Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson
Liam John Neeson, OBE is an actor from Northern Ireland. 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, Neeson starred in five films; most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in The Bountyand Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons in The Mission. He landed a leading role alongside Patrick Swayze in Next of Kin...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 June 1952
CityBallymena, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
We're definitely going to do it, ... We've been working on it since November.
It's a simple story, yet with all the complexities of myth. The technology was so understated. I thought he (George Lucas) was an amazing director who had created this totally believable world.
It was quite an intense time in Belfast in 1977 and I remember going to see it in the cinema. It was a very, very dicey area of Belfast. And the cinema was packed. In fact, I had never seen a cinema packed in my life before that -- to see this Episode I. Not Episode I at that time. It was Episode IV. And it was unique. We all got lost in this story for two hours and came back out into the harsh reality of life in Belfast.
I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don't jog. My body hates jogging.
I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.
You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track.
Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.
I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's.
I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.
I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
America has been very, very good to me.
Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received 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.