“up and down areas with a cosh, hoping some”
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Liam Neeson
William John Neeson is an actor from Northern Ireland. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards and one Volpi Cup. With a film career spanning more than 40 years, Neeson is regarded as one of Ireland's greatest film actors. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $11.7 billion worldwide. Neeson…
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entertainment · Actor from Northern Ireland (born 1952) · film actor · voice actor · stage actor · television actor · actor · musician · also Liam Neeson, Neeson
Born 7 June 1952 · Q58444
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I will always remain very proud of my upbringing in, and association with, the town and my country of birth, which I will continue to promote at every opportunity. Indeed, I regard the enduring support over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Irish actor Liam Neeson narrated an anti-vaccine documentary.” True.
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2018· 1 entry
Acted in the Coen brothers' western anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and the Steve McQueen crime thriller Widows, acting opposite Viola Davis
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2017· 2 entries
Said, "As Northern Ireland moves forward from division, who do we look to for a future we can share
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Neeson was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 74 in the list of 200 Most Influential Philanthropists and Social Entrepreneurs Worldwide
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2016· 4 entries
Neeson reunited with director Martin Scorsese on the drama Silence, starring alongside Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver
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Neeson was opposed to Brexit, stating in 2016 that it would be truly "a shame to sacrifice all the progress that has been made by the peace process regarding border controls".
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Neeson narrated the RTÉ One three-part documentary on the Easter Rising, 1916
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That it would be truly "a shame to sacrifice all the progress that has been made by the peace process regarding border controls"
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2014· 1 entry
Neeson protested against the anti-carriage horse campaign of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said he would outlaw horse-drawn carriages in Central Park once he took office
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2013· 1 entry
“I will always remain very proud of my upbringing in, and association with, the town and my country of birth, which I will continue to promote at every opportunity. Indeed, I regard the enduring support over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.”
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2012· 1 entry
Neeson starred in Joe Carnahan's The Grey
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2011· 2 entries
Neeson starred in the action-thriller Unknown, a German-British-American co-production of a French book filmed in Berlin in early 2010, and directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
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Played himself in BBC2's series Life's Too Short starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Warwick Davis
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2010· 1 entry
Neeson played Zeus in the remake of the 1981 film, Clash of the Titans
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2009· 2 entries
Nearly four decades after he was an undergraduate in physics and computer science at Queen's University, Belfast, the university awarded him an honorary doctorate which was presented to him in New York by Vice-Chancellor
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At a ceremony in New York, Neeson was awarded an honorary doctorate by Queen's University, Belfast
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2008· 2 entries
Neeson cemented himself as an action star with the action thriller series Taken (2008–2014), The A-Team (2010), The Grey (2011), Wrath of the Titans (2012), A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), and Cold Pursuit (2019)
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Neeson starred in the action film Taken, a French-produced film also starring Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace, based on a script by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and directed by Pierre Morel
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2007· 1 entry
Starred in the American Civil War epic Seraphim Falls
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2005· 2 entries
“The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star”
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Neeson took multiple roles in mainstream blockbuster films
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Kinsey (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Played a recently widowed writer in Richard Curtis's romantic comedy ensemble Love Actually (2003), acting alongside Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, and Laura Linney
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2000).
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Neeson was offered the "Freedom of the Town of Ballymena" by the Ballymena Borough Council, but because of objections made by members of the Democratic Unionist Party regarding his comments that he had felt like a "secon
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1999· 2 entries
Acted in the supernatural horror film The Haunting (1999) opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Neeson starred as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded honorary master's degree presented by The Open University (1996).
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Won Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Michael Collins (1996).
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1993).
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Neeson made his Broadway debut playing Mat Burke in the revival of the Eugene O'Neill play Anna Christie, starring opposite his Ellis Island co-star and future wife Natasha Richardson
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1992· 3 entries
“The call to prayer happens five times a day, and for the first week, it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit, and it's the most beautiful, beautiful thing.”
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“There are 4,000 mosques in the city (Istanbul). Some are just stunning, and it really makes me think about becoming a Muslim.”
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“I was reared a Catholic, but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about.”
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1990· 1 entry
Had a starring role in Sam Raimi's Darkman
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1988· 1 entry
Appeared with Clint Eastwood in the fifth Dirty Harry film, The Dead Pool, as Peter Swan, a horror film director
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1986· 1 entry
And moved to Hollywood the next year to take higher-profile roles
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1980· 2 entries
Performed with Stephen Rea, Ray McAnally and Mick Lally, playing Doalty in Brian Friel's play Translations, the first production of Friel's and Rea's Field Day Theatre Company, first presented in the Guildhall in Derr
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Filmmaker John Boorman saw him on stage as Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men and offered him the role of Sir Gawain in the Arthurian film Excalibur
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1978· 2 entries
With Pilgrim's Progress followed by early roles in Excalibur (1981), The Bounty (1984), The Mission (1986), The Dead Pool (1988), and Husbands and Wives (1992)
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When he was offered a part in Ron Hutchinson's Says I, Says He, a drama about The Troubles, at the Project Arts Centre
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1977· 1 entry
Playing Jesus Christ and The Evangelist in the religious film Pilgrim's Progress (1978)
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1976· 1 entry
Joined the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast, where he performed for two years
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1972· 1 entry
During the Troubles, which encouraged him to learn more local history
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1971· 1 entry
Joined a physics and computer science course at Queen's University Belfast before leaving to work for the Guinness Brewery
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-06-07.
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