Neeson lived with actress Helen Mirren during the early 1980s . They met while working on '' Excalibur '' ( 1981 ) . Interviewed by James Lipton for '' Inside the Actors Studio '' , Neeson said Mirren was instrumental in his getting an agent . Neeson met actress Natasha Richardson while performing in a revival of the play '' Anna Christie '' on Broadway in 1993 . They were married on 3 July 1994 and had two sons together . In October 1998 , they won £ 50,000 ( $ 85,370 ) in libel damages after the '' Daily Mirror '' wrongly claimed that their marriage was suffering . They donated the money to victims of the August 1998 Omagh bombing . In August 2004 , they purchased an estate in Millbrook , New York . On 18 March 2009 , Richardson died when she suffered a severe head injury in a skiing accident at the Mont Tremblant Resort , northwest of Montreal . Neeson donated her organs following her death
Omagh bombing
Omagh bombing
Liam Neeson