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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 14, 1947
Place of Birth
Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
Also Known As
- 山姆·尼尔
- 萨姆·尼尔
- سم نیل
- Nigel Neill
- 山姆·尼爾
- Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill
Sam Neill
4.3 Popularity
Biography
Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand actor. His career has included leading roles in both dramas and blockbusters. Considered an "international leading man", he is regarded as one of the most versatile actors of his generation. Born in Northern Ireland to an English mother and New Zealand father, Neill moved to Christchurch with his family in 1954. He first achieved recognition with his appearance in the film Sleeping Dogs (1977), which he followed with leading roles in My Brilliant Career (1979), Omen III: The Final Conflict, Possession (both 1981), Evil Angels (also known as A Cry in the Dark) (1988), Dead Calm (1989), The Hunt For Red October (1990), The Piano (1993), and In the Mouth of Madness (1994). He came to international prominence as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park (1993), reprising the role in Jurassic Park III (2001) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022). Outside of film, Neill has appeared in numerous television series in guest and recurring roles, including Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983), The Simpsons (1994), The Tudors (2007), Crusoe (2008–2010), Happy Town (2010), Alcatraz (2012), and Rick and Morty (2019). He also starred as the titular character Merlin in Merlin (1998) and Merlin's Apprentice (2006) and as Major Chester Campbell in the first two series of Peaky Blinders (2013–2014). He has presented and narrated several documentaries. Neill receives the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, the Longford Lyell Award, the New Zealand Film Award, and the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor. He also has three Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He won the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor at the 2023 Logies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Neill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027
0.0
But Also John Clarke
as Self
2025
0.0
UNTAMED
as Paul Souter
2025
7.3
The Assembly
as Self
2024
0.0
T. REX
as Narrator
2024
6.2
Apples Never Fall
as Stan Delaney
2024
6.1
Bring Him to Me
as Frank
2023
5.7
Scarygirl
as Dr. Maybee (voice)
2023
6.8
The Portable Door
as Dennis Tanner
2023
6.5
Assassin Club
as Caldwell
2023
5.9
Thor: Love and Thunder
as Actor Odin
2022
6.4
The Twelve
as Brett Colby
2022
7.2
Voice Activated
as Audiobook Narrator (voice)
2022
7.0
Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World
as Self
2022
7.0
Jurassic World Dominion
as Alan Grant
2022
6.6
Invasion
as Jim Bell Tyson
2021
7.2
Trial In The Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story
as Self - Host
2021
5.0
The Real Hunt for Red October
as Self
2021
5.5
Russell Howard Stands Up to the World
as Self
2021
1.0
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
as Tommy Brock (voice)
2021
7.1
Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal
as Frankie Scales (voice)
2021
6.4
Rams
as Colin
2020
6.3
Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story
as Self - Narrator
2020
7.0
Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story
as Narrator (voice)
2020
6.5
Sea Lions: Life By a Whisker
as Narrator (voice)
2020
6.0
The Movies That Made Us
as Self
2019
7.2
The Show Must Go On
as Self
2019
3.0
Ride Like a Girl
as Paddy Payne
2019
7.2
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
Blackbird
as Tom
2019
6.8
Palm Beach
as Leo
2019
5.3
Flack
as Duncan Paulson
2019
6.8
The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook
as Self - Host
2018
7.0
Anika Moa Unleashed
