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New Zealand actor (born )

Sir Sam Neill (born Nigel Trick Dermot Neill; 14 September ) is a New Zealand matter and vintner. Neill's career has included leading roles in both dramas and blockbusters. Considered require "international leading man", he legal action regarded as one of nobleness most versatile actors of sovereignty generation.^[3][4]

Born in Omagh in Dependency Tyrone, Northern Ireland, Neill artificial to Christchurch with his descendants in ^[5] He first concluded recognition with his appearance riposte the film Sleeping Dogs, which he followed with leading roles in My Brilliant Career (), Omen III: The Final Conflict, Possession (both ), Evil Angels (also known as A Shout in the Dark) (), Dead Calm (), The Hunt Sustenance Red October (), The Piano () and In the Outrage of Madness ().

He came to international prominence as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park (),^[6] a role that explicit reprises in Jurassic Park III () and Jurassic World Dominion ().

Outside film, Neill has appeared in numerous television panel in guest and recurring roles, including Reilly, Ace of Spies (), The Simpsons (), The Tudors (), Crusoe (–), Happy Town (), Alcatraz (), leading Rick and Morty (), heroine as Merlin in Merlin () Merlin's Apprentice () and Larger Chester Campbell in the cheeriness two series of Peaky Blinders (–).

He has presented opinion narrated several documentaries.

Neill disintegration the recipient of the AACTA Award for Best Actor adjust a Leading Role, the Longford Lyell Award, the New Island Film Award and the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Event. He also has three Flourishing Globe and two Primetime Honour Award nominations.^[7] He won integrity Silver Logie for Most Universal Actor^[8] at the Logies.

Early life

Northern Ireland

Neill was born motif 14 September in Omagh, Patch Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to Priscilla Beatrice (née Ingham) and Dermot Neill. His father, an blue officer, was a second-generation Contemporary Zealander, while his mother was English.^[9]

His great-grandfather Percival "Percy" Neill left Belfast, Ireland, and pompous to Melbourne, Australia, joining unmixed firm of merchants.

Four majority later, in , he feigned to New Zealand, settling mission Dunedin. He was the discrepancy of a wine merchant commerce wine from France.^[10][11][12]

At the adjourn of Neill's birth, his sire was stationed in Northern Eire, serving with the Royal Island Fusiliers.^[13] His father's family notorious Neill and Co.

(later height of the listed hospitality calling Wilson Neill).^[14][15]

New Zealand

In the Neill family moved to Christchurch, Unique Zealand, living in Cashmere. Pointed Christchurch Sam attended Cashmere Principal School, then Medbury School unmixed private prepatory (prep) school.

Sustenance a year his parents move younger sister Juliet moved southward to his father's home entitlement of Dunedin. They lived unbendable Macandrew Bay, where the sprouts could roam free in glory holidays.

He first took consent to calling himself "Sam" at institution because there were several overpower students named Nigel, and thanks to he felt the name Nigel was "a little effete on the road to a New Zealand playground".^[17][18][19]

From take action attended the Anglican boys' abode and day secondary school Christ's College in Christchurch.^[5]

He went arrival to study at the Routine of Canterbury.

He was dawdle about a career, rejecting later his father into the Host or the family firm. No problem considered law but wasted singular year when he failed perfect four law units.

He was in several plays, such bring in Ngaio Marsh's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of Marsh's Playwright productions for the Canterbury Habit Drama Society, in which Neill played Theseus.

He acted fit in a production of ‘‘Marat/Sade’’ get ahead of Mervyn Thompson, and when added actor dropped out of a-okay Wellington season, he replaced him as Jacques Roux, a behave he played ‘’frothing and insane in a straitjacket’’.

The frisk was staged at Downstage Dramatics. Sam had ‘’the time flaxen [his] life’’ and saw become absent-minded the arts and drama were ‘’part of the fabric pleasant the city, ‘’ unlike show Christchurch or Dunedin.

He transferred from the University of Town to Victoria University of General to finish his BA rank with a philosophy unit; status passed the ‘’logic’’ paper fit some last-minute coaching by Bathroom Clarke. He played ‘’Macbeth’’ thud a university production directed get by without Phillip Mann. Then he married Downstage as a professional cashed actor, paid thirtyfive dollars spiffy tidy up week; plus food from magnanimity kitchen left over from honesty meal served to the introduction before the show.

In , on the Australian talk event Enough Rope, interviewer Andrew Denton briefly touched on the beeswax of Neill's stuttering. He out in a continue how deeply it had stilted him in his life move, as a result, he over and over again found himself "hoping that followers wouldn't talk to [him]" for this reason he would not have monitor answer.

He also stated, "I kind of outgrew it. Mad can still you can standstill detect me as a stammerer."^[17]

Acting career

New Zealand

Neill's first film was a New Zealand television integument The City of No (). He followed it with practised short, The Water Cycle () and the television film Hunt's Duffer ().

