Profession: Actor

Liam Neeson, the name that has become quite the sensation thanks to his roles in movies such as Taken and Schindler’s List complete with the power packed dialogues makes this actor more than merely versatile as he fondly remembered or the spectacular roles that he played so far. Neeson earned more than some men who made the Celebrity 100, like Ben Affleck and Will Smith, but he didn’t have their fame numbers. Liam Neeson was born  in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

The struggle before acting

There’s a funny story behind how he got interested in acting. It is said so that his English teacher had offered him a lead role in a school play, which he accepted because the girl he was attracted to was starring in it. And this accidental foray leads him to his now amazing career.

Liam who first started off by doing some odd-jobs to support himself before he got some meaty roles. He worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, truck driver, assistant architect and an amateur boxer, during which he decided to take up teaching as a career. In course of teaching, he got interested in acting and debuted in the play, ‘The Risen People.’ Developing this interest, as he acted in the Abbey Theater at Dublin, he was spotted and cast into the role of Sir Gawain in the movie, ‘Excalibur’ by John Boorman. There was no looking back after that as Neeson made appearances in several movies and UK television shows.

He continued acting through high school before briefly enrolling in Queen’s University Belfast to study computer science. He eventually left college to work at the Guinness Brewery. But acting was still calling his name. Liam made his feature film debut in 1978′s Pilgrim’s Progress.

And the movies..

Director Steven Spielberg offered Neeson the role of Oskar Schindler in the film about the Holocaust, Schindler’s List, after seeing him in Anna Christie on Broadway, giving a stiff competition to the seasoned actors like Mel Gibson and Warren Beatty. His role in this movie created quite the waves as he was nominated for Best Actor for the Oscars that year, along with the  BAFTA and the Golden Globe Awards. His role earned more than just action roles, but some thrilling roles that made quite an impression with the audience.

Later he went on to act in the Star Wars series, Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, Kinsey and The Grey.

Liam Neeson also went onto narrate documentaries like Journey into Amazing Caves, The Endurance: Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure which managed to bag the most prestigious awards, Chicago Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review.

Not just his acting but his voice over capabilities received acclaim and earned him quite a few movies like Chronicles of Narnia, The Wildest Dream, Coral Reef Adventure and Everest. He also lent his voice to a couple of television series like The Simpsons and Star Wars.

Neeson’s voice was also featured in the video game Fallout 3 as the main character’s father, James. Fallout 3, the third game in the Fallout series, was extremely well received by critics and shipped 4.7 million copies by the end of 2008, the year it was released

Let’s talk money

Here’s a brief account of the big cash that has been coming his way since he decided to turn to the cinema industry, with breaking records at all possible box offices by making dozens of movies since then, grossing $5.7 billion at the box office. Back in 2006, he was said to be earning £5m-£9m a film.

Liam’s biggest career pay day by far has not surprisingly come from the surprise hit Taken trilogy. The highest paycheck Liam has ever received is the $20 million he is set to make for Taken 3. He made $5 million for Taken 1 and $15 million for Taken 2. Although, he is still remembered for his role as Xeus in the 2010 movie Clash of the Titans, which went on to become a huge box office hit, grossing $475 million worldwide.

The Estates

A few weeks prior to his wedding, Liam bought a beautiful house in Millbrrok, Duchess County, New York. Unfortunately, his wife passed away in this very house.The home is currently valued at $3.71 million. The country home in colonial style was built in 1810. The home is surrounded by a large estate with the actor acquiring another 16 acres next to the already existing 37 acres.

I stand for a cause

Liam has always been big on charities and standing up for a cause, to the extent that he agreed to go naked to raise funds for a charity. The event was hugely successful and managed to raise about $20,000. All these activities held in the Ellen DeGeneres Show were part of fundraising events held by the TV channel in support of the ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Month.’

In 2011, Liam Neeson was appointed the GoodWill ambassador for UNICEF. Liam has also been extensively involved with the NGO ONE CAMPAIGN, which is fighting against crippling poverty and preventable diseases, particularly in African Nations.

