hollywood studio releases (ie. Excalibur, The Dead Pool, Nell, Rob Roy, The Haunting, Love Actually, Kingdom of Heaven, Taken, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, Unknown) to smaller arthouse films (ie. Deception, Breakfast on Pluto, Chloe).

Filmography

Theaters

The Mongoose

2026 · Movie

Theaters

The Lost Children of Tuam

2026 · Movie

Theaters

The Fix

2026 · Movie

Cold Storage

2026 · Movie

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

2025 · Movie

The Naked Gun

2025 · Movie

Ice Road: Vengeance

2025 · Movie

David Frost Vs

2025 · Series

Absolution

2024 · Movie

Wildcat

2024 · Movie

Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey

2024 · Movie

Conan O'Brien Must Go

2024 · Series

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

2023 · Movie

Retribution

2023 · Movie

Marlowe

2023 · Movie

Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici

2022 · Movie

Bonnie

2022 · Movie

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

2022 · Series

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

2022 · Movie

Obi-Wan Kenobi

2022 · Series

Memory

2022 · Movie

Benjamin Franklin

2022 · Series

Ireland

2022 · Movie

Blacklight

2022 · Movie

Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman

2022 · Movie

The Ice Road

2021 · Movie

The Marksman

2021 · Movie

WAMEGO: Addendum

2020 · Movie

Honest Thief

2020 · Movie

Made in Italy

2020 · Movie

The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

2020 · Movie

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

2019 · Movie

Ordinary Love

2019 · Movie

Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis

2019 · Movie

Lost Lives

2019 · Movie

Men in Black: International

2019 · Movie

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

2019 · Movie

Cold Pursuit

2019 · Movie

An Oral History of: Schindler's List

2018 · Movie

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

2018 · Movie

Widows

2018 · Movie

The White Crow

2018 · Movie

The Last Horsemen of New York

2018 · Movie

Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History

2018 · Series

The Commuter

2018 · Movie

Derry Girls

2018 · Series

And the Winner Isn't

2017 · Movie

Daddy's Home 2

2017 · Movie

Spielberg

2017 · Movie

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

2017 · Movie

In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America

2017 · Movie

The Orville

2017 · Series

Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence

2017 · Movie

Red Nose Day Actually

2017 · Movie

Karenina & I

2017 · Movie

Silence

2016 · Movie

Dream Corp LLC

2016 · Series

A Monster Calls

2016 · Movie

How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story

2016 · Movie

Atlanta

2016 · Series

Operation Chromite

2016 · Movie

Love Thy Nature

2016 · Movie

The Last Laugh

2016 · Movie

The Huntsman: Winter's War

2016 · Movie

A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

2016 · Movie

1916

2016 · Series

A Christmas Star

2015 · Movie

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015 · Series

Nature Is Speaking

2015 · Series

Ted 2

2015 · Movie

Entourage

2015 · Movie

Run All Night

2015 · Movie

Manny

2014 · Movie

Taken 3

2014 · Movie

A Walk Among the Tombstones

2014 · Movie

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

2014 · Movie

Third Person

2014 · Movie

Road

2014 · Movie

A Million Ways to Die in the West

2014 · Movie

Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys

2014 · Movie

Non-Stop

2014 · Movie

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014 · Series

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014 · Series

The Lego Movie

2014 · Movie

The Nut Job

2014 · Movie

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

2013 · Movie

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

2013 · Movie

The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy

2013 · Movie

Khumba

2013 · Movie

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!

