AKA Shaun Mark Bean

Born: 19-Apr-1959
Birthplace: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Boromir in Lord of the Rings

As a boy, Sean Bean ran with his local street gangs, but turned to boxing in his teenage years. Aimless and discontent, Bean worked in the cheese department at a supermarket, and eventually as a welder in his father's shop. He was 20 when he signed up for his first acting class, and friends thought the idea was so out of character they teasingly suggested he might be gay. Soon, however, Bean was a working actor in local stage productions, and soon after that he was finished with selling cheese. At 24 he landed his first film role, the rarely-seen Winter Flight, and for the next few years he worked on both stage and screen.

In 1988, the 27-year-old Bean starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones, Melanie Griffith, and Sting in the gangster flick Stormy Monday. Through the mid-1990s, he played a cocky British military officer, Richard Sharpe, in a series of fourteen British TV movies based on the novels of Bernard Cornwell (Sharpe's Honour, Sharpe's Company). In America, Sean Bean has mostly been cast in spy movies and cop roles. He has menaced Harrison Ford in Patriot Games and James Bond in GoldenEye. In the Lord of the Rings trilogy, he played Boromir of Gondor. Bean married and divorced Abigail Cruttenden, who played his wife in the Sharpe TV movies.

Father: Brian Bean (welding shop owner)
Mother: Rita Bean (secretary)
Sister: Lorraine Bean
Wife: Debra James (hairdresser, m. 11-Apr-1981, div.)
Wife: Melanie Hill (stage actress, m. 27-Feb-1990, div. Aug-1997, two daughters)
Daughter: Lorna Bean (b. Oct-1987)
Daughter: Molly Bean (b. Sep-1991)
Wife: Abigail Cruttenden (actress, m. 22-Nov-1997, div. 2000, one daughter)
Daughter: Evie Natasha Bean (b. 6-Nov-1998)
Wife: Georgina Sutcliffe (actress, b. 1978, m. 19-Feb-2008)

    University: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Outlaw (24-Feb-2007)
    The Hitcher (19-Jan-2007)
    Sharpe's Challenge (23-Apr-2006)
    Silent Hill (21-Apr-2006)
    Flightplan (23-Sep-2005)
    North Country (12-Sep-2005)
    The Island (22-Jul-2005)
    The Dark (12-May-2005)
    National Treasure (8-Nov-2004)
    Pride (21-Jun-2004) [VOICE]
    Troy (9-May-2004)
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (1-Dec-2003)
    The Big Empty (16-May-2003)
    Henry VIII (2003)
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (5-Dec-2002)
    Equilibrium (18-Oct-2002)
    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (10-Dec-2001)
    Don't Say a Word (24-Sep-2001)
    Essex Boys (14-Jul-2000)
    Bravo Two Zero (1999)
    Ronin (12-Sep-1998)
    Airborne (23-Jul-1998)
    Sharpe's Waterloo (21-May-1997)
    Anna Karenina (4-Apr-1997)
    Sharpe's Mission (15-May-1996)
    Sharpe's Siege (8-May-1996)
    Sharpe's Regiment (1-May-1996)
    When Saturday Comes (1-Mar-1996)
    GoldenEye (17-Nov-1995)
    Sharpe's Sword (26-Apr-1995)
    Sharpe's Battle (19-Apr-1995)
    Sharpe's Gold (12-Apr-1995)
    Scarlett (13-Nov-1994)
    Black Beauty (29-Jul-1994)
    Shopping (14-Jul-1994)
    Sharpe's Honour (8-Jun-1994)
    Sharpe's Enemy (1-Jun-1994)
    Sharpe's Company (25-May-1994)
    Lady Chatterley (6-Jun-1993)
    Sharpe's Eagle (12-May-1993)
    Sharpe's Rifles (5-May-1993)
    Patriot Games (5-Jun-1992)
    Clarissa (1991)
    The Field (13-Sep-1990)
    How to Get Ahead in Advertising (5-May-1989)
    Stormy Monday (22-Apr-1988)
    Caravaggio (Feb-1986)

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