Ghul is one of the smartest and most physically skilled villains in the Batman universe. He also trained Bane. Ghul is the father of one of Batman's love interests: Talia al Ghul. He was played by Liam Neeson and by Ken Watanabe (decoy) in "Batman Begins". Neeson later had a small role as Ra's in "The Dark Knight Rises" , Talia appears in. David Warner is his voice actor in "".