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Sean Bean

Sean Bean
Sean Bean
Born: Apr 17, 1959 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Occupation: Actor
Active: '90s-2000s
Major Genres: Adventure, Drama
Career Highlights: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Field, Patriot Games
First Major Screen Credit: Winter Flight (1984)
26 Videos for Sean Bean
Outlaw (2007) Troy (2004) Scarlett (1994)
The Hitcher (2007) Troy (2004) Lady Chatterley (1992)
Silent Hill (2006) The Big Empty (2003) Patriot Games (1992)
Flightplan (2005) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Clarissa (1991)
North Country (2005) Don't Say a Word (2001) The Field (1990)
The Dark (2005) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Catherine Cookson's The Fifteen Streets (1989)
The Island (2005) Ronin (1998) Caravaggio (1986)
National Treasure (2004) GoldenEye (1995) Winter Flight (1984)
Pride (2004) Black Beauty (1994)
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Biography:

Before enrolling in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Sean Bean was going to enter his father's Sheffield steel fabrication business as a welder. He changed his mind after he garnered praise for acting in a few roles in local theater while taking an art class at Rotherham College. Bean received a scholarship to the prestigious academy and graduated a few years later with the Silver Medal for his performance in {+Waiting for Godot}.

Shortly thereafter, Bean performed in several West End productions. He also appeared in {+Romeo and Juliet} with the {~Glasgow Citizens Theatre} and with the {~Royal Shakespeare Company} at Stratford-upon-Avon. In the first he played Tybalt and in the second he played Romeo. Following more stage experience, Bean made his feature film debut in 1986 in Derek Jarman's Carvaggio.

Two years later, after returning to the stage, Bean appeared in Mike Figgis' Stormy Monday and in another Jarman effort, War Requiem. In addition to his filmwork, Bean also has a thriving television career that began in the mid-'80s. Notable television work includes Clarissa (1992) and Sharpe (1993).

It is as a bad guy in films such as Patriot Games and Golden Eye that Bean is best-known in the U.S., though in the 1997 remake of Anna Karenina, he plays the dashing and romantic Count Vronsky. After joining Robert De Niro and Jean Reno for some international espionage in John Frankenheimer's Ronin (1998), taking a psychotic turn in Essex Boys (2000) and kidnapping the daughter of a respected adolescent therapist in Don't Say a Word (2001), Bean made his way to New Zealand for a role in director Peter Jackson's eagely anticipated Lord of the Rings trilogy.

~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide.