Sam Neill
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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Known For
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Thor: Ragnarok
2017
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Jurassic Park
1993
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Peaky Blinders
2013
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Peaky Blinders
2013
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Rick and Morty
2013
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The Simpsons
1989
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Thor: Love and Thunder
2022
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Jurassic Park III
2001
Jurassic World Dominion
2022
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Escape Plan
2013
Acting
2027
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2026
The Fox
as The Magpie (voice)
2025
Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke
as Self
2025
UNTAMED
as Paul Souter
(6 episodes)
2024
T. REX
as Narrator
2024
Apples Never Fall
as Stan Delaney
(7 episodes)
2024
The Assembly
as Self
(1 episode)
2023
Assassin Club
as Caldwell
2023
Bring Him to Me
as Frank
2023
Scarygirl
as Dr. Maybee (voice)
2023
The Portable Door
as Dennis Tanner
2022
Voice Activated
as Audiobook Narrator (voice)
2022
Thor: Love and Thunder
as Actor Odin
2022
The Twelve
as Brett Colby
(26 episodes)
2021
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
as Tommy Brock (voice)
2021
Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal
as Frankie Scales (voice)
2021
Invasion
as Jim Bell Tyson
(1 episode)
2021
Trial In The Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story
as Self - Host
(3 episodes)
2021
The Real Hunt for Red October
as Self
(2 episodes)
2021
Russell Howard Stands Up to the World
as Self
(1 episode)
2020
Rams
as Colin
2020
Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story
as Narrator (voice)
2020
Sea Lions: Life By a Whisker
as Narrator (voice)
2020
Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story
as Self - Narrator
(3 episodes)
2019
Ride Like a Girl
as Paddy Payne
2019
Blackbird
as Tom
2019
The Show Must Go On
as Self
2019
Palm Beach
as Leo
2019
The Movies That Made Us
as Self
(1 episode)
2019
Flack
as Duncan Paulson
(2 episodes)
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
(1 episode)
2018
Peter Rabbit
as Mr. McGregor / Tommy Brock (voice)
2018
The Commuter
as Captain Hawthorne
2018
Sweet Country
as Fred Smith
2018
Anika Moa Unleashed
as Self
(13 episodes)
2018
The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook
as Self - Host
(6 episodes)
2017
Tommy's Honour
as Alexander Boothby
2017
Thor: Ragnarok
as Actor Odin
2017
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
as Self
2017
Get Krack!n
as Self
(1 episode)
2017
House of Bond
as Roland “Tiny” Rowland
(2 episodes)
2016
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
as Hec
2016
New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands
as Narrator (voice)
2016
New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands
as Narrator (voice)
(3 episodes)
2016
Tutankhamun
as Lord Carnarvon
(4 episodes)
2015
Backtrack
as Duncan Stewart
2015
The Daughter
as Walter
2015
Why Anzac with Sam Neill
as Self
2015
MindGamers
as Kreutz
2015
Odyssey sur les traces de Sam Neill
as God
2015
And Then There Were None
as General John MacArthur
(3 episodes)
2015
House of Hancock
as Lang Hancock
(2 episodes)
2015
The Dovekeepers
2014
A Long Way Down
as Chris Crichton
2014
United Passions
as Joao Havelange
2014
Old School
as Ted McCabe
