Liam Neeson

68 titlesSince 1984

June 7, 1952 · Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

William John 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).

Filmography (68)

The Naked Gun

2025 · Frank Drebin Jr.

Ice Road: Vengeance

2025 · Mike McCann

Absolution

2024 · Thug

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

2023 · Finbar Murphy

Retribution

2023 · Matt Turner

Marlowe

2023 · Philip Marlowe

Memory

2022 · Alex Lewis

Blacklight

2022 · Travis Block

The Ice Road

2021 · Mike McCann

The Marksman

2021 · Jim

Honest Thief

2020 · Tom Dolan

Made in Italy

2020 · Robert

Ordinary Love

2019 · Tom

Cold Pursuit

2019 · Nels Coxman

The Commuter

2018 · Michael MacCauley

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

2017 · Mark Felt

Red Nose Day Actually

2017 · Daniel

Silence

2016 · Ferreira

Operation Chromite

2016 · Douglas MacArthur

Run All Night

2015 · Jimmy Conlon

Manny

2014 · Narrator

Taken 3

2014 · Bryan Mills

A Walk Among the Tombstones

2014 · Matthew Scudder

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

2014 · Mustafa (voice)

Third Person

2014 · Michael

Road

2014 · Narrator (voice)

A Million Ways to Die in the West

2014 · Clinch

Non-Stop

2014 · Bill Marks

The Nut Job

2014 · Raccoon (voice)

Khumba

2013 · Phango (voice)

Taken 2

2012 · Bryan Mills

Wrath of the Titans

2012 · Zeus

The Grey

2012 · John Ottway

Unknown

2011 · Dr. Martin Harris

The A-Team

2010 · Hannibal

Chloe

2010 · David Stewart

After.Life

2009 · Eliot Deacon

Five Minutes of Heaven

2009 · Alistair Little

The Other Man

2008 · Peter

Taken

2008 · Bryan Mills

Seraphim Falls

2007 · Carver

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2005 · Aslan (voice)

Breakfast on Pluto

2005 · Father Liam

Batman Begins

2005 · Ducard

Kinsey

2004 · Alfred Kinsey

Love Actually

2003 · Daniel

K-19: The Widowmaker

2002 · Mikhail Polenin

Gun Shy

2000 · Charles Mayough

The Haunting

1999 · Dr. David Marrow

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

1999 · Qui-Gon Jinn

Les Misérables

1998 · Jean Valjean

Everest

1998 · Narrator

Michael Collins

1996 · Michael Collins

Before and After

1996 · Ben Ryan

Rob Roy

1995 · Robert Roy MacGregor

Nell

1994 · Dr. Lovell

Schindler's List

1993 · Oskar Schindler

Leap of Faith

1992 · Sheriff Will Braverman

Shining Through

1992 · Franze-Otto Dietrich

Under Suspicion

1991 · Tony Aaron

Darkman

1990 · Peyton Westlake / Darkman

Next of Kin

1989 · Briar Gates

The Dead Pool

1988 · Peter Swan

Satisfaction

1988 · Martin Falcon

Suspect

1987 · Carl Wayne Anderson

The Mission

1986 · Father John Fielding

A Woman of Substance

1985 · Blackie O'Neill

The Bounty

1984 · Charles Churchill