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Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He was raised in a Catholic household. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an amateur boxer. He had originally sought a career as a teacher by attending St. Mary's Teaching College, Newcastle. However, in 1976, Neeson joined the Belfast Lyric Players' Theater and made his professional acting debut in the play "The Risen People". After two years, Neeson moved to Dublin's Abbey Theater where he performed the classics. It was here that he was spotted by director John Boorman and was cast in the film Excalibur (1981) as Sir Gawain, his first high-profile film role.
Through the 1980s Neeson appeared in a handful of films and British TV series - including The Bounty (1984), A Woman of Substance (1984), The Mission (1986), and Duet for One (1986) - but it was not until he moved to Hollywood to pursue larger roles that he began to get noticed. His turn as a mute homeless man in Suspect (1987) garnered good reviews, as did supporting roles in The Good Mother (1988) and High Spirits (1988) - though he also starred in the best-to-be-forgotten Satisfaction (1988), which also featured a then-unknown Julia Roberts - but leading man status eluded him until the cult favorite Darkman (1990), directed by Sam Raimi. From there, Neeson starred in Under Suspicion (1991) and Ethan Frome (1992), was hailed for his performance in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1992), and ultimately was picked by Steven Spielberg to play Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List (1993). The starring role in the Oscar-winning Holocaust film brought Neeson Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor.
Also in 1993, he made his Broadway debut with a Tony-nominated performance in "Anna Christie", in which he co-starred with his future wife Natasha Richardson. The next year, the two also starred opposite Jodie Foster in the movie Nell (1994), and were married in July of that year. Leading roles as the 18th century Scottish Highlander Rob Roy (1995) and the Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins (1996) followed, and soon Neeson was solidified as one of Hollywood's top leading men. He starred in the highly-anticipated Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) as Qui-Gon Jinn, received a Golden Globe nomination for Kinsey (2004), played the mysterious Ducard in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (2005), and provided the voice for Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005).
Neeson found a second surprise career as an action leading man with the release of Taken (2008) in early 2009, an unexpected box office hit about a retired CIA agent attempting to rescue his daughter from being sold into prostitution. However, less than two months after the release of the film, tragedy struck when his wife Natasha Richardson suffered a fatal head injury while skiing and passed away days afterward. Neeson returned to high-profile roles in 2010 with two back-to-back big-budget films, Clash of the Titans (2010) and The A-Team (2010), and returned to the action genre with Unknown (2011), The Grey (2011), Battleship (2012) and Taken 2 (2012), as well as the sequel Wrath of the Titans (2012).
Neeson was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1999 Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to drama. He has two sons from his marriage to Richardson: Micheal Richard Antonio Neeson (born June 22, 1995) and Daniel Jack Neeson (born August 27, 1996).- Actor
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Conleth Hill was born on November 24, 1964 in Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. His great work of exquisite artistic generosity, intelligence, sensation and insights both on stage and screen reflects the wide range of his unique acting qualities as a superb "chameleon" in memorable tour-de-force transformations of charisma, subtlety and profoundness including brilliant interpretations of roles, such as in Blue Heaven (1992), Game of Thrones (2011), Whatever Works (2009), National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well (2009), Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard (2011), Suits (2011) and National Theatre Live: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2017).- Actor
- Producer
Seamus O'Hara was born on 25 June 1990 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Northman (2022), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) and An Irish Goodbye (2022).- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Conor MacNeill was born on 4 July 1988 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. Conor is an actor and writer, known for The Tourist (2022), Industry (2020) and The Sixth Commandment (2023).- Actor
- Producer
Kristian Nairn is a Northern Irish Actor and Musician. He is a successful DJ, having performed alongside acts such as the Scissor Sisters. He has worked Worldwide. Game of Thrones (2011) marks Nairn's first major acting role. He plays the role of the enigmatic fan favorite character, Hodor. He also appeared as a guest on episode 37 of the comedy podcast YoGPoD (2009), discussing his role in 'Game Of Thrones' with the hosts Simon Lane and Lewis Brindley.- Actress
- Writer
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Elegant, quintessentially British Valerie Hobson was the daughter of a British army officer. She studied dancing at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and appeared onstage for the first time at age 16, but she contracted a case of scarlet fever and decided to give up dancing for acting. She journeyed to Hollywood, but became disillusioned with the studio system and returned to Britain, where she was often cast in aristocratic roles.
