Birthday:
Sep 14, 1947
Place of Birth: Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
Place of Birth: Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
Sam Neill
Sir Nigel John Dermot 'Sam' Neill, KNZM OBE (born 14 September 1947) is an Ireland-born New Zealand actor. His career has included leading roles in both dramas and blockbusters. Considered an "international leading man", he has been regarded as one of the most versatile actors of his generation. He is perhaps best known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. He has also had a number of high-profile roles including: the lead in Reilly, Ace of Spies, the adult Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict, Merlin in the miniseries Merlin, Captain Vasily Borodin in The Hunt for Red October, Lord Friedrich Hoffman in Snow White: A Tale of Terror, and Alisdair Stewart in The Piano. He also portayed Cardinal Thomas Wolsey on Showtime's The Tudors.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Jurassic Park III | Dr. Alan Grant | 2001 |
| The Horse Whisperer | Robert MacLean | 1998 |
| The Revengers' Comedies | Henry Bell | 1998 |
| The Piano | Alisdair Stewart | 1993 |
| The Hunt for Red October | Captain Borodin | 1990 |
| Bicentennial Man | Sir | 1999 |
| Until the End of the World | Eugene Fitzpatrick | 1991 |
| In the Mouth of Madness | John Trent | 1995 |
| Memoirs of an Invisible Man | David Jenkins | 1992 |
| The Jungle Book | Colonel Geofferey Brydon | 1994 |
| Assassin Club | Caldwell | 2023 |
| The Final Conflict | Damien Thorn | 1981 |
| The french revolution: Years of rage | Marquis de Lafayette | 1989 |
| Dead Calm | John Ingram | 1989 |
| Enigma | Dimitri Vasilikov | 1982 |
| The Blood of Others | Bergman | 1984 |
| The Dish | Cliff Buxton - Dish Master | 2000 |
| Possession | Mark | 1981 |
| Ice | Anthony Kavanagh | 2011 |
| Dirty Deeds | Ray | 2002 |
| Angel | Théo | 2007 |
| Wimbledon | Dennis Bradbury | 2004 |
| Event Horizon | Weir | 1997 |
| Yes | Anthony | 2005 |
| Forgotten Silver | Himself | 1997 |
| Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Lord Friedrich Hoffman | 1997 |
| The Magic Pudding | Sam Sawnoff (voice) | 2000 |
| Under the Mountain | Mr. Jones | 2009 |
| Children of the Revolution | David 'Dave' Hoyle, aka Agent 'Nine' | 1996 |
| Sirens | Norman Lindsay | 1994 |
| Little Fish | The Jockey | 2005 |
| Evil Angels | Michael Chamberlain | 1988 |
| Restoration | King Charles II | 1995 |
| Plenty | Lazar | 1985 |
| Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Allomere (voice) | 2010 |
| Perfect Strangers | Man | 2003 |
| Framed | Eddie Meyers | 2002 |
| Skin | Abraham Laing | 2008 |
| Attack Force Z | Sergeant Costello | 1982 |
| Sleeping Dogs | Smith | 1977 |
| Death in Brunswick | Carl | 1991 |
| One Against the Wind | Major James Leggatt, The Guards | 1991 |
| Victory | Mr. Jones | 1996 |
| My Brilliant Career | Harry Beecham | 1979 |
| In Her Skin | Mr. Reid | 2009 |
| Ivanhoe | Brian de Bois-Guilbert | 1982 |
| Gallipoli | Narrator | 2005 |
| Dean Spanley | Dean Spanley | 2008 |
| Irresistible | Craig | 2006 |
| Daybreakers | Charles Bromley | 2010 |
| Bring Him to Me | Frank | 2023 |
| The Hunter | Jack Mindy | 2011 |
| The Vow | Bill Thornton | 2012 |
| Robbery Under Arms | Capt. Starlight | 1985 |
| The Making of 'Jurassic Park' | Self / Alan Grant | 1995 |
| The City of No | 1971 | |
| Hunt's Duffer | Bradley | 1973 |
| The Good Wife | Neville Gifford | 1987 |
