What nationality is Liam Neeson the actor? Is Liam Neeson a British actor?

Liam Neeson is of Northern Irish nationality. William John Neeson OBE was born in Ballymena, United Kingdom. Liam Neeson got his first film experience in 1977, playing Jesus Christ.

Liam Neeson made a voice cameo as Qui-Gon in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Neeson appeared as Qui-Gon in the final episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022), appearing as a force ghost to Obi-Wan, in an uncredited cameo.

Liam Neeson provided a voice for Hayao Miyazaki’s anime film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.  In 1988, Neeson starred alongside Clint Eastwood in the fifth Dirty Harry film, The Dead Pool, as Peter Swan.

Liam Neeson rose to prominence portraying Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg’s holocaust drama Schindler’s List (1993). He also starred in Nell (1994), Rob Roy (1995), Michael Collins (1996), and Les Misérables (1998).

Liam Neeson established himself as an action star with the action thriller series Taken (2008–2014), The A-Team (2010), The Grey (2011), Wrath of the Titans (2012), and A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014). In 2009, at a ceremony in New York, Neeson was awarded an honorary doctorate by Queen’s University, Belfast.