Liam neeson young
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Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He was raised in a Catholic household. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an amateur boxer. He had originally sought a career as a teacher by attending St. Mary's Teaching College, Newcastle. However, in 1976, Neeson joined the Belfast Lyric Players' Theater and made his professional acting debut in the play "The Risen People". After two years, Neeson moved to Dublin's Abbey Theater where he performed the classics. It was here that he was spotted by director John Boorman and was cast in the film Excalibur (1981) as Sir Gawain, his first high-profile film role.
Through the 1980s Neeson appeared in a handful of films and British TV series - including The Bounty (1984), A Woman of Substance (1984), The Mission (1986), and Duet for One (1986) - but it was not until he moved to Hollywood to pursue larger roles that he began to get noticed. His t
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Liam Neeson
Northern Irish actor (born 1952)
William John NeesonOBE (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland.[3] 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.[4] Neeson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2000.[5]
Neeson made his film debut in 1978 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 HolocaustdramaSchindler'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 Me Liam Neeson's acting career took off relatively late. But well into middle-age, his commanding physical presence means he is still credible in action roles, and he is able to emanate a complex, enigmatic interior quality that fits both heroes and villains. He was born William John Neeson on 7 June 1952 into a working-class Catholic family in the predominantly Protestant region of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Aged nine, he began boxing lessons and later became a heavyweight youth champion, acquiring a broken nose in the process. He briefly studied maths, physics and geology at university, then took teacher training. But he maintained an interest in amateur dramatics which had began at school. In 1976 he joined the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, moving to Dublin's prestigious Abbey Theatre in 1978. Here he was spotted by John Boorman, who gave him his first significant film role, as King Arthur's knight Sir Gawain in Excalibur (1981). Moving to London, he played supporting characters in films and television mini-series, notably two action-adventures, Krull (d. Peter Yates
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