| Escape Plan | Dr. Kyrie | 2013 |
| A Long Way Down | Chris Crichton | 2014 |
| Country Life | Dr. Max Askey | 1994 |
| Numero Bruno | Self | 2000 |
| Iron Road | Alfred Nichol | 2009 |
| From a Far Country | Marian | 1981 |
| Stiff | Lionel Merricks | 2004 |
| The Making of Sleeping Dogs | Self | 2004 |
| My Mother Frank | Professor Mortlock | 2000 |
| Submerged | Lt. Cmdr. Charles B. 'Swede' Momsen | 2001 |
| Sally Hemings: An American Scandal | Thomas Jefferson | 2000 |
| The Zookeeper | Ludovic | 2001 |
| The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box | Otto Luger | 2013 |
| Voice Activated | Audiobook Narrator (voice) | 2022 |
| The Pixar Story | Alan Grant (archive footage) | 2007 |
| Family Pictures | David Eberlin | 1993 |
| Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World | Self | 2022 |
| Cowboys of Culture | Self | 1990 |
| The Making Of 'Jurassic Park III' | Self | 2001 |
| For Love Alone | James Quick | 1986 |
| Thor: Love and Thunder | Actor Odin | 2022 |
| United Passions | Joao Havelange | 2014 |
| Shadow of China | TV Reporter | 1990 |
| The Rainbow Warrior | Chief Inspector Alan Galbraith | 1997 |
| Scarygirl | Dr. Maybee (voice) | 2023 |
| Fever | Elliot | 1991 |
| Hostage | John Rennie | 1992 |
| Voyage of the Nautilus | Hubert Wilkins | 2006 |
| Backtrack | Duncan Stewart | 2015 |
| The Daughter | Walter | 2015 |
| Why Anzac with Sam Neill | Self | 2015 |
| Peter Rabbit | Mr. McGregor / Tommy Brock (voice) | 2018 |
| Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway | Tommy Brock (voice) | 2021 |
| MindGamers | Kreutz | 2015 |
| Jurassic Park | Grant | 1993 |
| Jessica | Richard Runche | 2004 |
| The Man in the Hat | Reader of Correspondence | 2009 |
| The Ordained | Governor Michael Thomas Riley | 2013 |
| Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Hec | 2016 |
| Just Out Of Reach | Mike | 1979 |
| The Journalist | Rex | 1979 |
| Alcatraz | Emerson Hauser | 2012 |
| Tommy's Honour | Alexander Boothby | 2017 |
| Strong Medicine | Vince Lord | 1986 |
| New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands | Narrator (voice) | 2016 |
| The Commuter | Captain Hawthorne | 2018 |
| SuperCroc | narrator | 2001 |
| T. REX | Narrator | 2024 |
| Inside The Living Daylights | Self (archival footage) | 2000 |
| Thor: Ragnarok | Actor Odin | 2017 |
| David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Self | 2017 |
| The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 2006 |
| Sweet Country | Fred Smith | 2018 |
| Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Self | 2006 |
| Ride Like a Girl | Paddy Payne | 2019 |
| Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Prime Minister Gibson | 1999 |
| The Country Girls | Mr. Gentleman | 1984 |
| Mystery Ride | Duncan Connelly | 1970 |
| The Guinea Pig Club | Charles Overton | 1970 |
| New Zild - The Story of New Zealand English | Self | 2005 |
| Blackbird | Tom | 2019 |
| The Making of Daybreakers | Self | 2010 |
| Return to Jurassic Park | Self | 2011 |
| The Show Must Go On | Self | 2019 |
| Rams | Colin | 2020 |
| Palm Beach | Leo | 2019 |
| Jurassic World Dominion | Alan Grant | 2022 |
| Landfall | Eric | 1975 |
| Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story | Narrator (voice) | 2020 |
| Sea Lions: Life By a Whisker | Narrator (voice) | 2020 |
| Split Enz: Spellbound | Narrator | 1993 |
| River Deep, Mountain High: James Nesbitt in New Zealand | Self | 2013 |
