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This is the Biography of Liam Neeson, and his career
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Liam Neeson is born on June 7, 1952
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Liam enrolles as an undergraduate
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In 1976, Neeson joined the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast
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He got his first film experience in 1977, playing Jesus Christ and Evangelist in the religious film, Pilgrim's Progress directed by Ken Anderson
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Liam moved to Dublin in 1978 after he was offered a part in a production at the Project Arts Centre.
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In 1980, filmmaker John Boorman saw him on stage acting, as Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men, and offered him the part of Sir Gawain in the upcoming Arthurian film, Excalibur.
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He also starred as a guest actor in the third season of the television series Miami Vice in 1986.
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In 1987, Neeson made a daring decision to move to Hollywood in order to star in high-profile roles. That year, he starred alongside Cher and Dennis Quaid in Suspect.
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Neeson got critical applause, but it was 1990's Darkman that would finally bring his name to public attention.
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In 1999, Neeson starred as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, in director George Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
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Neeson went on to star as Jean Valjean in the 1998 adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and in The Haunting
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In the director's commentary of the 2007 Transformers DVD, Michael Bay said that he had told the animators to seek inspiration from Liam Neeson in creating Optimus Prime's body language.
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Neeson starred in the 2008 hit Taken, which brought his image back into the public eye and resulted in his casting in many more mainstraim Hollywood movies.
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Later the same year, he played John "Hannibal" Smith in the spin-off movie from the TV series The A-Team.
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In 2010, Neeson voiced the character Aslan again in the sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
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Liam stars as the main character in the movie "The Grey". coming out january 27.
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lian plays zeus in the wrath of the titans
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It was announced that Liam Neeson would reprise his role as Ra's Al Ghul for the film: The Dark Knight Rises. He narrated the first trailer for the film that was released in July 2011.
