Acclaimed Irish actor Liam Neeson was born June 7, 1952, in Northern Ireland. Before he joined the Belfast Lyric Players’ Theater in 1976, Neeson had worked as a truck driver, forklift operator, assistant architect and amateur boxer, and was studying to be a teacher. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Neeson played an undercover DEA agent who suffers from severe gastrointestinal problems after a bust gone wrong. His character finds himself relying on the support of an unstable therapy group and nurse Judy Tipp (Sandra Bullock) in this early producing effort from Bullock. (Suzanne Hanover / Buena Vista Pictures Distribution)
