Sam Neill | |
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Born | Nigel John Dermot Neill 14 September 1947 Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
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Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1970–present |
Spouse | Noriko Watanabe (m. 1989;sep. 2017) |
Children | 4 |
Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill KNZM OBE (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand actor. Neill's 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. [1] [2]
Born in Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, Neill moved to Christchurch with his family in 1954. [3] He first achieved recognition with his appearance in the 1977 film Sleeping Dogs , 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), [4] a role that he reprises 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), starring as Merlin in Merlin (1998) Merlin's Apprentice (2006) and Major Chester Campbell in the first two seasons of Peaky Blinders (2013–2014). He has presented and narrated several documentaries.
Neill is the recipient of 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. [5] He won the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor [6] at the 2023 Logies.
Neill was born on 14 September 1947 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to Priscilla Beatrice (née Ingham) and Dermot Neill. His father, an army officer, was a second-generation New Zealander, while his mother was English. [7]
His great-grandfather Percival "Percy" Neill left Belfast, Ireland, and moved to Melbourne, Australia, joining a firm of merchants. Four years later, in 1863, he moved to New Zealand, settling in Dunedin. He was the son of a wine merchant importing wine from France. [8] [9] [10]
At the time of Neill's birth, his father was stationed in Northern Ireland, serving with the Royal Irish Fusiliers. [11] His father's family owned Neill and Co. (later part of the listed hospitality group Wilson Neill). [12] [13]
In 1954, Neill moved with his family to New Zealand, where he attended the Anglican boys' boarding school Christ's College, Christchurch. He went on to study English literature at the University of Canterbury, where he had his first exposure to acting. He moved to Wellington to continue his tertiary education at Victoria University, where he graduated with a BA in English literature.
In 2004, on the Australian talk show Enough Rope , interviewer Andrew Denton briefly touched on the topic of Neill's stuttering. He recalled how deeply it had affected him in his life and, as a result, he often found himself "hoping that people wouldn't talk to [him]" so he would not have to answer. He also stated, "I kind of outgrew it. I can still ... you can still detect me as a stammerer." [14]
He first took to calling himself "Sam" at school because there were several other students named Nigel, and because he felt the name Nigel was "a little effete for ... a New Zealand playground". [14] [15] [16]
Neill's first film was a New Zealand television film The City of No (1971). He followed it with a short, The Water Cycle (1972) and the television film Hunt's Duffer (1973). Neill wrote and directed a film for the New Zealand National Film Unit, Telephone Etiquette (1974). He also appeared in Landfall (1975). [17]
Neill's breakthrough performance in New Zealand was the film Sleeping Dogs (1977), the first local film to be widely screened abroad.
Neill went to Australia where he had a guest role on the TV show The Sullivans . He was the romantic male lead in My Brilliant Career (1979), opposite Judy Davis, which was a big international success.
He made some Australian films that were less widely seen: The Journalist (1979), Just Out of Reach (1979) and Attack Force Z (1981), and appeared in television productions such as Young Ramsay and Lucinda Brayford .
In 1981, he won his first big international role, as Damien Thorn, son of the devil, in Omen III: The Final Conflict ; [18] also in that year, he played an outstanding main role in Andrzej Żuławski's cult film Possession . [18]
The 1982 film of Ivanhoe made Neill a local celebrity in Sweden, where it has been aired on SVT every New Years Day for 40 years. [19]
He was one of the leading candidates to succeed Roger Moore in the role of James Bond, but lost out to Timothy Dalton. Among his many Australian roles is playing Michael Chamberlain in Evil Angels (1988) (released as A Cry in the Dark outside of Australia and New Zealand), [20] a film about the case of Azaria Chamberlain.
Neill has played heroes and occasionally villains in a succession of film and television dramas and comedies. In the UK, he won early fame and was Golden Globe nominated after portraying real-life spy, Sidney Reilly, in the mini-series Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983). An early American starring role was in 1987's Amerika, playing a senior KGB officer leading the occupation and division of a defeated United States. His leading and co-starring roles in films include the thriller Dead Calm (1989), [18] the two-part historical epic La Révolution française (1989) (as Marquis de Lafayette), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Death in Brunswick (1990), [18] Jurassic Park (1993), Sirens (1994), The Jungle Book (1994), John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness (1995), Event Horizon (1997), Bicentennial Man (1999), the comedy The Dish (2000), [18] and Jurassic Park III (2001).
Neill has occasionally acted in New Zealand films, including The Piano (1993), Perfect Strangers (2003), Under the Mountain (2009), and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016). He returned to directing in 1995 with the documentary Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill (1995) which he wrote and directed with Judy Rymer.
