Sam Neill

Sam Neill DCNZM OBE
Neill at the 2010 Vancouver International Wine Festival.
Born	Nigel John Dermot Neill (1947-09-14) 14 September 1947 (age 69) Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Residence	Queenstown, New Zealand
Nationality	New Zealander, British, Irish
Education	Christ's College
Alma mater	University of Canterbury
Occupation	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1975–present
Spouse(s)	Lisa Harrow (m. 1978; div. 1989) Noriko Watanabe (m. 1989)
Children	3 (one stepdaughter)

Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill DCNZM OBE (born 14 September 1947), known professionally as Sam Neill, is a Northern Ireland born New Zealand actor who first achieved leading roles in films such as Omen III: The Final Conflict and Dead Calm and on television in Reilly, Ace of Spies. He won a broad international audience in 1993 for his roles as Alisdair Stewart in The Piano and Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, a role he reprised in 2001's Jurassic Park III. Neill also had notable roles in Merlin, The Hunt for Red October and The Tudors. In 2016, he starred in Hunt for the Wilderpeople alongside Julian Dennison, to great acclaim. He holds New Zealand and British nationality, but identifies primarily as a New Zealander.

Neill was born in 1947 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, the second son of Dermot Neill, a Harrow- and Sandhurst-educated British Army officer and third-generation New Zealander, and his English wife, Priscilla Beatrice (née Ingham). At the time of Neill's birth, his father was stationed in Northern Ireland, serving with the Irish Guards. His father's family owned Neill and Co., the largest liquor retailers in New Zealand.