Sean Bean

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Sean Bean (2017)

Sean Bean [ ʃɔ: n bi: n ] (* 17th April 1959 in Sheffield , England as Shaun Mark Bean ) is a British actor .

Bean's artistic practice spans theater, radio, music video, television, and film. His trademarks are shady, usually very multifaceted and complex characters and the frequent death of his roles.

Career

Sean Bean was born in Sheffield, the son of the owner of a large metal processing company. Bean grew up with a younger sister in a middle-class family in the Sheffield district of Handsworth . In 1975 he left comprehensive school with two O-Levels (middle school leaving certificate) in English and art. Before becoming an actor, Bean worked in his father's company and in a supermarket as a cheese seller. In 1981 Bean received a scholarship from the highly decorated London drama school RADA ( Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ) and graduated from here in 1983 with honors.

He made his first stage appearance in 1983 at the Watermill Theater in Newbury , Berkshire , as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet . As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company followed numerous other theater roles and 1986 his first film role in the film Caravaggio . Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, he became an active television actor and has appeared in several BBC productions, among other things . In 1996 he played the lead role of soccer player Jimmy Muir in the sports drama Every Saturday , which was also connected with Bean's childhood dream of becoming a professional soccer player himself.

Bean also gained fame through the lead role of Richard Sharpe , which he played since 1993 in the ITV series The Snipers . The series was particularly successful in the UK. Bean himself says he has a lot in common with the role, even if he has now been identified with her so much that his other career stalled.

Bean made his way to Hollywood in 1994 with the American series Scarlett . As early as 1992 he embodied the role of the main villain in The Hour of the Patriots in the form of an Irish terrorist on the side of Harrison Ford . In 1995 he played the role of the villain Alec Trevelyan again in Goldeneye , with which he achieved the final breakthrough. The years after that Sean Bean was seen in films like Ronin , Don't Say a Word , The Legacy of the Knights Templar and The Island in other leading roles, mostly those of the adversary.

He played his most famous role to date as Boromir in Peter Jackson's film trilogy The Lord of the Rings based on the books by JRR Tolkien . Like most of the rest of the acting team, Bean had a tattoo in the form of the word “nine” on his shoulder. In 2004 he played the role of Odysseus in Wolfgang Petersen's epic Troy .

In the winter of 2002/2003 he returned to the stage in a performance of the Shakespeare play Macbeth in London's West End . He also appeared in the music video for We Are All Made of Stars by Moby ; In this video, he sits in a DeLorean - sports cars .

In 2008 Bean returned to the television screens, starting with the last of the 16 films from the series The Snipers - Sharpe's Peril, which was particularly successful in England . From 1993 parts of the so far 24 successful historical crime novels by the London writer Bernard Cornwell OBE had been filmed at varying intervals with Bean in the lead role. Bean Crusoe's father plays in the thirteen -part US remake of Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe . In summer 2009, Bean filmed the Middle Ages - horror - thriller Black Death in Germany . In 2011 he played the role of Eddard Stark in the first season of the US series Game of Thrones . In 2012 he presented in the BBC crime anthology series Accused - A question of guilt convincing an unhappy love transvestite shows 2017 appeared with the miniseries. Broken a serving heart and soul Catholic parish priest, the second collaboration beans with filmmaker Jimmy McGovern ( Accused ).

In German dubbing, Bean is mostly dubbed by Torsten Michaelis .

Awards

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

Bean has already received two honorary doctorates from the colleges in his native city, Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield . 1997 for the first and 2007 for the second for English literature . He is also considered the second most important celebrity in his hometown after the footballer Gordon Banks .

Personal

Bean is married for the fifth time and has three daughters. His first marriage to Debra James in 1981 remained childless. He was married to his colleague Melanie Hill from February 1990 to August 1997; she played his sister in Again and again on Saturdays . There are two daughters from this marriage. Bean was married to actress Abigail Cruttenden from November 1997 to July 2000; from this marriage comes a daughter. Bean and Cruttenden met in 1996 while filming the television series The Snipers , in which they stood together in front of the camera in four episodes. In February 2008 he married fellow actress Georgina Sutcliffe. The split occurred in the summer of 2010 and a London court pronounced the divorce on December 21 of that year. Bean had previously been arrested for turning a fight into a fight. In June 2017 he married Ashley Moore, to whom he had been engaged since 2014.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Sean Bean  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 'I felt like a has-Bean without Sharpe': Sean Bean returns to the TV colonel which made his name. dailymail.co.uk, October 30, 2008, accessed December 3, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Sean and Georgina finally wed in low-key London ceremony. Hello-Magazine.com, February 20, 2008, accessed January 4, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Sean Bean: Divorce for Christmas. ProSieben, December 21, 2010, accessed January 4, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Game of Thrones star Sean Bean ties the knot for fifth time - and celebrates with a beer. www.standard.co.uk, June 30, 2017, accessed September 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bean, Sean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bean, Shaun Mark (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield , England, UK