Sam Neill
September 14, 1947 (77 years old) in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
Sir Nigel John Dermot 'Sam' Neill, KNZM OBE (born September 14, 1947) is an Ireland-born New Zealand actor. His career has included leading roles in both dramas and blockbusters. Considered an "international leading man", he has been regarded as one of the most versatile actors of his generation. He is perhaps best known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. He has also had a number of high-profile roles including: the lead in Reilly, Ace of Spies, the adult Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict, Merlin in the miniseries Merlin, Captain Vasily Borodin in The Hunt for Red October, Lord Friedrich Hoffman in Snow White: A Tale of Terror, and Alisdair Stewart in The Piano. He also portayed Cardinal Thomas Wolsey on Showtime's The Tudors.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · The Assembly as Self
- 2024 · Apples Never Fall as Stan Delaney
- 2023 · Bring Him to Me as Frank
- 2023 · Scarygirl as Dr. Maybee (voice)
- 2023 · The Portable Door as Dennis Tanner
- 2023 · Assassin Club as Caldwell
- 2022 · Thor: Love and Thunder as Actor Odin
- 2022 · The Twelve as Brett Colby
- 2022 · The Twelve as Brett Colby QC
- 2022 · Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World as Self
- 2022 · Jurassic World Dominion as Alan Grant
- 2021 · Invasion as Jim Bell Tyson
- 2021 · Trial In The Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story as Self - Host
- 2021 · The Real Hunt for Red October as Self
- 2021 · Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway as Tommy Brock (voice)
- 2021 · Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal as Frankie Scales (voice)
- 2020 · Rams as Colin
- 2019 · The Movies That Made Us as Self
- 2019 · Ride Like a Girl as Paddy Payne
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Blackbird as Tom
- 2019 · Palm Beach as Leo
- 2019 · Flack as Duncan Paulson
- 2018 · The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook as Self - Host
- 2018 · Anika Moa Unleashed as Self
- 2018 · Peter Rabbit as Mr. McGregor / Tommy Brock (voice)
- 2018 · Sweet Country as Fred Smith
- 2018 · The Commuter as Captain Hawthorne
- 2017 · Thor: Ragnarok as Actor Odin
- 2017 · Get Krack!n as Self
- 2017 · Tommy's Honour as Alexander Boothby
- 2017 · House of Bond as Roland “Tiny” Rowland
- 2017 · David Stratton: A Cinematic Life as Self
- 2016 · Tutankhamun as Lord Carnarvon
- 2016 · New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · Hunt for the Wilderpeople as Hec
- 2015 · And Then There Were None as General John MacArthur
- 2015 · The Daughter as Walter
- 2015 · MindGamers as Kreutz
- 2015 · Backtrack as Duncan Stewart
- 2015 · The Dovekeepers as
- 2015 · House of Hancock as Lang Hancock
- 2014 · United Passions as Joao Havelange
- 2014 · Old School as Ted McCabe
- 2014 · A Long Way Down as Chris Crichton
- 2013 · River Deep, Mountain High: James Nesbitt in New Zealand as Self
- 2013 · The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box as Otto Luger
- 2013 · Rick and Morty as Monogatron Leader (voice)
- 2013 · Escape Plan as Dr. Kyrie
- 2013 · Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery as Self
- 2013 · Peaky Blinders as C.I. Chester Campbell
- 2013 · Peaky Blinders as Major Chester Campbell
- 2013 · The Ordained as Governor Michael Thomas Riley
- 2013 · Harry as DSS Jim Stockton
- 2012 · The Vow as Bill Thornton
- 2012 · Alcatraz as Emerson Hauser
- 2011 · The Hunter as Jack Mindy
- 2011 · The Story of Film: An Odyssey as Self
- 2011 · The Dragon Pearl as Chris Chase
- 2011 · Return to Jurassic Park as Self
- 2011 · Ice as Anthony Kavanagh
- 2011 · Ice as Anthony Kavanagh
- 2010 · Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole as Allomere (voice)
- 2010 · In Her Skin as Mr. Reid
- 2010 · Happy Town as Merritt Grieves
- 2010 · Daybreakers as Charles Bromley
- 2009 · Under the Mountain as Mr. Jones
- 2009 · Iron Road as Alfred Nichol
- 2008 · Dean Spanley as Dean Spanley
- 2008 · Crusoe as Jeremiah Blackthorn
- 2008 · Skin as Abraham Laing
- 2007 · The Pixar Story as Alan Grant (archive footage)
- 2007 · The Tudors as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Angel as Théo
- 2006 · Two Twisted as Mick
- 2006 · Irresistible as Craig
- 2006 · The Making of 'Event Horizon' as Self
- 2006 · Merlin's Apprentice as Merlin
- 2006 · Working with a Master: John Carpenter as Self
- 2005 · The Triangle as
- 2005 · The Triangle as Eric Benerall
- 2005 · The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant as Governor Arthur Phillip
- 2005 · Yes as Anthony
- 2005 · Little Fish as The Jockey
- 2005 · To the Ends of the Earth as Mr. Prettiman
- 2005 · Gallipoli as Narrator
- 2004 · Wimbledon as Dennis Bradbury
- 2004 · Jessica as
- 2002 · Doctor Zhivago as Victor Komarovsky
- 2002 · Dirty Deeds as Ray
- 2002 · Framed as Eddie Meyers
- 2001 · The Making Of 'Jurassic Park III' as Self
