Sam Neill was an Emmy Award-nominated actor who first achieved leading roles in films such as Omen III: The Final Conflict and Dead Calm, and on television in Reilly, Ace of Spies. He won a broad international audience in 1993 for his roles as Alisdair Stewart in The Piano and Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, a role he reprised in 2001's Jurassic Park III and 2022's Jurassic World Dominion. Neill also had notable roles in "Merlin," "The Hunt for Red October," "Peaky Blinders" and The Tudors. He held New Zealand and British nationality, but identified primarily as a New Zealander.