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Liam Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an Irish actor. He was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and educated at Saint Patrick's College, Ballymena Technical College and Queen's University Belfast. He moved to Dublin after university to further his acting career, joining the renowned Abbey Theatre. In the early 1990s, he moved again to the United States, where the wide acclaim for his performance in Schindler's List led to more high-profile work. He is widowed and lives in New York with his two sons. He has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards. He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey, Ras Al Ghul in Batman Begins and the voice of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. He has also starred in several other notable films, from major Hollywood studio releases (ie. Excalibur, The Dead Pool, Nell, Rob Roy, The Haunting, Love Actually, Kingdom of Heaven, Taken, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, Unknown) to smaller arthouse films (ie. Deception, Breakfast on Pluto, Chloe).
Ransom, a philologist and professor on sabbatical is kidnapped by two mad scientists and taken to the distant planet of Malacandra. There, he escapes from his captors and is taken in by a clan of hrossa, an otter-like species. Slowly, he learns their language and is eventually invited to join them on a hunt for a sea-monster known as a hnakra. Just before they set sail, an ethereal being called an eldil tells them that Ransom must go to see Oyarsa, the spirit who rules the planet. They continue with the hunt, and one of the hrossa is killed by the scientists. Ransom sets out to go see Oyarsa as commanded, and his helped on his journey by the a sorn, another native species on Malacandra. When he arrives he meets the third species, the pfifltriggi. Oyarsa asks him about his world, known by them as "Thulcandra", the silent planet. The scientists arrive and try unsuccessfully to intimidate the Malacandrans. Finally, Oyarsa sends them back to Earth, and Ransom decides to go home as well.
