Liam Neeson
Biography
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).
Known For
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Simpsons
1989
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Family Guy
1999
The Fix
2026
Conan
2010
Saturday Night Live
1975
Filmography
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest · 2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest · 2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Mr. Toffee · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Thor · 2015
The Simpsons
as Father Sean (voice) · 1989
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest · 2014
The Daily Show
as Self · 1996
Family Guy
as Liam Neeson (voice) · 1999
The Fix
as Larry · 2026
Conan
as Self · 2010
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host · 1975
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 1975
The Mongoose
as Ryan 'Fang' Flanagan · 2026
The Graham Norton Show
as Self · 2007
The View
as Self · 1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest · 2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest · 1993
El hormiguero
as Self · 2006
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) · 2008
The One Show
as Self - Guest · 2006
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self · 2003
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter · 1944
The Orville
as Jahavus Dorahl · 2017
American Playhouse
as Ethan Frome · 1982
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter · 1956
Miami Vice
as Sean Carroon · 1984
Play for Today
as Him · 1970
60 Minutes
as Self · 1968
Nature
as Narrator (voice) · 1982
Screen Two
as Martin Perry · 1985
Screen Two
as Ethan Frome · 1985
Kingdom of Heaven
as Godfrey de Ibelin · 2005
The Dark Knight Rises
as Ra's Al Ghul · 2012
Playhouse
as Blacksmith · 1974
Omnibus
· 1967
Film '72
as Self · 1971
Parkinson
as Self · 1998
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self · 2011
Batman Begins
as Ducard · 2005
An Audience with...
as Self · 1978
Schindler's List
as Oskar Schindler · 1993
The Oscars
as Self · 1953
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
as Aslan (voice) · 2005
Ted 2
as Customer · 2015
The Naked Gun
as Frank Drebin Jr. · 2025
Taken 3
as Bryan Mills · 2014
Atlanta
as Liam Neeson · 2016
Goldene Kamera
as Self · 1984
Ice Road: Vengeance
as Mike McCann · 2025
Love Actually
as Daniel · 2003
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as Qui-Gon Jinn · 1999
The Lego Movie
as Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice) · 2014
Obi-Wan Kenobi
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi
as Qui-Gon Jinn (uncredited) · 2022
Taken
as Bryan Mills · 2008
Clash of the Titans
as Zeus · 2010
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) · 2019
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
as Aslan (voice) · 2008
Battleship
as Admiral Shane · 2012
Cold Pursuit
as Nels Coxman · 2019
Cold Storage
as Robert Quinn · 2026
Wrath of the Titans
as Zeus · 2012
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) · 2002
Under Suspicion
as Tony Aaron · 1991
Derry Girls
as Chief Inspector Byers · 2018
The Commuter
as Michael MacCauley · 2018
Taken 2
as Bryan Mills · 2012
The A-Team
as Hannibal · 2010
Run All Night
as Jimmy Conlon · 2015
Honest Thief
as Tom Dolan · 2020
The Ice Road
as Mike McCann · 2021
Men in Black: International
as Agent High T · 2019
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) · 2022
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
as Qui-Gon Jinn · 2022
The Late Late Show
as Self - Guest · 1962
Daddy's Home 2
as Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited) · 2017
Dream Corp LLC
as Joey in the Center of Her Mind (voice) · 2016
Gangs of New York
as 'Priest' Vallon · 2002
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
as Aslan (voice) · 2010
A Million Ways to Die in the West
as Clinch · 2014
Silence
as Ferreira · 2016
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest · 1996
The Huntsman: Winter's War
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 2016
Liberty's Kids
as John Paul Jones (voice) · 2002
A Walk Among the Tombstones
as Matthew Scudder · 2014
Memory
as Alex Lewis · 2022
The Marksman
as Jim · 2021
A Monster Calls
as The Monster (voice) · 2016
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket") · 2018
The Next Three Days
as Damon · 2010
The Nut Job
as Raccoon (voice) · 2014
The Grey
as John Ottway · 2012
Widows
as Harry Rawlings · 2018
The Haunting
as Dr. David Marrow · 1999
Non-Stop
as Bill Marks · 2014
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
as Finbar Murphy · 2023
Excalibur
as Gawain · 1981
The Mission
as Father John Fielding · 1986
The Delta Force
as Delta Force Member (uncredited) · 1986
Blacklight
as Travis Block · 2022
1916
as Narrator · 2016
Unknown
as Dr. Martin Harris · 2011
Entourage
as Liam Neeson · 2015
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
as History Channel Host (uncredited) · 2013
A Woman of Substance
as Blackie O'Neill · 1985
Conan O'Brien Must Go
as Bryan Mills (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2024
After.Life
as Eliot Deacon · 2009
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
as Self - Qui-Gon Jinn · 2022
Retribution
as Matt Turner · 2023
The Dead Pool
as Peter Swan · 1988
K-19: The Widowmaker
as Mikhail Polenin · 2002
Buccaneers & Bones
· 2010
Krull
as Kegan · 1983
This Morning
as Self · 1988
Third Person
as Michael · 2014
Life's Too Short
as Liam Neeson · 2011
If Tomorrow Comes
as André Trignant · 1986
Absolution
as Thug · 2024
Seraphim Falls
as Carver · 2007
Les Misérables
as Jean Valjean · 1998
Khumba
as Phango (voice) · 2013
Breakfast on Pluto
as Father Liam · 2005
Marlowe
as Philip Marlowe · 2023
Chloe
as David Stewart · 2010
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
as Mark Felt · 2017
Made in Italy
as Robert · 2020
Shining Through
as Franze-Otto Dietrich · 1992
Before and After
