Sam Neill
Appearance
Sam Neill | |
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Neill at the 2010 Vancouver Internaitional Wine Festival. | |
Born | Nigel John Dermot Neill 14 September 1947 Omagh, Northren Ireland, Unitit Kinrick |
Naitionality | New Zealand, Breetish |
Eddication | Christ's College, Canterbury |
Alma mater | Varsity o Canterbury |
Thrift | Actor, vyce actor |
Years active | 1975–present |
Hauf-marrae(s) | Lisa Harrow (1978 – c. 1989); 1 bairn Noriko Watanabe (2 September 1989 – present); 1 bairn |
Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, DCNZM, OBE (born 14 September 1947) is a Northren Erse-born New Zealand actor who first achieved leadin roles in films sic as Omen III: The Final Conflict an Dead Calm an on telly in Reilly, Ace of Spies. He won a broad internaitional audience in 1993 for his roles as Alisdair Stewart in The Piano an Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, a role he reprised in 2001's Jurassic Park III. Neill an aa haed notable roles in Merlin, The Hunt for Red October, an The Tudors.
Categeries:
- 1947 births
- Best Actor AACTA Awaird winners
- Distinguished Companions o the New Zealand Order o Meerit
- Fowk eddicatit at Christ's College, Canterbury
- Livin fowk
- New Zealand expatriates in Australie
- New Zealand male film actors
- New Zealand fowk o Inglis strynd
- New Zealand fowk o Erse strynd
- Officers o the Order o the Breetish Empire
- Fowk frae Omagh
- Fowk frae Queenstown, New Zealand
- Varsity o Canterbury alumni
- Victoria Varsity o Wellington alumni
- 20t-century New Zealand male actors
- 21st-century New Zealand male actors
- New Zealand winemakers
- Male film actors frae Northren Ireland