If Sam Neill will soon have to face aliens in Invasion, it is his tête-à-tête with dinosaurs that made him famous with the general public. In the Jurassic Park franchise, he plays renowned paleontologist Alan Grant in the first and third installments, and will return in that role in 2022 in Jurassic World: The Next World.
His career really began on the stage, before the actor turned to the cinema. He plays the husband of Meryl Streep in A cry in the night in 1988, is illustrated in The Piano Lesson of Jane Campion, Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993, and gives the reply to Robert Redford in The A man who whispered in horses’ ears in 1998, to name just a few among his impressive filmography.
On television, we find Sam Neill in the series The Tudors, Crusoe and Alcatraz, as well as Inspector Chester Campbell in the first two seasons of Peaky Blinders. In Invasion, the actor plays John Bell Tyson, the sheriff of a small town.
