Cold Storage
2026 · Movie
as Robert Quinn
Liam Neeson
1952-06-07
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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
The Fix
2026 · Movie
as Larry
The Mongoose
2026 · Movie
as Ryan "Fang" Flanagan
Ice Road: Vengeance
2025 · Movie
as Mike McCann
The Naked Gun
2025 · Movie
as Frank Drebin Jr.
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025 · Movie
as Narrator
David Frost Vs
2025 · TV Show
as self
Wildcat
2024 · Movie
as Father Flynn
Absolution
2024 · Movie
as Thug
Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey
2024 · Movie
as Narrator
Conan O'Brien Must Go
2024 · TV Show
as Bryan Mills (archive footage) (uncredited)
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
2023 · Movie
as Finbar Murphy
Retribution
2023 · Movie
as Matt Turner
Marlowe
2023 · Movie
as Philip Marlowe
Bonnie
2022 · Movie
as Self
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
2022 · Movie
as Self
Ireland
2022 · Movie
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022 · Movie
as Self - Qui-Gon Jinn
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
2022 · Movie
as Self
Memory
2022 · Movie
as Alex Lewis
Blacklight
2022 · Movie
as Travis Block
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022 · TV Show
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited), Qui-Gon Jinn (uncredited)
Benjamin Franklin
2022 · TV Show
as Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice)
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
2022 · TV Show
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice), Qui-Gon Jinn
The Marksman
2021 · Movie
as Jim
The Ice Road
2021 · Movie
as Mike McCann
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
2020 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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WAMEGO: Addendum
2020 · Movie
Honest Thief
2020 · Movie
as Tom Dolan
Made in Italy
2020 · Movie
as Robert
Cold Pursuit
2019 · Movie
as Nels Coxman
Men in Black: International
2019 · Movie
as Agent High T
Ordinary Love
2019 · Movie
as Tom
Lost Lives
2019 · Movie
as Self (voice)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019 · Movie
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis
2019 · Movie
as Narrator
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019 · Movie
as Self - Actor
The Commuter
2018 · Movie
as Michael MacCauley
Widows
2018 · Movie
as Harry Rawlings
The Last Horsemen of New York
2018 · Movie
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Movie
as Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket")
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History
2018 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator
Derry Girls
2018 · TV Show
as Chief Inspector Byers
Spielberg
2017 · Movie
as Self - Segment "Schindler's List"
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017 · Movie
as Mark Felt
Karenina & I
2017 · Movie
as Leo Tolstoy
Red Nose Day Actually
2017 · Movie
as Daniel
Daddy's Home 2
2017 · Movie
as Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited)
And the Winner Isn't
2017 · Movie
as Self
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
2017 · Movie
as Narrator
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
2017 · Movie
as Self
The Orville
2017 · TV Show
as Jahavus Dorahl
Silence
2016 · Movie
as Ferreira
The Last Laugh
2016 · Movie
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Monster Calls
2016 · Movie
as The Monster (voice)
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016 · Movie
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Operation Chromite
2016 · Movie
as Douglas MacArthur
How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story
2016 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
2016 · Movie
as Self
Love Thy Nature
2016 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Dream Corp LLC
2016 · TV Show
as Joey in the Center of Her Mind (voice)
Atlanta
2016 · TV Show
as Liam Neeson
1916
2016 · TV Show
as Narrator
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
2016 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Run All Night
2015 · Movie
as Jimmy Conlon
Entourage
2015 · Movie
as Liam Neeson
Ted 2
2015 · Movie
as Customer
A Christmas Star
2015 · Movie
as Narrator / Radio DJ
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · TV Show
as Self, Mr. Toffee, Thor
Nature Is Speaking
2015 · TV Show
as Ice
The Lego Movie
2014 · Movie
as Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)
Third Person
2014 · Movie
as Michael
A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014 · Movie
as Matthew Scudder
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014 · Movie
as Clinch
Manny
2014 · Movie
as Narrator
Non-Stop
2014 · Movie
as Bill Marks
The Nut Job
2014 · Movie
as Raccoon (voice)
Taken 3
2014 · Movie
as Bryan Mills
Road
2014 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
2014 · Movie
as Mustafa (voice)
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys
2014 · Movie
as Self - Narrator
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Khumba
2013 · Movie
as Phango (voice)
Girl Rising
2013 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!
