History Creator / LiamNeeson

* ''The Marksman'' (2021) as Jim Hanson

* ''Made In Italy'' (2020) as Robert Foster
* ''Honest Thief'' (2020) as Tom Carter / Tom Dolan

** ''Film/SeraphimFalls'' (2007) as Colonel Morsman Carver

Also, he doesn't look like his photo anymore. But we like to keep it there. Looks close enough, though...

His long and multi-faceted career started out with character actor work in films like ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'', ''Film/TheBounty'' (as a mutinous sailor) and ''Film/TheDeadPool''. He graduated to leading man status with comic book horror adaptation ''Darkman''. His later career has taken him from serious drama (as Oskar Schindler in ''Film/SchindlersList'' and Dr. Jerome Lovell in ''Film/{{Nell}}'') to fantasy (Zeus in ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' and the voice of Aslan in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'') to action (Bryan Mills in ''Film/{{Taken}}'') to Sci-Fi (Qui-Gon Jinn in ''Franchise/StarWars Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace''), to historical film (''Film/RobRoy'', ''Film/MichaelCollins''). Animated characters that Neeson voiced include Fujimoto, the dad of the eponymous character in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', and Bad Cop/Good Cop, in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', and The Monster in ''Literature/AMonsterCalls''. Also said to have been the inspiration behind Captain Carrot of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fame. In recent years, Neeson seems to have replaced the late Creator/SeanConnery as Hollywood's go-to-actor for playing TheMentor and the CoolOldGuy.

* ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' (2009) as Fujimoto (Voice Role / [[SuperlativeDubbing/EnglishDubs English Dub]])

* FakeAmerican: He often plays American characters despite being Northern Irish.

* SesameStreetCred: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhDJe8IP8A0 Doing his best Count von Count!]]

* OneManArmy: His roles in ''Film/DarkMan'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', and ''Film/{{Taken}}''. Heck, even his role as Aslan qualfies seeing as how [[spoiler:he singlehandedly turned the battle against the Witch in the good side's favor]].

* ''The Franchise/StarWars Franchise'' as Qui-Gon Jinn

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie (2014) as Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop

* ''Film/{{Entourage}}'' as himself
* ''Film/Ted2'' as Trix Customer
* ''Film/TheHuntsmanWintersWar'' as Narrator
* ''Film/AMonsterCalls'' as the titular Monster (Voice Role / MotionCapture)
* ''Film/{{Silence}}'' as Father Cristóvão Ferreira
* ''Film/DaddysHome Daddy's Home 2'' as Actor in [[ShowWithinAShow Missile Tow]] (Voice Role / TheCameo)
* ''Film/TheCommuter'' as Michael McCauley
* ''Film/TheBalladOfBusterScruggs'' as Impresario[[note]]For the segment "Meal Ticket"[[/note]]
* ''Film/{{Widows}} as Harry Rawlings
* ''Film/ColdPursuit'' as Nelson "Nels" Coxman
* ''Film/MenInBlackInternational'' as High T
* ''Ordinary Love'' as Tom Thompson

* PapaWolf:
** His role in ''Film/{{Taken}}'' was a quite brutal version of the trope, in which an ex CIA agent goes to ''huge'' extremes to save his kidnapped daughter from being sold into prostitution.

** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', [[spoiler:this is inverted, as his ''daughter'' raises bloody hellfire in his name]].
** He plays this role again in ''Film/TheCommuter''.

** In ''Film/{{Widows}}'' [[spoiler:unlike his usual NobleDemon villains he plays a cowardly wretch without a single redeeming value]].

** Later in his career (after Film/{{Taken}}), he found a second TypeCasting as a gruff AntiHero usually in law enforcement in some capacity.

** ''Taken 3''[[note]]or alternatively, [[Letters2Numbers Tak3n]][[/note]] (2014/2015)
* ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' (2009) as Fujimoto (Voice Role / [[SuperlativeDubbing/EnglishDubs English Dub]]

* ''Film/{{Unknown}}'' (2011) as Dr. Martin Harris

!''Filmography'':

** ''FilmTheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' (2010)

* ''Film/{{Excalibur}} (1981)'' as [[SirGawainAndTheGreenKnight Gawain]]
* ''Film/TheBounty (1984)'' as Charles Churchill
* ''Film/TheMission (1986)'' as Father John Fielding
* ''Film/TheDeadPool (1988)'' as Peter Swan
* ''Film/{{Darkman}} (1990)'' as Peyton Westlake / Darkman
* ''Film/SchindlersList (1993)'' as Oskar Schindler
* ''Film/{{Nell}} (1994)'' as Dr. Jerome "Jerry" Lovell
* ''Film/MichaelCollins (1996)'' as Michael Collins

