A Semi-Complete History of Liam Neeson’s Love Life

Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson are officially an item, and we are all deeply thrilled about it — as is Tefi Pessoa, the host of Vox Media and the Cut’s new podcast, Tefi Talks. Which is why, for its inaugural episode, she took a deep dive into the stars’ connection, getting the tea on their respective relationship history, how their loved ones have reacted to the budding romance (don’t worry, everyone is extremely pro), and their astrological compatibility. You can watch the full episode below or listen to it on your preferred podcast platform. Keep reading for everything you ever wanted to know about Liam Neeson’s love life.

Helen Mirren (1980–1985)

Neeson loves to date a co-star. After meeting on the set of Excalibur, he and and Mirren — the Morgana La Fay to his Gawain — were together for four years. Neeson described his first time seeing Mirren (and being floored by her beauty) on an appearance on The Graham Norton Show. Sitting next to him on the couch, Mirren said, “We didn’t [just] date. We lived together.” More recently, in a 2022 interview, Mirren said that she still loves him “deeply.”

Julia Roberts (1987–1988)

Another leading lady wooed, although this was a more short-lived dalliance that immediately followed their movie, Satisfaction, Roberts’s first credited big-screen role. She was 19 at the time; he was 35.

Barbra Streisand (1991–1992)

We don’t know much about this relationship, since it was kept very private. But, as Tefi points out, “Barbra Streisand is the center of the universe on most days,” and that’s also the case when it comes to Neeson’s relationship with Anderson. Now, stay with us here:

“If you’re wondering how all of this relates to each other, the Venn diagram of this episode is also a circle. At the center of all this is Barbra Streisand. Barbra Streisand also dated Jon Peters, who married Pamela Anderson, who is dating Liam Neeson, who dated Barbra Streisand, but ended up marrying Natasha Richardson, who was Lindsay Lohan’s onscreen mom in The Parent Trap. And this is what we love about culture. Liam is 73; Barbara Streisand is 83. Barbra Streisand has a roster.”

Brooke Shields (1992)

These two had sort of a bonkers whirlwind romance — as Shields put it in her memoir, There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me: “He wooed me with his brogue, his poetry, and his shitty choice of cheap Pinot Grigio wine.” Three months into dating, he proposed without a ring — which, as Tefi sagely puts it, “gives me an indicator that there was shitty Pinot Grigio wine involved.” After proposing, Shields wrote that Neeson basically ghosted her. But as she told People in 2014, that wasn’t actually the end of their relationship. “He came back after the first time he left me and asked me to marry him again,” she said. “This was before he started to do a play [Anna Christie]. And I said, ‘No, no, no, because knowing you, you’ll probably fall in love with your next leading lady and marry her, so I’m leaving myself out of this.’ And I was dead right.”

Natasha Richardson (1993–2009)

This brings us to Richardson, who it’s probably fair to say was the love of Neeson’s life. After they starred in Anna Christie together, as Tefi puts it: “Their significant others are doomed. Sometimes you can just see chemistry.” Richardson was married to producer Bob Fox at the time. Tefi’s take: “She calls the beginning of her relationship with Liam Neeson ‘bad timing.’ That’s what cheaters say, and I’m okay with it. Natasha says that their connection was undeniable, which is [also] what cheaters say.”

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They got married in 1994 and were together until Richardson died in a tragic skiing accident in 2009. In 2020, Neeson spoke to Inquirer.net about the loss. “I speak to her every day at her grave, which is about a mile and half down the road,” he said. “I go down there quite often, so I do speak to her as if she’s here.” Last year, he told People that he was done dating, explaining, “I’m past all that” in an interview that took place just before he began work on Naked Gun.

Pamela Anderson (2025–hopefully forever)

These two cuties met while filming Naked Gun, a reboot of the late-’80s/early-’90s trilogy. They say you find The One when you stop looking, and that certainly appears to be the case here. As Tefi notes, “Since meeting Pamela Anderson, it seems things have been different, and their loved ones are deeply supportive. I want to side note, Pam is a lover girl. I think people have been using Pam for a very, very long time, and I don’t think Liam wants to use Pam at all.”

While their astrological compatibility is a mixed bag, Tefi’s take is overall positive: “I’m not going to cry, but I think for a long time, people did not take Pamela Anderson seriously when all she’s ever wanted is to be seen. And I feel like Liam Neeson … he’s the kind of person that when you’re talking to him, he’s listening to you.” They’ve even got the stamp of approval from Andy Cohen, who was a close friend of Richardson’s; on a recent episode of his Sirius XM show, Radio Andy, he said of the relationship: “I was telling him at the premiere party, I go, ‘Liam, she is an independent woman, just like Tash was; she loves to cook, she has her own thing going on, she has two boys. This just works.”

And by the looks of their recent press appearances, it really does. Take, for example, this flirty exchange captured by CTV’s Etalk:

Let us end on Tefi’s timeless declaration: “A stoic man with a sensitive woman, I always like to see. You know what I mean? I feel like he’s somebody who can absorb you and doesn’t flip it or manipulate it. He’s a father. I feel like he is a real actor. I think they inspire one another.”