National Palace Of Help

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The visitable space of the Palace includes two floors: the Ground Floor where many of the private rooms are located and the Noble Floor where the gala receptions were held.

Ground floor
At the beginning of the reign of Dom Luis, a new layout and decoration of the rooms of the Palace, given to the architect Joaquim Possidónio Narciso da Silva, followed the recent standards of comfort, privacy and hygiene, characteristic of the bourgeois mentality of the 19th century. The spaces were now more intimate and sheltered. The ground floor begins with a sequence of four rooms where, due to their official and private functions, a certain apparatus was maintained, contributing to this effect the tapestries and allegorical paintings of the ceilings, remnants of the decoration at the beginning of the XIX century. From the Music Room and along the west façade, the ground floor was for the personal quarters. New facilities have been introduced: a living room - the Blue Room, the Dining Room for the family's daily meals, and recreation areas such as the Marble Room and the Billiards Room; Finally, bathrooms with running water, hot and cold.

Noble floor
The noble floor of the palace was dedicated to gala receptions. On this floor are the Diplomatic Corps Room, the Throne Room, the D. João VI Room - where the dances were held - the Grand Dinners Room - where banquets were held - among other official reception rooms. Of private character are the Painting Studio, the Library and the King's Bed Room, created in the last year of the life of D. Luís, in 1888, by medical

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CARLOS GARAICOA

Carlos Garaicoa is one of the most important names in the international artistic scene. The exposure Yo nunca he sido surrealista hasta el día de hoy Is presented at the MAAT Oval Gallery, a large-scale site-specific project that explores the relationship between city and man, architecture and urbanism, fiction and reality.
The work of Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa raises socially relevant issues for the geopolitical contexts where he works. Among other issues, the artist focuses on the (dis) encounters between Europe and Latin America; In the search for an alternative narrative to the dominant Eurocentric-colonial thought in the South American countries; In themes such as the failure of the modernist project and the end of the great utopias of the twentieth century; In the economic, political and social tensions and contradictions of contemporary society and its impact on the urban landscape.

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Amelia Earhart

Biography

When 10-year-old Amelia Mary Earhart saw her first plane at a state fair, she was not impressed. “It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting,” she dismissively said. It wasn’t until she attended a stunt-flying exhibition, almost a decade later, that she became seriously interested in aviation. A pilot spotted Earhart and her friend, who were watching from an isolated clearing, and dove at them. “I am sure he said to himself, ‘Watch me make them scamper,’” she exclaimed. Earhart, who felt a mixture of fear and pleasure, stood her ground. As the plane swooped by, something inside her awakened. “I did not understand it at the time,” she admitted, “but I believe that little red airplane said something to me as it swished by.” On December 28, 1920, pilot Frank Hawks gave her a ride that would forever change her life. “By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly.”

Although Earhart’s convictions were strong, challenging, prejudicial, and financial obstacles awaited her, but the former tomboy was no stranger to disapproval or doubt. Defying conventional feminine behavior, a young Earhart climbed trees, “belly slammed” her sled to start it downhill, and hunted rats with a .22 rifle. She also kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about successful women in predominantly male-oriented fields, including film direction and production, law, advertising, management, and mechanical engineering.

After graduating from Hyde Park High School in 1915, Earhart attended Ogontz, a girl’s finishing school in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She left in the middle of her second year to work as a nurse’s aide in a military hospital in Canada during WWI, attended college, and later became a social worker at Denison House, a settlement house in Boston. Earhart took her first flying lesson on January 3, 1921 and, in six months, managed to save enough money to buy her first plane. The second-hand Kinner Airster was a two-seater biplane painted bright yellow—Earhart named her newest obsession, “The Canary,” and used it to set her first women’s record by rising to an altitude of 14,000 feet.

One afternoon in April 1928, a phone call came for Earhart at work. “I’m too busy to answer just now,” she said. After hearing that it was important, Earhart relented, though she thought it was a prank. It wasn’t until the caller supplied excellent references that she realized the man was serious. “How would you like to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic?” he asked, to which Earhart promptly replied, “Yes!” After an interview in New York with the project coordinators, including book publisher and publicist George P. Putnam, she was asked to join pilot Wilmer “Bill” Stultz and co-pilot/mechanic Louis E. “Slim” Gordon. The team left Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland, in a Fokker F7 named Friendship (on June 17, 1928), and arrived at Burry Port, Wales approximately 21 hours later. Their landmark flight made headlines worldwide because three pilots had died within the year trying to be that first women to fly across the Atlantic. When the crew returned to the United States, they were greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York and a reception held by President Calvin Coolidge at the White House.

From then on, Earhart’s life revolved around flying—to start, she placed third at the Cleveland Women’s Air Derby, later nicknamed the “Powder Puff Derby” by Will Rogers. As fate would have it, George Putnam entered her life, too. The two developed a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic crossing and were married February 7th, 1931. Intent on retaining her independence, she referred to the marriage as a “partnership” with “dual control.”

Together, they worked on secret plans for Earhart to become the first woman and the second person to fly solo the Atlantic. On May 20th, 1932, five years to the day after Lindbergh, she took off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Paris. Strong north winds, icy conditions, and mechanical problems plagued the flight and forced her to land in a pasture near Londonderry, Ireland. “After scaring most of the cows in the neighborhood,” she said, “I pulled up in a farmer’s back yard.” As word of her flight spread, the media surrounded her, both overseas and in the United States. President Herbert Hoover presented Earhart with a gold medal from the National Geographic Society. Congress awarded her the Distinguished Flying Cross-the first ever given to a woman. At the ceremony, Vice President Charles Curtis praised her courage, saying she displayed “heroic courage and skill as a navigator at the risk of her life.” Earhart felt the flight proved that men and women were equal in “jobs requiring intelligence, coordination, speed, coolness, and willpower.”

In the years that followed, Earhart continued to reach new heights, setting an altitude record for autogyros of 18,415 feet that stood for years. On January 11, 1935, she became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific from Honolulu to Oakland, California. Chilled during the 2,408-mile flight, she unpacked a thermos of hot chocolate. “Indeed,” she murmured, “that was the most interesting cup of chocolate I have ever had, sitting up eight thousand feet over the middle of the Pacific Ocean quite alone.” Later that year, she was the first to solo from Mexico City to Newark. A large crowd “overflowed the field” and rushed Earhart’s plane. “I was rescued from my plane by husky policemen, one of whom, in the ensuing melee, took possession of my right arm and another of my left leg.” The officers headed for a police car, but chose different routes. “The arm-holder started to go one way, while he who clasped my leg set out in the opposite direction. The result provided the victim with a fleeting taste of the tortures of the rack. But, at that,” she said good-naturedly, “it was fine to be home again.”

In 1937, as Earhart neared her 40th birthday, she was ready for a monumental, and final, challenge: she wanted to be the first woman to fly around the world. Despite a botched attempt in March that severely damaged her plane, a determined Earhart had the twin engine Lockheed Electra rebuilt. “I have a feeling that there is just about one more good flight left in my system, and I hope this trip is it,” she said. On June 1st, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, departed from Miami and began the 29,000-mile journey. By June 29th, when they landed in Lae, New Guinea, all but 7,000 miles had been completed. Frequently inaccurate maps had made navigation difficult for Noonan, and their next hop—to Howland Island—was by far the most challenging. Located 2,556 miles from Lae in the mid-Pacific, Howland Island is a mile and a half long and a half-mile wide. Every unessential item was removed from the plane to make room for additional fuel, which gave Earhart approximately 274 extra miles. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter ITASCA, their radio contact, was stationed just offshore of Howland Island. Two other U.S. ships, ordered to burn every light on board, were positioned along the flight route as markers. “Howland is such a small spot in the Pacific that every aid to locating it must be available,” Earhart emphasized.

