For theater buffs, Neeson is also known for his impressive stage resume. But how did Neeson become one of the most coveted, busiest actors in Hollywood? His story isn't exactly a straightforward one. From his humble working-class beginnings during "The Troubles" in Ireland to an early career in forklifting, Neeson probably never expected so much success. Curious to find out how it all happened? Here is the stunning transformation of Liam Neeson.
His parents were Barney, a school custodian, and Kitty, a school cook. He had a traditional Northern Irish Catholic upbringing. At Sunday Mass, he told Men's Journal , he got his first taste of grand theatricality. As Irish Central noted, more than 3, people died during what is also known as the Northern Ireland conflict.
Protestants and Catholics. It's part of my DNA. Nevertheless, his early childhood was mostly pretty normal. He added that his "best memories were working on [his] uncle's little farm in the summertime — making hay, milking cows. It sounds like Neeson had a pleasant childhood that was overshadowed by the ongoing violence in Northern Ireland at the time — and this experience has stayed with him to this day.
As a young boy, Liam Neeson developed two hobbies that he was passionate about — acting and boxing. As he told GQ , he began acting at the age of 11 in order to impress a girl at school. His real passion as a child, however, was boxing.
As Neeson explained to HuffPost , "I was nine and was at mass one Sunday morning and our parish priest Father Darragh announced from the pulpit, 'Listen, I am starting a boxing club on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at pm,' or something like that. Neeson was 11 when he started competing. For a while, he even thought he'd become a professional. I could be the same. However, Neeson stopped boxing at 17 when he realized he didn't have enough time to train properly.
After finishing school, Liam Neeson pursued a degree in physics and computer science at the Queen's University in Belfast.
He dropped out, however, to work at the Guinness factory via BBC. As Neeson later told Metro , it was at the factory that he realized he wanted to be an actor. One day, a man he worked with said, "Liam, what do you want to do in life? Neeson then went on to train as a teacher in Newcastle, but this career didn't last long.
When he encountered an unruly year-old student who pulled out a knife, Neeson punched him. Neeson was fired, and in he joined the Belfast Lyric Players' Theater. Soon after joining the Belfast Lyric Players, Liam Neeson began making some notable theatrical appearances and his first few film appearances. That concern was amplified when his nephews told him they had downloaded the movie on the internet. While shooting the Coen Brothers film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs in New Mexico, Neeson said he encountered a horse on the set who he recognized from a previous film—and apparently, the horse also recognized him.
He actually remembered me from another Western we made a while back. I love animals. When we worked together before I took special care of him. I fed him treats. Gave him apples.
The actor is a fly-fishing enthusiast and often travels to Wyoming and other locations to catch fish. Is a huge fan of boxing and said that Muhammad Ali was the most famous boxer he ever met. Was an amateur boxer, a sport he started participating in at the age of 9. He had his last fight at age Originally planned to become a teacher before discovering acting.
Started acting in his early twenties, upon joining the Belfast Lyric Players' theater. Admitted in that he'd had to quit alcohol after having begun to quietly drink heavily following Natasha Richardson 's death in , eventually drinking up to two to three bottles of wine per night. Of those, Schindler's List is the only one to have won the award. For a couple of years, he was the original choice to play the lead role in Lincoln , which would have reunited his partnership with Steven Spielberg after their massive success with Schindler's List However, due to the many delays with the filming, Neeson felt he was too old for the role and he turned it down.
It went to Daniel Day-Lewis , who won his third Oscar for the role. Lee ended up passing away on Neeson's birthday, June 7. Was scheduled to produce a television miniseries based on the early years of the IRA based on the Leon Uris book Trinity. After first meeting on the set of Excalibur , Neeson and Helen Mirren lived together for four years, after which time Mirren met husband-to-be Taylor Hackford when he directed her in White Nights He and Catherine Zeta-Jones were so frightened by the set of the film The Haunting that neither of them wanted to film there after dark.
Dated Barbra Streisand from to Is a longtime supporter of the legalization of abortion in Ireland. Phil Coulter composed a song for his wedding. Liam Neeson voiced several tracks on Coulter's CDs.
An advertisement for a tall man started Neeson's career as an actor, when he saw a theatre in Belfast advertising for a tall man. As he was 6-foot-4 and weighed 15 stone, he applied and got the job which saw him making his theatre debut playing Irish trade unionist Big Jim Larkin at the age of I never did think of myself as handsome--terribly attractive, yes, but not handsome.
I think I realized there were two communities in Northern Ireland when I was about nine or 10, not because there was any trouble but because in certain years my parents would keep us indoors on the 12th of July.
I couldn't figure that out, because all my mates were out dancing in the streets and I wanted to go out and join them. So it was then that I sensed a "them and us" attitude. No, I don't get obsessed with acting. Because in the past when I have got obsessed about it, it really got in the way of the creative process. I've learned to hang the character on the coat-peg at the end of the day, and when I leave in the morning I pick it up again.
And I had to work at that because the other way lies a strange sort of madness. My wife said that? Well, I guess I am. It takes a lot to get me riled. I think you become bland and predictable without the stress and angst. There's a certain lethargy that sets in. Before Schindler's List , I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change. But having seen what happened with "Schindler's List", and touring the world with it, it really made me realize the power of images.
Some mornings you wake up and think, "Gee, I look handsome today. I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift". Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyze it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning. In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know? I grew up in Northern Ireland, of course. Lived all through the Troubles; saw violence, the results of violence, at first hand.
It's always terrified me and fascinated me. So it was a gut reaction, something about how that rage can eat you alive. I can understand that. I haven't known it myself, but I knew guys who did.
Some of them aren't on this planet any more because of it. To be honest, we're taking each day as it comes. So I would look at his forehead and he would look at my forehead, because sometimes, if we made eye contact, it got quite silly.
We were more restrained on Wrath of the Titans because we had deeper, darker issues to act. Even with action films, the fundamental for me is the writing.
I adore writers, no matter what the genre is, and if it is a well-written piece of material then I am always very interested. Just look at the success of Taken , for example.
I thought it was going to be a straight-to-video release.
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