| Sean Astin  AKA Sean Patrick Astin
Born: 25-Feb-1971
Birthplace: Santa Monica, CA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Goonies' Mikey and the hobbit Sam Sean Astin earned his first payday at the age of nine, starring in an after school special, Please Don't Hit Me, Mom with his famous mother, Patty Duke. At 13, he starred in The Goonies with Josh Brolin and Corey Feldman. He later starred in the underrated action film Toy Soldiers, in Encino Man with Pauly Shore and Brendan Fraser, and earned good reviews as the shrimp too small to play football for Notre Dame in Rudy. Austin was nominated for an Oscar in 1995, not as an actor but for a short film he directed and produced with his wife, Kangaroo Court, starring Gregory Hines.
After that, though, Astin spent several years playing small roles in half-remembered films and large roles in forgotten films, before being cast as Samwise Gamgee, a hobbit in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. Astin has directed a few other short films, and he borrowed equipment on the Rings set to make the oddly heartwarming The Long and Short of It. He wrote the non-fiction There and Back Again, chronicling his time on the Lord of the Rings movies, from auditioning for the first film to watching the final film win all its Oscars. After the huge success of the Lord of the Rings films, Astin and Elijah Wood appeared on New Zealand postage stamps, but due to a typographical error, Astin's name was misspelled 'Austin' on all the stamps.
He played Mister Smith on Jeremiah with Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and took a recurring role as a doomed counter-terror agent on 24 with Kiefer Sutherland.
Astin says he has a strong interest in politics, and has hinted that he might eventually jettison show business for a try at elected office. He has not hinted much, however, about what his politics might be.
Father: John Astin (adoptive father, actor)
Father: Michael Tell (biological father, briefly married to Patty Duke)
Mother: Patty Duke (actress)
Brother: Mackenzie Astin (actor)
Brother: David (half-brother)
Brother: Allen (half-brother)
Brother: Tom (half-brother)
Wife: Christine Harrell Astin (b. 1970, m. Jul-1992, three children)
Daughter: Alexandra Louise (b. 27-Nov-1996)
Daughter: Elizabeth Louise (b. 6-Aug-2002)
Daughter: Isabella Louise (b. 22-Jul-2005)
High School: Crossroads High School, Santa Monica, CA
University: BA History and English, UCLA
The Creative Coalition Board Member
TELEVISION
Celebrity Poker Showdown Contestant
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Final Season (12-Oct-2007)
Borderland (10-Feb-2007)
Click (23-Jun-2006)
Smile (8-Apr-2005)
Bigger Than the Sky (18-Feb-2005)
Slipstream (3-Feb-2005)
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (24-Jan-2005)
Hercules (2005)
Balto III: Wings of Change (30-Sep-2004) [VOICE]
Elvis Has Left the Building (27-Aug-2004)
50 First Dates (13-Feb-2004)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (1-Dec-2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (5-Dec-2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (10-Dec-2001)
The Last Producer (22-Aug-2000)
The Sky Is Falling (2000)
Deterrence (10-Sep-1999)
Kimberly (9-Sep-1999)
Icebreaker (1999)
Boy Meets Girl (12-Sep-1998)
Bulworth (15-May-1998)
Dish Dogs (1998)
The Long Way Home (19-Sep-1997) [VOICE]
Courage Under Fire (12-Jul-1996)
The Low Life (Nov-1995)
Harrison Bergeron (13-Aug-1995)
Safe Passage (Dec-1994)
Rudy (18-Sep-1993)
Where the Day Takes You (11-Sep-1992)
Encino Man (22-May-1992)
Toy Soldiers (26-Apr-1991)
The Willies (1991)
Memphis Belle (7-Sep-1990)
The War of the Roses (8-Dec-1989)
Staying Together (14-Sep-1989)
Like Father, Like Son (2-Oct-1987)
White Water Summer (Jul-1987)
The Goonies (7-Jun-1985)
Please Don't Hit Me, Mom (20-Sep-1981)
Author of books:
There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale (2004, memoir, with Joe Layden)
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