- 2001 · Richard & Judy as Self
- 2001 · The Zookeeper as Ludovic
- 2001 · Space as Himself
- 2001 · Jurassic Park III as Dr. Alan Grant
- 2001 · Submerged as Lt. Cmdr. Charles B. 'Swede' Momsen
- 2000 · The Magic Pudding as Sam Sawnoff (voice)
- 2000 · The Dish as Cliff Buxton - Dish Master
- 2000 · Sally Hemings: An American Scandal as Thomas Jefferson
- 2000 · Sally Hemings: An American Scandal as Thomas Jefferson
- 1999 · Bicentennial Man as Sir
- 1999 · Rove as Self
- 1999 · Molokai: The Story of Father Damien as Prime Minister Gibson
- 1998 · The Games as Citytrans World CEO
- 1998 · The Revengers' Comedies as Henry Bell
- 1998 · Merlin as Merlin
- 1998 · The Horse Whisperer as Robert MacLean
- 1997 · Forgotten Silver as Himself
- 1997 · Event Horizon as Weir
- 1997 · Snow White: A Tale of Terror as Lord Friedrich Hoffman
- 1997 · The Rainbow Warrior as Chief Inspector Alan Galbraith
- 1996 · Children of the Revolution as David 'Dave' Hoyle, aka Agent 'Nine'
- 1996 · Victory as Mr. Jones
- 1996 · In Cold Blood as Agent Alvin Dewey
- 1996 · Australian Story as Self
- 1995 · Restoration as King Charles II
- 1995 · Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill as Narrator / Host
- 1995 · The Making of 'Jurassic Park' as Self / Alan Grant
- 1995 · In the Mouth of Madness as John Trent
- 1994 · The Jungle Book as Colonel Geofferey Brydon
- 1994 · Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects as Self
- 1994 · Sirens as Norman Lindsay
- 1993 · Jurassic Park as Grant
- 1993 · The Piano as Alisdair Stewart
- 1992 · Hostage as John Rennie
- 1992 · Memoirs of an Invisible Man as David Jenkins
- 1991 · One Against the Wind as Major James Leggatt, The Guards
- 1991 · Until the End of the World as Eugene Fitzpatrick
- 1991 · Fever as Elliot
- 1991 · Death in Brunswick as Carl
- 1990 · The Hunt for Red October as Capt. 2nd Vasily Borodin
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Molloy (voice)
- 1989 · The French Revolution: Years of Rage as Marquis de Lafayette
- 1989 · Dead Calm as John Ingram
- 1988 · Evil Angels as Michael Chamberlain
- 1987 · The Good Wife as Neville Gifford
- 1987 · Amerika as Colonel Andrei Denisov
- 1986 · Strong Medicine as Vince Lord
- 1985 · Kane & Abel as William Lowell Kane
- 1985 · Plenty as Lazar
- 1984 · The Blood of Others as Bergman
- 1983 · Reilly: Ace of Spies as Sidney Reilly
- 1982 · Enigma as Dimitri Vasilikov
- 1982 · Attack Force Z as Sergeant Costello
- 1982 · Ivanhoe as Brian de Bois-Guilbert
- 1981 · From a Far Country as Marian
- 1981 · Possession as Mark
- 1981 · The Final Conflict as Damien Thorn
- 1980 · Lucinda Brayford as Tony Duff
- 1979 · My Brilliant Career as Harry Beecham
- 1977 · Sleeping Dogs as Smith
- 1976 · The Sullivans as Ben Dawson
- Future · UNTAMED as Paul Souter
- 2024 · T. REX as Narrator
- 2022 · Voice Activated as Audiobook Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Russell Howard Stands Up to the World as Self
- 2020 · Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Sea Lions: Life By a Whisker as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · The Show Must Go On as Self
- 2016 · New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · Why Anzac with Sam Neill as Self
- 2012 · Alcatraz as Emerson Hauser
- 2010 · The Making of Daybreakers as Self
- 2009 · Iron Road as Alfred Nichol
- 2009 · The Man in the Hat as Reader of Correspondence
- 2008 · Verity Lambert: Drama Queen as Narrator
- 2006 · Voyage of the Nautilus as Hubert Wilkins
- 2005 · New Zild - The Story of New Zealand English as Self
- 2004 · Colin McCahon: I Am as Narrator
- 2004 · Jessica as Richard Runche
- 2004 · Stiff as Lionel Merricks
- 2004 · The Making of Sleeping Dogs as Self
- 2003 · Perfect Strangers as Man
- 2001 · SuperCroc as narrator
- 2000 · Inside The Living Daylights as Self (archival footage)
- 2000 · My Mother Frank as Professor Mortlock
- 2000 · Numero Bruno as Self
- 1994 · Country Life as Dr. Max Askey
- 1993 · Split Enz: Spellbound as Narrator
- 1993 · Family Pictures as David Eberlin
- 1993 · Inside 'The Piano' as Self
- 1990 · Shadow of China as TV Reporter
- 1990 · Cowboys of Culture as Self
- 1989 · The French Revolution: Years of Hope as Marquis de Lafayette
- 1988 · Question of Faith as Oscar Ogg
- 1986 · For Love Alone as James Quick
- 1986 · Strong Medicine as Vince Lord
- 1985 · Robbery Under Arms as Capt. Starlight
- 1984 · The Country Girls as Mr. Gentleman
- 1979 · The Journalist as Rex
- 1979 · Just Out Of Reach as Mike
- 1978 · Surf Sail as Narrator (voice)
- 1977 · The Governor as Colonial Bachelor
- 1975 · Four Shorts on Architecture as Narrator (voice)
- 1975 · Landfall as Eric
- Future · The Guinea Pig Club as Charles Overton
- 1977 · Architect Athfield as Narrator
- 1973 · Hunt's Duffer as Bradley
- 1972 · The Water Cycle as
- Future · Mystery Ride as Duncan Connelly
- 1975 · Ashes as Priest
- 1971 · The City of No as
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as British Flier