as Ben Ryan · 1996
The Bounty
as Charles Churchill · 1984
The Other Man
as Peter · 2008
Nature Is Speaking
as Ice · 2015
Wildcat
as Father Flynn · 2024
Operation Chromite
as Douglas MacArthur · 2016
Darkman
as Peyton Westlake / Darkman · 1990
Next of Kin
as Briar Gates · 1989
Rob Roy
as Robert Roy MacGregor · 1995
Nell
as Dr. Lovell · 1994
Husbands and Wives
as Michael Gates · 1992
Michael Collins
as Michael Collins · 1996
Gun Shy
as Charles Mayough · 2000
Ellis Island
as Kevin Murray · 1984
Hold the Dream
as Blackie O'Neill · 1987
Leap of Faith
as Sheriff Will Braverman · 1992
Benjamin Franklin
as Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice) · 2022
Kinsey
as Alfred Kinsey · 2004
Suspect
as Carl Wayne Anderson · 1987
Five Minutes of Heaven
as Alistair Little · 2009
High Spirits
as Martin Brogan · 1988
Christiana
as Greatheart · 1979
Ordinary Love
as Tom · 2019
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
as Mustafa (voice) · 2014
David Frost Vs
as self · 2025
4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
as Danny
A Prayer for the Dying
as Liam Docherty · 1987
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
as Self · 2001
Spielberg
as Self - Segment "Schindler's List" · 2017
Red Nose Day Actually
as Daniel · 2017
The Good Mother
as Leo Cutter · 1988
The Last Laugh
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2016
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as Self (archive footage) · 2018
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys
as Self - Narrator · 2014
Bonnie
as Self · 2022
And the Winner Isn't
as Self · 2017
Ethan Frome
as Ethan Frome · 1993
The Big Man
as Danny Scoular · 1990
Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History
as Self - Narrator · 2018
Arthur the King
as Grak · 1985
Home
as Narrator · 2006
Evolution
as Narrator · 2001
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Actor · 2019
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as Self - Narrator · 2000
Live from Studio Five
as Self · 2009
The Path to Redemption
as Self · 2006
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
as Self · 2013
A Christmas Star
as Narrator / Radio DJ · 2015
Martin Luther
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2003
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
as Self (archive footage) · 2013
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis
as Narrator · 2019
Martin Luther
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2003
Road
as Narrator (voice) · 2014
The Endurance
as Narrator (voice) · 2000
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
as Self · 2022
A Child's Garden of Poetry
as Self (voice) · 2011
Narco Sub
The Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self · 2012
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
as Self · 2017
Ruby Cairo
as Fergus Lamb · 1992
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
as Self · 2002
Xavier
as Narrator · 2006
Nailed
as Young Catholic · 1981
Duet for One
as Totter · 1986
Lumière & Company
as (segment "John Boorman") · 1995
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self · 2006
The Innocent
as John Carns · 1985
Satisfaction
as Martin Falcon · 1988
Dinner at the Sporting Club
as Dermot · 1978
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self (uncredited) · 1984
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
as Narrator · 2025
Lamb
as Michael Lamb · 1986
The Story of Star Wars
as Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage) · 2004
Journey into Amazing Caves
as Narrator (voice) · 2001
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self · 2004
Miss Sarajevo
as Self · 1995
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
as Self · 2022
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
as Self (archive footage) · 2004
The Last Window Cleaner
as Self · 1979
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!
as The Journalist · 2013
Manny
as Narrator · 2014
How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story
as Narrator (voice) · 2016
Sweet as You Are
as Martin Perry · 1988
Everest
as Narrator · 1998
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
as Host · 1996
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2020
Lost Lives
as Self (voice) · 2019
Trumbo
as Self · 2007
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
as Self · 2003
Girl Rising
as Narrator (voice) · 2013
The Mind's Big Bang
as Self · 2001
The Wildest Dream
as Narrator · 2010
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
as Self · 2016
The Trainer
as John Moore
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
as Narrator · 2017
The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files
as Self · 2008
Inside The Space Station
as Self - Narrator · 2000
The Splendid Thing
Coral Reef Adventure
as Narrator (voice) · 2003
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as Narrator · 2000
Ireland
· 2022
The Riker's Ghost
Revolver
as Man · 1991
Sergeant York: Of God and Country
· 2006
Love Thy Nature
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2016
Across the Water
as Martin · 1983
Pilgrim's Progress
as Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ · 1978
Charlie Johnson in the Flames
Out of Ireland
as William Murphy (voice) · 1995
Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey
as Narrator · 2024
The Last Horsemen of New York
· 2018
Sworn to Silence
as Vincent Cauley · 1987
Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea
as Narrator
Patrick
as Narrator · 2004
A Leap of Faith
as Narrator (voice) · 1996
My Dear Palestrina
as Blacksmith · 1980
WAMEGO: Addendum
· 2020
Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity
as Narrator · 2006
The Maze
as Narrator · 2002
The Big Bang
as Self · 2002
The Birth of Christ
as Self - Narrator · 2007
Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine
as Narrator (voice) · 2012
Karenina & I
as Leo Tolstoy · 2017
Cold Pursuit 2
as Nels Coxman