2013 · Movie
as The Journalist
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
2013 · Movie
as History Channel Host (uncredited)
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
2013 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013 · Movie
as Self
Battleship
2012 · Movie
as Admiral Shane
The Dark Knight Rises
2012 · Movie
as Ra's Al Ghul
Taken 2
2012 · Movie
as Bryan Mills
The Grey
2012 · Movie
as John Ottway
Wrath of the Titans
2012 · Movie
as Zeus
Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine
2012 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
The Secret Policeman's Ball
2012 · Movie
as Self
Unknown
2011 · Movie
as Dr. Martin Harris
A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011 · Movie
as Self (voice)
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011 · TV Show
as Self
Life's Too Short
2011 · TV Show
as Liam Neeson
Chloe
2010 · Movie
as David Stewart
The Next Three Days
2010 · Movie
as Damon
Clash of the Titans
2010 · Movie
as Zeus
The Wildest Dream
2010 · Movie
as Narrator
The A-Team
2010 · Movie
as Hannibal
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010 · Movie
as Aslan (voice)
Conan
2010 · TV Show
as Self
Buccaneers & Bones
2010 · TV Show
After.Life
2009 · Movie
as Eliot Deacon
Five Minutes of Heaven
2009 · Movie
as Alistair Little
Live from Studio Five
2009 · TV Show
as Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008 · Movie
as Aslan (voice)
Taken
2008 · Movie
as Bryan Mills
The Other Man
2008 · Movie
as Peter
The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files
2008 · Movie
as Self
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008 · TV Show
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
Seraphim Falls
2007 · Movie
as Carver
Trumbo
2007 · Movie
as Self
The Birth of Christ
2007 · Movie
as Self - Narrator
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · TV Show
as Self
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006 · Movie
as Self
Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity
2006 · Movie
as Narrator
Sergeant York: Of God and Country
2006 · Movie
Xavier
2006 · Movie
as Narrator
Home
2006 · Movie
The Path to Redemption
2006 · Movie
as Self
The One Show
2006 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
El hormiguero
2006 · TV Show
as Self
Batman Begins
2005 · Movie
as Ducard
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005 · Movie
as Aslan (voice)
Breakfast on Pluto
2005 · Movie
as Father Liam
Kingdom of Heaven
2005 · Movie
as Godfrey de Ibelin
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005 · Movie
as Self
Kinsey
2004 · Movie
as Alfred Kinsey
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004 · Movie
as Self
Patrick
2004 · Movie
as Narrator
The Story of Star Wars
2004 · Movie
as Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage)
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
2004 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Love Actually
2003 · Movie
as Daniel
Coral Reef Adventure
2003 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Martin Luther
2003 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
2003 · Movie
as Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · TV Show
as Self
Martin Luther
2003 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Gangs of New York
2002 · Movie
as 'Priest' Vallon
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002 · Movie
as Mikhail Polenin
The Big Bang
2002 · Movie
as Self
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002 · Movie
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
The Maze
2002 · Movie
as Narrator
Liberty's Kids
2002 · TV Show
as John Paul Jones (voice)
Journey into Amazing Caves
2001 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
2001 · Movie
as Self
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The Mind's Big Bang
2001 · Movie
as Self
Evolution
2001 · TV Show
as Narrator
The Endurance
2000 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Gun Shy
2000 · Movie
as Charles Mayough
Inside The Space Station
2000 · Movie
as Self - Narrator
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000 · Movie
as Narrator
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999 · Movie
as Qui-Gon Jinn