In 1993, he co-starred with Anne Archer in Question of Faith, an independent drama based on a true story about one woman's fight to beat cancer and have a baby. In 2000, he provided the voice of Sam Sawnoff in The Magic Pudding . In 2001, he hosted and narrated a documentary series for the BBC entitled Space (Hyperspace in the United States).
He portrayed the eponymous wizard in Merlin (1998), a miniseries based on the legends of King Arthur. He reprised his role in the sequel, Merlin's Apprentice (2006).
Neill starred in the historical drama The Tudors, playing Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. "I have to say I really enjoyed making The Tudors", he said, [21] "It was six months with a character that I found immensely intriguing, with a cast that I liked very much and with a story I found very compelling. It has elements that are hard to beat: revenge and betrayal, lust and treason, all the things that make for good stories." [21]
He acted in the short-lived Fox TV series Alcatraz (2012) as Emerson Hauser. He played the role of Otto Luger in the fantasy adventure film The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box [22] (2014). He had a role in the BBC series Peaky Blinders , set in post-World War I Birmingham. He played the role of Chief Inspector Chester Campbell, a sadistic corrupt policeman, who came to clean up the town on Churchill's orders. In the 2015 BBC TV miniseries And Then There Were None , based on Agatha Christie's thriller, he played the role of General MacArthur.
In 2016, he starred in the New Zealand-made film, Hunt for the Wilderpeople , directed by Taika Waititi, as well as the ITV miniseries Tutankhamun . In 2017, Neill appeared in a scene in Waititi's fantasy sequel Thor: Ragnarok , in which he portrays an actor playing Odin (as depicted by Anthony Hopkins), alongside Luke Hemsworth and Matt Damon as actors playing Thor and Loki, respectively. He portrays the same actor in Thor: Love and Thunder in 2022.
In 2018, he portrayed Mr. McGregor and also provided the voice of Tommy Brock, in Peter Rabbit . In 2019, he was cast for the role of Denis Goldberg in Escape from Pretoria ; however, the role was subsequently recast with Ian Hart. In late 2019, he was announced to reprise his character of Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic World Dominion , which released in July 2022. [23]
In 2022 Neill appeared in Foxtel legal drama The Twelve as Brett Colby. When the series was renewed for series 2 Neill would reprise the role of Colby being the only member of the original season 1 cast to do so. [24]
In 1980, Neill met actress Lisa Harrow while filming Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) and they have a son. [25] Neill subsequently married make-up artist Noriko Watanabe in 1989 and they have one daughter together. He also adopted Watanabe's daughter from her first marriage. [26] [27] Neill separated from Watanabe in 2017, [28] [29] and as of early 2018 was reportedly dating Australian political journalist Laura Tingle. [30] [31]
In his early twenties, Neill fathered a son who was placed for adoption. They reunited in 1994. [32]
Neill lives in Alexandra, New Zealand, South Island, and owns a winery called Two Paddocks, consisting of a vineyard at Gibbston and two near Alexandra, all in the Central Otago wine region. [33] His avocation is running Two Paddocks. "I'd like the vineyard to support me but I'm afraid it is the other way round. It is not a very economic business", said Neill, [21] "It is a ridiculously time- and money-consuming business. I would not do it if it was not so satisfying and fun, and it gets me pissed once in a while." [21] He enjoys sharing his exploits on the farm through social media. [34] He names his farm animals after film-industry colleagues. [35]
Neill supports the New Zealand Labour Party [36] and the Australian Labor Party. He has been a member of the Equity New Zealand trade union since 1979. [37]
In March 2023, Neill revealed that he had been undergoing chemotherapy since March 2022 after being diagnosed with stage 3 angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, following swollen glands that were first noticed during publicity for Jurassic World Dominion. [38] He stated that the cancer is in remission, but he will require monthly chemotherapy for the rest of his life. [39] [38]
Neill used his year away from work while undergoing his cancer treatment to write a memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This?, published in March 2023. [40] [38]
