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Liam Neeson is a multi-award winning actor originally from [[Stroke Country]]. Has a long and multi-faceted career, from serious drama (as Oskar Schindler in ''[[Schindler's List]]'') to fantasy (the voice of Aslan in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'') to action (Bryan Mills in ''[[Taken (film)|Taken]]'') to Sci-Fi (Qui-Gon Jinn in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode 1: [[The Phantom Menace]]''), to historical film (''[[Rob Roy]]'', ''[[Michael Collins]]''). Recently voiced Fujimoto, the dad of the eponymous character in ''[[Ponyo]]''. Also said to have been the inspiration behind Captain Carrot of ''[[Discworld]]'' fame.
His latest roles are Dr Martin Harris in the thriller ''[[Unknown (2011 film)|Unknown]]'' and John Ottway in the wilderness survival thriller ''[[The Grey]]''.
Neeson was married to Natasha Richardson until 2009, when she died in a tragic skiing accident.
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* [[The Big Guy]]: He's 6'4", and often towers over most of his castmates.
** Appropriately, he was cast as Michael Collins in the [[Michael Collins|film of the same name]]-Collins was called "the Big Fellow" for his height.
** In fact, he's so tall that [[Star Wars|Qui-Gon Jinn]] action figures almost throw the other figures out of scale.
** As Qui-Gon he's also the only Jedi whose robe has a seam down the back. Because of his height, they couldn't make the robe out of one piece of fabric because bolts of cloth don't come that wide.
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** Except on the ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch, "Ya Call This A House, Do Ya?" in which he played a drunken, churlish Irishman. Of course, in this case, it was [[Played for Laughs|meant to be funny]].
** ...and in ''High Spirits'' when he played a horny Irish ghost with curly red hair...in green pants.
** ...and on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "The Father, The Son, and the Holy Guest Star," where he played a Catholic priest who was a former alcoholic brawler (fighting with his own father, no less).
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: He's been getting cast as either antiheroes or outright villains recently. Of course, he's known in Real life as being one of the sweetest men in the world.
* [[Nice Guy]]: In Real life and often in Films.
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* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: While a wonderful actor, he might be the poster boy for this trope when attempting anything other than his native Irish. Both he and [[Harrison Ford]] have an especially [[Egregious]] case of this in ''[[K19: The Widowmaker]]''.
** That said, he does normally tone his accent ''way'' down in most of his films. In real life his accent is much, much stonger and a touch harder.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: A mild version -- in the fact-based drama ''Five Minutes of Heaven'', the Roman Catholic Neeson played a Protestant killer (and the Protestant James Nesbitt played the Catholic brother of his victim). Both actors are actually from Northern Ireland.
** And then there's ''[[Taken (film)|Taken]]'', where ''Liam Neeson'' plays a [[24|Jack Bauer]] [[Expy]].
*** You mean he's not like that in [[Reality Is Unrealistic|Real Life?!]]
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** Ain't the only time, either. He's played Jean Valjean of [[Les Misérables]], a role in which being Papa Wolf is a requirement.
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Played a minor role in the [[So Bad It's Good]] Cult Classic [[Krull]].
* [[So My Kids Can Watch]]: He signed onto ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' solely because his two sons were into [[Classical Mythology]] and thought it would be cool to see their dad play Zeus.
* [[Stroke Country]]
* [[The Troubles]]: Has done roles encompassing both the all-Ireland Troubles of 1918-1923 and the Northern Ireland Troubles of 1969-1998.
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