Overview
- Neill’s family announced Monday that the New Zealand–born actor died suddenly in Sydney surrounded by family and thanked staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their care.
- The family did not give a cause of death and said more details will be shared later, leaving reporting on the circumstances still developing.
- Neill was first diagnosed in 2022 with stage‑three angioimmunoblastic T‑cell lymphoma and publicly described the illness in his 2023 memoir.
- In April 2026 Neill said he had no detectable cancer after taking part in a CAR T‑cell therapy clinical trial, a result he had celebrated publicly weeks before his death.
- A veteran of more than five decades of film and television, Neill was best known as Dr. Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park films, was knighted in 2022, and has drawn immediate tributes from political leaders and industry colleagues.