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'Jurassic Park's Sam Neill Reveals His Real Name: 'My Parents Giving Me a Disadvantage From the Start'

The 'Jurassic Park' star opens up about how a childhood love of Westerns inspired his name change.

Niell -- whose full name is Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill KNZM OBE -- also spoke about his new series, Apples Never Fall. The actor stars as Stan Delaney in the Peacock show, a secretive and possibly deceitful husband and father who begins to turn heads after his wife -- played by the incomparable Annette Bening-- goes missing. Filling out the cast is The White Lotus' Jake Lacy, Community's Alison Brie, Conor Merrigan-Turner, Essie Randles, Georgia Flood, Jeanine Serralles and Dylan Thuraisingham.

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