Actor: Liam Neeson What lms has he done?

Liam Neeson has starred most notably in the action-thriller Taken, where he plays an exCIA agent who tracks down the people who kidnapped his daughter in France. He also starred in its sequel, where the same maa gang kidnap his wife and himself out of revenge from the leader, the father of one of the men he killed. He also starred in other high-end lms as Ras al Ghul, the coach and trainer of Batman/Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins (2005) and Qui Gon Jinn, the teacher of the Jedi In Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. He also is known for his role in Schindlers List as Oskar Schindler, a german businessman who employs hundreds of jewish refugees to hide them from the Nazi Germans during the holocaust, which earned him an Oscar, Nell, as a doctor trying to learn about and teach a girl who was kept in captivity for half of her life about the real world, voicing Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Grey, a survival thriller about one man against a pack of wolves, and The A-Team, where he portrayed John Hannibal Smith. He is heavily interested to portray historical gures in biographical lms starring as Michael Collins, as an Irish revolutionist in Michael Collins and Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey, He also voiced a major role in the video game Fallout 3, as the players father. Where did they go to school? Liam Neeson rst attended Queens University Belfast as a physics and computer science undergraduate, before working for Guinness Brewery in Belfast. Who inspired them/What has been their strongest inuence? His biggest inuence which lead him into being interested and deciding to go into acting was minister Ian Paisley, whose church he would sneak into just to hear him speak. He mainly admired his presence in the area upon his arrival, mainly his strong stature and large height, and how it was incredible to him on his voice sounded and how he acted as he read passages of the Bible, his speech sounding very intimidating but bewildering. He quoted that it was acting, but it was great acting and quite stirring too. Why did you choose him? Because after watching him recite his famous monologue in Taken, I liked how he spoke out the words in his own distinctive and unique tone in a slow, soft but harsh and dead serious sounding way. I admire how he uses his Irish accent to advantage when it comes to giving interrogation or face off scenes, and how he can make a silent and monotone voice sound so scary and serious.

Adrian Ma

Thursday, 18 October 2012 7:01:02 PM Hong Kong SAR China Time