(8 episodes)
2013
Escape Plan
as Dr. Kyrie
2013
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
as Otto Luger
2013
The Ordained
as Governor Michael Thomas Riley
2013
River Deep, Mountain High: James Nesbitt in New Zealand
as Self
2013
Harry
as DSS Jim Stockton
(6 episodes)
2013
Rick and Morty
as Monogatron Leader (voice)
(1 episode)
2013
Peaky Blinders
as C.I. Chester Campbell
(6 episodes)
2013
Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery
as Self
(1 episode)
2013
Peaky Blinders
as Major Chester Campbell
(6 episodes)
2012
The Vow
as Bill Thornton
2012
Alcatraz
as Emerson Hauser
(13 episodes)
2011
Ice
as Anthony Kavanagh
2011
The Hunter
as Jack Mindy
2011
Return to Jurassic Park
as Self
2011
The Dragon Pearl
as Chris Chase
2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
as Self
(1 episode)
2011
Ice
as Anthony Kavanagh
(2 episodes)
2010
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Allomere (voice)
2010
Daybreakers
as Charles Bromley
2010
The Making of Daybreakers
as Self
2010
Happy Town
as Merritt Grieves
(8 episodes)
2009
Under the Mountain
as Mr. Jones
2009
Skin
as Abraham Laing
2009
In Her Skin
as Mr. Reid
2009
Iron Road
as Alfred Nichol
2009
The Man in the Hat
as Reader of Correspondence
2009
Iron Road
as Alfred Nichol
(2 episodes)
2008
Dean Spanley
as Dean Spanley
2008
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
as Narrator
2008
Crusoe
as Jeremiah Blackthorn
(13 episodes)
2007
Angel
as Théo
2007
The Pixar Story
as Alan Grant (archive footage)
2007
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
(2 episodes)
2007
The Tudors
as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
(10 episodes)
2006
Irresistible
as Craig
2006
Voyage of the Nautilus
as Hubert Wilkins
2006
The Making of 'Event Horizon'
as Self
2006
Working with a Master: John Carpenter
as Self
2006
Merlin's Apprentice
as Merlin
(2 episodes)
2006
Two Twisted
as Mick
(14 episodes)
2005
Yes
as Anthony
2005
Little Fish
as The Jockey
2005
Gallipoli
as Narrator
2005
New Zild - The Story of New Zealand English
as Self
2005
The Triangle
2005
The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant
as Governor Arthur Phillip
(2 episodes)
2005
To the Ends of the Earth
as Mr. Prettiman
(3 episodes)
2005
The Triangle
as Eric Benerall
(3 episodes)
2004
Wimbledon
as Dennis Bradbury
2004
Stiff
as Lionel Merricks
2004
The Making of Sleeping Dogs
as Self
2004
Jessica
as Richard Runche
2004
Colin McCahon: I Am
as Narrator
2004
Jessica
2003
Perfect Strangers
as Man
2002
Dirty Deeds
as Ray
2002
Framed
as Eddie Meyers
2002
Doctor Zhivago
as Victor Komarovsky
(3 episodes)
2001
Jurassic Park III
as Dr. Alan Grant
2001
Submerged
as Lt. Cmdr. Charles B. 'Swede' Momsen
2001
The Zookeeper
as Ludovic
2001
The Making Of Jurassic Park III
as Self
2001
SuperCroc
as narrator
2001
Richard & Judy
as Self
(1 episode)
2001
Space
as Himself
(6 episodes)
2000
The Dish
as Cliff Buxton - Dish Master
2000
The Magic Pudding
as Sam Sawnoff (voice)
2000
Numero Bruno
as Self
2000
My Mother Frank
as Professor Mortlock
2000
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
as Thomas Jefferson
2000
Inside The Living Daylights
as Self (archival footage)
2000
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
as Thomas Jefferson
(2 episodes)
1999
Bicentennial Man
as Sir
1999
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
as Prime Minister Gibson
1999
Rove
as Self
(1 episode)
1998
The Horse Whisperer
as Robert MacLean
1998
The Revengers' Comedies
as Henry Bell
1998
The Games
as Citytrans World CEO
(1 episode)
1998
Merlin
as Merlin
(2 episodes)
1997
Event Horizon
