Sean Bean

Also Credited As:

Shaun Mark Bean
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Biography

After spending the latter half of the 1980s making smaller films, he made his U.S. feature debut as a vengeance-minded IRA terrorist in the hit spy thriller, "Patriot Games" (1992), which opened the doors for the actor to play a wide range of bad guys. The following year, Bean was featured as a tough 19th century British officer, Richard Sharpe, in the long-running made-for-television movie series "Sharpe" (ITV, 1993- ) that gave him steady …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

Shaun Mark Bean on April 17, 1959 in Yorkshire, England, GB

LATEST CREDITS

The Lost Future

Amal

Sharpe's Peril

Richard Sharpe

Extremely Dangerous

Neil Burn

Essex Boys

Jason Locke

The Hitcher

John Ryder

Black Beauty

Farmer Grey

Age of Heroes

Actor

When Saturday Comes

Jimmy Muir

Bravo Two Zero

Andy McNab

Windprints

Anton Van Heerden

Fool's Gold: Brink's-Mat Story

Actor

Sharpe's Challenge

Richard Sharpe

1974: The Red Riding Trilogy Part 1

John Dawson

Sharpe

Richard Sharpe

Black Death

Ulric

Clarissa

Lovelace

Sharpe II

Richard Sharpe

Ca$h

Pyke

Devil's Peak

Benny Griessel

D-Day to Berlin

Narrator

Hooligan

Narrator

1983: The Red Riding Trilogy Part 3

John Dawson

Anna Karenina

Vronsky

Silent Hill

Christopher Da Silva

The Dark

James

Death Race 2

Actor

Goldeneye

Alec Trevelyan--Agent 006

The Field

Tadgh McCabe

Don't Say A Word

Patrick B Koster

Far North

Actor

Lady Chatterley

Mellors

A Woman's Guide to Adultry

Paul

Outlaw

Danny Bryant

Caravaggio

Ranuccio Thomasoni

Stormy Monday

Brendan

The Canterbury Tales

Voice

Last Battle Dreamer

Hakon

Jacob

Esau

Lorna Doone

Actor

Flightplan

Captain Rich

Pan

Smee

Soldiers of Fortune

Dimidov

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Zeus

The Jim Henson Hour

Actor ("The True Bride" )

North Country

Kyle

Henry VIII

Robert Aske

Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

Harry Mason

National Treasure

Ian Howe

Patriot Games

Sean Miller

The Island

Merrick

The Big Empty

Cowboy

Equilibrium

Partridge

Shopping

Venning

Troy

Odysseus

Absolute Conviction

Alex Bailey

Airborne

Dave Toombs

Ronin

Spence

Scarlett

Richard Earl of Fenton

War Requiem

German Soldier

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Boromir

Pride

of Dark

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Boromir

Mirror Mirror

KIng

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Larry Frisk

The Book That Wrote Itself

Actor (cameo appearance )

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Boromir

2007 BRIT Awards

Presenter