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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).
His name is Kal-el and he comes from the planet Krypton. He was the only survivor of her explosion in a huge cosmic catastrophe when his father, the foresighted Kryptonian scientist Jor-El, sent him into space in a small space capsule. The child lands on Earth, near the town of Smallville, where he is taken in by the childless couple Kent, who live on a lonely farm. From an early age, little Kryptoňan has extraordinary abilities, which grow stronger every year. After the death of the adoptive father, young Clark Kent meets the ghost of Jor-El, who was encoded in one of the Krypton crystals. The result of several years of his father's instruction is Superman with all the attributes: he can fly, he has supersight and superhearing, a superpower with which he can lift houses and planes, and he is almost invulnerable. Disguised as clumsy journalist Clark Kent, he begins working for the Daily Planet. Not only will he meet his handsome colleague Lois Lane, who will become his faithful companion and guide, but he also manages to thwart the plan of the genius criminal Lex Luthor, who wants to blast California off the American continent with the help of stolen nuclear missiles.
