Liam Neeson Is Still “Smitten” With Helen Mirren Many Years After Dating and Breaking Up With Her

Liam Neeson and Helen Mirren are teaching us that there is love after love. Relationships can evolve, love can still exist, but not all roads lead to marriage or even a partnership.

In a recent interview, the “Taken” actor called his ex-girlfriend Helen Mirren a “remarkable woman” and gushed over their shared time together.

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Liam Neeson and Helen Mirren dated from 1980 to 1985, after originally meeting on the set of 1981’s “Excalibur”.

And even though it’s been decades since sparks first flew between them, they’re still showing love to one another. In a recent interview with ET Canada, Neeson, 70, called Mirren “a remarkable woman” and actress when asked about their previous relationship.

Neeson also said of the Oscar-winning actress, “I should be so lucky and be honored to have spent three or four years with that lady. She’s really something else.”

Neeson is not the only one who has fond recollections of their time together. In November 2022, Mirren talked about her brief relationship with Neeson in an AARP cover story, saying, “We were not meant to be together in that way, but we loved each other very, very much.”

Mirren added, “I love him deeply to this day. He’s such an amazing guy.”

At one point, Neeson admitted to being smitten right off the bat with Helen Mirren when they met on the set of the 1981 film “Excalibur”.

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“I remember being on the set and standing with Ciarán Hinds as Helen walked towards us dressed in her full Morgana Le Fey costume and we both went, ‘Oh f—,’ “ he said in 2018 on The Graham Norton Show.

After the two dated – and lived together for years – Mirren moved on and started dating director Taylor Hackford. They met when Mirren auditioned for Hackford’s 1985 movie “White Nights” and they eventually tied the knot in 1997.

On the other hand, Neeson married Natasha Richardson in 1994 and welcomed two sons: Micheál, 27, and Daniel, 26.

In 2009, Richardson tragically died from a skiing accident after sustaining a blunt head trauma at age 45. Since then, Neeson has relied on his successful acting career to keep him from slipping into depression.

“I’m not good without work,” he told Anderson Cooper in 2014. “I just don’t wallow too much. You know? And I just didn’t want to — especially for my boys — seem to be wallowing in sadness or depression.”

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