Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
September 14, 1947
Place of Birth:
Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand actor. His career has included leading roles in both dramas and blockbusters. Considered an "international leading man", he is regarded as one of the most versatile actors of his generation.
Born in Northern Ireland to an English mother and New Zealand father, Neill moved to Christchurch with his family in 1954. He first achieved recognition with his appearance in the film Sleeping Dogs (1977), 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), reprising the role 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). He also starred as the titular character Merlin in Merlin (1998) and Merlin's Apprentice (2006) and as Major Chester Campbell in the first two series of Peaky Blinders (2013–2014). He has presented and narrated several documentaries.
Neill receives 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. He won the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor at the 2023 Logies.
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Year | Movie | Role |
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2027 | Godzilla x Kong: Supernova | |
2024 | T. REX | Narrator |
2023 | Assassin Club | Caldwell |
2023 | Bring Him to Me | Frank |
2023 | Scarygirl | Dr. Maybee (voice) |
2023 | The Portable Door | Dennis Tanner |
2022 | Voice Activated | Audiobook Narrator (voice) |
2022 | Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World | Self |
2022 | Thor: Love and Thunder | Actor Odin |
2022 | Jurassic World Dominion | Alan Grant |
2021 | Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway | Tommy Brock (voice) |
2021 | Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal | Frankie Scales (voice) |
2020 | Rams | Colin |
2020 | Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story | Narrator (voice) |
2020 | Sea Lions: Life By a Whisker | Narrator (voice) |
2019 | Ride Like a Girl | Paddy Payne |
2019 | Blackbird | Tom |
2019 | The Show Must Go On | Self |
2019 | Palm Beach | Leo |
2018 | Peter Rabbit | Mr. McGregor / Tommy Brock (voice) |
2018 | The Commuter | Captain Hawthorne |
2018 | Sweet Country | Fred Smith |
2017 | Tommy's Honour | Alexander Boothby |
2017 | Thor: Ragnarok | Actor Odin |
2017 | David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Self |
2016 | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Hec |
2016 | New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands | Narrator (voice) |
2015 | Backtrack | Duncan Stewart |
2015 | The Daughter | Walter |
2015 | Why Anzac with Sam Neill | Self |
2015 | MindGamers | Kreutz |
2014 | A Long Way Down | Chris Crichton |
2014 | United Passions | Joao Havelange |
2013 | Escape Plan | Dr. Kyrie |
2013 | The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box | Otto Luger |
2013 | The Ordained | Governor Michael Thomas Riley |
2013 | River Deep, Mountain High: James Nesbitt in New Zealand | Self |
2012 | The Vow | Bill Thornton |
2011 | Ice | Anthony Kavanagh |
2011 | The Hunter | Jack Mindy |
2011 | Return to Jurassic Park | Self |
2011 | The Dragon Pearl | Chris Chase |
2010 | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Allomere (voice) |
2010 | The Making of Daybreakers | Self |
2009 | Under the Mountain | Mr. Jones |
2009 | In Her Skin | Mr. Reid |
2009 | Daybreakers | Charles Bromley |
2009 | Iron Road | Alfred Nichol |
2009 | The Man in the Hat | Reader of Correspondence |
2008 | Skin | Abraham Laing |
2008 | Dean Spanley | Dean Spanley |
2008 | Verity Lambert: Drama Queen | Narrator |
2007 | Angel | Théo |
2007 | The Pixar Story | Alan Grant (archive footage) |
2006 | Irresistible | Craig |
2006 | Voyage of the Nautilus | Hubert Wilkins |
2006 | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self |
2006 | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Self |
2005 | Yes | Anthony |
2005 | Little Fish | The Jockey |
2005 | Gallipoli | Narrator |
2005 | New Zild - The Story of New Zealand English | Self |
2004 | Wimbledon | Dennis Bradbury |
2004 | Stiff | Lionel Merricks |
2004 | The Making of Sleeping Dogs | Self |
2004 | Jessica | Richard Runche |
2004 | Colin McCahon: I Am | Narrator |
2003 | Perfect Strangers | Man |
2002 | Dirty Deeds | Ray |
2002 | Framed | Eddie Meyers |
2001 | Jurassic Park III | Dr. Alan Grant |
2001 | Submerged | Lt. Cmdr. Charles B. 'Swede' Momsen |
2001 | The Zookeeper | Ludovic |
2001 | The Making Of 'Jurassic Park III' | Self |
2001 | SuperCroc | narrator |
2000 | The Dish | Cliff Buxton - Dish Master |
2000 | The Magic Pudding | Sam Sawnoff (voice) |
2000 | Numero Bruno | Self |
2000 | My Mother Frank | Professor Mortlock |
2000 | Sally Hemings: An American Scandal | Thomas Jefferson |
2000 | Inside The Living Daylights | Self (archival footage) |
1999 | Bicentennial Man | Sir |
1999 | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Prime Minister Gibson |
1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Robert MacLean |
1998 | The Revengers' Comedies | Henry Bell |
1997 | Event Horizon | Weir |
1997 | Forgotten Silver | Self |
1997 | Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Lord Friedrich Hoffman |