On July 2nd, At 10 a.m. local time, zero Greenwich time, the pair took off. Despite ideal weather reports, they flew into overcast skies and intermittent rain showers. This made Noonan’s favored method of tracking, celestial navigation, difficult. As dawn neared, Earhart called the ITASCA, reporting “cloudy weather, cloudy.” In later transmissions, Earhart asked the ITASCA to take bearings on her. The ITASCA sent her a steady stream of transmissions, but she could not hear them. Her radio transmissions, irregular through most of the flight, were faint or interrupted with static. At 7:42 a.m., the Itasca picked up the message, “We must be on you, but we cannot see you. Fuel is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet.” The ship tried to reply, but the plane seemed not to hear. At 8:45 a.m., Earhart reported, “We are running north and south.” Nothing further was heard from her.

A rescue attempt immediately commenced and became the most extensive air and sea search in naval history. On July 19th, after spending $4 million and scouring 250,000 square miles of ocean, the United States government reluctantly called off the operation. In 1938, a lighthouse was constructed on Howland Island in her memory, and across the United States, streets, schools, and airports are named after Earhart. Her birthplace, Atchison, Kansas, became a virtual shrine to her memory. Amelia Earhart awards and scholarships are given out every year.

Despite many theories, though, no proof of Earhart’s fate exists. There is no doubt, however, that the world will always remember Amelia Earhart for her courage, vision, and groundbreaking achievements, both in aviation and for women. In a letter to her husband, written in case a dangerous flight proved to be her last, her brave spirit was clear. “Please know I am quite aware of the hazards,” she said. “I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”

Quotes by Amelia Earhart

“After midnight, the moon set, and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the esthetic appeal of flying.”

“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”

“Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.”

“Not much more than a month ago, I was on the other shore of the Pacific, looking westward. This evening, I looked eastward over the Pacific. In those fast-moving days, which have intervened, the whole width of the world has passed behind us, except this broad ocean. I shall be glad when we have the hazards of its navigation behind us.”
— Amelia Earhart, several days before she left for Howland Island and disappeared

“…decide…whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying….”

“I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.”

“Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.”

“The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.”

“The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen so many. I always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but I was sure of it that night.”

“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.”

“My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow’s planes.”

“One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren’t routine, often don’t get a fair break… It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.”

“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”

“The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.” “It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”

“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace, the soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.”

“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”

“The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.”

“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”

“[Women] must pay for everything…. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats. But, also, women get more notoriety when they crash.”

“…now, and then, women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action. Some such consideration was a contributing reason for my wanting to do what I so much wanted to do.”

“In my life, I had come to realize that, when things were going very well, indeed, it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful “break” was apt to lurk just around the corner.”

“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.”

“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

“Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”

“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”

Quotes about Amelia Earhart

“Being men and being engaged in a highly essential phase of the serious business of air transportation, they [airline mechanics] all naturally had preconceived notions about a woman pilot bent on a ‘stunt’ flight—not very favorable notions, either. It was, undoubtedly, something of a shock to discover that the ‘gal,’ with whom they had to deal, not only was an exceptionally pleasant human being who ‘knew her stuff,’ but that she knew exactly what she wanted done and had sense enough to let them alone while they did it. There was an almost audible clatter of chips falling off skeptical masculine shoulders.”
—C.B. Allen, New York Herald Tribune

“Amelia is a grand person for such a trip. She is the only woman flyer I would care to make such an expedition with because, in addition to being a fine companion and pilot, she can take hardship, as well as a man, and work like one.”
—Fred Noonan, Amelia’s navigator for the around-the-world flight

“Amelia Earhart came perhaps before her time…the smiling, confident, capable, yet compassionate human being, is one of which we can all be proud.”
—Walter J. Boyne

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Amelia Earhart - Mini Biography

After a plane ride at an air show, Amelia Earhart decided she would learn to fly. After becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, she embarked on her flight around the world and disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.

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These Are the Final Moments of Amelia Earhart on the Ground

In 1937, Amelia Earhart was about to embark on a record-setting flight around the world. In her final moments, she took her last photograph and set off from a Burbank, California airstrip, captured in recently recovered home movie footage.

