Liam Neeson
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 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).
Known For
Credits
- 2026 · 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank as Danny
- 2026 · Cold Storage as Robert Quinn
- 2023 · Wildcat as Father Flynn
- 2020 · The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis as Narrator
- 2019 · Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - Actor
- 2018 · An Oral History of: Schindler's List as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History as Self - Narrator
- 2017 · And the Winner Isn't as Self
- 2017 · Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House as Mark Felt
- 2017 · In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America as Narrator
- 2017 · Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence as Self
- 2017 · Red Nose Day Actually as Daniel
- 2016 · The Last Laugh as Self
- 2016 · 1916 as Narrator
- 2015 · A Christmas Star as Narrator / Radio DJ
- 2014 · Manny as Narrator
- 2014 · Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet as Mustafa (voice)
- 2014 · Third Person as Michael
- 2014 · Road as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Khumba as Phango (voice)
- 2013 · Girl Rising as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
- 2009 · Live from Studio Five as Self
- 2009 · Five Minutes of Heaven as Alistair Little
- 2008 · The Other Man as Peter
- 2008 · The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files as Self
- 2007 · Trumbo as Self
- 2006 · Home as
- 2006 · Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity as Narrator
- 2005 · Breakfast on Pluto as Father Liam
- 2005 · George Lucas: Creating an Empire as Self
- 2004 · The Story of Star Wars as Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage)
- 2004 · Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song? as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · Martin Luther as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Coral Reef Adventure as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · The Beginning: Making Episode I as Self
- 2000 · The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as Self - Narrator
- 2000 · Gun Shy as Charles Mayough
- 1998 · Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
- 1996 · Michael Collins as Michael Collins
- 1996 · Before and After as Ben Ryan
- 1995 · Lumière & Company as (segment "John Boorman")
- 1995 · Rob Roy as Robert Roy MacGregor
- 1995 · Miss Sarajevo as Self
- 1993 · Ethan Frome as Ethan Frome
- 1992 · Leap of Faith as Sheriff Will Braverman
- 1992 · Ruby Cairo as Fergus Lamb
- 1992 · Husbands and Wives as Michael Gates
- 1991 · Under Suspicion as Tony Aaron
- 1989 · Next of Kin as Briar Gates
- 1988 · High Spirits as Martin Brogan
- 1988 · The Good Mother as Leo Cutter
- 1988 · Satisfaction as Martin Falcon
- 1987 · Suspect as Carl Wayne Anderson
- 1987 · A Prayer for the Dying as Liam Docherty
- 1985 · Arthur the King as Grak
- 1985 · The Innocent as John Carns
- 1984 · The Bounty as Charles Churchill
- Future · Hotel Tehran as Larry
- 1978 · Pilgrim's Progress as Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ
- Future · Narco Sub as
- 2025 · Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough as Narrator
- 2025 · The Naked Gun as Frank Drebin Jr.
- 2025 · Ice Road: Vengeance as Mike McCann
- 2024 · Absolution as Thug
- 2024 · Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey as Narrator
- 2024 · Conan O'Brien Must Go as Bryan Mills (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2023 · In the Land of Saints and Sinners as Finbar Murphy
- 2023 · Retribution as Matt Turner
- 2023 · Marlowe as Philip Marlowe
- 2022 · Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici as Self
- 2022 · Bonnie as Self
- 2022 · Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
- 2022 · The U.S. and the Holocaust as
- 2022 · Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Qui-Gon Jinn
- 2022 · Obi-Wan Kenobi as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2022 · Obi-Wan Kenobi as Qui-Gon Jinn (uncredited)
- 2022 · Memory as Alex Lewis
- 2022 · Benjamin Franklin as Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice)
- 2022 · Ireland as
- 2022 · Blacklight as Travis Block
- 2022 · Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman as Self
- 2021 · The Ice Road as Mike McCann
- 2021 · The Marksman as Jim
- 2020 · WAMEGO: Addendum as
- 2020 · Honest Thief as Tom Dolan
- 2020 · Made in Italy as Robert
- 2019 · Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
- 2019 · Ordinary Love as Tom
- 2019 · Lost Lives as
- 2019 · Men in Black: International as Agent High T
- 2019 · Cold Pursuit as Nels Coxman
- 2018 · The Ballad of Buster Scruggs as Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket")
- 2018 · Widows as Harry Rawlings
- 2018 · Schindler's List: 25 Years Later as Self
- 2018 · The Last Horsemen of New York as
- 2018 · The Commuter as Michael MacCauley
- 2018 · Derry Girls as Chief Inspector Byers
- 2017 · Daddy's Home 2 as Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited)
- 2017 · Spielberg as Self - Segment "Schindler's List"
- 2017 · The Orville as Jahavus Dorahl
- 2017 · Karenina & I as Leo Tolstoy
- 2016 · Silence as Ferreira
- 2016 · Dream Corp LLC as Joey in the Center of Her Mind (voice)
- 2016 · A Monster Calls as The Monster (voice)
- 2016 · How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · Atlanta as Liam Neeson
- 2016 · Operation Chromite as Douglas MacArthur
- 2016 · Love Thy Nature as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · The Huntsman: Winter's War as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 2016 · A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Mr. Toffee