* ''The Franchise/StarWars franchise'' as Qui-Gon Jinn
** ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIThePhantomMenace (1999)''
** ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIIAttackOfTheClones (2002)''[[note]]Uncredited cameo[[/note]]
** ''[[VideoGame/LEGOStarWars]] LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game (2005)''

His long and multi-faceted career started out with character actor work in films like ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'', ''Film/TheBounty'' (as a mutinous sailor) and ''Film/TheDeadPool''. He graduated to leading man status with comic book horror adaptation ''Darkman''. His later career has taken him from serious drama (as Oskar Schindler in ''Film/SchindlersList'' and Dr. Jerome Lovell in ''Film/{{Nell}}'') to fantasy (Zeus in ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' and the voice of Aslan in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'') to action (Bryan Mills in ''Film/{{Taken}}'') to Sci-Fi (Qui-Gon Jinn in ''Franchise/StarWars Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace''), to historical film (''Film/RobRoy'', ''Film/MichaelCollins''). Animated characters that Neeson voiced include Fujimoto, the dad of the eponymous character in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', and Bad Cop/Good Cop, in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', and The Monster in ''Literature/AMonsterCalls''. Also said to have been the inspiration behind Captain Carrot of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fame. In recent years, Neeson seems to have replaced the now retired Creator/SeanConnery as Hollywood's go-to-actor for playing TheMentor and the CoolOldGuy.

Liam John Neeson (born 7 June 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is a multi-award winning actor originally from [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Stroke Country]].

Liam John Neeson (born June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is a multi-award winning actor originally from [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Stroke Country]].

His long and multi-faceted career started out with character actor work in films like ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'', ''Film/TheBounty'' (as a mutinous sailor) and ''Film/TheDeadpool''. He graduated to leading man status with comic book horror adaptation ''Darkman''. His later career has taken him from serious drama (as Oskar Schindler in ''Film/SchindlersList'' and Dr. Jerome Lovell in ''Film/{{Nell}}'') to fantasy (Zeus in ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' and the voice of Aslan in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'') to action (Bryan Mills in ''Film/{{Taken}}'') to Sci-Fi (Qui-Gon Jinn in ''Franchise/StarWars Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace''), to historical film (''Film/RobRoy'', ''Film/MichaelCollins''). Animated characters that Neeson voiced include Fujimoto, the dad of the eponymous character in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', and Bad Cop/Good Cop, in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', and The Monster in ''Literature/AMonsterCalls''. Also said to have been the inspiration behind Captain Carrot of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fame. In recent years, Neeson seems to have replaced the now retired Creator/SeanConnery as Hollywood's go-to-actor for playing TheMentor and the CoolOldGuy.

Liam John Neeson (born June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is a multi-award winning actor originally from [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Stroke Country]]. Has a long and multi-faceted career, from serious drama (as Oskar Schindler in ''Film/SchindlersList'' and Dr. Jerome Lovell in ''Film/{{Nell}}'') to fantasy (Zeus in ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' and the voice of Aslan in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'') to action (Bryan Mills in ''Film/{{Taken}}'') to Sci-Fi (Qui-Gon Jinn in ''Franchise/StarWars Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace''), to historical film (''Film/RobRoy'', ''Film/MichaelCollins''). Animated characters that Neeson voiced include Fujimoto, the dad of the eponymous character in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', and Bad Cop/Good Cop, in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', and The Monster in ''Literature/AMonsterCalls''. Also said to have been the inspiration behind Captain Carrot of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fame. In recent years, Neeson seems to have replaced the now retired Creator/SeanConnery as Hollywood's go-to-actor for playing TheMentor and the CoolOldGuy.

Liam John Neeson (born 7 June 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is a multi-award winning actor originally from [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Stroke Country]]. Has a long and multi-faceted career, from serious drama (as Oskar Schindler in ''Film/SchindlersList'' and Dr. Jerome Lovell in ''Film/{{Nell}}'') to fantasy (Zeus in ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' and the voice of Aslan in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'') to action (Bryan Mills in ''Film/{{Taken}}'') to Sci-Fi (Qui-Gon Jinn in ''Franchise/StarWars Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace''), to historical film (''Film/RobRoy'', ''Film/MichaelCollins''). Animated characters that Neeson voiced include Fujimoto, the dad of the eponymous character in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', and Bad Cop/Good Cop, in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', and The Monster in ''Literature/AMonsterCalls''. Also said to have been the inspiration behind Captain Carrot of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fame. In recent years, Neeson seems to have replaced the now retired Creator/SeanConnery as Hollywood's go-to-actor for playing TheMentor and the CoolOldGuy.

