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Liam 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). Description from the Wikipedia article Liam Neeson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Liam 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). Description from the Wikipedia article Liam Neeson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Tony Awards
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Graham Norton Show
The Daily Show
Family Guy
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
The One Show
The Simpsons
Saturday Night Live
60 Minutes
The Jonathan Ross Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
El hormiguero
Derry Girls
Obi-Wan Kenobi
The Orville
Nature
Parkinson
Honest Trailers
Atlanta
Miami Vice
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
Conan O'Brien Must Go
Dream Corp LLC
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
The Dark Knight Rises
Daddy's Home 2
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Obi Wan Kenobi - The Patterson Cut
Ponyo
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
A Monster Calls
Ted 2
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Excalibur
Dinner at the Sporting Club
The Next Three Days
The Story of Star Wars
The Beginning: Making Episode I
The Last Window Cleaner
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Men in Black: International
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Widows
Gangs of New York
Clash of the Titans
Battleship
The Bounty
If Tomorrow Comes
Kingdom of Heaven
The Lego Movie
Wildcat
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Leap of Faith
Love Actually
Benjamin Franklin
Chloe
Batman Begins
Shining Through
The Dead Pool
Silence
Suspect
Wrath of the Titans
Operation Chromite
A Christmas Star
Before and After
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
K-19: The Widowmaker
Run All Night
1916
Absolution
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Seraphim Falls
Non-Stop
Michael Collins
Sweet As You Are
Memory
Cold Pursuit
The A-Team
Taken 2
Blacklight
Schindler's List
The Commuter
The Marksman
Ethan Frome
Taken 3
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
The Grey
Unknown
The Haunting
Ice Road: Vengeance
The Ice Road
Honest Thief
Across the Water
The Wildest Dream
Taken
Marlowe
Made in Italy
Road
A Walk Among the Tombstones
The Naked Gun
Retribution
Ordinary Love
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