Born in Northern Ireland, UK, Neeson worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, truck driver, assistant architect and an amateur boxer. He had originally sought a career as a teacher by attending St. Mary's Teaching College in Belfast. 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 - www.imdb.com

Irish actor Liam Neeson is known for his brainy yet brawny persona in movies like Schindler's List (1993, directed by Steven Spielberg) and Michael Collins (1996, with Julia Roberts). Neeson was nominated for an Oscar for his role as heroic World War II businessman Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List and it put him on the A-list of stars. In 1999 he secured his place in cinema history as the Jedi knight Qui-Gon Jinn, in the blockbuster Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace. His other films include the early - www.answers.com

In recent years motion picture audiences had become accustomed to seeing Irish-born actor Liam Neeson portray strong leading men—the Holocaust hero Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List (1993), the legendary Scottish clan leader in Rob Roy (1995), and the Irish revolutionary portrayed in Michael Collins (1996), to name a few—but those characters were all rooted in reality. In 1999, in Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace, the eagerly awaited prequel to the Star Wars trilogy of 1977–83, he became a characte - www.biography.com