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Amelia- Official Theatrical Trailer

AMELIA stars two-time Academy AwardÂ®-winner Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, the legendary aviatrix. Also featuring Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor. Directed by Mira Nair.

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Obituary: Sir Roger Moore

Sir Roger Moore, who has died aged 89, brought a lighter touch to the role of James Bond, the role for which he was most famous.

Out went the harder, crueller edge of Sean Connery's 007 to be succeeded by sardonic humour and the inevitable raised eyebrow.

He eventually became the longest-serving actor in the role, his seven Bond films becoming the most commercially successful of the franchise.

His tenure in the role also showcased an array of implausible gadgets and a host of new characters, designed to flesh out Ian Fleming's original plots.

Roger George Moore was born in Stockwell, south London on 14 October 1927, the son of a policeman.

At 15, he entered art college, and later became an apprentice at an animation studio, where it seems much fun was had at his expense.

"I was probably the lowliest in the entire building," he said. "They sent me on errands for things like tins of sprocket holes, and the guy in stores would say he didn't have any - and would rainbow paint do instead?"

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The actor made something of a name as a male model in the 1950s

Sir Roger was sacked for incompetence, but soon had a stroke of luck. His father, by now a detective sergeant, was called to investigate a robbery at the home of the film director, Brian Desmond Hurst.

DS Moore managed to effect an introduction that led to his son being hired as an extra for the epic, Caesar and Cleopatra.

Hurst paid for Sir Roger to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, before a spell of National Service with the Army where he rose to the rank of captain.

On his return to the theatre, he found acting roles hard to come by but his well-toned physique meant he was in demand as a model. One of his engagements was playing the doctor in Woman's Own medical features.

Dashing hero

He also appeared, suitably attired in a sweater, on a number of knitting patterns, prompting at least one wag to christen him the Big Knit.

And in 1953, his looks and his minor roles in theatre and television plays impressed an MGM talent scout and Sir Roger set off for America.

Married at 17 to a fellow Rada student, Doorn Van Steyn, he was by now living with the singer Dorothy Squires, 12 years his senior, who soon became his second wife at a ceremony in New Jersey.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ivanhoe brought Sir Roger to a wider audience

While Squires was popular in Britain, Sir Roger was rubbing shoulders with stars in the States, making his film debut with Elizabeth Taylor in The Last Time I Saw Paris and playing Lana Turner's leading man in Diane.

But it was through television that he first made his mark, as the dashing hero Ivanhoe in a 1950s series that had only a tentative connection with Sir Walter Scott's original novel.

He followed that with the lead role in an American TV series The Alaskans. It was not a great success. Despite being set in Alaska, it was filmed on a hot Hollywood set with the cast dressed up in furs. Moore found the filming difficult and an affair with actress Dorothy Provine did nothing to relieve the pressure.

Wise-cracking

He also appeared in the successful Western series Maverick, where he had the role of Beau Maverick, supposedly the English cousin of the lead character Brett, played by James Garner.

Ironically Sir Sean Connery had also tested for the part but turned it down.

Sir Roger's big breakthrough came in 1962 when the impresario Lew Grade cast him as the dashing Simon Templar aka The Saint, in a television adaptation of the Leslie Charteris stories.

The series, which ran for seven years, made Sir Roger a star on both sides of the Atlantic. Many of the Saint's characteristics, the easygoing manner, mocking eyebrow and ability to successfully charm every passing female, would later be incorporated into his role as James Bond.

Image copyright Rex Features Image caption Sir Roger's suave character in The Persuaders contrasted with Tony Curtis's rough diamond

In 1971 he teamed up with Tony Curtis in the TV series The Persuaders, as one of two wise-cracking millionaire playboys who floated around the fleshpots of the globe as a pair of freelance secret agents.

The success of the series owed a lot to the contrast of the rough-hewn New Yorker Danny Wilde, played by Curtis, and Sir Roger's suave Lord Brett Sinclair.

