William John Neeson OBE (born June 7, 1952) is an actor from Northern
Ireland. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an
Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards.
In 2020, he was placed seventh on The Irish Times list of Ireland's 50
Greatest Film Actors. Neeson was appointed Officer of the Order of the
British Empire (OBE) in 2000.
Neeson made his film debut 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). He rose to prominence
portraying Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama
Schindler's List (1993) for which he earned an Academy Award for Best
Actor nomination. He played leading man roles in drama films such as Nell
(1994), Rob Roy (1995), Michael Collins (1996), and Les Misérables (1998).
He took blockbuster roles portraying Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I –
The Phantom Menace (1999), Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins (2005) and
Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia trilogy (2005–2010).
He acted in films such as the historical drama Gangs of New York (2002),
the romantic comedy Love Actually (2003), the biographical drama Kinsey
(2004), the erotic thriller Chloe (2009), the religious drama Silence (2016),
the fantasy film A Monster Calls (2016), the crime thriller Widows (2018),
the anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and the romantic
drama Ordinary Love (2019). Beginning in 2009, 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). He is known for his collaborations
in the genre with the director Jaume Collet-Serra and starred in four of his
films: Unknown (2011), Non-Stop (2014), Run All Night (2015), and The Commuter (2018).
On stage, Neeson joined the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast in 1976
for two years. On Broadway he earned two Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
nominations for his performances as Matt Burke in the revival of Eugene
O'Neill's Anna Christie (1992) and John Proctor in the Arthur Miller revival
of The Crucible (2002). He portrayed Oscar Wilde in David Hare's The Judas Kiss (1998).
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