| In 2008, Neeson starred in the thriller Taken, portraying a former CIA officer who employs his brutal skills learned on the job to find his kidnapped daughter | Lynn, Allison 10 July 1995 |
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| By age 14, was the Youth Heavyweight Champion of Ireland---a title he held for three consecutive years | Once worked as a fork-lift operator at a Guinness Beer plant |
Neeson received Best Actor Oscar and British Academy Award nominations for his performance, and he subsequently didn't have to worry about finding work in Hollywood, or elsewhere, again.
27| His work attracted the notice of , who was so impressed with what he saw that he cast Neeson as Oskar Schindler in his landmark Holocaust drama 1993 | Sadly, the following year, Liam's wife actress died suddenly after suffering a severe head injury during a skiing accident |
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| Neeson would enter the new millennium with a variety of projects on his to-do list, appearing in the Martin Scorsese period piece Gangs of New York in 2002, and the extremely popular romantic comedy Love Actually in 2003 | The following year would find him tackling a meatier role, however, as he singed on to portray pioneering scientist and researcher on human sexuality Alfred Kinsey in the biopic Kinsey |
"A Man With a Mission• Standing a burly 6'4", was once described by a theatre critic as a "towering sequoia of sex.
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