Sir Roger always denied that he had been considered as James Bond when the franchise launched in 1962 and was only aware of interest in him when Sir Sean announced, in 1966, that he would no longer play the role.

There was a long wait. George Lazenby was cast in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Sir Sean was tempted back with an offer of £1.5m, a huge sum in those days, to make Diamonds Are Forever.

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It really was the last appearance for Sir Sean and Sir Roger finally picked up the Walther PPK in 1973 for Live and Let Die.

He went on to make six more films, including The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy, before bowing out of the role at the age of 57 with A View to a Kill. It was his last film appearance for five years.

Sir Roger had some success in films such as Shout at the Devil, The Wild Geese and North Sea Hijack, but many of the newspaper headlines after he retired as Bond were about his life off screen.

Image copyright Ronald Grant Image caption He brought a lighter touch to the role of James Bond

In 1963, he became a father, when his partner, Luisa Mattioli, had a daughter, but it was to be another five years before Dorothy Squires agreed to give Sir Roger a divorce.

He married Luisa and they had two sons, but after 38 years, Sir Roger left her and they were divorced. He married his fourth wife, Kiki Tholstrup, in March 2002.

Sir Roger recovered from an operation for prostate cancer in 1993 and said he had led "an extraordinarily lucky, charmed life".

Achievements

He had homes in Switzerland and Monte Carlo, but devoted much of his time to travelling the globe as a roving ambassador for the United Nations children's organisation Unicef, a role prompted by the scenes of child poverty he had witnessed in India while filming Octopussy.

He took up the position at the request of his friend and predecessor, Audrey Hepburn. His work was recognised by a CBE in 1998 and he was knighted in 2003.

Throughout his life Sir Roger cut a suave figure, always immaculately dressed. In 2015 he was awarded the accolade of one of GQ magazine's best-dressed men.

Image copyright PA Image caption He would also remain associated with James Bond

He was a lifelong supporter of the Conservative Party, giving his backing to David Cameron in 2011 when the prime minister faced criticism over his policy on the EU.

Despite his other work and achievements, Roger Moore never managed to quite shrug off the mantle of 007.

"Of course I do not regret the Bond days," he once remarked. "I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent."

Sir Roger was an active supporter of the global children's charity Unicef and got together with US comedian Whoopi Goldberg - and a muppet - in 2005 to front a campaign highlighting the impact of Aids and HIV on children.

From 1962 to 1969, Sir Roger became one of the UK's most popular TV stars playing the Saint, aka the debonair Simon Templar, a conman whose mission was stealing from the corrupt wealthy.

He brought a lighter touch to the role of James Bond

He was a keen rider and made sure to start his day with his horses when pursuing his acting career in Hollywood in the late 1950s

He would also remain associated with James Bond

Here's a very young Roger, pictured in 1953 with Jennifer Haking, as he began his career as a model.

In 1971 Sir Roger landed the joint lead role in the actioncomedy TV show The Persuaders! alongside Tony Curtis. Sir Roger played Lord Brett Sinclair and Curtis the self-made millionaire Danny Wilde.

Ivanhoe brought Sir Roger to a wider audience

Meu primo Miguel do lado esquerdo, meu irmão, Nuno, Eu, Fátima atrás sempre na praia em Monte Gordo

Riding high on his popularity on and off screen, Sir Roger enjoys a fun moment in the limelight at the London Boat Show in 1970.

Sir Roger Moore has died at the age of 89 following ( a short but brave battle with cancer )

Sir Roger Moore rose to fame on the charm and good looks that accompanied his skill as an actor.

Sir Roger starred with Britt Ekland in the 1974 Bond movie the Man with the Golden Gun in which they faced by the evil Scaramanga, played by Sir Christopher Lee. The movie was one of seven 007 features with Sir Roger in the leading role.

Sir Roger was an international star throughout his life and was guest of honour at a racing event in Germany with his last wife, Kristina Tholstrop, in 2013.