as Self
2018
3.0
Peter Rabbit
as Mr. McGregor / Tommy Brock (voice)
2018
6.7
Sweet Country
as Fred Smith
2018
6.6
The Commuter
as Captain Hawthorne
2018
6.4
Thor: Ragnarok
as Actor Odin
2017
7.6
Get Krack!n
as Self
2017
6.1
Tommy's Honour
as Alexander Boothby
2017
6.6
House of Bond
as Roland “Tiny” Rowland
2017
4.0
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
as Self
2017
4.3
Tutankhamun
as Lord Carnarvon
2016
6.4
New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands
as Narrator (voice)
2016
9.2
New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands
as Narrator (voice)
2016
7.8
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
as Hec
2016
7.7
And Then There Were None
as General John MacArthur
2015
7.6
The Daughter
as Walter
2015
6.3
MindGamers
as Kreutz
2015
4.7
Backtrack
as Duncan Stewart
2015
5.8
Why Anzac with Sam Neill
as Self
2015
0.0
The Dovekeepers
2015
6.0
House of Hancock
as Lang Hancock
2015
6.7
United Passions
as Joao Havelange
2014
3.3
Old School
as Ted McCabe
2014
7.8
A Long Way Down
as Chris Crichton
2014
6.2
River Deep, Mountain High: James Nesbitt in New Zealand
as Self
2013
5.0
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
as Otto Luger
2013
5.7
Rick and Morty
as Monogatron Leader (voice)
2013
8.7
Escape Plan
as Dr. Kyrie
2013
6.7
Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery
as Self
2013
7.0
Peaky Blinders
as C.I. Chester Campbell
2013
8.5
Peaky Blinders
as Major Chester Campbell
2013
8.5
🎬
The Ordained
as Governor Michael Thomas Riley
2013
1.0
Harry
as DSS Jim Stockton
2013
6.5
The Vow
as Bill Thornton
2012
7.2
Alcatraz
as Emerson Hauser
2012
6.3
The Hunter
as Jack Mindy
2011
6.6
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
as Self
2011
7.7
The Dragon Pearl
as Chris Chase
2011
4.8
Return to Jurassic Park
as Self
2011
6.6
Ice
as Anthony Kavanagh
2011
5.5
Ice
as Anthony Kavanagh
2011
9.0
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Allomere (voice)
2010
6.8
The Making of Daybreakers
as Self
2010
7.0
Happy Town
as Merritt Grieves
2010
5.9
Daybreakers
as Charles Bromley
2010
6.3
Under the Mountain
as Mr. Jones
2009
4.6
Iron Road
as Alfred Nichol
2009
8.2
Iron Road
as Alfred Nichol
2009
6.3
In Her Skin
as Mr. Reid
2009
6.0
The Man in the Hat
as Reader of Correspondence
2009
0.0
Dean Spanley
as Dean Spanley
2008
7.4
Crusoe
as Jeremiah Blackthorn
2008
6.8
Skin
as Abraham Laing
2008
6.4
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
as Narrator
2008
0.0
The Pixar Story
as Alan Grant (archive footage)
2007
7.6
The Tudors
as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
2007
7.8
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Angel
as Théo
2007
5.5
Two Twisted
as Mick
2006
6.0
Irresistible
as Craig
2006
5.5
The Making of 'Event Horizon'
as Self
2006
7.4
Merlin's Apprentice
as Merlin
2006
4.8
Working with a Master: John Carpenter
as Self
2006
6.0
🎬
Voyage of the Nautilus
as Hubert Wilkins
2006
5.5
The Triangle
2005
6.2
The Triangle
as Eric Benerall
2005
6.2
The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant
as Governor Arthur Phillip
2005
7.0
Yes
as Anthony
2005
5.7
Little Fish
as The Jockey
2005
5.7
To the Ends of the Earth
as Mr. Prettiman
2005
6.0
New Zild - The Story of New Zealand English
as Self
2005
0.0
Gallipoli
as Narrator
2005
7.1
🎬
Colin McCahon: I Am
as Narrator
2004
0.0
Wimbledon
as Dennis Bradbury
2004
6.2
Jessica
as Richard Runche
2004
7.0
Jessica
2004
4.8
Stiff
as Lionel Merricks
2004
7.2
The Making of Sleeping Dogs
as Self
2004
0.0
Perfect Strangers
as Man
2003
4.4
Doctor Zhivago
as Victor Komarovsky
2002
6.6
Dirty Deeds
as Ray
2002
5.5
Framed
as Eddie Meyers
2002
4.9
The Making Of Jurassic Park III
as Self
2001
0.0
Richard & Judy
as Self
2001
2.9
The Zookeeper
as Ludovic
2001
6.5
SuperCroc
as narrator
2001
7.0
Space
as Himself
2001
7.5
Jurassic Park III
as Dr. Alan Grant
2001
6.2
Submerged
