Taken 2 is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton which stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Rade Šerbedžija, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, D.B. Sweeney and Luke Grimes.
Born in Tokyo, Yamamoto attended Keio University where he helped form a film appreciation society.
 He first appeared in film in 1921 as an actor opposite Yoshiko Okada, but that only earned the wrath of his family, who disowned him.
Liam John Neeson OBE (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland.
 In 1976, he joined the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast for two years.
 He then acted in the Arthurian film, "Excalibur" (1981).
 Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films, most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in "The Bounty" (1984), and Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons in "The Mission" (1986).
 He landed a leading role alongside Patrick Swayze in "Next of Kin" (1989).
JM de Guzman was supposed to be the lead actor opposite to Mercado but pulled out of the film due to personal problems.
 This is Mercado's seventh MMFF entry after her 2014 award-winning film entry, "English Only, Please".
Taken is a 2008 English-language French action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel, written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, and starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Holly Valance, Katie Cassidy, Xander Berkeley, Olivier Rabourdin, Gérard Watkins, and Famke Janssen.
"Lost" is an American television drama that debuted on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on September 22, 2004.
 The series aired for six seasons, and follows the survivors of the crash of the fictional Oceanic Flight 815 on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific.
 Although a large cast made "Lost" more expensive to produce, the writers benefited from added flexibility in story decisions.
 According to series executive producer Bryan Burk, "You can have more interactions between characters and create more diverse characters, more back stories, more love triangles." The initial season had 14 regular speaking roles that received star billing.
 Matthew Fox played the protagonist, a troubled surgeon named Jack Shephard.
 Evangeline Lilly portrayed a fugitive Kate Austen.
 Jorge Garcia played Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, an unlucky lottery winner.
 Josh Holloway played a con man, James "Sawyer" Ford.
 Ian Somerhalder played Boone Carlyle, chief operating officer of his mother's wedding business.
 Maggie Grace played his stepsister Shannon Rutherford, a former dance teacher.
 Harold Perrineau portrayed construction worker and aspiring artist Michael Dawson, while Malcolm David Kelley played his young son, Walt Lloyd.
 Terry O'Quinn played the mysterious John Locke.
 Naveen Andrews portrayed former Iraqi Republican Guard Sayid Jarrah.
 Emilie de Ravin played a young Australian mother-to-be, Claire Littleton.
 Yunjin Kim played Sun-Hwa Kwon, the daughter of a powerful Korean businessman and mobster, with Daniel Dae Kim as her husband and father's enforcer Jin-Soo Kwon.
 Dominic Monaghan played English ex-rock star drug addict Charlie Pace.
Lockout (also known as MS One: Maximum Security) is a 2012 French science fiction action film directed by James Mather and Stephen Saint Leger, and written by Mather, Saint Leger, and Luc Besson.
 The film stars Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Vincent Regan, Joseph Gilgun, Lennie James, and Peter Stormare.
 "Lockout" follows Snow (Pearce), a man framed for a crime he did not commit, who is offered his freedom in exchange for rescuing the President's daughter Emilie (Grace) from the orbital prison "MS One", which has been overtaken by its inmates, led by Alex (Regan) and his psychotic brother Hydell (Gilgun).
Maggie Grace (born Margaret Grace Denig; September 21, 1983) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Shannon Rutherford on the ABC television series "Lost" and Kim Mills in the "Taken" trilogy.
 She has also appeared on "The Twilight Saga" as "Irina".
 Originally from Worthington, Ohio, she went on to earn a Young Artist Award nomination in 2002 with her portrayal of 15-year-old murder victim Martha Moxley in the television movie "Murder in Greenwich".
 In 2004, Grace was cast as Shannon Rutherford in the television series "Lost", on which she was a main cast member for the first two seasons, winning a Screen Actors Guild Award shared with the ensemble cast.
 Leaving the series, Grace was keen to work more prominently in film, she appeared in "The Jane Austen Book Club" (both 2007), and opposite Liam Neeson as Kim Mills in "Taken" in 2008.
 She reprised the role in "Taken 2" (2012) and "Taken 3" (2015).
Raise Your Voice is a 2004 American teen musical drama film directed by Sean McNamara.
 Canadian rock band Three Days Grace appeared in this movie as special guests, performing the songs "Are You Ready" and "Home".
Taken 3 (sometimes stylized as TAK3N) is a 2015 English-language French action thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.
 It is the third and final installment in the "Taken" trilogy.
 The film stars Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen.
 The film is set three years after the second film.

Question: From where was the actor opposite which Maggie Grace appeared in "Taken"?
Answer: Northern Ireland