She married producer Anthony Havelock-Allan and subsequently appeared in many of his films. They divorced in 1952. She then married politician -- and future notorious sex-and-espionage-scandal figure -- John Profumo and gave up her acting career. She stood strongly by Profumo during that distasteful period. In her later years she was devoted to charity work. She died in 1998, aged 81.- Actor
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Stephen Hagan was raised in the village of Greenisland in County Antrim, Belfast, Ireland. Stephen pursued his passion for acting after a chance acting stint at the local Lyric Theatre in Belfast. Afterwards, he made his way to London to further study and pursue acting. During his final year of study in 2007, Stephen performed in Anthony Sher's play, The Giant, performed at the Hampstead Theatre. In that same year, Stephen made his screen debut in the British drama Clapham Junction (2007). Two years later, Stephen appeared in the Steven Seagal Against the Dark (2009). In television work, Stephen appeared on an episode of the British drama Mistresses (2008) and made recurring appearances on the drama short The Cut (2009) and Injustice (2011).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Lisa Dwyer Hogg was born in Randalstown, County Antrim, Ireland. She is known for Dance First (2023), The House Across the Street (2022) and The Fall (2013).- Actor
- Writer
Harry Towb was a Northern Ireland-born character actor on stage and in films and television. He was born in Larne, County Antrim, to Jewish parents. His father was a Russian emigrant. Harry Towb once claimed he was the only Jew ever born in Larne. He grew up in Belfast, making his stage debut at the Guildhall Theatre in Londonderry in 1946.
Towb began acting in England in the 1950s. Over the years he was affiliated with the National Theatre, the Abbey and Gate Theatres in Dublin, and with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). He was also a prolific performer on British television in a wide variety of roles. He appeared twice in Doctor Who (1963). His second appearance, in Terror of the Autons: Episode Two (1971), features one of the cult series' scariest scenes in which his character is suffocated by a plastic chair. In films, he often appeared as priests or law enforcement officers.
Towb died of cancer three days before his 84th birthday. He was survived by his wife, actress Diana Hoddinott, children Emily, Daniel and Joshua, and three granddaughters.- Actress
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Jacqueline 'Jackie' Woodburne is an Irish/Australian actress who grew up in Northern Ireland before moving to Australia and lived in Frankston Victoria. Jackie is best known for her roles on Cop Shop (1977), 1915 (1982), A Country Practice (1981), and for a roles in Australian Award winning prison soap Prisoner (1979), and for her long running role as Susan Kennedy on long running Australian TV soap Neighbours (1985).- Glen Wallace was born on 5 May 1976 in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. He is an actor, known for The Secret (2016), EastEnders (1985) and Hollyoaks (1995).
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- Producer
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Terence Cooper was born on 5 July 1933 in Carnmoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Casino Royale (1967), No Way Out (1987) and The Buccaneers (1956). He was married to Julie and Lyn. He died on 16 September 1997 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.- Derek Lord was born on 23 April 1947 in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. He is an actor, known for Take the High Road (1980), The Secret Servant (1984) and Game of Thrones (2011).
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Robert McKenzie was born on 22 September 1880 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland [now Ballymena District, Northern Ireland], UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Beginner's Luck (1935), The White Outlaw (1929) and A Naughty Nurse (1928). He was married to Eva McKenzie. He died on 8 July 1949 in Manunuck, Rhode Island, USA.- After fifteen years training and competing in Kung fu forms (winning four Ameteur World Titles). Shane decided to support his son Brandon in his passion and take up acting. In his first production he played Widow Twankey. In the past three years, Shane has had principle roles on the Grand Opera House(Belfast) Stage, and has made many appearances in local independent short films and has worked on major film and television productions such as Dracula Untold, Line OF Duty series 2, BBC drama Hidden and Feature film Starred Up. He signed with Premier Artists N.I at the beginning of 2013.
