Sean Bean

Shaun Mark Bean was born in Sheffield (England), on April 17, 1959. A great athlete from a very young age and a great fan of football (he is an unconditional fan of Sheffield United), he dedicated himself to boxing, until he began working in the family business. of his father’s welds.

He discovered by chance that he had a natural talent for acting in amateur productions, and decided to enroll in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). In the late 1970s he began to carve out a niche for himself in professional theater, playing the famous protagonist of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” dressed in a biker jacket, in a particularly modern version. Many other characters in large London theaters followed. Although he was late, he finally made his film debut in 1986, with a major role in the low-key drama Winter Flight . After Derek Jarman ‘s Caravaggio , he began to attract the attention of moviegoers for his leading role in Stormy Monday ., where he was a bouncer at a jazz club, who falls in love with a gangster’s girlfriend. His work was quite remarkable, although he shared the screen with the likes of Tommy Lee Jones , Sting and Melanie Griffith .

Since then, Bean has not stopped working on titles with great impact, such as El prado , Golden Eye , In the land of men or Ronin . He has a scar over his eye as a result of filming his fight on Patriot Games , with Harrison Ford . He accidentally hit him with a hook.

But his moment of greatest popularity came when Peter Jackson gave him the role of Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring . Through flashbacks, he also appears in the next two installments. Curiously, although fans of JRR Tolkien ‘s work had doubts about him, since Bean is blond, and the character is dark in the film, they ended up being dazzled by his work.

In the wake of his success in the fantastic saga, offers came to him as the protagonist of the horror films Silent Hill , The Dark and Highway to Hell , he was the pilot of the plane in Flight Plan: Missing , he was the antagonist of Nicolas Cage , in The Quest , Ulysses in Troy , and an amoral scientist in charge of a futuristic complex on The Island . Fans of another fantastic saga, George RR Martin ‘s “A Song of Ice and Fire”, have backed him from the start as the perfect actor to play the nobleman Eddar Stark in Game of Thrones., ambitious HBO series that adapts the saga.

A great friend of Viggo Mortensen , his co-star in the Tolkien saga, Sean Bean has Georgina Sutcliffe, also an actress, as a sentimental partner, although she has previously been divorced three times. He is the father of three daughters.