Taken 2

Liam Neeson (Actor) .. Bryan Mills

Born: June 07, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland

Best Known For: Schindler's List and Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace

Early-life: William John Neeson was born on June 7, 1952, in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. He made his acting debut at 11 in a school play. He was a good teenage amateur boxer, winning the Irish Youth Championship, but quit after blacking out following a fight. Neeson later enrolled at St Mary's Teaching College in Belfast, but became interested in acting on joining the Belfast Lyric Players' Theatre. He made ends meet with various odd jobs, including forklift operator, truck driver and assistant architect, before stardom beckoned.

Career: Neeson's professional debut was on stage in The Risen People. He was spotted in a play at Dublin's Abbey Theatre by director John Boorman, who cast him in movie Excalibur in 1981. He made a name for himself in Krull, A Woman of Substance, Ellis Island and The Mission. Other leading roles came in Suspect, The Dead Pool and The Big Man. However, he didn't become a major star until Schindler's List in 1993. Since then he's featured in Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace, Gangs of New York, Love Actually, Kinsey and the brilliant action film Taken. He was also seen in the big-screen version of The A Team and has several blockbusters in the pipeline.

Quote: 'I never did think of myself as handsome - terribly attractive, yes - but not handsome.'

Trivia: Dated a string of famous women, including Julia Roberts, Brooke Shields, Barbra Streisand, Sinead O'Connor and Helen Mirren. Married actress Natasha Richardson, mother of his sons Micheal and Daniel. She died in a skiing accident in 2009.

Maggie Grace (Actor) .. Kim

Born: September 21, 1983 in Columbus, Ohio

Best Known For: Playing Shannon in Lost.

Early-life: Margaret Grace Denig was born in Columbus, Ohio, on September 21, 1983. She grew up in Worthington, and didn't start acting until 2001, when she was in her late teens. By the end of the year she had appeared in Canadian production Rachel's Room and been lined up to head the cast of Septuplets. Unfortunately, the latter was cancelled before it had aired.

Career: After only a short time as an actress, Maggie landed parts in various dramas such as CSI: Miami, The Lyon's Den, Miracles and Cold Case, as well as TV movies Murder in Greenwich and Twelve Mile Road, playing Tom Selleck's estranged daughter. A larger audience will have been made aware of her thanks to numerous episodes of Oliver Beene, but she's best known for portraying spoilt Shannon Rutherford in Lost. Her recent credits include The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Parts 1 and 2, and the Taken movies.

Quote: 'I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fitted. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.'

Trivia: In 2012, she made her Broadway debut in Picnic.

Famke Janssen (Actor) .. Lenore

Born: November 05, 1964 in Amstelveen, Holland

Quote: 'I would rather not work than play in a movie nobody watches.'

Trivia: She made her directorial debut with Bringing Up Bobby (2011).

Best Known For: Roles in GoldenEye and X-Men.

Early-life: Born November 5, 1964, in Holland. She has two sisters. She speaks four languages - Dutch, German, English and French. Thanks to her stunning looks and figure, Janssen became a model while studying economics at the University of Amsterdam, before moving to the US in 1984, where she majored in writing and literature at New York's Columbia University. It was there she began acting, before moving to Los Angeles.

Career: Made her movie debut in 1992's Fathers and Sons, alongside Jeff Goldblum. Three years later she worked on Clive Barker's movie Lord of Illusions. It helped her land the part of murderous Russian Xenia Onatopp in 007 adventure GoldenEye. Went on to star in City of Industry, Deep Rising, Celebrity and The Faculty before making the blockbuster X-Men in 2000 and its two blockbusting sequels. She's also appeared in Ally McBeal, a string of movies, and won rave reviews for her role in Liam Neeson thriller, Taken.

Leland Orser (Actor) .. Sam

Jon Gries (Actor) .. Casey

DB Sweeney (Actor) .. Bernie

Luke Grimes (Actor) .. Jamie

Rade Serbedzija (Actor) .. Murad Krasniqi

Olivier Megaton (Director)

11:40 pm - 01:25 am, Saturday, June 6 on ITV1 London (3)

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