Neill was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services as an actor. [41] In the 2007 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DCNZM). [42] When knighthoods were returned to the New Zealand royal honours system in 2009, those with DCNZM or higher honours were given the option of converting them into knighthoods. Neill chose not to do this, saying the title of Sir was "just far too grand, by far". [43] However, in June 2022, he accepted redesignation as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, granting him the title Sir. [44]
Neill was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Canterbury in 2002. [45] Neill was awarded the 2019 Equity New Zealand Lifetime achievement award, celebrating his distinguished performance career, as well as his leadership and mentoring towards others in the acting industry. [46] In 2020, he received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Award, limited to 20 living people. [47]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1975 | Landfall | Eric | |
Ashes | Priest | ||
1977 | Sleeping Dogs | Smith | |
1979 | Just Out of Reach | Mike | |
The Journalist | Rex | ||
My Brilliant Career | Harry Beecham | ||
1981 | Omen III: The Final Conflict | Damien Thorn | |
Possession | Mark | ||
From a Far Country | Marian | ||
1982 | Attack Force Z | Sergeant D. J. (Danny) Costello | |
Enigma | Dimitri Vasilikov | ||
1984 | The Blood of Others | Bergman | |
The Country Girls | Mr Gentleman | ||
1985 | Robbery Under Arms | Captain Starlight | |
Plenty | Lazar | ||
1986 | For Love Alone | James Quick | |
1987 | The Umbrella Woman | Neville Gifford | |
1988 | Leap of Faith | Oscar Ogg | Also known as Question of Faith |
1988 | Evil Angels | Michael Chamberlain | Won – AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Also known as A Cry in the Dark |
1989 | Dead Calm | John Ingram | |
La Révolution française | Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette | ||
1990 | The Hunt for Red October | First Officer Vasily Borodin | |
Shadow of China | TV reporter | Credited as John Dermot | |
1991 | Death in Brunswick | Carl 'Cookie' Fitzgerald | Nominated – AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
Until the End of the World | Eugene Fitzpatrick | ||
1992 | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | David Jenkins | Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor |
Hostage | John Rennie | ||
1993 | The Piano | Alisdair Stewart | Nominated – AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
Jurassic Park | Dr. Alan Grant | ||
Sirens | Norman Lindsay | ||
1994 | Country Life | Dr. Max Askey | |
The Jungle Book | Colonel Geofferey Brydon | ||
In the Mouth of Madness | John Trent | ||
1995 | Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill | Narrator | |
Restoration | King Charles II | ||
1996 | Children of the Revolution | Nine | |
Victory | Mr. Jones | ||
1997 | Event Horizon | Dr. William Weir | |
Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Lord Fredrick Hoffman | ||
1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Robert MacLean | |
Sweet Revenge | Henry Bell | ||
1999 | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Walter Murray Gibson | |
Bicentennial Man | 'Sir' Richard Martin | ||
2000 | My Mother Frank | Professor Mortlock | Nominated – AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
The Dish | Cliff Buxton | ||
The Magic Pudding | Sam Sawnoff | Voice | |
2001 | Jurassic Park III | Dr. Alan Grant | |
The Zookeeper | Ludovic | Won – Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival Award for Best Actor | |
2002 | Dirty Deeds | Ray | |
Leunig Animated | Narrator | ||
2003 | Perfect Strangers | The Man | |
2004 | Yes | Anthony | |
Wimbledon | Dennis Bradbury | ||
2005 | Gallipoli | Narrator | Voice |
Little Fish | The Jockey | ||
2006 | Irresistible | Craig | |
2007 | Angel | Théo | |
2008 | Dean Spanley | Dean Spanley | |
Skin | Abraham Laing | ||
2009 | In Her Skin | Mr. Reid | |
Iron Road | Alfred Nichol | ||
Under the Mountain | Mr. Jones | ||
Daybreakers | Charles Bromley | ||
2010 | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Allomere | Voice |
2011 | The Dragon Pearl | Chris Chase | |
The Hunter | Jack Mindy | Nominated – AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role | |
2012 | The Vow | Bill Thornton | |
2013 | Escape Plan | Dr. Kyrie | |
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box | Otto Luger | ||
2014 | United Passions | João Havelange | |
A Long Way Down | Minister Crichton | Jess's father | |
2015 | Backtrack | Duncan Stewart | |
The Daughter | Walter Finch | Nominated – AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role | |
2016 | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Uncle Hec | |
Tommy's Honour | Alexander Boothby | ||
2017 | MindGamers | Kreutz | |
Sweet Country | Fred Smith | ||
Thor: Ragnarok | Odin Actor | Cameo | |
2018 | The Commuter | Captain David Hawthorne | |
Peter Rabbit | Mr. McGregor Tommy Brock (voice) | ||
