Liam Neeson
Liam John Neeson OBE is an actor from Northern Ireland. He has been nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award. In 2020, he was listed at number 7 on The Irish Times list of Ireland’s greatest film actors. He is one of the highest grossing actors of all time.
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Liam John Neeson OBE is an actor from Northern Ireland. He has been nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2020, he was listed at number 7 on The Irish Times list of Ireland’s greatest film actors. He was born in Ballymena on 7 June 1952, the son of Katherine and Bernard. He is one of the highest grossing actors of all time. In 1976, he joined the Lyric Players’ Theatre in Belfast for two years. He then acted in the Arthurian film Excalibur. Between 1982 and 1987, he starred in five films, most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in The Bounty. He landed a leading role alongside Patrick Swayze in Next of Kin. He has since starred in other successful films, including the drama Nell, the historical biopic Michael Collins, the 1998 film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, the epic space opera Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the biographical drama Kinsey, the superhero film Batman Begins. He also provided the voices of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia trilogy and the titular monster in A Monster Calls. In 1980, he presented the first Boa Field Theatre Company, Derry, on September 23, 1980. In 1980 he performed alongside Stephen Rea, Mick McAnally and Mick Doalty in Brian Friel’s Translations, the first production of Friel and Rea’s Field Company.
He got his first film experience in 1977, playing Christ and Evangelist in the religious film Pilgrim’s Progress. In 1978 he was offered a part in Ron Hutchinson’s Says I Says I, a drama about The Troubles. In 2008, he played Jesus in Jesus’s Pilgrim’s Progress, a religious film about the Troubles, at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin. In 2010, he performed in the play Rea Field Company, Rea Day, in the Guildhall Theatre Company in Derry. In 2012, he appeared in the film The Cripple of Inishmaan, a biopic about the Irish civil rights movement. In 2013, he had a starring role in the biopic The Longboats, starring alongside Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons. In 2014 he starred as Oskar Schindler in Schindler’s List. In 2015 he played the title role in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, starring in the same role as Tom Hanks. In 2016 he played a supporting role in The Hobbit: The Descendants, in which he appeared alongside Tom Hiddleston and Amy Adams. In 2017, he starred in a film adaptation of The Hobbit, The Descent of The Holy Grail, playing the lead role of Odin. In 2018, he co-starred in The Hobbit and The Hobbit sequel, The Wolf of Wall Street. In 2011, he won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Hobbit.
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