as Weir
1997
Forgotten Silver
as Self
1997
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
as Lord Friedrich Hoffman
1997
The Rainbow Warrior
as Chief Inspector Alan Galbraith
1996
Children of the Revolution
as David 'Dave' Hoyle, aka Agent 'Nine'
1996
Victory
as Mr. Jones
1996
In Cold Blood
as Agent Alvin Dewey
(2 episodes)
1996
Australian Story
as Self
(2 episodes)
1995
In the Mouth of Madness
as John Trent
1995
Restoration
as King Charles II
1995
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
as Self / Alan Grant
1995
Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill
as Narrator / Host
1994
The Jungle Book
as Colonel Geofferey Brydon
1994
Sirens
as Norman Lindsay
1994
Country Life
as Dr. Max Askey
1994
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
as Self
1993
The Piano
as Alisdair Stewart
1993
Jurassic Park
as Grant
1993
Split Enz: Spellbound
as Narrator
1993
Inside 'The Piano'
as Self
1993
Family Pictures
as David Eberlin
(2 episodes)
1992
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
as David Jenkins
1992
Hostage
as John Rennie
1991
Until the End of the World
as Eugene Fitzpatrick
1991
Death in Brunswick
as Carl
1991
One Against the Wind
as Major James Leggatt, The Guards
1991
Fever
as Elliot
1990
The Hunt for Red October
as Capt. 2nd Vasily Borodin
1990
Cowboys of Culture
as Self
1990
Shadow of China
as TV Reporter
1989
The French Revolution
as Marquis de Lafayette
1989
Dead Calm
as John Ingram
1989
The Simpsons
as Molloy (voice)
(1 episode)
1988
Evil Angels
as Michael Chamberlain
1988
Question of Faith
as Oscar Ogg
1987
The Good Wife
as Neville Gifford
1987
Amerika
as Colonel Andrei Denisov
(7 episodes)
1986
For Love Alone
as James Quick
1986
Strong Medicine
as Vince Lord
1986
Strong Medicine
as Vince Lord
(2 episodes)
1985
Plenty
as Lazar
1985
Robbery Under Arms
as Capt. Starlight
1985
Kane & Abel
as William Lowell Kane
(3 episodes)
1984
The Blood of Others
as Bergman
1984
The Country Girls
as Mr. Gentleman
1983
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Sidney Reilly
(12 episodes)
1982
Enigma
as Dimitri Vasilikov
1982
Attack Force Z
as Sergeant Costello
1982
Ivanhoe
as Brian de Bois-Guilbert
1981
The Final Conflict
as Damien Thorn
1981
Possession
as Mark
1981
From a Far Country
as Marian
1980
Lucinda Brayford
as Tony Duff
(4 episodes)
1979
My Brilliant Career
as Harry Beecham
1979
Just Out Of Reach
as Mike
1979
The Journalist
as Rex
1978
Surf Sail
as Narrator (voice)
1977
Sleeping Dogs
as Smith
1977
Architect Athfield
as Narrator
1977
The Governor
as Colonial Bachelor
(1 episode)
1976
The Sullivans
as Ben Dawson
(40 episodes)
1975
Landfall
as Eric
1975
Ashes
as Priest
1975
Four Shorts on Architecture
as Narrator (voice)
1973
Hunt's Duffer
as Bradley
1972
The Water Cycle
1971
The City of No
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as British Flier
(1 episode)
—
Mystery Ride
as Duncan Connelly
—
The Last Resort
as Gerard
Directing
2004
The Brush-Off
Director
1995
Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill
Director
1979
On the Road with Red Mole
Director
1978
Surf Sail
Director
1978
New Country - New People
Director
1977
Flare - A Ski Trip
Director
1977
Architect Athfield
Director
1975
Four Shorts on Architecture
Director
1974
Phone
Director
Writing
1995
Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill
Writer
1979
On the Road with Red Mole
Writer
1975
Four Shorts on Architecture
Writer
1974
Phone
Writer
Production
2004
Stiff
Producer
2004
The Brush-Off
Producer
Editing
1975
Four Shorts on Architecture
Editor
1974
Phone
Editor
1973
The Sealhunters
Editor