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New Year honours list 2007". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 30 December 2006. Archived from the original on 23 July 2019 . Retrieved 29 August 2020. Neill's breakthrough performance in New Zealand was the film Sleeping Dogs (1977), the first local film to be widely screened abroad. There's also the meal Neill shared in London in the early 1990s with the then relatively unknown Hugh Grant, who'd just finished shooting Four Weddings and a Funeral, a film Grant described as "absolute and utter rubbish". "Rubbish" that launched a stellar career. Gibson told Sky News: "I read an early draft of the script , and Tom [Holt]'s book, which is just completely mental, and it was so much fun, and it just exists in this amazing world where anything can happen... and I was pretty much immediately like, 'I want to be a part of this no matter what'. In 1980, Neill met actress Lisa Harrow while filming Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) and they have a son. [24] Neill subsequently married make-up artist Noriko Watanabe in 1989 and they have one daughter together. He also adopted Watanabe's daughter from her first marriage. [25] [26] Neill separated from Watanabe in 2017, [27] [28] and as of early 2018 was reportedly dating Australian political journalist Laura Tingle. [29] [30]Jeff Goldblum with Richard Attenborough, Martin Ferrero, Sam Neill and Laura Dern in Jurassic Park: Neill used his year away from work while undergoing his cancer treatment to write a memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This?, published in March 2023. [39] [37] Honours and awards [ edit ]

The first couple of days after the chemo are pretty miserable, to be honest, and then on day three I start to perk up and then I feel just wonderful again."Sam Neill's Oamaru Speech | Scoop News". Archived from the original on 6 January 2021 . Retrieved 25 August 2009. Over almost 50 years, since his big-screen feature debut in Landfall, made in New Zealand, the beloved Northern Ireland-born, NZ-raised actor who became Sir Sam last year, has brought a similar quality to many of his roles. I’m not afraid to die,” he says, “but it would annoy me. Because I’d really like another decade or two, you know? We’ve built all these lovely terraces, we’ve got these olive trees and cypresses, and I want to be around to see it all mature. And I’ve got my lovely little grandchildren. I want to see them get big. The 2020 Arts Foundation Icon Award Whakamana Hiranga recipients announced". Scoop Culture. 4 July 2020. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021 . Retrieved 5 July 2020. Jung, Susan (21 April 2013). "My life: Sam Neill". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021 . Retrieved 18 March 2023.

He plays a "gun tennis player" in the series, which he said greatly amused him "because I can't hit a ball".Born in Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, Neill moved to Christchurch with his family in 1954. [3] He first achieved recognition with his appearance in the 1977 film Sleeping Dogs, 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), [4] a role that he reprises in Jurassic Park III (2001) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022).

Following that project, Neill said he planned to do some more travel and hoped to reprise his role as Brett Colby in a second series of the Australian television drama The Twelve. I actually didn't know how long I had to live, so it was written probably more hurriedly than I would have otherwise." Neill has occasionally acted in New Zealand films, including The Piano (1993), Perfect Strangers (2003), Under the Mountain (2009), and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016). He returned to directing in 1995 with the documentary Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill (1995) which he wrote and directed with Judy Rymer. The 1982 film of Ivanhoe made Neill a local celebrity in Sweden, where it has been aired on SVT every New Years Day for 40 years. [19] I would look at this alien ... Really? Is that you? So that begs the question, who are you? And so I had to think about that. I mean, it’s never really interested me to sort of reflect on myself. You know, sometimes you go, you f**king idiot, why would you do that? But that would be as bad as it would be.”

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For some time the treatment appeared to be doing its job and the writing was a salve; the memories kept him company. I never had any intention to write a book. But as I went on and kept writing, I realised it was actually sort of giving me a reason to live and I would go to bed thinking, I’ll write about that tomorrow … that will entertain me. And so it was a lifesaver really, because I couldn’t have gone through that with nothing to do, you know.” Sam Neill wins 2019 Equity NZ lifetime achievement award, presented by Ryman Healthcare; Equity New Zealand" . Retrieved 18 July 2022. Neill added: "It's the thing about magic realism... as opposed to kitchen sink realism is that you play larger than life characters. A Cry in the Dark (1988) – Release dates". IMDb. Archived from the original on 21 September 2018 . Retrieved 14 June 2012.