Sam Neill
Sir Nigel John Dermot 'Sam' Neill, KNZM OBE (born 14 September 1947) is an Ireland-born New Zealand actor. His career has included leading roles in both dramas and blockbusters. Considered an "international leading man", he has been regarded as one of the most versatile actors of his generation. He is perhaps best known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. He has also had a number of high-profile roles including: the lead in Reilly, Ace of Spies, the adult Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict, Merlin in the miniseries Merlin, Captain Vasily Borodin in The Hunt for Red October, Lord Friedrich Hoffman in Snow White: A Tale of Terror, and Alisdair Stewart in The Piano. He also portayed Cardinal Thomas Wolsey on Showtime's The Tudors.
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- Born:
- Sep 14, 1947 In Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 197
- First Appeared:
- In the series UNTAMED
- Latest Project:
- Movie Mystery Ride 2025
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Mystery Ride | Duncan Connelly | 2025 |
| Movie | The Guinea Pig Club | Charles Overton | 2025 |
| Movie | Inside The Living Daylights | Self (archival footage) | 2025 |
| Series | UNTAMED | Paul Souter | 2025 |
| Series | Apples Never Fall | Stan Delaney | 2024-03-14 |
| Movie | T. REX | Narrator | 2024-06-21 |
| Series | The Assembly | Self | 2024-08-20 |
| Movie | Assassin Club | Caldwell | 2023-02-24 |
| Movie | The Portable Door | Dennis Tanner | 2023-03-23 |
| Movie | Bring Him to Me | Frank | 2023-11-02 |
| Movie | Scarygirl | Dr. Maybee (voice) | 2023-10-05 |
| Movie | Jurassic World Dominion | Alan Grant | 2022-06-01 |
| Movie | Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World | Self | 2022-06-04 |
| Series | The Twelve | Brett Colby QC | 2022-06-21 |
| Movie | Thor: Love and Thunder | Actor Odin | 2022-07-06 |
| Movie | Voice Activated | Audiobook Narrator (voice) | 2022-06-15 |
| Movie | Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway | Tommy Brock (voice) | 2021-03-25 |
| Series | Russell Howard Stands Up to the World | Self | 2021-05-31 |
| Movie | Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal | Frankie Scales (voice) | 2021-02-04 |
| Series | Trial In The Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story | Self - Host | 2021-09-16 |
| Series | Invasion | Jim Bell Tyson | 2021-10-21 |
| Series | The Real Hunt for Red October | Self | 2021-06-13 |
| Movie | Sea Lions: Life By a Whisker | Narrator (voice) | 2020-01-04 |
| Movie | Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story | Narrator (voice) | 2020-09-27 |
| Movie | Rams | Colin | 2020-10-15 |
| Movie | Palm Beach | Leo | 2019-08-08 |
| Movie | Blackbird | Tom | 2019-09-06 |
| Series | Flack | Duncan Paulson | 2019-02-21 |
| Series | The Movies That Made Us | Self | 2019-11-29 |
| Movie | The Show Must Go On | Self | 2019-10-08 |
| Series | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Self | 2019-09-09 |
| Movie | Ride Like a Girl | Paddy Payne | 2019-09-26 |
| Movie | The Commuter | Captain Hawthorne | 2018-01-11 |
| Movie | Sweet Country | Fred Smith | 2018-01-25 |
| Movie | Peter Rabbit | Mr. McGregor / Tommy Brock (voice) | 2018-02-07 |
| Series | The Pacific In The Wake of Captain Cook | Self - Host | 2018-08-27 |
| Series | Anika Moa Unleashed | Self | 2018-03-28 |
| Series | House of Bond | Roland “Tiny” Rowland | 2017-04-24 |
| Movie | David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Self | 2017-03-09 |
| Movie | Tommy's Honour | Alexander Boothby | 2017-07-07 |
| Series | Get Krack!n | Self | 2017-08-30 |
| Movie | Thor: Ragnarok | Actor Odin | 2017-10-02 |
| Series | New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands | Narrator (voice) | 2016-07-19 |
| Movie | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Hec | 2016-03-31 |
| Movie | New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands | Narrator (voice) | 2016-07-19 |
| Series | Tutankhamun | Lord Carnarvon | 2016-10-16 |
| Movie | Why Anzac with Sam Neill | Self | 2015-04-21 |
| Series | House of Hancock | Lang Hancock | 2015-02-08 |
| Series | The Dovekeepers | 2015-03-31 | |
| Movie | Backtrack | Duncan Stewart | 2015-07-25 |
| Series | And Then There Were None | General John MacArthur | 2015-12-26 |
| Movie | The Daughter | Walter | 2015-10-09 |
