Sam Neill is an Irish actor, but of New Zealand origin , born the September 14th 1947 with Omagh (Ireland).
Biography
Graduate of English literature, it illustrates himself with the Théâtre with many companies in New Zealand before joining the production company New Zealand National Film Links to carry out short films. It learns how there to be a scenario writer. Its first appearance on big screen goes back to 1975 with Landfall , then its performance in the film My brilliant career is worth to him to be noticed by the actor James Mason, who makes pressure on the studios so that Sam Neill incarnates adult Damien in the Final Curse (1981), the final shutter of the famous trilogy. Its physique semi-angel semi-demon, which attracts sympathy irremediably, enables him to incarnate any kind of different roles: in a cry in the night at the sides of Meryl Streep or in Calm white with Nicole Kidman, he is the perfect husband while in Enigma , he is a dangerous spy of the KGB.This duality is even more obvious in 1993, which is really " the année" Sam Neill , where he plays terrible Stewart in the Piano lesson of Jane Campion and the intrepid adventurer Alan Grant, lost with two children with the right in the middle of the Jurassic Park of Steven Spielberg. These two roles give access to him finally a critical but especially public recognition.
The continuous career of Sam Neill without tear and in diversity, that it is in the romantic comedy ( Sirènes in 1994) or in the science fiction ( Event Horizon, the vessel of beyond the of Paul W.S. Anderson in 1997, the Man bicentenary with Robin Williams in 1999), before taking again the role of Alan Grant in 2001 in Jurassic Park III .
With an average of two films per annum in the years 2000, Sam Neill continues his rise. In 2006, it turns under the crook of the French realizer François Ozon in Angel , the history of an young woman (Romola Garai) who becomes a famous writer at the beginning of the XXe century in England. The same year, in Telepathy , it tries to communicate with the extraterrestrial ones at the sides of Cillian Murphy.
In Dirty deeds of David Caesar, it finds the Australia, where it already turned of many films, and plays sides of Toni Collette before joining Rachel Blake in Perfect strangers where it incarnates a quite mysterious man… Always in 2006, it is Brad, in Little Fish , and evolves/moves in the western suburbs of Sydney at the sides of Cate Blanchett before becoming Irresistible for Ann Turner. The actor with the hundred faces continues his career briskly since in 2007, he again endorses the costume of famous Doctor Alan Grant to turn the fourth opus of Jurassic Park .
Catalog of films
- 1975 : Landfall , of Paul Maunder
- 1975: Ashes , of Barry Barclay
- 1977: Sleeping Dogs , of Roger Donaldson
- 1979: Just Out off Reach , of Linda Blagg
- 1979: The Journalist , of Michael Thornhill
- 1979: My Brilliant Career , of Gillian Armstrong
- 1980: Lucinda Brayford , of John Gauci
- 1980: The Sullivans (series TV)
- 1981: final Curse ( Final The Conflict ), of Graham Baker
- 1981: Possession , of Andrzej Żuławski
- 1981: From has Far Country , of Krzysztof Zanussi
- 1982: Attack Forces Z , of Tim Burstall
- 1982: Ivanhoe , of Douglas Camfield (TV)
- 1983: Enigma , of Jeannot Szwarc
- 1983: Reilly: The Ace off Spies , of Martin Campbell and Jim Goddard (serial TV)
- 1984: The Country Girls , of Desmond Davis (TV)
- 1984: the Blood of the others , Claude Chabrol
- 1985: Robbery Under Arms , of Donald Crombie and Ken Hannam (TV)
- 1985: Plenty , of Fred Schepisi
- 1985: Kane & Abel , of Buzz Kulik (serial TV)
- 1986: Whims of the destiny ( Strong Medicine ), of Guy Green (TV)
- 1986: For Coils Alone , of Stephen Wallace
- 1987: Amerika , of Donald Wrye (serial TV)
- 1987: The Good Wife , of Ken Cameron
- 1988: Leap off Faith , of Stephen Gyllenhaal (TV)
- 1988: a cry in the night ( has Cry in the Dark ), of Fred Schepisi
- 1989: Calm white ( Dead Calm ), of Phillip Noyce
- 1989: the French revolution , of Robert Enrico and Richard T. Heffron
- 1990: With the Red continuation of October ( The Hunt for Red October ), of John McTiernan
- 1990: Shadow off Clouded , of Mitsuo Yanagimachi
- 1991: Death in Brunswick , of John Ruane
- 1991: Fever , of Larry Elikann (TV)
- 1991: Until the end of the world ( (a) years Ende der Welt ), of Wim Wenders
- 1991: One Against the Wind , of Larry Elikann (TV)
- 1992: The Rainbow Warrior , of Michael Tuchner
- 1992: Adventures of an invisible man ( Invisible Memoirs off year Man ), of John Carpenter
- 1993: Hostage , of Robert Young
- 1993: Family Pictures , of Philip Saville (TV)
- 1993: the Piano lesson ( The Piano ), of Jane Campion
- 1993: Jurassic Park , of Steven Spielberg
- 1994: Country Life , of Michael Blakemore
- 1994: Sirens ( Sirens ), of John Duigan
- 1994: the Cave of the madness ( In the Mouth off Madness ), of John Carpenter
- 1994: the Book of the jungle ( The Jungle Book ), of Stephen Sommers
- 1995: Victory , of Mark Peploe
- 1995: the Gift of the king ( Restoration ), of Michael Hoffman
- 1996: Children off the Revolution , of Peter Duncan
- 1996: In Cold Blood , of Jonathan Kaplan (TV)
- 1997: White-Snow: Most horrible of the tales ( Snow White: Tale Terror has off), of Michael Cohn
- 1997: Vent Horizon, the vessel of beyond the ( Vent Horizon ), of Paul W.S. Anderson
- 1998: Merlin , of Steve Barron (TV)
- 1998: the Man who murmured with the ear of the horses ( The Horse Whisperer ), of Robert Redford
- 1998: Love, revenge and treason ( The Revengers' Comedies ), of Malcolm Mowbray
- 1999: Molokai: The Story off Father Damien , of Paul Cox
- 1999: the Man bicentenary ( Bicentennial Man ), of Chris Columbus
- 2000: Sally Hemings: Year American Scandal , of Charles Haid (TV)
- 2000: My Mother Frank , of Mark Lamprell
- 2000: The Dish , of Rob Sitch
- 2000: the magic Cake ( The Magic Pudding ), of Karl Zwicky (voice)
- 2001: Submerged , of James Keach (TV)
- 2001: Jurassic Park III , of Joe Johnston
- 2001: The Zookeeper , of Ralph Ziman
- 2002: Framed , of Daniel Petrie Jr. (TV)
- 2002: Dirty Deeds , of David Caesar
- 2002: Leunig: How Democracy Actually Works , of Andrew Horne (voice) (short-measuring)
- 2002: Leunig Animated , of Andrew Horne (video) (voice)
- 2002: Doctor Zhivago , of Giacomo Campiotti (serial TV)
- 2003: Perfect strangers , of Gaylene Preston
- 2004: Stiff , of John Clarke (TV)
- 2004: Jessica , of Peter Andrikidis (serial TV)
- 2004: Yes , of Sally Potter
- 2004: More the great victory ( Wimbledon ), of Richard Loncraine
- 2005: To the Ends off the Earth , of David Attwood (serial TV)
- 2005: Little Fish , of Rowan Woods
- 2005: Mary Bryant , of Peter Andrikidis (serial TV)
- 2005: The Triangle , of Craig R. Baxley (serial TV)
- 2007: Angel, of François Ozon
External bond
- Sam Neill on Internet Movie Database
Simple: Sam Neill
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