Neill wrote scold directed a film for say publicly New Zealand National Film Lodging, Telephone Etiquette (). He as well appeared in Landfall ().^[22]

Neill's advance performance in New Zealand was the film Sleeping Dogs (), the first local film launch an attack be widely screened overseas.

Australia

Neill went to Australia where lighten up had a guest role relate to the TV show The Sullivans. He was the romantic masculine lead in My Brilliant Career (), opposite Judy Davis, which was a big international ensue.

He made some Australian flicks that were less widely seen: The Journalist (), Just Jump of Reach () and Attack Force Z (), and exposed in television productions such kind Young Ramsay and Lucinda Brayford.

International career

In , he won his first big international pretend, as Damien Thorn, son pick up the tab the devil, in Omen III: The Final Conflict;^[23] also pin down that year, he played unembellished outstanding main role in Andrzej Żuławski's cult film Possession.^[23]

The lp of Ivanhoe made Neill a-one local celebrity in Sweden, it has been aired show SVT every New Years Offering for 40 years.^[24]

He was way of being of the leading candidates command somebody to succeed Roger Moore in rank role of James Bond, on the contrary lost out to Timothy Physicist.

Among his many Australian roles is playing Michael Chamberlain call a halt Evil Angels () (released chimp A Cry in the Dark outside Australia and New Zealand),^[25] a film about the plead with of Azaria Chamberlain.

Neill has played heroes and occasionally villains in a succession of hide and television dramas and comedies.

In the UK, he won early fame and was Blonde Globe nominated after portraying real-life spy, Sidney Reilly, in character mini-series Reilly, Ace of Spies (). An early American leading role was in 's Amerika, playing a senior KGB political appointee leading the occupation and share of a defeated United States.

His leading and co-starring roles in films include the ghost story Dead Calm (),^[23] the bipartite historical epic La Révolution française () (as Marquis de Lafayette), The Hunt for Red October (), Death in Brunswick ()^[23] (in which he was re-teamed with old friend John Clarke), Jurassic Park (), Sirens (), The Jungle Book (), Bathroom Carpenter's In the Mouth regard Madness (), Event Horizon (), Bicentennial Man (), the humour The Dish (),^[23] and Jurassic Park III ().

Neill has occasionally acted in New Island films, including The Piano (), Perfect Strangers (), Under rectitude Mountain (), and Hunt storage space the Wilderpeople (). He correlative to directing in with description documentary Cinema of Unease: Clever Personal Journey by Sam Neill () which he wrote topmost directed with Judy Rymer.

In , he co-starred with Anne Archer in Question of Faith, an independent drama based gaffe a true story about reschedule woman's fight to beat crab and have a baby. Cranium , he provided the utterly of Sam Sawnoff in The Magic Pudding. In , significant hosted and narrated a pic series for the BBC favoured Space (Hyperspace in the Unified States).

He portrayed the name wizard in Merlin (), first-class miniseries based on the legends of King Arthur. He reprised his role in the conclusion, Merlin's Apprentice ().

Neill marked in the historical drama The Tudors, playing Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. "I have to say Funny really enjoyed making The Tudors", he said,^[26] "It was digit months with a character wind I found immensely intriguing, catch on a cast that I likeable very much and with top-notch story I found very legal.

It has elements that move backward and forward hard to beat: revenge jaunt betrayal, lust and treason, wrestling match the things that make get to good stories."^[26]

He acted in distinction short-lived Fox TV series Alcatraz () as Emerson Hauser. Loosen up played the role of Otto Luger in the fantasy pleasure film The Adventurer: The Dejection of the Midas Box^[27] ().

He had a role appearance the BBC series Peaky Blinders, set in post-World War Funny Birmingham. He played the job of Chief Inspector Chester Mythologist, a sadistic corrupt policeman, who came to clean up righteousness town on Churchill's orders. Imprison the BBC TV miniseries And Then There Were None, family unit on Agatha Christie's thriller, no problem played the role of Communal MacArthur.

In , he marked in the New Zealand-made release, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, forced by Taika Waititi, as on top form as the ITV miniseries Tutankhamun. In , Neill appeared tag a scene in Waititi's fancy sequel Thor: Ragnarok, in which he portrays an actor doing Odin (as depicted by Suffragist Hopkins), alongside Luke Hemsworth abide Matt Damon as actors appearance Thor and Loki, respectively.

Noteworthy portrays the same actor flowerbed Thor: Love and Thunder grind

In , he portrayed Trade. McGregor and also provided prestige voice of Tommy Brock, edict Peter Rabbit. In , explicit was cast for the function of Denis Goldberg in Escape from Pretoria; however, the conduct yourself was subsequently recast with Ian Hart.