1997 | The Rainbow Warrior | Chief Inspector Alan Galbraith |
1996 | Children of the Revolution | David 'Dave' Hoyle, aka Agent 'Nine' |
1996 | Victory | Mr. Jones |
1995 | In the Mouth of Madness | John Trent |
1995 | Restoration | King Charles II |
1995 | The Making of 'Jurassic Park' | Self / Alan Grant |
1995 | Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill | Narrator / Host |
1994 | The Jungle Book | Colonel Geofferey Brydon |
1994 | Sirens | Norman Lindsay |
1994 | Country Life | Dr. Max Askey |
1994 | Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects | Self |
1993 | The Piano | Alisdair Stewart |
1993 | Family Pictures | David Eberlin |
1993 | Jurassic Park | Grant |
1993 | Split Enz: Spellbound | Narrator |
1993 | Inside 'The Piano' | Self |
1992 | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | David Jenkins |
1992 | Hostage | John Rennie |
1991 | Until the End of the World | Eugene Fitzpatrick |
1991 | Death in Brunswick | Carl |
1991 | One Against the Wind | Major James Leggatt, The Guards |
1991 | Fever | Elliot |
1990 | The Hunt for Red October | Capt. 2nd Vasily Borodin |
1990 | Cowboys of Culture | Self |
1990 | Shadow of China | TV Reporter |
1989 | The French Revolution | Marquis de Lafayette |
1989 | Dead Calm | John Ingram |
1988 | Evil Angels | Michael Chamberlain |
1988 | Question of Faith | Oscar Ogg |
1987 | The Good Wife | Neville Gifford |
1986 | For Love Alone | James Quick |
1986 | Strong Medicine | Vince Lord |
1985 | Plenty | Lazar |
1985 | Robbery Under Arms | Capt. Starlight |
1984 | The Blood of Others | Bergman |
1984 | The Country Girls | Mr. Gentleman |
1982 | Enigma | Dimitri Vasilikov |
1982 | Attack Force Z | Sergeant Costello |
1982 | Ivanhoe | Brian de Bois-Guilbert |
1981 | The Final Conflict | Damien Thorn |
1981 | Possession | Mark |
1981 | From a Far Country | Marian |
1979 | My Brilliant Career | Harry Beecham |
1979 | Just Out Of Reach | Mike |
1979 | The Journalist | Rex |
1978 | Surf Sail | Narrator (voice) |
1977 | Sleeping Dogs | Smith |
1977 | Architect Athfield | Narrator |
1975 | Landfall | Eric |
1975 | Ashes | Priest |
1975 | Four Shorts on Architecture | Narrator (voice) |
1973 | Hunt's Duffer | Bradley |
1972 | The Water Cycle | |
1971 | The City of No | |
The Guinea Pig Club | Charles Overton | |
Mystery Ride | Duncan Connelly | |
The Last Resort | Gerard |
Year | TV Show | Role |
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2025 | UNTAMED | Paul Souter |
2024 | Apples Never Fall | Stan Delaney |
2024 | The Assembly | Self |
2022 | The Twelve | Brett Colby |
2022 | The Twelve | Brett Colby QC |
2021 | Invasion | Jim Bell Tyson |
2021 | Trial In The Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story | Self - Host |
2021 | The Real Hunt for Red October | Self |
2021 | Russell Howard Stands Up to the World | Self |
2020 | Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story | Self - Narrator |
2019 | The Movies That Made Us | Self |
2019 | Flack | Duncan Paulson |
2019 | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Self |
2018 | Anika Moa Unleashed | Self |
2018 | The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook | Self - Host |
2017 | Get Krack!n | Self |
2017 | House of Bond | Roland “Tiny” Rowland |
2016 | New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands | Narrator (voice) |
2016 | Tutankhamun | Lord Carnarvon |
2015 | And Then There Were None | General John MacArthur |
2015 | House of Hancock | Lang Hancock |
2015 | The Dovekeepers | |
2014 | Old School | Ted McCabe |
2013 | Harry | DSS Jim Stockton |
2013 | Rick and Morty | Monogatron Leader (voice) |
2013 | Peaky Blinders | C.I. Chester Campbell |
2013 | Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery | Self |
2013 | Peaky Blinders | Major Chester Campbell |
2012 | Alcatraz | Emerson Hauser |
2011 | The Story of Film: An Odyssey | Self |
2011 | Ice | Anthony Kavanagh |
2010 | Happy Town | Merritt Grieves |
2009 | Iron Road | Alfred Nichol |
2008 | Crusoe | Jeremiah Blackthorn |
2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
2007 | The Tudors | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey |
2006 | Merlin's Apprentice | Merlin |
2006 | Two Twisted | Mick |
2005 | The Triangle | |
2005 | The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant | Governor Arthur Phillip |
2005 | To the Ends of the Earth | Mr. Prettiman |
2005 | The Triangle | Eric Benerall |
2004 | Jessica | |
2002 | Doctor Zhivago | Victor Komarovsky |
2001 | Richard & Judy | Self |
2001 | Space | Himself |
2000 | Sally Hemings: An American Scandal | Thomas Jefferson |
1999 | Rove | Self |
1998 | The Games | Citytrans World CEO |
1998 | Merlin | Merlin |
1996 | In Cold Blood | Agent Alvin Dewey |
1996 | Australian Story | Self |
1989 | The Simpsons | Molloy (voice) |
1987 | Amerika | Colonel Andrei Denisov |
1986 | Strong Medicine | Vince Lord |
1985 | Kane & Abel | William Lowell Kane |
1983 | Reilly: Ace of Spies | Sidney Reilly |
1980 | Lucinda Brayford | Tony Duff |
1977 | The Governor | Colonial Bachelor |
1976 | The Sullivans | Ben Dawson |
1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | British Flier |