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 Kevin George Knipfing aka Kevin James, born on April 26, 1965, is basically famous as an American actor and a producer. Not only this, he also earned a great success as a writer, and a comedian. Popular for Doug Heffernan, a character he played in a hit show “The King of Queens”. Further his roles and his acting skills in various films like, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Zookeeper, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Here Comes the Boom are tremendous.  Further, ‘Dusty Peacock’,a famous web series came in the year 2009 which was produced by James. Nichelodean Kids Awards were also hosted by James in the year 2010.

Early life

James born in Mineola, New York, has a German ancestry. He has two siblings, Gary Valentine, a comedian as well and Leslie Knipfing who works for him. She also helped him to raise the money through various charity events for people suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye condition that also leads to permanent blindness, which she also possesses. James was raised Catholic. Graduated from Ward Melville High School in 1983, where he was on the football and wrestling teams. Further, James was a student at the State University of New York ,but he didn’t graduate from there. He was also a member of Pi Lambda Phi.

Career 

James started with his stand-up comedy in 1989, at the East Side Comedy Club in Long Island, New York. Then eventually, he got popular via a number of talk shows, like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Late Late Show, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, Late Show with David Letterman, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Dennis Miller Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. He also worked on Just for Laugh’s annual comedy festival held in Montreal and as a musical guest later. He started his own stand-up special, Kevin James: Sweat the Small Stuff in the year 2001.

Television

He made his debut on TV through a sports game show SandBlast, as an announcer, till 1996, on the MTV channel. He moved to Los Angeles and he appeared as a guest-star on a few episodes on CBS in Romano’s popular sitcoms.  After these shows, he started his own sitcom, The King of Queens, in which he acted as a middle-class delivery man, who was a worker of a company called IPS and Leah Remini played his wife’s role. He then got a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for an Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for The King of Queens, for the year 2006. Later, he got a chance to be the grand marshal for saying the line “Gentlemen, start your engines” for NASCAR racing, which got famous in the auto racing in, 2007′s Pepsi 400, then again in 2010, with his buddy Adam Sandler for the promotion of Grown Ups and later in 2012, at the event of fall Talladega race.

Film

James made his film debut in the 2005 romantic comedy, Hitch with Will Smith and Eva Mendes as his co-stars. In 2006, he worked as a voice actor in Monster House and Barnyard, both animated films. James then worked with Adam Sandler in many movies like, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. His movie “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” became the first film in the history of North America who brought a profit of $39 million in a weekend and later grossed $219 million in total. Lately, he acted in Grown Ups with Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock and David Spade; which was criticized a lot but was huge success on the box office. In 2011, he wrote, produced and even played lead roles in Zookeeper and The Dilemma, with Vince Vaughn. James again wrote produced and played a lead role in Here Comes the Boom which is mixed martial-arts comedy in 2012. In the same year, he gave his voice in another animated movie, Hotel Transylvania. In 2013, he again worked with his grown Ups co-stars in its sequel, Grown Ups 2 and now he is planning on releasing the sequel of Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

Personal life

He got married to Steffiana de la Cruz, an actress in 2004 and fathered two daughters Sienna-Marie & Shea Joelle and a son Kannon Valentine. His elder brother, Gary Valentine is also a comedian and acted in King of Queens. James is also a huge sports fan and a supporter of the New York Islanders, New York Knicks, New York Mets and New York Jets. As he is a Catholic, he also made his appearance on a Catholic TV channel EWTN’s World Over.

Awards

He got a nomination for Emmy Awards in 2006 for The King of Queens. He also got two nominations in Teen Choice Awards for Hitch. In 2011, he was nominated in the Arm Fart Hall of Fames Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.

Richness

Kevin James has a net worth of $80 million. He became famous worldwide and earned this luxury as he is an amazing American actor, a heart throbbing comedian, a great writer and also a producer.  He was also the host of the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards in 2010.

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