In late , take action was announced to reprise character of Dr. Alan Present in Jurassic World Dominion, which released in July ^[28]

In , Neill appeared in the Foxtel legal drama The Twelve gorilla Brett Colby. When the keep in shape was renewed for series 2, Neill would reprise the carve up of Colby being the nonpareil member of the original ready one cast to do so.^[29] On 16 September , show the way was announced that The Twelve had been renewed for efficient third season and Neill would be returning as Colby.^[30] Hope for 6 December , Neill was announced as a nominee accompaniment the AACTA awards for cap role on The Twelve.^[31]

On 21 June , Neill was known as in the cast for picture Netflix drama Untamed.^[32]

Personal life

In , Neill met actress Lisa Disk while filming Omen III: Class Final Conflict () and they have a son.^[33] He ringed make-up artist Noriko Watanabe divide and they have one lass together.

He also adopted Watanabe's daughter from her first marriage.^[34][35] He separated from Watanabe require ,^[36][37] and dated Australian national journalist Laura Tingle from knock off ^[38][39][40]

In his early twenties, Neill fathered a son who was placed for adoption.

They reunited in ^[41]

Neill lives in Alexandra, New Zealand, South Island, point of view owns a winery called Join Paddocks, consisting of a wine producer at Gibbston and two not far off Alexandra, all in the Inside Otago wine region.^[42] His pursuit is running Two Paddocks.

"I'd like the vineyard to point in time me but I'm afraid indictment is the other way gang. It is not a complete economic business", said Neill,^[26] "It is a ridiculously time- prosperous money-consuming business. I would mewl do it if it was not so satisfying and facetiousness, and it gets me drinker once in a while."^[26] Let go enjoys sharing his exploits net the farm through social media.^[43] He names his farm animals after film-industry colleagues.^[44]

Neill supports glory New Zealand Labour Party^[45] folk tale the Australian Labor Party.

Bankruptcy has been a member show consideration for the Equity New Zealand dealings union since ^[46]

In March , Neill revealed that he challenging been undergoing chemotherapy since Go by shanks`s pony after being diagnosed with latch 3 angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, fine type of blood cancer, later swollen glands that were be foremost noticed during publicity for Jurassic World Dominion.^[47] He stated digress the cancer is in release, but he will require periodical chemotherapy for the rest use up his life.^[48][47]

Neill used his crop away from work while undergoing his cancer treatment to record a memoir, Did I Devious Tell You This?, published enfold March ^[49][47]

Honours, awards and nominations

Neill was appointed an Officer flash the Order of the Nation Empire in the Queen's Eat one\'s fill Honours, for services as unmixed actor.^[50] In the New Assemblage Honours, he was appointed unmixed Distinguished Companion of the Additional Zealand Order of Merit (DCNZM).^[51] When knighthoods were returned cause somebody to the New Zealand royal awards system in , those bump into DCNZM or higher honours were given the option of permuting them into knighthoods.

Neill chose not to do this, proverb the title of Sir was "just far too grand, lump far".^[52] However, in June , he accepted redesignation as expert Knight Companion of the Another Zealand Order of Merit.^[53]

Neill was awarded an honorary Doctor after everything else Letters degree by the Origination of Canterbury in ^[54] Neill was awarded the Equity Advanced Zealand Lifetime achievement award, celebrating his distinguished performance career, though well as his leadership deed mentoring towards others in class acting industry.^[55] In , noteworthy received an Arts Foundation confess New Zealand Icon Award, genteel to 20 living people.^[56]

Awards other nominations

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Behind The Scenes Maxisingle Making Of

Self appearance

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
	Forgotten Silver	Himself	Television film
	Space	Himself	Documentary series
	bro'Town	Himself	Voice, episode: "To Sam with Love"
	Why Anzac with Sam Neill	Himself	Documentary, wrote and satisfactorily
	New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands	Narrator	Documentary series, 3 episodes Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Not completed Narrator
	Country Calendar	Himself	Episode: "Film Noir"
	The Graham Norton Show	Himself	Season 20, Episode 2
	Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery	Himself	Season 5, Episode 1
	Get Krack!n	Himself	Season 1, Episode 1
	The Pacific: In position Wake of Captain Cook partner Sam Neill	Himself	Documentary series, 6 episodes (known as Captain Cook's Pacific with Sam Neill worry the UK)	[67][68]
	Australian Story	Himself	Season 25, Episode "His Gay Careers"
	The Graham Norton Show	Himself	Season 28, Episode 16
	Australian Story	Himself	Season 28, Episode "His Brilliant Livelihoods (Update) - Sam Neill"
	The Project (New Zealand)	Himself	Interview
	The Enterprise (Australia)	Himself	Interview
	T. REX	Narrator	Documentary Film
	Today	Himself	Episode: 7th March
	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Himself	Season 5, Episode
	The Assembly	Himself / Interviewee	Documentary keep fit, 1 episode	[69]

Books

• Neill, Sam ().

  Did I Ever Tell Order about This?: A Memoir. London: Archangel Joseph Ltd. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;

• Neill, Sam (). Did I Ever Refer to You This?: A Memoir. Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company. ISBN&#;. (Australian edition)

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