Liam 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 Kinse...
Known For
Movies
- Batman Begins
2005
- The Chronicles of Narni...
2005
- Schindler's List
1993
- Love Actually
2003
- Breakfast on Pluto
2005
- Kingdom of Heaven
2005
- Krull
1983
- Michael Collins
1996
- Gangs of New York
2002
- Star Wars: Episode I - ...
1999
- The Chronicles of Narni...
2008
- Nell
1994
- The Dead Pool
1988
- The Bounty
1984
- Les Misérables
1998
- Kinsey
2004
- The Delta Force
1986
- High Spirits
1988
- Bonnie
2022
- Excalibur
1981
- The Mission
1986
- Everest
1998
- The Riker's Ghost
- Rob Roy
1995
- The Haunting
1999
- Shining Through
1992
- K-19: The Widowmaker
2002
- Taken
2008
- Happy Birthday Oscar Wi...
2004
- The Endurance - Shackle...
2000
- Leap of Faith
1992
- Darkman
1990
- Suspect
1987
- Seraphim Falls
2007
- A Prayer for the Dying
1987
- Under Suspicion
1991
- The Hunger: The Story o...
2020
- Next of Kin
1989
- Chloe
2010
- Husbands and Wives
1992
- Gun Shy
2000
- After.Life
2009
- Trumbo
2007
- The Next Three Days
2010
- Before and After
1996
- Ethan Frome
1993
- Battleship
2012
- Christiana
1979
- Five Minutes of Heaven
2009
- An Audience with Mel Br...
1984
- Satisfaction
1988
- The Other Man
2008
- Pilgrim's Progress
1978
- Unknown
2011
- The Dark Knight Rises
2012
- Coral Reef Adventure
2003
- Ice Road: Vengeance
2025
- Journey into Amazing Ca...
2001
- Clash of the Titans
2010
- Silence
2016
- Ruby Cairo
1992
- Brian Friel: Shy Man, S...
2022
- Eugene O’Neill: A Docum...
2006
- Taken 2
2012
- The Big Man
1990
- The Grey
2012
- Inside The Space Station
2000
- Black Holes: The Other ...
2006
- Wrath of the Titans
2012
- Narco Sub
- The Wildest Dream
2010
- The Good Mother
1988
- Patrick
2004
- Arthur the King
1985
- The Big Bang
2002
- The Lego Movie
2014
- Third Person
2014
- Martin Luther
2003
- A Walk Among the Tombst...
2014
- Khumba
2013
- Girl Rising
2013
- A Million Ways to Die i...
2014
- Dinner at the Sporting ...
1978
- WAMEGO: Addendum
2020
- Dynamic Earth: Explorin...
2012
- The Last Laugh
2016
- Wildcat
2024
- Absolution
2024
- Cold Storage
- Uncovering the Real Gan...
2003
- Manny
2014
- Non-Stop
2014
- The Nut Job
2014
- Jeff Wayne's Musical Ve...
2013
- Run All Night
2015
- George Lucas: Creating ...
2005
- Taken 3
2014
- Lamb
1986
- The Secret Policeman's ...
2012
- A Monster Calls
2016
- Road
2014
- The A-Team
2010
- Kahlil Gibran's The Pro...
2014
- Ireland
2022
- Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi'...
2022
- A Child's Garden of Poe...
2011
- In the Land of Saints a...
2023
- The Chronicles of Narni...
2010
- Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys
2014
- The Naked Gun
2025
- Paul Muldoon: Laoithe i...
2022
- Nailed
1981
- Entourage
2015
- Ted 2
2015
- Sworn to Silence
1987
- Spielberg
2017
- Anchorman 2: The Legend...
2013
- A Christmas Star
2015
- Our Blue World: A Water...
2024
- Hotel Tehran
- Mongoose
- Lumière et Compagnie
1995
- Mark Felt: The Man Who ...
2017
- The Huntsman: Winter's ...
2016
- Out of Ireland: The Sto...
1994
- The Beginning: Making E...
2001
- The Commuter
2018
- 인천상륙작전
2016
- Revolver
1991
- The Trainer
- 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
2026
- The Story of Star Wars
2004
- Karenina & I
2017
- Cold Pursuit
2019
- Red Nose Day Actually
2017
- The Greeks: Crucible of...
2000
- The Innocent
1985
- Sergeant York: Of God a...
2006
- Widows
2018
- How to Defuse a Bomb: T...
2016
- A Fanatic Heart: Geldof...
2016
- Love Thy Nature
2016
- Daddy's Home 2
2017
- Across the Water
1983
- And the Winner Isn't
2017
- The Birth of Christ
2007
- Charlie Johnson in the ...
- In the Name of Peace: J...
2017
- The Last Horsemen of Ne...
2018
- The Ballad of Buster Sc...
2018
- Honest Thief
2020
- Men in Black: Internati...
2019
- Ordinary Love
2019
- Sweet As You Are
1988
- The Marksman
2021
- Lost Lives
2019
- Star Wars: The Rise of ...
2019
- Made in Italy
2020
- Miss Sarajevo
1995
- The Ice Road
2021
- Xavier
2006
- Duet for One
1986
- Home
2006
- Brave Blue World: Racin...
2019
- The Last Window Cleaner
1979
- The Fire Rises: The Cre...
2013
- Retribution
2023
- The Mind's Big Bang
2001
- Martin Scorsese's Journ...
2017
- The Path to Redemption
2006
- Memory
2022
- Excalibur: Behind the M...
2013
- Marlowe
2023
- Blacklight
2022
- Cold Pursuit 2
- My Dear Palestrina
1980
- A Leap of Faith
1996
- Nice Girls Don't Stay f...
2019
- Clark Gable: Tall, Dark...
1996
- Out of Ireland
1995
- Star Wars: Episode II -...
2002
- Schindler's List: 25 Ye...
2018
- Irvine Welsh: Reality I...
2025
- Sesame Street: What's t...
2004
TV Shows
- This Morning
1988
- The Simpsons
1989
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
- The One Show
2006
- The Daily Show
1996
- Miami Vice
1984
- The View
1997
- Star Wars: The Clone Wa...
2008
- 60 Minutes
1968
- Late Night with Conan O...
1993
- Liberty's Kids
2002
- A Woman of Substance
1985
- Conan
2010
- The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
- The Oscars
1953
- Dream Corp LLC
2016
- If Tomorrow Comes
1986
- Live from Studio Five
2009
- The U.S. and the Holoca...
2022
- Saturday Night Live
1975
- Saturday Night Live
1975
- Pope: The Most Powerful...
2018
- The Tonight Show Starri...
2014
- Nature
1982
- Martin Luther
2003
- El hormiguero
2006
- The Greeks: Crucible of...
2000
- The Graham Norton Show
2007
- An Audience with...
1978
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
- Derry Girls
2018
- Atlanta
2016
- Watch What Happens Live...
2009
- The Late Show with Step...
2015
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
- Benjamin Franklin
2022
- Life's Too Short
2011
- 1916
2016
- Buccaneers & Bones
2010
- Goldene Kamera Verleihu...
1984
- Late Night with Seth Me...
2014
- Star Wars: Tales of the...
2022
- Nature Is Speaking
2015
- Play for Today
1970
- Family Guy
1999
- The Orville
2017
- Tony Awards
1956
- Golden Globe Awards
1944
- Golden Globe Awards
1944
- Parkinson
1998
- Tony Awards
1956
- Conan O'Brien Must Go
2024
- Playhouse
1974
- Ellis Island
1984
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003