Actor Sam Neil Photo: picture alliance / Everett Collection
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New Zealand actor Sam Neill, known from the hit movie “Jurassic Park”, has made his leukemia disease public.
In his upcoming autobiography Did I Ever Tell You This, Neill writes that he has been treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma since March last year and may die from it.
In an interview with the Guardian, the 75-year-old said that despite the success of the treatment, he would continue to undergo chemotherapy until the end of his life. “I can’t pretend the last year hasn’t had its dark moments,” Neill said. He was “grateful for every day and immeasurably grateful for all my friends”.
Neill’s long acting career began in the 1970s and has garnered him dozens of roles in film and television, including the series Peaky Blinders and the films The Hunt for Red October and The Piano.
In 2022, he reprized the role of paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant.