Liam Neeson
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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). Description from the Wikipedia article Liam Neeson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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). Description from the Wikipedia article Liam Neeson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Saturday Night Live
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Tony Awards
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Graham Norton Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Daily Show
Family Guy
Golden Globe Awards
The Simpsons
60 Minutes
The Jonathan Ross Show
El hormiguero
Derry Girls
Obi-Wan Kenobi
The Orville
Nature
Honest Trailers
Atlanta
Miami Vice
Dream Corp LLC
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
The Dark Knight Rises
Daddy's Home 2
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Obi Wan Kenobi - The Patterson Cut
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Ponyo
A Monster Calls
Ted 2
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
The Oscars
Excalibur
The Story of Star Wars
The Next Three Days
The Beginning: Making Episode I
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Men in Black: International
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Clash of the Titans
Gangs of New York
Widows
Kingdom of Heaven
Battleship
If Tomorrow Comes
Wildcat
The Lego Movie
The Bounty
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
Leap of Faith
Love Actually
Benjamin Franklin
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Batman Begins
Silence
Suspect
The Dead Pool
Chloe
Wrath of the Titans
Before and After
K-19: The Widowmaker
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Operation Chromite
A Christmas Star
Cold Pursuit
Unknown
Taken 2
The Marksman
The A-Team
Blacklight
Run All Night
The Grey
Absolution
1916
Marlowe
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
The Naked Gun
Michael Collins
Honest Thief
Road
Non-Stop
Retribution
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
The Ice Road
Seraphim Falls
The Haunting
Ordinary Love
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Memory
The Commuter
Taken 3
The Wildest Dream
Schindler's List
Made in Italy
Taken
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