Liam Neeson
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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.
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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
Saturday Night Live
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Graham Norton Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Tony Awards
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 Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Daddy's Home 2
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Obi Wan Kenobi - The Patterson Cut
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Ponyo
The Dark Knight Rises
Ted 2
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
The Oscars
Excalibur
The Next Three Days
Wildcat
The Story of Star Wars
The Beginning: Making 'Episode I'
Men in Black: International
A Child's Garden of Poetry
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Gangs of New York
Kingdom of Heaven
Clash of the Titans
Battleship
Widows
If Tomorrow Comes
The Lego Movie
The Bounty
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
Love Actually
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Benjamin Franklin
Leap of Faith
Batman Begins
The Dead Pool
Suspect
Chloe
Silence
Before and After
Wrath of the Titans
K-19: The Widowmaker
A Christmas Star
Operation Chromite
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Retribution
Michael Collins
The Commuter
Road
Untitled Naked Gun Reboot
Schindler's List
The Grey
Blacklight
Cold Pursuit
Seraphim Falls
Memory
Taken
The Ice Road
Made in Italy
Unknown
Taken 3
Non-Stop
The A-Team
1916
Absolution
Marlowe
The Haunting
The Marksman
Honest Thief
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Ordinary Love
The Wildest Dream
Taken 2
Run All Night
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
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