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  Liam Neeson - Biography - Moviefone
Standing a burly 6'4", Liam Neeson was once described by a theatre critic as a "towering sequoia of sex." To say that he has undeniable charisma is certainly accurate, but it is a charisma composed as much of impressive talent as of broken-nosed physical appeal.
Neeson continued to do starring work in such films as Big Man (1991), which featured him as a boxer, Ethan Frome (1992), and Under Suspicion (1992), but ironically, it was his work on the stage that led to his true screen breakthrough.
Neeson received Best Actor Oscar and British Academy Award nominations for his performance, and he subsequently didn't have to worry about finding work in Hollywood, or elsewhere, again.
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  Liam Neeson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William John 'Liam' Neeson OBE, born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland on the 7th of June, 1952, is an Oscar-nominated Northern Irish actor.
Neeson was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in her 1999 New Year's Honours List.
Liam Neeson's favourite Christmas song is "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, according to a questionnaire in the Love Actually script book (UK).
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 Liam Neeson, the sage on screen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Liam Neeson once studied to become a teacher, but he soon switched to drama.
And, she says, though Neeson has always looked more mature than his years, he is enough of a realist to know what roles suit him best.
Neeson's next role, however, could be as one of America's greatest heroes: Abraham Lincoln in a yet-untitled Steven Spielberg film.
www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0430liamneeson30.html   (600 words)

  
 Liam Neeson
If you've ever got the impression that Liam Neeson, a native son of Ballymena, Northern Ireland, was about to box someone's ears off, there's good reason for it.
As a young lad, Neeson was a Northern Ireland boxing champ before turning his rather large hands to forklift operating, truck driving and a stint as an assistant architect.
Neeson is married to Natasha Richardson who says about her husband: "I think he probably wakes up every morning thinking, 'Isn't it great I'm not driving a forklift truck?'"
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 UNICEF - Mozambique - UNICEF Ireland Goodwill Ambassador Liam Neeson travels to Mozambique
Neeson holds twin brothers during his visit to the Colegio Infantil in Beira.
Neeson visits the Munhava Health Centre in Beira, where he watched procedures which aim to strengthen screening, treatment and follow up of malnourished children and children living with HIV/AIDS.
Neeson stressed he wanted his visit to Mozambique to draw attention to the forgotten plight of children, who are bearing the brunt of the AIDS pandemic.
www.unicef.org /rsstracker/news/infobycountry/mozambique_28156.rhtml   (692 words)

  
 Famous Irish-Liam Neeson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Neeson received an Oscar nomination for best actor for his role in that movie, and although he lost to Tom Hanks (Philadelphia), his performance created a lasting impression in the minds of many moviegoers.
Neeson gave his usual strong performance, but was overshadowed by a weak script that seemed more an excuse to have special effects shots than an actual story.
Neeson is married to actress Natasha Richardson and has two children, Michael and Daniel.
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 Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson was born in a catholic family that was a distinct minority in the predominately Protestant town of Ballymena.
At the age of nine, Neeson began taking boxing lessons at the All Saints Youth Club; it wasn't long before he had sustained a broken nose in the ring, an injury that was handled without benefit of a doctor: his trainer reset the bone himself on the spot.
Neeson was appearing in a theatrical adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men when he was spotted by movie director MartinBoorman, who somehow saw in the actor's lumbering half-wit Lennie a medieval knight yearning to be set free.
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 Liam Neeson / K-19 Interview
Liam Neeson has always come across as a strapping 6 foot plus actor.
Neeson admits that he accepts the big-budget Hollywood movies so that they "reinvigorate my desire to return to the theatre as often as possible." The actor shuns the spotlight, preferring to live in New York, with his wife Natasha Richardson and their two sons, rather than Los Angeles.
Neeson remains ferociously private, rarely giving interviews unless there is a reason, such as promoting a new movie.
www.filmmonthly.com /Profiles/Articles/LNeeson/LNeeson.html   (950 words)

