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).
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Primarily2026 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank as Danny
2025 Cold Storage as Robert Quinn
2025 Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough as Narrator
2025 The Naked Gun as Frank Drebin Jr.
2025 Ice Road: Vengeance as Mike McCann
2025 Charlie Johnson in the Flames
2025 The Riker's Ghost
2025 The Trainer as John Moore
2025 Hotel Tehran as Larry
2025 Narco Sub
2025 Mongoose as Ryan "Fang" Flanagan
2025 Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life as Self (archive footage)
2025 Cold Pursuit 2 as Nels Coxman
2025 Deception as Fergus Lamb
2024 Absolution as Thug
2024 Wildcat as Father Flynn
2024 Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey as Narrator
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 Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Qui-Gon Jinn
2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi : A Star Wars Story as Qui-Gon Jinn
2022 Memory as Alex Lewis
2022 Ireland
2022 Blacklight as Travis Block
2022 Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman as Self
2021 The Ice Road as Mike
2021 The Marksman as Jim
2020 WAMEGO: Addendum
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)
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
2019 Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis as Narrator
2019 Ordinary Love as Tom
2019 Lost Lives
2019 Men in Black: International as Agent High T
2019 Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - Actor
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 White Crow Executive Producer
2018 The Last Horsemen of New York
2018 The Commuter as Michael MacCauley
2017 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 Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence as Self
2017 Red Nose Day Actually as Daniel
2017 Karenina & I as Leo Tolstoy
2016 Silence as Ferreira
2016 A Monster Calls as The Monster (voice)
2016 How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story as Narrator (voice)
2016 For the Love of Spock as Leo Cutter (archive footage)
2016 Operation Chromite as Douglas MacArthur
2016 Love Thy Nature as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016 The Last Laugh as Self
2016 The Huntsman: Winter's War as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2016 A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self
2015 A Christmas Star as Narrator / Radio DJ
2015 Ted 2 as Customer
2015 Entourage as Liam Neeson
2015 Run All Night as Jimmy Conlon
2014 Manny as Narrator
2014 Taken 3 as Bryan Mills
2014 A Walk Among the Tombstones as Matthew Scudder
2014 The Prophet as Mustafa (voice)
2014 Third Person as Michael
2014 Road as Narrator (voice)
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 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 The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy as Self (archive footage)
2013 Khumba as Phango (voice)
2013 Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage! as The Journalist
2013 Girl Rising as Narrator (voice)
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 Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
2012 The Grey as John Ottway
2011 A Child's Garden of Poetry as Self (voice)
2011 Unknown as Dr. Martin Harris
2010 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 Hannibal
2010 Clash of the Titans as Zeus
2010 Chloe as David Stewart
2009 After.Life as Eliot Deacon
2009 Five Minutes of Heaven as Alistair Little
2008 The Other Man as Peter
2008 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian as Aslan (voice)
2008 Taken as Bryan Mills
2007 The Birth of Christ as Self - Narrator
2007 Trumbo as Self
2007 Seraphim Falls as Carver
2006 Sergeant York: Of God and Country
2006 Home
2006 Xavier as Narrator
2006 The Path to Redemption as Self
2006 Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film as Self
2006 Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity as Narrator
2005 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 Ducard
2005 Kingdom of Heaven as Godfrey de Ibelin
2005 George Lucas: Creating an Empire as Self
2004 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 Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song? as Self (archive footage)
2004 Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song? as Self (archive footage)
2003 Love Actually as Daniel
2003 Martin Luther as Self - Narrator (voice)
2003 Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York as Self
2003 Coral Reef Adventure as Narrator (voice)
2002 Gangs of New York as "Priest" Vallon
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 Trailers Schmailers as (Archival)
2001 The Beginning: Making Episode I as Self
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
2000 Gun Shy as Charles Mayough
1999 The Haunting as Dr. David Marrow
1999 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as Qui-Gon Jinn
1998 Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
1998 Everest as Narrator
1996 A Leap of Faith as Narrator (voice)
1996 Michael Collins as Michael Collins
1996 Before and After as Ben Ryan
1996 Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome as Host
1995 Lumière & Company as (segment "John Boorman")
1995 Out of Ireland as William Murphy (voice)
1995 Rob Roy as Robert Roy MacGregor
1995 Miss Sarajevo as Self
1994 Nell as Dr. Lovell
1994 Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America as William Murphy (voice)
1993 Schindler's List as Oskar Schindler
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
1992 Shining Through as Franze-Otto Dietrich
1991 Revolver as Man
1991 Under Suspicion as Tony Aaron
1990 The Big Man as Danny Scoular
1990 Darkman as Peyton Westlake / Darkman
1989 Next of Kin as Briar Gates
1988 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
1987 Suspect as Carl Wayne Anderson
1987 A Prayer for the Dying as Liam Docherty
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 The Delta Force as Delta Force Member (uncredited)
1985 Arthur the King as Grak
1985 The Innocent as John Carns
1984 The Bounty as Charles Churchill
1984 An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)
1983 Krull as Kegan
1983 Across the Water as Martin
1981 Nailed as Young Catholic
1981 Excalibur as Gawain
1980 My Dear Palestrina as Blacksmith
1979 Christiana
1979 The Last Window Cleaner as Self
1978 Dinner at the Sporting Club as Dermot
1978 Pilgrim's Progress as Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ
6.77 War 8
6.76 Music 4
6.54 Western 3
6.51 Crime 22
6.47 Action 44
6.47 Science Fiction 8
6.45 Adventure 27
6.37 Comedy 25
6.36 Family 10
6.31 Romance 15
6.25 Documentary 39
6.21 Thriller 42
6.21 History 21
6.19 Fantasy 13
6.13 Mystery 13
6.11 Animation 5
6.07 Drama 60
5.86 Horror 3
3.80 TV Movie 11