Liam John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is a multi-award winning actor originally from [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Stroke Country]]. Has a long and multi-faceted career, from serious drama (as Oskar Schindler in ''Film/SchindlersList'' and Dr. Jerome Lovell in ''Film/{{Nell}}'') to fantasy (Zeus in ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' and the voice of Aslan in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'') to action (Bryan Mills in ''Film/{{Taken}}'') to Sci-Fi (Qui-Gon Jinn in ''Franchise/StarWars Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace''), to historical film (''Film/RobRoy'', ''Film/MichaelCollins''). Animated characters that Neeson voiced include Fujimoto, the dad of the eponymous character in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', and Bad Cop/Good Cop, in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', and The Monster in ''Literature/AMonsterCalls''. Also said to have been the inspiration behind Captain Carrot of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fame. In recent years, Neeson seems to have replaced the now retired Creator/SeanConnery as Hollywood's go-to-actor for playing TheMentor and the CoolOldGuy.

* MentorArchetype: As [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Qui-Gon Jinn]] and [[Film/BatmanBegins Henri Ducard]].

** Not to mention his role as James in VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}. [[TechnicalPacifist A kindly Doctor]] who managed to travel across the [[CrapsackWorld hell of the Wasteland]] in order to bring his newborn safely to a Vault. Then 19 years later, ''did it again''.

** He plays this role again in Film/TheCommuter.

** ''Cold Pursuit'' plays with his typical revenging action hero roles, as he definitely has all the same motivation, but is also much more of a regular guy who's comically in over his head actually trying to get his revenge.

* UsefulNotes/TheTroubles: Has done roles encompassing both the all-Ireland Troubles of 1919-1923 and the Northern Ireland Troubles of 1968-1998.
** In Ireland, Neeson is primarily known not for ''Film/SchindlersList'', or even ''Franchise/StarWars'', but for ''Film/MichaelCollins'', which was not widely seen abroad but was a huge, huge hit with Irish viewers, since Collins is often considered a national hero there.

Liam John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is a multi-award winning actor originally from [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Stroke Country]]. Has a long and multi-faceted career, from serious drama (as Oskar Schindler in ''Film/SchindlersList'' and Dr. Jerome Lovell in ''Film/{{Nell}}'') to fantasy (Zeus in ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' and the voice of Aslan in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'') to action (Bryan Mills in ''Film/{{Taken}}'') to Sci-Fi (Qui-Gon Jinn in ''Franchise/StarWars Episode 1: Film/ThePhantomMenace''), to historical film (''Film/RobRoy'', ''Film/MichaelCollins''). Animated characters that Neeson voiced include Fujimoto, the dad of the eponymous character in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', and Bad Cop/Good Cop, in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', and The Monster in ''Literature/AMonsterCalls''. Also said to have been the inspiration behind Captain Carrot of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fame. In recent years, Neeson seems to have replaced the now retired Creator/SeanConnery as Hollywood's go-to-actor for playing TheMentor and the CoolOldGuy.

* TheAtoner: With the revelation that he himself was once a former racist, he made it clear in the same interview he admitted it in that he was ashamed of what he believed then and used that history to warn against the dangers of racism.

* DoubleStandards: Some of his detractors have furiously pointed out that while Kevin Hart got blacklisted over homophobic jokes a decade ago, Neeson and his supporters are defending a man who once considered committing murder.

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Neeson and his supporters have openly stated that Neeson should be commended for admitting that he once was a racist, and coming to his senses on his own after just a week, plus his openly volunteering the story when he could have easily taken the secret to his grave, and that he should not be declared a monster, including Whoopi Goldberg.

* MisplacedRetribution: In 2019, he admitted he spent some time wanting to kill a random black person after one raped a friend of his. Suffice it to say, the revelation of this "racist revenge" fantasy caused his career to hit a massive roadblock.

* ThisIsUnforgivable: How the other side of the debate sees him. The fact he had a desire to act on revenge by killing a black person, even if he is remorseful and never committed it, is seen as too damaging.

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Neeson and his supporters have openly stated that Neeson should be commended for admitting that he once was a racist, and coming to his senses on his own after just a week, and that he should not be declared a monster, including Whoopi Goldberg.