  
 Liam Neeson Trivia - Liam Neeson Facts - Liam Neeson Notes
Liam was accepted to the Bristol Old Vic Drama School in England, but decided to attend the Gaiety School of acting instead so he could stay active with the Dublin Shakespeare Festival while in school.
Liam was chosen for the role of Gawain in Excalibur primarily because director John Boorman wanted a large man in the role for the duel between Gawain and Lancelot (the late Nicholas Clay).
Liam won a libel case in 1998 against newspapers who claimed that his marriage was in trouble.
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 Liam Neeson - Films as Actor:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Neeson's Schindler, who saves the lives of more than one thousand Jews from the extermination by the Nazis, is shady but honest, pragmatic but altruistic—the quintessential noir hero, a man walking a tightrope down some very dark, very mean streets.
This behavior is simply inconsistent with the character Neeson, the screenwriter, and Spielberg have created for us up to this point; it strikes such a false note of strained sentimentality (and trademark Spielbergian pathos) that one can almost feel the actor gritting his teeth to get through the scene.
Neeson's character is called upon to do not much more than spout more of Lucas' "The Force is with you" philosophy, and to wield a mean light saber—both of which the actor handles well.
www.filmreference.com /Actors-and-Actresses-Mo-No/Neeson-Liam.html   (1408 words)

  
 Star Wars: Biography | Liam Neeson
Neeson next received critical acclaim, starring opposite Cher as a deaf and mute Vietnam veteran in Peter Yates' courtroom drama Suspect; as the passionate Irish sculptor opposite Diane Keaton in The Good Mother; and as scientist "Peyton Westlake," whose disfiguring accident forces him into hiding in Sam Raimi's fantasy-thriller Darkman.
Neeson then starred in David Leland's gritty contemporary drama Crossing the Line, based on William McIlvanney's acclaimed novel The Big Man about an unemployed Scottish miner desperate for money who is thrust into the high-stakes world of bare-knuckle boxing.
Neeson then continued to star in a succession of acclaimed films, most notably playing the sensitive art historian vying for the affections of Mia Farrow and Judy Davis in Woody Allen's controversial Husbands and Wives.
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 Liam Neeson information - Search.com
Liam Neeson OBE (born William John Neeson June 71952) is an Oscar-nominated Northern Irish actor.
Neeson was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in her 1999 New Year's Honours List.
Liam Neeson's Favorite Christmas song is Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, according to a questionnaire in the Love Actually script book (UK).
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 Bio of Liam Neeson
In March of 2002 Liam Neeson returned to Broadway, co-starring with Laura Linney in Arthur Miller's critically acclaimed play "The Crucible" at The Virgin Theater.
Liam played a world-weary DEA agent who is looking forward to retirement, but must get through one final difficult case before he is able to proceed with his plans.
Neeson set teaching aside and in 1976, joined the prestigious Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast, ("the best training any actor could have"), making his professional acting debut in Joseph Plunkett's "The Risen People." After two years with the Lyric Players he joined the famed repertory company of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
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 USATODAY.com - Liam Neeson, the sage on screen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Liam Neeson once studied to become a teacher, but he soon switched to drama.
And, she says, though Neeson has always looked more mature than his years, he is enough of a realist to know what roles suit him best.
Neeson's next role, however, could be as one of America's greatest heroes: Abraham Lincoln in a yet-untitled Steven Spielberg film.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2005-04-27-liam-neeson_x.htm   (693 words)

