Liam Neeson
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Liam Neeson OBE |
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Neeson at the 2012 Deauville American Film Festival
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Liam John Neeson 7 June 1952 Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Spouse(s) | Natasha Richardson (m. 1994; her death 2009) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives |
Tony Richardson (father-in-law) Vanessa Redgrave (mother-in-law) Joely Richardson (sister-in-law) |
Liam John Neeson, OBE, (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland. In 1976, he joined the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast for two years. He then acted in the Arthurian film, Excalibur (1981). Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films; most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in The Bounty (1984) and Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons in The Mission (1986). He landed a leading role alongside Patrick Swayze in Next of Kin (1989).
He rose to prominence when he starred in the title role in Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar winner Schindler's List. He has since starred in other successful films, including the title role in the historical biopic Michael Collins (1996), the film adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables (1998), Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace as Qui-Gon Jinn (1999), the biographical drama Kinsey (2004), the superhero film Batman Begins as Ra's al Ghul (2005), the action thriller series Taken (2008–15), the fantasy adventure film Clash of the Titans (2010) as Zeus, the fantasy films in The Chronicles of Narnia series (2005–10), and the thriller-survival film The Grey (2011).
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