In 1977 he took the lead in Sleeping Dogs, the first feature made in New Zealand in more than a decade, a project that led to a major role in Gillian Armstrong’s celebrated My Brilliant Career.Īnd after that Neill found his way, sometimes by accident, into his own brilliant career. His family settled in Dunedin on the South Island, but young Sam was sent away to boarding school in Christchurch, where he was hopeless at sports and discovered he enjoyed acting.īut how did you become an actor in New Zealand in the 19s where there was no film industry? After university he made documentary films while also appearing in occasional amateur productions of Shakespeare. Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of seven. In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, actor –and now author – Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world’s most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion.īy his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune.
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