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Syd Macartney was born on 24 July 1954 in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. Syd is a director and cinematographer, known for A Love Divided (1999), The Canterville Ghost (1996) and Yellowthread Street (1990).- Ricky Addison Reed was born on 20 April 1976 in Parkhall, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. He is an actor, known for A Return to Salem's Lot (1987).
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Mark Devlin was born on 7 September 1970 in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. He is a producer and production manager, known for Your Highness (2011), Unleashed (2005) and The Magdalene Sisters (2002). He has been married to Karen Devlin since 23 February 1990.- Rosemary Faith was born on 20 March 1946 in Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, Ireland. She is an actress, known for Oppenheimer (1980), People Like Us (1978) and Please Sir! (1968).
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BJ Hogg, a true Ulsterman, was born in Lisburn, Co. Antrim. His father William was a plater in Harland and Woolfe shipyard in Belfast, and his mother May ran a general store in their home town. BJ travelled the world as an actor, writer and now director. He was a true all-rounder, a classically trained musician who started his career whilst in his teens, touring with the Big Bands, all over his native Ireland.
His acting career took him from theatre roles in Belfast Art's and Lyric Theatres to London's Royal Court, including the Moscow Arts Theatre and the National Theatre of Belarus in Minsk. In Russia, BJ was the only European actor to be invited to play with an all Russian cast in the Russian stage play, Threshold, in Moscow Arts Theatre and The National ByloRussian State Theatre (Yanka Kupala) Minsk. Directed by Shivaun O'Casey, he played Corporal Brennan in major US and Irish tours of her father Sean's play "The Plough and the Stars." Starring in numerous television series, he became a household name and face in the comic role of "Big Mervyn" in the long-running BBC NI comedy series "Give My Head Peace," aired across the UK and Ireland.
BJ, passionate about his native Northern Ireland, successfully based his career from his home territory, playing in movies internationally and indeed closer to home. BJ co-starred with Tim Robbins and Bill Murray in City Of Ember, and appeared in Richard Attenborough's Closing The Ring and Steve McQueen's acclaimed Cannes 2008 award winning Hunger. He worked extensively when he can in the theatre, and had the principle role, Robert, in the inaugural tour of the huge new musical On Eagles Wing, which had major European and US tours and then Broadway in 2010. BJ worked extensively with acclaimed directors including Richard Attenborough, Jim Sheridan, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Mike Leigh and Alan Pakula. Turning to directing himself, he helmed the UK documentary Richard Attenborough: Master At Work. As a writer, BJ's second screenplay Promises, Promises, which he also directed, was filmed in the UK, with Ed Burns, Claire Forlani and Rosemary Harris.
Integrally involved in the production of 'Dance Lexi Dance', he also played the eponymous 'Lexi Hamilton' in the Oscar-nominated short film 'Dance Lexi Dance,' which won several awards, including Special Jury award at the Aspen film festival.- Visual Effects
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Martin R. Davison was born on 22 September 1977 in Belfast, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. Martin R. is a director, known for Alien vs. Predator (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007) and Casino Royale (2006).- Gareth Maguire was born on 12 August 1974 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland. He is an actor, known for The Leftovers (2014), Marrakech (2006) and Shut Up & Sing (2006). He was previously married to Martie Maguire.
- Carolyn Pertwee was born on 19 October 1941 in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. She is an actress, known for The Mini-Mob (1967), A Throne of Shadows (2018) and Market in Honey Lane (1967). She has been married to Bernard Reuben Gordon since 1963. They have two children.
- Alexandra Ford was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. She is known for Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008), Give My Head Peace (1998) and Line of Duty (2012).
- Mark Allen was born on 22 February 1986 in Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. He was previously married to Kyla McGuigan.