as Lt. Cmdr. Charles B. 'Swede' Momsen
2001
5.1
The Magic Pudding
as Sam Sawnoff (voice)
2000
5.1
The Dish
as Cliff Buxton - Dish Master
2000
6.7
Inside The Living Daylights
as Self (archival footage)
2000
8.0
My Mother Frank
as Professor Mortlock
2000
3.3
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
as Thomas Jefferson
2000
7.6
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
as Thomas Jefferson
2000
8.0
🎬
Numero Bruno
as Self
2000
0.0
Bicentennial Man
as Sir
1999
7.3
Rove
as Self
1999
8.0
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
as Prime Minister Gibson
1999
6.0
The Games
as Citytrans World CEO
1998
7.0
The Revengers' Comedies
as Henry Bell
1998
5.6
Merlin
as Merlin
1998
6.9
The Horse Whisperer
as Robert MacLean
1998
6.9
Forgotten Silver
as Self
1997
7.2
Event Horizon
as Weir
1997
6.6
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
as Lord Friedrich Hoffman
1997
6.1
The Rainbow Warrior
as Chief Inspector Alan Galbraith
1997
5.0
Children of the Revolution
as David 'Dave' Hoyle, aka Agent 'Nine'
1996
5.5
Victory
as Mr. Jones
1996
4.8
In Cold Blood
as Agent Alvin Dewey
1996
6.0
Australian Story
as Self
1996
4.8
Restoration
as King Charles II
1995
6.0
Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill
as Narrator / Host
1995
5.0
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
as Self / Alan Grant
1995
7.3
In the Mouth of Madness
as John Trent
1995
7.2
The Jungle Book
as Colonel Geofferey Brydon
1994
6.0
Country Life
as Dr. Max Askey
1994
5.6
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
as Self
1994
0.0
Sirens
as Norman Lindsay
1994
5.6
Split Enz: Spellbound
as Narrator
1993
0.0
Jurassic Park
as Grant
1993
8.0
The Piano
as Alisdair Stewart
1993
7.4
Family Pictures
as David Eberlin
1993
0.0
Inside 'The Piano'
as Self
1993
0.0
Hostage
as John Rennie
1992
3.0
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
as David Jenkins
1992
5.9
One Against the Wind
as Major James Leggatt, The Guards
1991
6.8
Until the End of the World
as Eugene Fitzpatrick
1991
6.7
Fever
as Elliot
1991
3.4
Death in Brunswick
as Carl
1991
5.9
Shadow of China
as TV Reporter
1990
7.0
The Hunt for Red October
as Capt. 2nd Vasily Borodin
1990
7.4
Cowboys of Culture
as Self
1990
0.0
The Simpsons
as Molloy (voice)
1989
8.0
The French Revolution
as Marquis de Lafayette
1989
7.5
Dead Calm
as John Ingram
1989
6.6
Evil Angels
as Michael Chamberlain
1988
6.7
Question of Faith
as Oscar Ogg
1988
0.0
The Good Wife
as Neville Gifford
1987
4.7
Amerika
as Colonel Andrei Denisov
1987
5.4
For Love Alone
as James Quick
1986
3.2
Strong Medicine
as Vince Lord
1986
0.0
Strong Medicine
as Vince Lord
1986
7.0
Kane & Abel
as William Lowell Kane
1985
7.6
Plenty
as Lazar
1985
5.7
Robbery Under Arms
as Capt. Starlight
1985
6.4
The Blood of Others
as Bergman
1984
5.0
The Country Girls
as Mr. Gentleman
1984
6.0
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Sidney Reilly
1983
7.0
Enigma
as Dimitri Vasilikov
1982
5.5
Attack Force Z
as Sergeant Costello
1982
6.0
Ivanhoe
as Brian de Bois-Guilbert
1982
6.3
From a Far Country
as Marian
1981
3.9
Possession
as Mark
1981
7.3
The Final Conflict
as Damien Thorn
1981
5.8
Lucinda Brayford
as Tony Duff
1980
0.0
The Journalist
as Rex
1979
4.0
Just Out Of Reach
as Mike
1979
0.0
My Brilliant Career
as Harry Beecham
1979
6.1
Surf Sail
as Narrator (voice)
1978
0.0
Sleeping Dogs
as Smith
1977
5.6
🎬
The Governor
as Colonial Bachelor
1977
0.0
Architect Athfield
as Narrator
1977
0.0
The Sullivans
as Ben Dawson
1976
5.1
Four Shorts on Architecture
as Narrator (voice)
1975
0.0
Ashes
as Priest
1975
0.0
Landfall
as Eric
1975
0.0
Hunt's Duffer
as Bradley
1973
7.0
The Water Cycle
1972
0.0
The City of No
1971
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as British Flier
1951
8.6
🎬
Mystery Ride
as Duncan Connelly
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Last Resort
as Gerard
N/A
0.0