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| Liam Neeson OBE | |
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| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Caucasian (White) |
| Age: | 67 |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Born | June 7, 1952, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland |
| Status: | Alive |
| Portrayed: | Bryan Mills |
Liam John Neeson OBE (born June 7, 1952) is an Oscar-nominated Irish actor who played Bryan Mills in Taken, Taken 2 and Taken 3.
Early Life[]
He is the son of Katherine "Kitty" (née Brown), a cook, and Barnard "Barney" Neeson, a caretaker at the local Catholic girls' primary school. Before his acting career, he had worked as a fork-lift driver at a Guinness factory, and a truck driver. He even spent a short amount of time playing for Bohemians, a professional Irish football club, due to prowess in football while he was enrolled in college.
Career[]
In his first film appearance, he starred as Jesus Christ in the religious film Pilgrim's Progress directed by Ken Anderson. His movie and TV roles include Dr. Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Oskar Schindler in the 1993 film Schindler's List, the Star Wars prequel trilogy as Qui-Gon Jinn, in Kingdom of Heaven as Godfrey, The Chronicles of Narnia where he voiced Aslan and Batman Begins as Ra's al Ghul. In the 2007 movie, Taken, he plays a retired Central Intelligence Agency agent who travels to Europe to save his daughter from kidnappers, who intended to sell his daughter. This has since become a cult film and one of his most famous roles, which skyrocketed him to fame as an action hero icon. He has also played real-life characters, including Michael Collins, Alfred Kinsey and Oskar Schindler. He was starred as John "Hannibal" Smith in the A-Team movie released on June 11, 2010.
Appearances/Characters[]
- (3 films)
Filmography[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Pilgrim's Progress | Jesus Christ / Evangelist | |
| 1979 | Christiana | Greatheart | |
| 1981 | Excalibur | Gawain | |
| Time Bandits | Timmy | ||
| 1983 | Krull | Kegan | |
| 1984 | A Woman of Substance | Blackie O'Neill | |
| Ellis Island | Kevin Murray | ||
| The Bounty | Charles Churchill | ||
| 1985 | Lamb | Michael Lamb | |
| The Innocent | John Carns | ||
| 1986 | Hold the Dream | Blackie O'Neill | |
| If Tomorrow Comes | Insp. Andre Trignent | ||
| The Delta Force | Delta Force commando | Uncredited role | |
| The Mission | Fielding | ||
| Duet for One | Totter | ||
| 1987 | Sworn to Silence | Vincent Cauley | |
| Suspect | Carl Anderson | ||
| A Prayer for the Dying | Liam Docherty | ||
| 1988 | Satisfaction | Martin Falcon | |
| High Spirits | Martin Brogan | ||
| The Dead Pool | Peter Swan | ||
| The Good Mother | Leo Cutter | ||
| 1989 | Next of Kin | Briar Gates | |
| 1990 | Darkman | Peyton Westlake / Darkman | |
| The Big Man | Danny Scoulars | ||
| 1991 | Under Suspicion | Tony Aaron | |
| 1992 | Shining Through | Franz-Otto Dietrich | |
| Husbands and Wives | Michael Gates | ||
| Leap of Faith | Sheriff Will Braverman | ||
| 1993 | Ethan Frome | Ethan Frome | |
| Ruby Cairo | Dr. Fergus Lamb | ||
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | Wander (voice) | ||
| Schindler's List | Oskar Schindler | ||
| 1994 | Nell | Dr. Jerome "Jerry" Lovell | |
| 1995 | Rob Roy | Rob Roy MacGregor | |
| 1996 | Michael Collins | Michael Collins | |
| Before and After | Ben Ryan | ||
| 1998 | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean | |
| 1999 | The Haunting | Dr. David Marrow | |
| Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | Qui-Gon Jinn | ||
| 2000 | Gun Shy | Charlie Mayo | |
| The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition | Narrator (voice) | Documentary | |
| 2002 | Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones | Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) | Uncredited cameo |
| K-19: The Widowmaker | Mikhail Polenin | ||
| Gangs of New York | "Priest" Vallon | ||
| Martin Luther | Narrator (voice) | Documentary | |
| 2003 | Love Actually | Daniel | |
| Coral Reef Adventure | Narrator (voice) | Documentary | |
| 2004 | Kinsey | Alfred Kinsey | |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | Godfrey of Ibelin | |
| Batman Begins | Ra's al Ghul | ||
| Breakfast on Pluto | Father Liam | ||
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Aslan (voice) | ||
| 2006 | Home | Himself | Documentary |
| 2007 | Seraphim Falls | Carver | |
| 2008 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Aslan (voice) | |
| The Other Man | Peter | ||
| Taken | Bryan Mills | ||
| 2009 | Five Minutes of Heaven | Alistair Little | |
| Ponyo | Fujimoto (voice) | English dub | |
| After.Life | Eliot | ||
| Chloe | David | ||
| Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva | Wooly | English dub | |
| 2010 | Clash of the Titans | Zeus | |
| The A-Team | John "Hannibal" Smith | ||
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Aslan (voice) | ||
| The Next Three Days | Damon Pennington | ||
| The Wildest Dream | Narrator (voice) | Documentary | |
| 2011 | Unknown | Dr. Martin Harris | |
| 2012 | The Grey | John Ottway | |
| Wrath of the Titans | Zeus | ||
| The Patriot of America | Colonel Edward Thompson (voice) | Documentary | |
| Battleship | Admiral Shane | ||
| The Dark Knight Rises | Ra's al Ghul | Cameo | |
| Taken 2 | Bryan Mills | ||
| 2013 | Third Person | Michael | |
| Khumba | Phango (voice) | ||
| Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues | History Channel Rep | Cameo | |
| 2014 | The Nut Job | Raccoon (voice) | |
| The Lego Movie | Bad Cop / Good Cop Pa Cop (voices) |
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| The Prophet | Mustafa (voice) | ||
| Non-Stop | Bill Marks | ||
| A Million Ways to Die in the West | Clinch Leatherwood | ||
| A Walk Among the Tombstones | Matthew Scudder | ||
| 2015 | Taken 3 | Bryan Mills | |
| Run All Night | Jimmy Conlon | ||
| Entourage | Himself | Cameo | |
| Ted 2 | Customer | ||
| A Christmas Star | Narrator / Radio DJ (voice) | ||
| 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Narrator (voice) | Uncredited |
| Operation Chromite | Douglas MacArthur | ||
| A Monster Calls | Monster (voice) | ||
| Silence | Father Cristóvão Ferreira | ||
| 2017 | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Mark Felt | |
| Daddy's Home 2 | Actor in Missile Tow (voice) | Cameo | |
| 2018 | The Commuter | Michael McCauley | |
| The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Completed | ||
| Widows | Post-production | ||
| Hard Powder | Nels | ||
| 2019 | MIB | Filming | |
| Normal People | Tom | Filming |
- Taken (First appearance) - Bryan Mills
- Taken 2 - Bryan Mills
- Taken 3 - Bryan Mills