- 2015 · Nature Is Speaking as Ice
- 2015 · Ted 2 as Customer
- 2015 · Entourage as Liam Neeson
- 2015 · Run All Night as Jimmy Conlon
- 2014 · Taken 3 as Bryan Mills
- 2014 · A Walk Among the Tombstones as Matthew Scudder
- 2014 · A Million Ways to Die in the West as Clinch
- 2014 · Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys as Self - Narrator
- 2014 · Non-Stop as Bill Marks
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- 2014 · The Lego Movie as Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)
- 2014 · The Nut Job as Raccoon (voice)
- 2013 · Excalibur: Behind the Movie as Self
- 2013 · Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues as History Channel Host (uncredited)
- 2013 · Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage! as The Journalist
- 2012 · Taken 2 as Bryan Mills
- 2012 · The Dark Knight Rises as Ra's Al Ghul
- 2012 · Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Battleship as Admiral Shane
- 2012 · Wrath of the Titans as Zeus
- 2012 · The Grey as John Ottway
- 2011 · Life's Too Short as Liam Neeson
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2011 · A Child's Garden of Poetry as Self (voice)
- 2011 · Unknown as Dr. Martin Harris
- 2010 · Buccaneers & Bones as
- 2010 · The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as Aslan (voice)
- 2010 · The Next Three Days as Damon
- 2010 · Conan as Self
- 2010 · The Wildest Dream as Narrator
- 2010 · The A-Team as Hannibal
- 2010 · Clash of the Titans as Zeus
- 2010 · Chloe as David Stewart
- 2009 · After.Life as Eliot Deacon
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2008 · Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
- 2008 · The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian as Aslan (voice)
- 2008 · Taken as Bryan Mills
- 2007 · The Birth of Christ as Self - Narrator
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Seraphim Falls as Carver
- 2006 · Sergeant York: Of God and Country as
- 2006 · Xavier as Narrator
- 2006 · El hormiguero as Self
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · The Path to Redemption as Self
- 2006 · Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film as Self
- 2005 · The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Aslan (voice)
- 2005 · Batman Begins as Ducard
- 2005 · Kingdom of Heaven as Godfrey de Ibelin
- 2004 · Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde as Self
- 2004 · Kinsey as Alfred Kinsey
- 2004 · Patrick as Narrator
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Love Actually as Daniel
- 2003 · Martin Luther as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- 2002 · Gangs of New York as 'Priest' Vallon
- 2002 · Liberty's Kids as John Paul Jones (voice)
- 2002 · K-19: The Widowmaker as Mikhail Polenin
- 2002 · The Big Bang as Self
- 2002 · Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
- 2002 · The Maze as Narrator
- 2001 · The Mind's Big Bang as Self
- 2001 · Journey into Amazing Caves as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Inside The Space Station as Self - Narrator
- 2000 · The Endurance as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as Narrator
- 1999 · The Haunting as Dr. David Marrow
- 1999 · Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as Qui-Gon Jinn
- 1999 · Family Guy as Liam Neeson (voice)
- 1998 · Everest as Narrator
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1996 · A Leap of Faith as Narrator (voice)
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- 1996 · Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome as Host
- 1995 · Out of Ireland as William Murphy (voice)
- 1994 · Nell as Dr. Lovell
- 1993 · Schindler's List as Oskar Schindler
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1992 · Shining Through as Franze-Otto Dietrich
- 1991 · Revolver as Man
- 1990 · The Big Man as Danny Scoular
- 1990 · Darkman as Peyton Westlake / Darkman
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Father Sean (voice)
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1988 · The Dead Pool as Peter Swan
- 1988 · Sweet as You Are as Martin Perry
- 1987 · Hold the Dream as Blackie O'Neill
- 1987 · Sworn to Silence as Vincent Cauley
- 1986 · Duet for One as Totter
- 1986 · Lamb as Michael Lamb
- 1986 · The Mission as Father John Fielding
- 1986 · If Tomorrow Comes as André Trignant
- 1986 · The Delta Force as Delta Force Member (uncredited)
- 1985 · A Woman of Substance as Blackie O'Neill
- 1984 · Ellis Island as Kevin Murray
- 1984 · Miami Vice as Sean Carroon
- 1984 · An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)
- 1984 · Goldene Kamera as Self
- 1983 · Krull as Kegan
- Future · Charlie Johnson in the Flames as
- Future · Mongoose as Ryan "Fang" Flanagan
- Future · The Trainer as John Moore
- 1983 · Across the Water as Martin
- 1982 · Nature as Narrator (voice)
- 1979 · Christiana as Greatheart
- 1979 · The Last Window Cleaner as Self
- Future · The Riker's Ghost as
- 1981 · Nailed as Young Catholic
- 1981 · Excalibur as Gawain
- 1980 · My Dear Palestrina as Blacksmith
- 1978 · Dinner at the Sporting Club as Dermot
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1974 · Playhouse as Blacksmith
- 1970 · Play for Today as Him
- 1968 · 60 Minutes as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- Future · Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption Exposed as Narrator (voice)
- Future · A Celebration of the Life and Times of Skippy Jessop as
- Future · Cold Pursuit 2 as Nels Coxman
- Future · The Nut Job 3 as Raccoon (voice)
- Future · Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea as Narrator