Biography
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.
An Irish actor who 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).
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Filmography
all 232
Movies 180
self 69
TV Shows 52
Narrator 19
Voice 15
Producer 1
Untitled Naked Gun Reboot (2025)
Cold Storage (2025)
Thug (2024)
Wildcat (2024)
In the Land of Saints and Sinners (2023)
Retribution (2023)
Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses (2023)
Marlowe (2023)
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici (2022)
Bonnie (2022)
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (2022)
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Memory (2022)
Benjamin Franklin (2022)
Benjamin Franklin (2022)
Ireland (2022)
Blacklight (2022)
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman (2022)
The Ice Road (2021)
The Marksman (2021)
WAMEGO: Addendum (2020)
Honest Thief (2020)
Made in Italy (2020)
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine (2020)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Ordinary Love (2019)
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis (2019)
Lost Lives (2019)
Men in Black: International (2019)
Cold Pursuit (2019)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Widows (2018)
The White Crow (2018)
The Last Horsemen of New York (2018)
Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History (2018)
The Commuter (2018)
Derry Girls (2018)
And the Winner Isn't (2017)
Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America (2017)
The Orville (2017)
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence (2017)
Red Nose Day Actually (2017)
Karenina & I (2017)
Silence (2016)
Dream Corp LLC (2016)
A Monster Calls (2016)
How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story (2016)
For the Love of Spock (2016)
Atlanta (2016)
Operation Chromite (2016)
The Last Laugh (2016)
The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats (2016)
1916 (2016)
A Christmas Star (2015)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Nature Is Speaking (2015)
Ted 2 (2015)
Entourage (2015)
Run All Night (2015)
Manny (2014)
Taken 3 (2014)
Saving My Tomorrow (2014)
Love Thy Nature (2014)
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
The Prophet (2014)
Road (2014)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys (2014)
Non-Stop (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
The Lego Movie (2014)
The Nut Job (2014)
Excalibur: Behind the Movie (2013)
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage! (2013)
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy (2013)
Third Person (2013)
Khumba (2013)
Girl Rising (2013)
Taken 2 (2012)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine (2012)
Battleship (2012)
Wrath of the Titans (2012)
The Secret Policeman's Ball (2012)
Honest Trailers (2012)
The Grey (2012)
Life's Too Short (2011)
The Jonathan Ross Show (2011)
A Child's Garden of Poetry (2011)
Unknown (2011)
Buccaneers & Bones (2010)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
The Next Three Days (2010)
Conan (2010)
The Wildest Dream (2010)
The A-Team (2010)
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Chloe (2010)
After.Life (2009)
Live from Studio Five (2009)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
The Other Man (2008)
Ponyo (2008)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
Taken (2008)
The Birth of Christ (2007)
Trumbo (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Seraphim Falls (2007)
Sergeant York: Of God and Country (2006)
Home (2006)
Xavier (2006)
El hormiguero (2006)
The One Show (2006)
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film (2006)
Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity (2006)
The Path to Redemption (2006)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Made in Hollywood (2005)
Batman Begins (2005)
Science of Star Wars (2005)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
George Lucas: Creating an Empire (2005)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (2004)
Kinsey (2004)
The Story of Star Wars (2004)
Patrick (2004)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
Love Actually (2003)
Martin Luther (2003)
Martin Luther (2003)
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York (2003)
Coral Reef Adventure (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
Gangs of New York (2002)
Liberty's Kids (2002)
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
Ultimate Fights from the Movies (2002)
The Beginning: Making 'Episode I' (2001)
The Mind's Big Bang (2001)
Evolution (2001)
Journey into Amazing Caves (2001)
Inside The Space Station (2000)
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2000)
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (2000)
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (2000)
Gun Shy (2000)
The Making of 'The Haunting' (1999)
The Haunting (1999)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Family Guy (1999)
Les Misérables (1998)
Everest (1998)
The View (1997)
Michael Collins (1996)
The Daily Show (1996)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996)
Before and After (1996)
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (1996)
Lumière and Company (1995)
Out of Ireland (1995)
Rob Roy (1995)
Miss Sarajevo (1995)
Nell (1994)
Schindler's List (1993)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
Ethan Frome (1993)
Leap of Faith (1992)
Ruby Cairo (1992)
Husbands and Wives (1992)
Shining Through (1992)
Revolver (1991)
Under Suspicion (1991)
The Big Man (1990)
Darkman (1990)
The Simpsons (1989)
Next of Kin (1989)
High Spirits (1988)
The Good Mother (1988)
This Morning (1988)
The Dead Pool (1988)
Satisfaction (1988)
Sweet As You Are (1988)
Suspect (1987)
A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
Sworn to Silence (1987)
Duet for One (1986)
Hold the Dream (1986)
Lamb (1986)
The Mission (1986)
If Tomorrow Comes (1986)
The Delta Force (1986)
Arthur the King (1985)
The Innocent (1985)
A Woman of Substance (1985)
Miami Vice (1984)
The Bounty (1984)
An Audience with Mel Brooks (1984)
Krull (1983)
Across the Water (1983)
Nature (1982)
Nailed (1981)
Excalibur (1981)
Christiana (1979)
The Last Window Cleaner (1979)
Dinner at The Sporting Club (1978)
Pilgrim's Progress (1978)
An Audience with... (1978)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
Playhouse (1974)
60 Minutes (1968)
Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1966)
The Oscars (1953)
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Charlie Johnson in the Flames
Run All Night 2
TV Patrol
The Gentleman Prizefighter
The Trainer
The Riker’s Ghost
The Big Bang
The Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky
Narco Sub
Cold Pursuit 2
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1952-06-07 (71 years old)
Birth NameWilliam John Neeson
Birth PlaceBallymena, United Kingdom
ReligionCatholicism
Height193-centimeter
RelationshipsNatasha Richardson (1994-07-01 - 2009-03-18)
ChildrenDaniel Jack Neeson, Micheál Richardson
FatherBernard Neeson
MotherKatherine Brown
CitizenshipsUnited States of America, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
ResidencesLondon, United Kingdom
Also Known As連恩·尼遜, เลียม นีสัน, リーアム・ニーソン, 리암 니슨, ليام نيسون, Ліам Нісон, Вільям Джон Нісон, 连姆·尼森, William John "Liam" Neeson OBE, Λίαμ Νίσον, 连姆·尼森饰, Liams Nīsons, Lijam Nison, Лијам Нисон
AwardsDrama League Award, Volpi Cup for Best Actor, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, Golden Lion, Theatre World Award
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