| Architect Athfield | Narrator | 1977 |
| Question of Faith | Oscar Ogg | 1988 |
| Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal | Frankie Scales (voice) | 2021 |
| Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill | Narrator / Host | 1995 |
| Ashes | Priest | 1975 |
| The Water Cycle | 1972 | |
| Surf Sail | Narrator (voice) | 1978 |
| Four Shorts on Architecture | Narrator (voice) | 1975 |
| The Dragon Pearl | Chris Chase | 2011 |
| The Portable Door | Dennis Tanner | 2023 |
| Colin McCahon: I Am | Narrator | 2004 |
| Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects | Self | 1994 |
| The french revolution: Years of hope | Marquis de Lafayette | 1989 | Series | Cast | Year |
| The Simpsons | Molloy (voice) | 1989 |
| The Games | Citytrans World CEO | 1998 |
| The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007 |
| The Tudors | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey | 2007 |
| Richard & Judy | Self | 2001 |
| Get Krack!n | Self | 2017 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | British Flier | 1951 |
| Amerika | Colonel Andrei Denisov | 1987 |
| The Triangle | 2005 | |
| Doctor Zhivago | Victor Komarovsky | 2002 |
| Harry | DSS Jim Stockton | 2013 |
| Happy Town | Merritt Grieves | 2010 |
| Merlin's Apprentice | Merlin | 2006 |
| Space | Himself | 2001 |
| The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant | Governor Arthur Phillip | 2005 |
| Jessica | 2004 | |
| Rick and Morty | Monogatron Leader (voice) | 2013 |
| Kane & Abel | William Lowell Kane | 1985 |
| In Cold Blood | Agent Alvin Dewey | 1996 |
| Alcatraz | Emerson Hauser | 2012 |
| The Movies That Made Us | Self | 2019 |
| To the Ends of the Earth | Mr. Prettiman | 2005 |
| Peaky Blinders | C.I. Chester Campbell | 2013 |
| Merlin | Merlin | 1998 |
| Crusoe | Jeremiah Blackthorn | 2008 |
| Old School | Ted McCabe | 2014 |
| The Story of Film: An Odyssey | Self | 2011 |
| Australian Story | Self | 1996 |
| And Then There Were None | General John MacArthur | 2015 |
| Ice | Anthony Kavanagh | 2011 |
| Invasion | Jim Bell Tyson | 2021 |
| Trial In The Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story | Self - Host | 2021 |
| Rove | Self | 1999 |
| House of Hancock | Lang Hancock | 2015 |
| New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands | Narrator (voice) | 2016 |
| Tutankhamun | Lord Carnarvon | 2016 |
| House of Bond | Roland “Tiny” Rowland | 2017 |
| The Governor | Colonial Bachelor | 1977 |
| Two Twisted | Mick | 2006 |
| Reilly: Ace of Spies | Sidney Reilly | 1983 |
| The Triangle | Eric Benerall | 2005 |
| The Twelve | Brett Colby | 2022 |
| The Real Hunt for Red October | Self | 2021 |
| Russell Howard Stands Up to the World | Self | 2021 |
| The Dovekeepers | 2015 | |
| Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery | Self | 2013 |
| Flack | Duncan Paulson | 2019 |
| Peaky Blinders | Major Chester Campbell | 2013 |
| The Sullivans | Ben Dawson | 1976 |
| Anika Moa Unleashed | Self | 2018 |
| Iron Road | Alfred Nichol | 2009 |
| The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook | Self - Host | 2018 |
| The Kelly Clarkson Show | Self | 2019 |
| UNTAMED | Paul Souter | 1970 |
| Apples Never Fall | Stan Delaney | 2024 |
| Lucinda Brayford | Tony Duff | 1980 |
| Strong Medicine | Vince Lord | 1986 |
| Sally Hemings: An American Scandal | Thomas Jefferson | 2000 |
| The Twelve | Brett Colby QC | 2022 |
| The Assembly | Self | 2024 |