  
 Liam Neeson @ Filmbug
Liam Neeson has twice been nominated for Tony Awards; first for his Broadway debut in 1993 in the Roundabout Theater's revival of Eugene O'Neill's 1921 drama Anna Christie; and second in March of 2002, for his Broadway role as John Proctor in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, opposite Laura Linney.
Neeson's recent film roles include starring as sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, again opposite Linney, who portrayed his wife, in the highly acclaimed Oscar nominated Kinsey, directed by Bill Condon.
Neeson starred as the archetypal Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in George Lucas's Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace.
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 Liam Neeson - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Neeson did not play the lead in a movie until he appeared in Darkman (1990).
In the next 2 years, Neeson played characters close to his roots when he was the eighteenth century Scottish Highlander Rob Roy (1995) and the Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins (1996).
In his career's recent years, Neeson has very often taken roles in which he is a mentor/trainer/father figure to a younger man, as in, for example, Batman Begins (2005), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Gangs of New York (2002), and Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
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 Liam Neeson K-19
Neeson admits that he accepts the big-budget Hollywood movies so that they "reinvigorate my desire to return to the theatre as often as possible." The actor shuns the spotlight, preferring to live in New York, with his wife Natasha Richardson and their two sons, rather than Los Angeles.
Neeson remains ferociously private, rarely giving interviews unless there is a reason, such as promoting a new movie.
Neeson has appeared in over 60 films, having made his debut as Gawain in 1981's "Excalibur".
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 Liam Neeson Photos - Liam Neeson News - Liam Neeson Information
Liam Neeson is a UNICEF Ireland Goodwill Ambassador.
Liam Neeson is one of seven actors who has played a character from Star Wars and Batman.
Liam Neeson: (during a HIV/AIDS broadcast for UNICEF) The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all - today HIV/AIDS is the biggest threat to this one universal objective.
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 S W A D - Neeson, Liam
Liam Neeson was born 7 June 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, UK.
Neeson was quite adept at boxing and managed to beat all his competitors at All Saints.
Neeson was nominated for a Tony for his performance in Anna Christie.
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 Liam Neeson - MovieActors.com
Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.
In 1995 Liam Neeson was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.
In July of 2000 Liam Neeson was in a motorcycle accident.
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 Liam Neeson: Hollywood Actor Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Before his acting career was launched, the Irish-born Neeson was a forklift operator, architect assistant, and amateur boxer.
Before marrying his current wife, Neeson was linked to several well-known singers and actresses, including actresses Julia Roberts and Brooke Shields.
Neeson settled down in 1994 when he married Natasha Richardson, a movie and award-winning stage actress.
www.yuddy.com /articles/actors/liam-neeson.html   (447 words)

  
 Kinsey (2004): Reviews
The movie's strength lies in its portrayal of a many-sided genius, as manipulative as he was charming and persuasive, monomaniacal to a fault, generous and sweet yet utterly clueless about the emotional havoc he wrought in the name of science.
Intelligently written and directed with a pleasing frankness by Bill Condon and well played by Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and a strong supporting cast, the film skillfully uses the forms of old Hollywood to tell a story that would have given heart failure to Harry Cohn and his fellow tycoons.
Liam Neeson has never had a richer character to play on screen -- including his landmark role in "Schindler's List" -- and has never displayed such formidable energy and virtuosity.
www.metacritic.com /video/titles/kinsey   (1360 words)

  
 AbsoluteNow: Liam Neeson photos - 11JAN99: Actor LIAM NEESON at the premiere of "In Dreams" in Los Angeles. © Paul ...
Liam Neeson The 14th Annual 2003 Glamour Magazine's WOMEN OF THE YEAR AWARDS, at The American Museum of Natural History, New York City.
Liam Neeson at the premiere of K-19 The Widowmaker Ziegfeld Theatre New York City July 17, 2002 © John Spellman Liam Neeson at the premiere of K-19 The Widowmaker Ziegfeld Theatre New York City July 17, 2002 © John Spellman
Natatsha Richardson and Liam Neeson "Road To Perdition" premiere.
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 CanMag- Liam Neeson News, Pics, Stills, Info
Liam Neeson has been cool ever since he showed his face in the less - action - that - I - had - hoped - for film Rob Roy.
One of Neeson's bigger films, Schindler's List, was so well done that I can only imagine how many people found themselves weeping when Oskar Schindler was trying to think about all of his own personal goods he could have sold in order to save at least one more person persecuted by the Nazi Party.
Liam Neeson played the role of Schindler perfectly in this movie, as he attempts to get a grasp on the political movements that are occurring around him.
www.canmag.com /fanpages/13/Liam_Neeson   (632 words)

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