2019 | Palm Beach | Leo | |
Blackbird | Paul | ||
Ride Like a Girl | Paddy Payne | ||
Take Home Pay | Wedding Planner | Cameo | |
2020 | Rams | Colin | |
2021 | Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal | Frankie Scales | Voice |
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway | Tommy Brock | Voice | |
2022 | Jurassic World Dominion | Dr. Alan Grant | |
Thor: Love and Thunder | Odin Actor | ||
2023 | The Portable Door [48] | Dennis Tanner | |
Assassin Club | Jonathan Caldwell | ||
Scarygirl | Dr. Maybee | ||
Bring Him to Me |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1979–1980 | The Sullivans | Ben Dawson | Episodes 519–558 |
1980 | Lucinda Brayford | Tony Duff | Four-part miniseries ABC Television, Melbourne Australia |
1982 | Ivanhoe | Brian de Bois-Guilbert | Television film |
1983 | Reilly, Ace of Spies | Sidney Reilly | 12 episodes Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film |
1985 | Kane & Abel | William Lowell Kane | Miniseries |
1986 | Strong Medicine | Vince Lord | Television film |
1987 | Amerika | Colonel Andrei Denisov | Miniseries |
1991 | Fever | Eliott | Television film |
One Against the Wind | Sergeant James Liggett | Television film Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film | |
1993 | Family Pictures | David Eberlin | Television film |
The Rainbow Warrior | Alan Galbraith | Television film | |
1994 | The Simpsons | Molloy | Voice, episode: "Homer the Vigilante" |
1995 | Forgotten Silver | Himself | Television film |
1996 | In Cold Blood | Agent Alvin Dewey | Miniseries |
1998 | Merlin | Merlin | Miniseries Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film |
The Games | Citytrans CEO | Episode: "Transport" | |
2000 | Sally Hemings: An American Scandal | Thomas Jefferson | Miniseries |
2001 | Space | Himself | Documentary series |
Submerged | Lt. Cmdr. Charles B. 'Swede' Momsen | Television film | |
2002 | Doctor Zhivago | Victor Komarovsky | Miniseries |
Framed | Eddie Meyers | Television film | |
2004 | Stiff | Lionel Merricks | Television film |
Jessica | Richard Runche | Miniseries Logie Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series Nominated – AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama | |
2005 | The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant | Governor Arthur Phillip | Miniseries |
To the Ends of the Earth | Mr. Prettiman | Miniseries | |
The Triangle | Eric Benerall | Miniseries Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television | |
2006 | Merlin's Apprentice | Merlin | Miniseries |
Two Twisted | Mick | Episode: "Von Stauffenberg's Stamp" | |
2007 | The Tudors | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey | 10 episodes Nominated – Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama Series Nominated – Monte-Carlo Television Festival Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series |
2008–2010 | Crusoe | Jeremiah Blackthorn | 14 episodes |
2009 | Happy Town | Merritt Grieves | 8 episodes |
bro'Town | Himself | Voice, episode: "To Sam with Love" | |
2010 | Rake | Dr. Bruce Chandler | Episode: "R v Chandler" |
2011 | Ice | Anthony Kavanagh | Miniseries |
2012 | Alcatraz [49] | Emerson Hauser | 13 episodes |
2013 | Harry | Jim "Stocks" Stockton | Miniseries |
2013–2014 | Peaky Blinders | Major Chester Campbell | 12 episodes |
2014 | Old School [50] | Ted Macabe | 8 episodes |
House of Hancock [51] | Lang Hancock | Miniseries | |
2015 | And Then There Were None | General John Gordon MacArthur | Miniseries |
2016 | Why Anzac with Sam Neill | Himself | Documentary, wrote and produced |
New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands | Narrator | Documentary series, 3 episodes Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator | |
Tutankhamun [52] | Lord Carnavon | Miniseries | |
Country Calendar | Himself | Episode: "Film Noir" | |
2017 | Get Krack!n | Himself | Season 1, Episode 1 |
2018 | The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill [53] | Himself | Documentary series, 6 episodes (known as Captain Cook's Pacific with Sam Neill in the UK) [54] |
2019 | Rick and Morty [55] | Monogatron Leader | Voice, episode: "The Old Man and the Seat" |
2020 | Flack | Duncan Paulson | Season 2 |
2021 | Invasion [56] | Sheriff John Bell Tyson | Season 1, Episode 1 |
2022- | The Twelve [57] [58] | Brett Colby SC | Main role |
2024 | Apples Never Fall [59] | Stan Delaney | Miniseries |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2015 | Lego Jurassic World | Alan Grant | Archive Audio from the films. |
2019 | Jurassic World Evolution | Voice role, Return to Jurassic Park Expansion | |
2022 | Jurassic World Evolution 2 | Voice role, Biosyn Dominion expansion |
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