The Haunting
1999 · Movie
as Dr. David Marrow
Family Guy
1999 · TV Show
as Liam Neeson (voice)
Les Misérables
1998 · Movie
as Jean Valjean
Everest
1998 · Movie
as Narrator
Parkinson
1998 · TV Show
as Self
The View
1997 · TV Show
as Self
Michael Collins
1996 · Movie
as Michael Collins
Before and After
1996 · Movie
as Ben Ryan
No image
A Leap of Faith
1996 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996 · Movie
as Host
The Daily Show
1996 · TV Show
as Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Rob Roy
1995 · Movie
as Robert Roy MacGregor
Lumière & Company
1995 · Movie
as (segment "John Boorman")
Miss Sarajevo
1995 · Movie
as Self
Out of Ireland
1995 · Movie
as William Murphy (voice)
Nell
1994 · Movie
as Dr. Lovell
Schindler's List
1993 · Movie
as Oskar Schindler
Ethan Frome
1993 · Movie
as Ethan Frome
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Shining Through
1992 · Movie
as Franze-Otto Dietrich
Leap of Faith
1992 · Movie
as Sheriff Will Braverman
Husbands and Wives
1992 · Movie
as Michael Gates
Ruby Cairo
1992 · Movie
as Fergus Lamb
Under Suspicion
1991 · Movie
as Tony Aaron
Revolver
1991 · Movie
as Man
Darkman
1990 · Movie
as Peyton Westlake / Darkman
The Big Man
1990 · Movie
as Danny Scoular
Next of Kin
1989 · Movie
as Briar Gates
The Simpsons
1989 · TV Show
as Father Sean (voice)
The Dead Pool
1988 · Movie
as Peter Swan
High Spirits
1988 · Movie
as Martin Brogan
Satisfaction
1988 · Movie
as Martin Falcon
The Good Mother
1988 · Movie
as Leo Cutter
Sweet as You Are
1988 · Movie
as Martin Perry
This Morning
1988 · TV Show
as Self
Suspect
1987 · Movie
as Carl Wayne Anderson
A Prayer for the Dying
1987 · Movie
as Liam Docherty
Sworn to Silence
1987 · Movie
as Vincent Cauley
Hold the Dream
1987 · TV Show
as Blackie O'Neill
The Delta Force
1986 · Movie
as Delta Force Member (uncredited)
The Mission
1986 · Movie
as Father John Fielding
Lamb
1986 · Movie
as Michael Lamb
Duet for One
1986 · Movie
as Totter
If Tomorrow Comes
1986 · TV Show
as André Trignant
Arthur the King
1985 · Movie
as Grak
The Innocent
1985 · Movie
as John Carns
A Woman of Substance
1985 · TV Show
as Blackie O'Neill
Screen Two
1985 · TV Show
as Martin Perry, Ethan Frome
The Bounty
1984 · Movie
as Charles Churchill
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984 · Movie
as Self (uncredited)
Miami Vice
1984 · TV Show
as Sean Carroon
No image
Goldene Kamera
1984 · TV Show
as Self
Ellis Island
1984 · TV Show
as Kevin Murray
Krull
1983 · Movie
as Kegan
Across the Water
1983 · Movie
as Martin
Nature
1982 · TV Show
as Narrator (voice)
American Playhouse
1982 · TV Show
as Ethan Frome
Excalibur
1981 · Movie
as Gawain
Nailed
1981 · Movie
as Young Catholic
My Dear Palestrina
1980 · Movie
as Blacksmith
Christiana
1979 · Movie
as Greatheart
No image
The Last Window Cleaner
1979 · Movie
as Self
Pilgrim's Progress
1978 · Movie
as Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ
Dinner at the Sporting Club
1978 · Movie
as Dermot
An Audience with...
1978 · TV Show
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975 · TV Show
as Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Playhouse
1974 · TV Show
as Blacksmith
Play for Today
1970 · TV Show
as Him
60 Minutes
1968 · TV Show
as Self
Omnibus
1967 · TV Show
Tony Awards
1956 · TV Show
as Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter
The Oscars
1953 · TV Show
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · TV Show
as Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter
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The Riker's Ghost
· Movie
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Narco Sub
· Movie
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The Trainer
· Movie
as John Moore
4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
· Movie
as Danny
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Charlie Johnson in the Flames
· Movie
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Cold Pursuit 2
· Movie
as Nels Coxman
Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea
· Movie
as Narrator
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The Nut Job 3
· Movie
as Raccoon (voice)
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The Splendid Thing
· Movie
