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). Description from the Wikipedia article Liam Neeson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
| Birth Location | Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK |
|---|---|
| Born | 1952-06-07 |
Movies
Untitled Naked Gun Reboot
as Frank Drebin Jr.
2025
Cold Storage
as Robert Quinn
2025
Thug
as Thug
2024
2024
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
as Finbar Murphy
2023
Retribution
as Matt Turner
2023
Marlowe
as Philip Marlowe
2023
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
as Himself
2022
Bonnie
as Self
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
as Self - Qui-Gon Jinn
2022
Memory
as Alex Lewis
2022
2022
Blacklight
as Travis Block
2022
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
as Self
2022
The Ice Road
as Mike McCann
2021
The Marksman
as Jim
2021
2020
Honest Thief
as Tom Dolan
2020
Made in Italy
as Robert
2020
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
2019
2019
Ordinary Love
as Tom
2019
2019
Men in Black: International
as Agent High T
2019
Cold Pursuit
as Nels Coxman
2019
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket")
2018
Widows
as Harry Rawlings
2018
The Commuter
as Michael MacCauley
2018
And the Winner Isn't
as Self
2017
Daddy's Home 2
as Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited)
2017
Spielberg
as Self - Segment "Schindler's List"
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
2017
Red Nose Day Actually
as Daniel
2017
Karenina & I
as Leo Tolstoy
2017
Silence
as Ferreira
2016
A Monster Calls
as The Monster (voice)
2016
How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story
as Narrator
2016
For the Love of Spock
as Leo Cutter (archive footage)
2016
Operation Chromite
as Douglas MacArthur
2016
The Last Laugh
as Self
2016
The Huntsman: Winter's War
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2016
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
as Himself
2016
A Christmas Star
as Narrator / Radio DJ
2015
Ted 2
as Customer
2015
Entourage
as Liam Neeson
2015
Run All Night
as Jimmy Conlon
2015
Manny
as Narrator
2014
Taken 3
as Bryan Mills
2014
Love Thy Nature
as Narrator
2014
A Walk Among the Tombstones
as Matthew Scudder
2014
The Prophet
as Mustafa (voice)
2014
Road
as Narrator
2014
A Million Ways to Die in the West
as Clinch Leatherwood
2014
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys
as Himself - Narrator
2014
Non-Stop
as Bill Marks
2014
The Lego Movie
as Bad Cop/Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)
2014
The Nut Job
as Raccoon (voice)
2014
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
as Himself
2013
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
as History Channel Host (uncredited)
2013
2013
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Third Person
as Michael
2013
Khumba
as Phango (voice)
2013
Girl Rising
as Narrator (voice)
2013
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 Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self
2012
The Grey
as John Ottway
2012
A Child's Garden of Poetry
as Self (voice)
2011
Unknown
as Dr. Martin Harris
2011
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
as Aslan (voice)
2010
The Next Three Days
as Damon
2010
The Wildest Dream
as Narrator
2010
The A-Team
as John "Hannibal" Smith
2010
Clash of the Titans
as Zeus
2010
Chloe
as David Stewart
2010
After.Life
as Eliot Deacon
2009
Five Minutes of Heaven
as Alistair Little
2009
The Other Man
as Peter
2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
as Aslan (voice)
2008
Taken
as Bryan Mills
2008
The Birth of Christ
as Himself - Narrator
2007
Trumbo
as Self
2007
Seraphim Falls
as Carver
2007
2006
Xavier
as Narrator
2006
2006
Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity
as Narrator
2006
The Path to Redemption
as Self
2006
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
as Aslan (voice)
2005
Breakfast on Pluto
as Father Liam
2005
Batman Begins
as Henri Ducard / Ra's al Ghul
2005
Kingdom of Heaven
as Godfrey de Ibelin
2005
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
as Self
2005
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
2004
Kinsey
as Alfred Kinsey
2004
The Story of Star Wars
as Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage)
2004
Patrick
as Narrator
2004
Love Actually
as Daniel
2003
Martin Luther
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2003
2003
Coral Reef Adventure
as Narrator (voice)
2003
Gangs of New York
as "Priest" Vallon
2002
K-19: The Widowmaker
as Mikhail Polenin
2002
2001
The Mind's Big Bang
as Self
2001
Journey into Amazing Caves
as Narrator (voice)
2001
Inside The Space Station
as Himself - Narrator
2000
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
as Narrator (voice)
2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as Narrator
2000
Gun Shy
as Charles Mayough
2000
The Haunting
as Dr. David Marrow
1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as Qui-Gon Jinn
1999
Les Misérables
as Jean Valjean
1998
Everest
as Narrator
1998
Michael Collins
as Michael Collins
1996
Before and After
as Ben Ryan
1996
1995
Rob Roy
as Robert Roy MacGregor
1995
Miss Sarajevo
as Himself
1995
Nell
as Dr. Lovell
1994
Schindler's List
as Oskar Schindler
1993
Ethan Frome
as Ethan Frome
1993
Leap of Faith
as Sheriff Will Braverman
1992
Ruby Cairo
as Fergus Lamb
1992
Husbands and Wives
as Michael Gates
1992
Shining Through
as Franze-Otto Dietrich
1992
Revolver
as Man
1991
Under Suspicion
as Tony Aaron
1991
The Big Man
as Danny Scoular
1990
Darkman
as Peyton Westlake / Darkman
1990
Next of Kin
as Briar Gates
1989
High Spirits
as Martin Brogan
1988
The Good Mother
as Leo Cutter
1988
The Dead Pool
as Peter Swan
1988
Satisfaction
as Martin Falcon
1988
Sweet As You Are
as Martin Perry
1988
Suspect
as Carl Wayne Anderson
1987
A Prayer for the Dying
as Liam Docherty
1987
Sworn to Silence
as Vincent Cauley
1987
Duet for One
as Totter
1986
Lamb
as Michael Lamb
1986
The Mission
as Father John Fielding
1986
The Delta Force
as Delta Force Member (uncredited)
1986
Arthur the King
as Grak
1985
The Innocent
as John Carns
1985
The Bounty
as Charles Churchill
1984
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self (uncredited)
1984
Krull
as Kegan
1983
Across the Water
as Martin
1983
Nailed
as Young Catholic
1981
Excalibur
as Gawain
1981
1979
The Last Window Cleaner
as Himself
1979
Dinner at The Sporting Club
as Dermot
1978
Pilgrim's Progress
as Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ
1978
Run All Night 2
as Jimmy Conlon
-
The Big Bang
as Himself
-
The Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky
as Mike McCann
-
Cold Pursuit 2
as Nels Coxman
-
The Trainer
as John Moore
-
Movies
The White Crow
Executive Producer
2018