2013 · Movie

Girl Rising

2013 · Movie

Taken 2

2012 · Movie

The Dark Knight Rises

2012 · Movie

Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine

2012 · Movie

Battleship

2012 · Movie

Wrath of the Titans

2012 · Movie

The Secret Policeman's Ball

2012 · Movie

The Grey

2012 · Movie

Life's Too Short

2011 · Series

The Jonathan Ross Show

2011 · Series

A Child's Garden of Poetry

2011 · Movie

Unknown

2011 · Movie

Buccaneers & Bones

2010 · Series

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

2010 · Movie

The Next Three Days

2010 · Movie

Conan

2010 · Series

The Wildest Dream

2010 · Movie

The A-Team

2010 · Movie

Clash of the Titans

2010 · Movie

Chloe

2010 · Movie

After.Life

2009 · Movie

Live from Studio Five

2009 · Series

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009 · Series

Five Minutes of Heaven

2009 · Movie

The Other Man

2008 · Movie

The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files

2008 · Movie

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

2008 · Series

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

2008 · Movie

Taken

2008 · Movie

The Birth of Christ

2007 · Movie

Trumbo

2007 · Movie

The Graham Norton Show

2007 · Series

Seraphim Falls

2007 · Movie

Sergeant York: Of God and Country

2006 · Movie

Home

2006 · Movie

Xavier

2006 · Movie

El hormiguero

2006 · Series

The One Show

2006 · Series

The Path to Redemption

2006 · Movie

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006 · Movie

Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity

2006 · Movie

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2005 · Movie

Breakfast on Pluto

2005 · Movie

Batman Begins

2005 · Movie

Kingdom of Heaven

2005 · Movie

George Lucas: Creating an Empire

2005 · Movie

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

2004 · Movie

Kinsey

2004 · Movie

The Story of Star Wars

2004 · Movie

Patrick

2004 · Movie

Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?

2004 · Movie

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

2003 · Series

Love Actually

2003 · Movie

Martin Luther

2003 · Series

Martin Luther

2003 · Movie

Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York

2003 · Movie

Coral Reef Adventure

2003 · Movie

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003 · Series

Gangs of New York

2002 · Movie

Liberty's Kids

2002 · Series

K-19: The Widowmaker

2002 · Movie

The Big Bang

2002 · Movie

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

2002 · Movie

The Maze

2002 · Movie

The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I

2001 · Movie

The Mind's Big Bang

2001 · Movie

Evolution

2001 · Series

Journey into Amazing Caves

2001 · Movie

Inside The Space Station

2000 · Movie

The Endurance

2000 · Movie

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

2000 · Series

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

2000 · Movie

Gun Shy

2000 · Movie

The Haunting

1999 · Movie

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

1999 · Movie

Family Guy

1999 · Series

Les Misérables

1998 · Movie

Everest

1998 · Movie

Parkinson

1998 · Series

The View

1997 · Series

A Leap of Faith

1996 · Movie

Michael Collins

1996 · Movie

The Daily Show

1996 · Series

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

1996 · Series

Before and After

1996 · Movie

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

1996 · Movie

Lumière & Company

1995 · Movie

Out of Ireland

1995 · Movie

Rob Roy

1995 · Movie

Miss Sarajevo

1995 · Movie

Nell

1994 · Movie

Schindler's List

1993 · Movie

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993 · Series

Ethan Frome

1993 · Movie

Leap of Faith

1992 · Movie

Ruby Cairo

1992 · Movie

Husbands and Wives

1992 · Movie

Shining Through

1992 · Movie

Revolver

1991 · Movie

Under Suspicion

1991 · Movie

The Big Man

1990 · Movie

Darkman

1990 · Movie

The Simpsons

1989 · Series

Next of Kin

1989 · Movie

High Spirits

1988 · Movie

The Good Mother

1988 · Movie

This Morning

1988 · Series

The Dead Pool

1988 · Movie

Satisfaction

1988 · Movie

Sweet as You Are

1988 · Movie

Suspect

1987 · Movie

A Prayer for the Dying

1987 · Movie

Hold the Dream

1987 · Series

Sworn to Silence

1987 · Movie

Duet for One

1986 · Movie

Lamb

1986 · Movie

The Mission

1986 · Movie

If Tomorrow Comes

1986 · Series

The Delta Force

1986 · Movie

Arthur the King

1985 · Movie

The Innocent

1985 · Movie

Screen Two

1985 · Series

A Woman of Substance

1985 · Series

Ellis Island

1984 · Series

Miami Vice

1984 · Series

The Bounty

1984 · Movie

An Audience with Mel Brooks

1984 · Movie

Goldene Kamera

1984 · Series

Krull

1983 · Movie

Across the Water

1983 · Movie

Nature

1982 · Series

American Playhouse

1982 · Series

Nailed

1981 · Movie

Excalibur

1981 · Movie

My Dear Palestrina

1980 · Movie

Christiana

1979 · Movie

The Last Window Cleaner

1979 · Movie

Dinner at the Sporting Club

1978 · Movie

Pilgrim's Progress

1978 · Movie

An Audience with...

1978 · Series

Saturday Night Live

1975 · Series

Playhouse

1974 · Series

Film '72

1971 · Series

Play for Today

1970 · Series

60 Minutes

1968 · Series

Omnibus

1967 · Series

Tony Awards

1956 · Series

The Oscars

1953 · Series

Golden Globe Awards

1944 · Series

4 Kids Walk Into a Bank

Movie

Movie

Movie

Movie

Movie

Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Movie

The Riker's Ghost

Movie

The Nut Job 3

Movie

Charlie Johnson in the Flames

Movie