Sir Roger was invited to perform a sketch along with Sir Michael Caine at the London Palladium in honour of the Queen Mother's birthday in 1990.

Sir Roger was married four times. His second wife was the acclaimed singer Dorothy Squires and they were together for 15 years.

Sir Roger's suave character in The Persuaders contrasted with Tony Curtis's rough diamond

The actor made something of a name as a male model in the 1950s

The actor received a knighthood for his charity work in 2003.

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Liam Neeson

Liam John Neeson (Ballymena, June 7, 1952) is a British actor born in Northern Ireland. He was well-known mainly for acting like Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, next to the director Steven Spielberg. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for Schindler's List, but lost to Tom Hanks in Philadelphia.

Biography
Son of a poor family, at fifteen he worked as a crane operator while maintaining an amateur boxer career. At age 19, he left for Belfast to take his teacher's course. However, in 1976, feeling tempted by his acting career, he enrolled in a Belfast theater company. In 1981, while in Dublin, filmmaker John Boorman invited him to play a small role in Excalibur in 1981, a film made in the legendary time of King Arthur. From there, it began to be a constant presence in television miniseries and low budget films. In Roland Joffé's The Mission (1986), he had a small participation as a Jesuit priest. It captured the attention of Hollywood producers with a small but significant role as a deaf-mute in Suspect (Under Suspicion, 1987).
Secondary roles followed: from horror film director pursued by Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood) in The Dead Pool to a liberal Irish sculptor in The Good Mother (1988) . Neeson's first title as a protagonist was a box office failure: Darkman (Revenge Without a Face, 1990) was a vain attempt to deploy a superhero capable of coping with 1989's Batman hit. Neeson sought refuge in English stages, returning Sporadically to Hollywood for minor appearances in such films as Husbands and Wives by Woody Allen.
Neeson's big break came when Steven Spielberg, visiting London, was impressed by his stage talent and physical appearances with the project character he had in hand. He immediately convinced him to accept the role of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved just over a thousand Jews from the clutches of SS commanders from the concentration camps on Schindler's List. The actor's powerful interpretation earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor, a prize that nevertheless went to Tom Hanks for Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1993). That same year married with the English actress Natasha Richardson, with whom it counted on the success of the Broadway Anna Christie.
Now considered a top-ranking actor, Neeson began receiving nominations for major roles in films produced by major studios: Nell (1994), Rob Roy (1995), Michael Collins (1996), Les Miserables (1998) and Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). He played a supporting role as Father Vallon in Gangs of New York (2002), starred in the romantic comedy Love Actually (2003) and took on the role of Alfred Kinsey, the author of Sexual Behavior in the Human In 2004, in Kingdom of Heaven, Male plays the role of Godfrey of Ibelin and villain Ra's Al Ghul in Batman Begins, both of 2005. Also in 2005, Liam Neeson dubbed Aslan, Series of films The Chronicles of Narnia In 2008 Liam Neeson dubbed the James characters of Fallout 3.

Personal life
He was married to actress Natasha Richardson from July 3, 1994 until his death on March 18, 2009, when Richardson suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident at the Mont Tremblante Resort in the Canadian Province of Quebec. The couple had two children: Micheál (born in 1995) and Daniel (born in 1996). Neeson lives in Millbrook, New York.
He smoked excessively early in his career, but managed to quit smoking when he played the role of Hannibal Smith for a movie based on The A-Team. Neeson had reservations for smoking (which is a feature of Character Hannibal Smith) in the film for being a former smoker, but agreed to keep that trait of Hannibal's personality for the film.
Neeson was honored as an honorary citizen in the town of Ballymena, but after revealing to have felt like a "second class citizen" for being a Catholic because he grew up in that city, he was accused by members of the Democratic Unionist Party and renounced the honor.
Neeson continues to practice and profess Catholicism, having educated his children as Catholics. Expressed deep admiration for the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
He was named an officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on the 1999 List. The American-Irish Fund honored Liam Neeson with his Performing Arts Award for the great distinction he brought to Ireland at his 2008 New York Gala Dinner York.