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Sam Neill

Sam Neill

Birthday: 1947-09-14 | Place of Birth: Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK

Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand actor. 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. Most recently he played Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in the Peace Arch Entertainment production for Showtime, The Tudors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Neill licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Voice Activated

as    Audiobook Narrator (voice)

2022
The Twelve

as    Brett Colby

2022
Jurassic World Dominion

as    Dr. Alan Grant

2020
Rams

as    Colin

2019
Palm Beach

as    Leo

2019
Ride Like a Girl

as    Paddy Payne

2019
Blackbird

as    Tom

2018
The Commuter

as    Captain Hawthorne

2018
Sweet Country

as    Fred Smith

2018
Peter Rabbit

as    Mr. McGregor / Tommy Brock (voice)

2017
Tommy's Honour

as    Alexander Boothby

2017
MindGamers

as    Kreutz

2016
Hunt for the Wilderpeople

as    Hec Faulkner

2016
Tutankhamun

as    Lord Carnarvon

2016
New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands

as    Narrator (voice)

2015
Backtrack

as    Duncan Stewart

2015
And Then There Were None

as    General John MacArthur

2015
The Daughter

as    Walter

2014
A Long Way Down

as    Chris Crichton

2014
United Passions

as    Joao Havelange

2013
Escape Plan

as    Dr. Kyrie

2013
2012
The Vow

as    Bill Thornton

2012
Alcatraz

as    Emerson Hauser

2011
The Dragon Pearl

as    Chris Chase

2010
Happy Town

as    Merritt Grieves