William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an Irish actor. He was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and educated at Saint Patrick's College, Ballymena Technical College and Queen's 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 Schindler's List led to more high-profile work. He is widowed and lives in New York with his two sons. He 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 Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, Qui-Gon 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 A-Team, Unknown) to smaller arthouse films (ie. Deception, Breakfast on Pluto, Chloe).
179 movies · 58 shows
Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption Exposed
2026·0.0
Cold Storage
2026·6.8
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025·7.0
The Naked Gun
2025·6.4
Ice Road: Vengeance
2025·6.2
Absolution
2024·5.9
Wildcat
2024·5.6
Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey
2024·0.0
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
2023·6.5
Retribution
2023·6.5
Marlowe
2023·5.7
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
2022·0.0
Bonnie
2022·5.3
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022·6.8
Memory
2022·6.7
Ireland
2022·5.0
Blacklight
2022·6.1
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
2022·0.0
The Ice Road
2021·6.8
The Marksman
2021·6.8
WAMEGO: Addendum
2020·0.0
Honest Thief
2020·6.5
Made in Italy
2020·6.0
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
2020·8.0
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019·6.3
Ordinary Love
2019·6.8
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis
2019·6.0
Lost Lives
2019·6.0
Men in Black: International
2019·5.9
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019·5.0
Cold Pursuit
2019·5.9
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018·0.0
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018·7.1
Widows
2018·6.5
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
2018·0.0
The Last Horsemen of New York
2018·0.0
The Commuter
2018·6.4
And the Winner Isn't
2017·6.3
Daddy's Home 2
2017·6.3
Spielberg
2017·7.5
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017·6.2
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
2017·0.0
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
2017·6.0
Red Nose Day Actually
2017·7.0
Karenina & I
2017·7.0
Silence
2016·7.1
A Monster Calls
2016·7.3
How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story
2016·8.0
Operation Chromite
2016·5.8
Love Thy Nature
2016·4.6
The Last Laugh
2016·7.0
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016·6.3
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
2016·1.0
A Christmas Star
2015·5.1
Ted 2
2015·6.3
Entourage
2015·6.2
Run All Night
2015·6.4
Manny
2014·6.4
Taken 3
2014·6.3
A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014·6.3
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
2014·7.3
Third Person
2014·5.9
Road
2014·7.2
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014·6.0
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys
2014·8.3
Non-Stop
2014·6.8
The Lego Movie
2014·7.4
The Nut Job
2014·5.9
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013·0.0
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
2013·6.1
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
2013·6.9
Khumba
2013·6.0
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!
2013·6.8
Girl Rising
2013·7.0
Taken 2
2012·6.4
The Dark Knight Rises
2012·7.8
Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine
2012·0.0
Battleship
2012·5.9
Wrath of the Titans
2012·5.8
The Secret Policeman's Ball
2012·7.6
The Grey
2012·6.6
A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011·4.0
Unknown
2011·6.7
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010·6.4
The Next Three Days
2010·7.1
The Wildest Dream
2010·7.0
The A-Team
2010·6.4
Clash of the Titans
2010·5.9
Chloe
2010·6.1
After.Life
2009·6.3
Five Minutes of Heaven
2009·6.1
The Other Man
2008·5.4
The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files
2008·6.8
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008·6.6
Taken
2008·7.4
The Birth of Christ
2007·0.0
Trumbo
2007·6.7
Seraphim Falls
2007·6.4
Sergeant York: Of God and Country
2006·0.0
Home
2006·8.6
Xavier
2006·10.0
The Path to Redemption
2006·8.0
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006·0.0
Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity
2006·5.2
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005·7.1
Breakfast on Pluto
2005·7.2
Batman Begins
2005·7.7
Kingdom of Heaven
2005·7.1
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005·5.0
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004·6.0
Kinsey
2004·6.6
The Story of Star Wars
2004·7.2
Patrick
2004·6.0
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
2004·0.0
Love Actually
2003·7.1
Martin Luther
2003·6.4
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
2003·6.5
Coral Reef Adventure
2003·6.6
Gangs of New York
2002·7.3
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002·6.6
The Big Bang
2002·0.0
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002·6.6
The Maze
2002·0.0
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
2001·7.3
The Mind's Big Bang
2001·0.0
Journey into Amazing Caves
2001·6.5
Inside The Space Station
2000·6.6
The Endurance
2000·7.0
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000·0.0
Gun Shy
2000·5.2
The Haunting
1999·5.5
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999·6.6
Les Misérables
1998·7.2
Everest
1998·6.6
A Leap of Faith
1996·9.0
Michael Collins
1996·6.9
Before and After
1996·5.9
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996·9.0
Lumière & Company
1995·6.3
Out of Ireland
1995·7.0
Rob Roy
1995·6.7
Miss Sarajevo
1995·7.0
Nell
1994·6.5
Schindler's List
1993·8.6
Ethan Frome
1993·5.6
Leap of Faith
1992·5.8
Ruby Cairo
1992·5.0
Husbands and Wives
1992·7.0
Shining Through
1992·6.5
Revolver
1991·7.3
Under Suspicion
1991·5.9
The Big Man
1990·4.8
Darkman
1990·6.4
Next of Kin
1989·5.9
High Spirits
1988·5.8
The Good Mother
1988·5.7
The Dead Pool
1988·6.3
Satisfaction
1988·5.1
Sweet as You Are
1988·5.2
Suspect
1987·6.6
A Prayer for the Dying
1987·5.9
Sworn to Silence
1987·7.0
Duet for One
1986·5.4
Lamb
1986·5.7
The Mission
1986·7.4
The Delta Force
1986·6.0
Arthur the King
1985·3.5
The Innocent
1985·6.7
The Bounty
1984·6.8
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984·7.0
Krull
1983·6.0
Across the Water
1983·1.0
Nailed
1981·10.0
Excalibur
1981·7.0
My Dear Palestrina
1980·7.0
Christiana
1979·5.5
The Last Window Cleaner
1979·0.0
Dinner at the Sporting Club
1978·5.0
Pilgrim's Progress
1978·7.4