Lafayette, Dr. Grant, the Antichrist, and Merlin all in one.
"When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting."
Sir Nigel John Dermot Neill KNZM OBE (born 14 September 1947 in Omagh, Northern Ireland), known professionally as Sam Neill, is a Northern Ireland-born New Zealand actor.
He's best known for his roles in Jurassic Park, the miniseries Merlin, Omen III: The Final Conflict, The Hunt for Red October, and Daybreakers.
He also appears to have stopped aging since the 1980s, which makes you wonder whether he really is Merlin (or maybe he's Satan — after all he did play The Antichrist in a movie!).
He was married to Lisa Harrow, with whom he has a son, Tim Neill.
Selected works in which Sam Neill has appeared:
- Sleeping Dogs (1977) (1977)
- My Brilliant Career (1979)
- Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
- Possession (1981)
- Attack Force Z (1982)
- Ivanhoe (1982)
- Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983)
- Evil Angels (1988)
- Dead Calm (1989)
- La Révolution Française (1989)
- The Hunt for Red October (1990)
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
- The Piano (1993)
- Jurassic Park:
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Jurassic Park III (2001)
- Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
- Sirens (1994)
- In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
- The Jungle Book (1994)
- Restoration (1995)
- Event Horizon (1997)
- Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
- Merlin (1998) (no relation to 2008 series)
- Bicentennial Man (1999)
- The Dish (2000)
- Angel (2007)
- The Tudors (2007)
- Crusoe (2008-2009)
- Daybreakers (2009)
- In Her Skin (2009)
- The Hunter (2011)
- Escape Plan (2013)
- Peaky Blinders (2013-14) (2 series)
- And Then There Were None (2015)
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
- Sweet Country (2018)
- Peter Rabbit (2018)
- The Commuter (2018)
Tropes used with Sam Neill:
- Chronically Killed Actor: A lot of Neill's roles end with him dying.
- Cool Old Guy: He's cultivated this image with his Twitter profile.
- Sanity Slippage: Neill has played this a couple of times as a rational man slowly falling into a pit of madness.