| Movie | MindGamers | Kreutz | 2015-10-04 |
| Movie | A Long Way Down | Chris Crichton | 2014-03-20 |
| Series | Old School | Ted McCabe | 2014-05-23 |
| Movie | United Passions | Joao Havelange | 2014-06-19 |
| Series | Peaky Blinders | Major Chester Campbell | 2013-09-12 |
| Series | Harry | DSS Jim Stockton | 2013-05-08 |
| Series | Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery | Self | 2013-09-18 |
| Movie | The Ordained | Governor Michael Thomas Riley | 2013-06-01 |
| Movie | Escape Plan | Dr. Kyrie | 2013-10-09 |
| Movie | The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box | Otto Luger | 2013-12-05 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | Monogatron Leader (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Movie | River Deep, Mountain High: James Nesbitt in New Zealand | Self | 2013-12-25 |
| Movie | Alcatraz | Emerson Hauser | 2012-01-16 |
| Series | Alcatraz | Emerson Hauser | 2012-01-16 |
| Movie | The Vow | Bill Thornton | 2012-02-05 |
| Series | Ice | Anthony Kavanagh | 2011-01-02 |
| Movie | Ice | Anthony Kavanagh | 2011-01-02 |
| Movie | The Hunter | Jack Mindy | 2011-10-06 |
| Series | The Story of Film: An Odyssey | Self | 2011-09-03 |
| Movie | The Dragon Pearl | Chris Chase | 2011-03-11 |
| Movie | Return to Jurassic Park | Self | 2011-02-05 |
| Movie | Daybreakers | Charles Bromley | 2010-01-06 |
| Movie | The Making of Daybreakers | Self | 2010-05-11 |
| Movie | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Allomere (voice) | 2010-07-10 |
| Series | Happy Town | Merritt Grieves | 2010-04-28 |
| Movie | In Her Skin | Mr. Reid | 2009-03-13 |
| Movie | The Man in the Hat | Reader of Correspondence | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Iron Road | Alfred Nichol | 2009-06-24 |
| Series | Iron Road | Alfred Nichol | 2009-08-09 |
| Movie | Under the Mountain | Mr. Jones | 2009-12-10 |
| Movie | Skin | Abraham Laing | 2008-09-07 |
| Series | Crusoe | Jeremiah Blackthorn | 2008-10-17 |
| Movie | Dean Spanley | Dean Spanley | 2008-12-12 |
| Movie | Angel | Théo | 2007-02-17 |
| Series | The Tudors | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey | 2007-04-01 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | The Pixar Story | Alan Grant (archive footage) | 2007-08-28 |
| Movie | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Self | 2006-03-28 |
| Movie | Voyage of the Nautilus | Hubert Wilkins | 2006-02-25 |
| Series | Merlin's Apprentice | Merlin | 2006-04-14 |
| Movie | Irresistible | Craig | 2006-04-18 |
| Series | Two Twisted | Mick | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 2006-04-18 |
| Movie | New Zild - The Story of New Zealand English | Self | 2005-05-25 |
| Movie | Gallipoli | Narrator | 2005-03-18 |
| Series | To the Ends of the Earth | Mr. Prettiman | 2005-07-06 |
| Movie | Little Fish | The Jockey | 2005-07-19 |
| Series | The Triangle | Eric Benerall | 2005-12-05 |
| Series | The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant | Governor Arthur Phillip | 2005-10-30 |
| Movie | Yes | Anthony | 2005-08-05 |
| Movie | The Making of Sleeping Dogs | Self | 2004-03-24 |
| Movie | Stiff | Lionel Merricks | 2004-06-19 |
| Series | Jessica | Unknown | 2004-07-18 |
| Movie | Wimbledon | Dennis Bradbury | 2004-09-13 |
| Movie | Jessica | Richard Runche | 2004-07-18 |
| Movie | Perfect Strangers | Man | 2003-10-09 |
| Movie | Framed | Eddie Meyers | 2002-02-13 |
| Movie | Dirty Deeds | Ray | 2002-07-18 |
| Series | Doctor Zhivago | Victor Komarovsky | 2002-11-24 |
| Movie | Jurassic Park III | Dr. Alan Grant | 2001-07-18 |
| Movie | Submerged | Lt. Cmdr. Charles B. 'Swede' Momsen | 2001-05-20 |
| Movie | The Making Of 'Jurassic Park III' | Self | 2001-12-11 |
| Series | Space | Himself | 2001-07-22 |
| Series | Richard & Judy | Self | 2001-11-26 |
| Movie | SuperCroc | narrator | 2001-10-25 |
| Movie | The Zookeeper | Ludovic | 2001-11-22 |
| Series | Sally Hemings: An American Scandal | Thomas Jefferson | 2000-02-13 |
| Movie | Sally Hemings: An American Scandal | Thomas Jefferson | 2000-02-13 |
| Movie | Numero Bruno | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | My Mother Frank | Professor Mortlock | 2000-08-16 |
| Movie | The Magic Pudding | Sam Sawnoff (voice) | 2000-12-14 |
| Movie | The Dish | Cliff Buxton - Dish Master | 2000-10-19 |
