Liam Neeson

He was born in Ballymena County Antrim Northern Ireland and educated at Saint Patricks College Ballymena Technical College and Queens University Belfast He moved to Dublin after university to further his acting career joining the renowned Abbey Theatre In the early 1990s he moved again to the United States where the wide acclaim for his performance in Schindlers List led to more highprofile work He is widowed and lives in New York with his two sons An Irish actor who has been nominated for an Oscar a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindlers List Michael Collins in Michael Collins Peyton Westlake in Darkman Jean Valjean in Les Misérables QuiGon Jinn in Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey Ras Al Ghul in Batman Begins and the voice of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series He has also starred in several other notable films from major Hollywood studio releases ie Excalibur The Dead Pool Nell Rob Roy The Haunting Love Actually Kingdom of Heaven Taken Clash of the Titans The ATeam Unknown to smaller arthouse films ie Deception Breakfast on Pluto Chloe Description from the Wikipedia article Liam Neeson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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