Irish actor of Schindler's List and Taken — photos, style and news
Liam John Neeson, OBE (born 7 June 1952) is an Irish actor best known for his roles in Schindler's List, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, K-19: The Widowmaker, Michael Collins, Taken, Kinsey and Darkman. He has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards. Neeson was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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Neeson's best-known list reads like two different actors' careers joined together. The first is the prestige dramatic lead: Schindler's List, Michael Collins and Kinsey — performances that brought nominations for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards. The second is the popular genre lead: Qui-Gon Jinn's world in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, the submarine command of K-19: The Widowmaker, the masked hero of Darkman, and Taken, the film that recast a dramatic actor in his fifties as an action lead. Few filmographies in this directory hold both kinds of fame at the same weight, and the shortness of this profile is itself a fact of the record: the page states the essentials — the roles, the nominations, the Ballymena birth — and lets the filmography speak.
Neeson shares the L letter with Leonardo DiCaprio, and the H–P range gives Ireland a strong hand overall: Colin Farrell in the A–G range, Neeson here, and Pierce Brosnan among the range's linked profiles in the H–P list. Ballymena, County Antrim is a long way from the Hollywood sets of Schindler's List and Star Wars, and the distance between them is the career.
This page gathers Liam Neeson photos, videos, news and blog posts, with search routes to each through Bing, Google and YouTube. A fashion celebrity in this guide is a person with celebrity status who is often watched and judged for what they wear. Neeson's screen image — the tall, gravel-voiced leading man of dramas and thrillers alike — has been watched across four decades of film, and the search routes here are the way into that archive of coverage.
Neeson is best known for his roles in Schindler's List, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, K-19: The Widowmaker, Michael Collins, Taken, Kinsey and Darkman.
Neeson has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards across his career.
Neeson was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on 7 June 1952. He is an Irish actor, appointed OBE.