| Movie | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Prime Minister Gibson | 1999-03-17 |
| Series | Rove | Self | 1999-09-22 |
| Movie | Bicentennial Man | Sir | 1999-12-17 |
| Movie | The Horse Whisperer | Robert MacLean | 1998-02-01 |
| Series | The Games | Citytrans World CEO | 1998-08-17 |
| Series | Merlin | Merlin | 1998-04-26 |
| Movie | The Revengers' Comedies | Henry Bell | 1998-06-09 |
| Movie | Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Lord Friedrich Hoffman | 1997-07-18 |
| Movie | The Rainbow Warrior | Chief Inspector Alan Galbraith | 1997-03-28 |
| Movie | Forgotten Silver | Himself | 1997-10-03 |
| Movie | Event Horizon | Weir | 1997-08-15 |
| Series | Australian Story | Self | 1996-05-29 |
| Series | In Cold Blood | Agent Alvin Dewey | 1996-11-24 |
| Movie | Children of the Revolution | David 'Dave' Hoyle, aka Agent 'Nine' | 1996-12-26 |
| Movie | Victory | Mr. Jones | 1996-12-13 |
| Movie | In the Mouth of Madness | John Trent | 1995-02-03 |
| Movie | Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill | Narrator / Host | 1995-10-10 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Jurassic Park' | Self / Alan Grant | 1995-04-23 |
| Movie | Restoration | King Charles II | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | Sirens | Norman Lindsay | 1994-03-04 |
| Movie | Country Life | Dr. Max Askey | 1994-10-27 |
| Movie | The Jungle Book | Colonel Geofferey Brydon | 1994-12-23 |
| Movie | Family Pictures | David Eberlin | 1993-03-20 |
| Movie | The Piano | Alisdair Stewart | 1993-05-18 |
| Movie | Split Enz: Spellbound | Narrator | 1993-07-08 |
| Movie | Jurassic Park | Grant | 1993-06-11 |
| Movie | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | David Jenkins | 1992-02-28 |
| Movie | Hostage | John Rennie | 1992-05-10 |
| Movie | Death in Brunswick | Carl | 1991-04-24 |
| Movie | Fever | Elliot | 1991-05-11 |
| Movie | Until the End of the World | Eugene Fitzpatrick | 1991-09-12 |
| Movie | One Against the Wind | Major James Leggatt, The Guards | 1991-12-01 |
| Movie | Cowboys of Culture | Self | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | The Hunt for Red October | Captain Borodin | 1990-03-02 |
| Movie | Shadow of China | TV Reporter | 1990-05-12 |
| Movie | Dead Calm | John Ingram | 1989-04-07 |
| Movie | The French Revolution | Marquis de Lafayette | 1989-05-10 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Molloy (voice) | 1989-12-17 |
| Movie | Evil Angels | Michael Chamberlain | 1988-11-03 |
| Movie | Question of Faith | Oscar Ogg | 1988-10-06 |
| Movie | The Good Wife | Neville Gifford | 1987-05-14 |
| Series | Amerika | Colonel Andrei Denisov | 1987-02-15 |
| Movie | Strong Medicine | Vince Lord | 1986-01-01 |
| Series | Strong Medicine | Vince Lord | 1986-04-26 |
| Movie | For Love Alone | James Quick | 1986-05-22 |
| Movie | Robbery Under Arms | Capt. Starlight | 1985-03-28 |
| Movie | Plenty | Lazar | 1985-09-20 |
| Series | Kane & Abel | William Lowell Kane | 1985-11-17 |
| Movie | The Country Girls | Mr. Gentleman | 1984-04-01 |
| Movie | The Blood of Others | Bergman | 1984-08-25 |
| Series | Reilly: Ace of Spies | Sidney Reilly | 1983-09-05 |
| Movie | Ivanhoe | Brian de Bois-Guilbert | 1982-02-23 |
| Movie | Attack Force Z | Sergeant Costello | 1982-06-01 |
| Movie | Enigma | Dimitri Vasilikov | 1982-10-15 |
| Movie | The Final Conflict | Damien Thorn | 1981-03-20 |
| Movie | Possession | Mark | 1981-05-27 |
| Movie | From a Far Country | Marian | 1981-09-15 |
| Series | Lucinda Brayford | Tony Duff | 1980-06-15 |
| Movie | My Brilliant Career | Harry Beecham | 1979-08-17 |
| Movie | Just Out Of Reach | Mike | 1979-10-01 |
| Movie | The Journalist | Rex | 1979-11-15 |
| Movie | Surf Sail | Narrator (voice) | 1978-09-04 |
| Movie | Sleeping Dogs | Smith | 1977-10-06 |
| Movie | Architect Athfield | Narrator | 1977-01-01 |
| Series | The Governor | Colonial Bachelor | 1977-10-06 |
| Series | The Sullivans | Ben Dawson | 1976-11-15 |
| Movie | Landfall | Eric | 1975-01-01 |
| Movie | Four Shorts on Architecture | Narrator (voice) | 1975-10-10 |
| Movie | Ashes | Priest | 1975-03-17 |
| Movie | Hunt's Duffer | Bradley | 1973-01-01 |
| Movie | The Water Cycle | 1972-09-09 | |
| Movie | The City of No | 1971-01-01 | |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | British Flier | 1951-12-24 |