Sean Bean

Sean Bean ( born April 17, 1959 in Sheffield, England as Shaun Mark Bean) is a British actor.

Beans artistic activity extends to theater, radio, music videos, television and film. His trademarks are dubious, often very multi-faceted and complex characters.

Career

Sean Bean, was born in Sheffield, the son of Rita and Brian Bean, the owner of a large metal processing plant. With a younger sister Bean grew up in middle-class family on the Sheffield area Handsworth. In 1975 he left the School with two O Levels in English and Art. Before he became an actor, Bean worked in the company of his father and in a supermarket as a cheese seller. 1981 Bean was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London selected as scholarship and completed his training here in 1983 with honors.

He had his first stage appearance in 1983 at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, Berkshire as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet. As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company followed by numerous other theater roles and in 1986 his first movie role in the film Caravaggio. Since the late 1980s and the early 1990s, he became an active television performer and played among other things several times with in productions by the BBC. In 1996, he starred in the sports drama When Saturday Comes the main role of football player Jimmy Muir, which also related to the hanging that Bean originally wanted to be a professional footballer himself.

Bean also gained fame by starring the Richard Sharpe which he in the ITV series embodied the sniper since 1993. The series was broadcast especially in Britain with great success.

The entrance to Hollywood managed bean in 1994 with the American series Scarlett. As early as 1992 he played in Patriot Games the role of the main villain in the form of an Irish terrorists at the side of Harrison Ford In 1995, he then played in Goldeneye again the role of the villain Alec Trevelyan, which he achieved his final breakthrough. The years after that Sean Bean was in films like Ronin, Do not Say a Word, The Legacy of the Knights Templar and The Island in other major roles, mostly to see the back of the opponent.

He played his most well- known role as Boromir in Peter Jackson's film trilogy The Lord of the Rings on the books by JRR Tolkien. As the majority of the remaining actresses teams also had bean a tattoo of the word "nine " attach at the shoulder. In 2004 he played the role of Odysseus in Wolfgang Petersen epic Troy.

In winter 2002/2003, he returned in a performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth play in the West End to the stage. He also had an appearance in the music video for We Are All Made of Stars by Moby; in this video he is sitting in a DeLorean sports car.

2008 Bean returned to the television screen. It is already filmed a new episode of the successful series in England Sharpe - Sharpe 's Peril. In the U.S. remake of the classic Robinson Crusoe, which is conceived as a TV -13 divider, Bean plays Crusoe's father. In summer 2009, Bean filmed the medieval horror thriller Black Death in Germany. He also played in 2011, the main role of Eddard Stark in the first season of the epic U.S. series Game of Thrones. In May 2012, he got the role of a Nazi scientist in Shaun Robert Smith's Nazi horror comedy The 4th Reich.

In the German synchronization bean is usually synchronized by Torsten Michaelis.

Awards

For his performance in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won Sean Bean 2004, three awards from the Screen Actors Guild, the National Board of Review and the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

Of the universities of his native town, Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield, Bean was already twice awarded the honorary doctorate. 1997 at the first and 2007 in the second of English Literature. He also applies after the footballer Gordon Banks as second most important celebrity in his hometown.

Personal

Bean was married four times and has three daughters.

  • His first marriage in 1981 with Debra James remained childless.
  • With fellow actress Melanie Hill, he was married from February 1990 to August 1997; she starred in When Saturday his sister. From this marriage two daughters.
  • With fellow actress Abigail Cruttenden Bean was married November 1997 to July 2000, of the marriage comes to a daughter. Bean and Cruttenden had 1996 on the TV series met the sniper during the shooting, when they stood in four episodes together in front of the camera.
  • In February 2008 he married his fellow actress Georgina Sutcliffe. Separation was carried out in summer 2010 and a London court acquitted on 21 December of the same year, the divorce from. The marriage kriselte after eight months and Bean had been arrested because of a dispute a fight had become.

Filmography (selection)

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