Sean Bean (born Shaun Mark Bean; April 17, 1959) is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean made his professional debut in a production of Romeo and Juliet in 1983 at the Watermill Theatre.[1] Retaining his Yorkshire accent, he first found mainstream success for his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the ITV series Sharpe, which originally ran from 1993 to 1997.
Bean's film roles include Patriot Games (1992), GoldenEye (1995), Ronin (1998), Don't Say a Word (2001), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), Equilibrium (2002), National Treasure (2004), Troy (2004), Flightplan (2005), North Country (2005), The Island (2005), Silent Hill (2006), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Death Race 2 (2010), Black Death (2010), Jupiter Ascending (2015), and The Martian (2015).
His television roles include the BBC anthology series Accused, Broken, Game of Thrones, and the ITV historical drama series Henry VIII and Legends. As a voice actor, Bean has been featured in the video games The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Sid Meier's Civilization VI, and the feature films Wolfwalkers and Mummies among others. Since 2002, Bean has been the main voice over for O2 adverts, with the most recent advert released in June 2023.
In 2022, Bean won the British Academy Television Award as Leading Actor in Time, a BBC One drama.[2]
Early life[]
Shaun Mark Bean[3] was born on April 17, 1959 in Handsworth, a suburb of Sheffield, the son of Rita (née Tuckwood) and Brian K. Bean (born 1934).[4][5] He has a younger sister, Lorraine. His paternal grandfather, Harold Bean Jr. (1914–2001), served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War[6] and was a stud mill laborer who later became a pacifist.[5] His father owned a fabrication company that employed 50 people, including Bean's mother, who worked as a secretary. Despite becoming relatively wealthy, the family never moved away from the council estate as they preferred to remain close to friends and family.[7] As a child, Bean smashed a glass door during an argument, which left a piece of glass embedded in his leg that briefly impeded his walking, and left a large scar.[4] This prevented him from pursuing his ambition of playing football professionally.[8]
Bean first attended a local school, Handsworth Junior School, before going to Athelstan School until he was 12, when he went to study at Brook School.[9] In 1975, Bean left Brook Comprehensive School with O levels in Art and English.[10] After a job at a supermarket and another for the local council, he started work at his father's firm. Once a week, he attended Rotherham College of Arts and Technology to study welding.[11] While at college, he came upon an art class, and decided to pursue his interest in art. After attending courses at two other colleges, one for half a day and the other for less than a week, he returned to Rotherham College, where he enrolled in a drama course. After some college plays and one at Rotherham Civic Theatre, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), starting a seven-term course in January 1981.[4]
Career[]
Bean graduated from RADA in 1983, making his professional acting debut later that year as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury.[4] His early career involved a mixture of stage and screen work. As an actor, he adopted the Irish spelling of his first name. His first national exposure came in an advert for Barbican non-alcoholic lager.[12] In 1984, he starred in David and Jonathan by William Douglas-Home at the Redgrave Theatre in Farnham.[13] Between 1986 and 1988, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in productions of Romeo and Juliet, The Fair Maid of the West, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.[14] He appeared in his first film, Derek Jarman's Caravaggio (1986), opposite Tilda Swinton, playing Ranuccio Tomassoni, followed by the same director's War Requiem (1988). In 1989, he starred as the evil Dominic O'Brien in The Fifteen Streets, where he gained a dedicated following.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bean became an established actor on British television.[15] In 1990, Bean starred in Jim Sheridan's adaptation of the John B. Keane play The Field. Also in 1990, his role as the journalist Anton in Windprints examined the difficult problems of apartheid in South Africa. He appeared in the BBC productions Clarissa (1991) (with Saskia Wickham and Lynsey Baxter) and Lady Chatterley (1993) (with Joely Richardson).[16] In 1996, he combined his love of football with his career to finally achieve his childhood dream of playing for Sheffield United, starring as Jimmy Muir in the film When Saturday Comes.[17] Although the film was not critically acclaimed, Bean received credit for a good performance.[18] In August 1997, Bean appeared in what became a famous Sky Sports commercial for the upcoming 1997–98 Premier League season.[19] His football related work continued in 1998 when he narrated La Coupe de la Gloire, the official film of the 1998 FIFA World Cup held in France.[20]
Bean's critical successes in Caravaggio and Lady Chatterley contributed to his emerging image as a sex symbol, but he became most closely associated with the character of Richard Sharpe, the maverick Napoleonic Wars rifleman in the ITV television series Sharpe. The series was based on Bernard Cornwell's novels about the Peninsular War, and the fictional experiences of a band of soldiers in the famed 95th Rifles. Starting with Sharpe's Rifles, the series followed the fortunes and misfortunes of Richard Sharpe as he rose from the ranks as a Sergeant, promoted to Lieutenant in Portugal, to Lieutenant Colonel by the time of the Battle of Waterloo.
Bean was not the first actor to be chosen to play Sharpe. As Paul McGann was injured while playing football two days into filming, the producers initially tried to work around his injury, but it proved impossible and Bean replaced him. The series ran continuously from 1993 to 1997, with three episodes produced each year. It was filmed under challenging conditions, first in Ukraine and later in Portugal. After several years of rumors, more episodes were produced: Sharpe's Challenge, which aired in April 2006, and Sharpe's Peril, which aired in autumn 2008 and was later released on DVD.[21] Both of these were released as two cinema-length 90-minute episodes per series.[22] With a role as enigmatic Lord Richard Fenton in the TV miniseries Scarlett, Bean made the transition to Hollywood feature films. His first notable Hollywood appearance was that of an Irish republican terrorist in the 1992 film adaptation of Patriot Games. While filming his death scene, Harrison Ford hit him with a boat hook, giving him a permanent scar. Bean's rough-cut looks made him a patent choice for a villain, and his role in Patriot Games was the first of several villains that he would portray, all of whom die in gruesome ways.[23]
In the 1995 film GoldenEye, Bean portrayed James Bond's nemesis Alec Trevelyan (MI6's 006).[24] He played the weak-stomached Spence in Ronin (1998), a wife-beating ex-con in Essex Boys (2000), and a malevolent kidnapper/jewel thief in Don't Say a Word (2001). He was also widely recognized as villainous treasure hunter Ian Howe in National Treasure, and played a villainous scientist in The Island (2005). In the independent film Far North, he plays a Russian mercenary who gets lost in the tundra and is rescued by an Inuit woman and her daughter, whom he later pits against one another.[25]
Bean's most prominent role was as Boromir in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. His major screen time occurs in the first instalment, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. He appears briefly in flashbacks in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, as well as in a scene from the extended edition of The Two Towers. Before casting finished, rumors circulated that Jackson had considered Bean for the role of Aragorn, but neither Bean nor Jackson confirmed this in subsequent interviews. Bean's fear of flying in helicopters caused him difficulties in mountainous New Zealand, where the trilogy was filmed. After a particularly rough ride, he vowed not to fly to a location again; in one instance, he chose to take a ski lift into the mountains while wearing his full costume (complete with shield, armor and sword) and then hike the final few miles.[26][27]
Other roles gave more scope for his acting abilities. In 1999's Extremely Dangerous, his character walked a fine line between villain and hero.[28] He became a repentant, poetry-reading Grammaton cleric who succumbs to his emotions in 2002's Equilibrium, a quirky alien cowboy in 2003's The Big Empty, and a sympathetic and cunning Odysseus in the 2004 film Troy. He appeared with other Hollywood stars in Moby's music video "We Are All Made of Stars" in February 2002.[29] In the same year, he returned to the stage in London performing in Macbeth.[30] Due to popular demand, the production ran until March 2003.
Bean has done voice-over work, mostly in the British advertising industry.[31] He has featured in television adverts for O2, Morrisons and Barnardos as well as for Acuvue and the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States. He also does the voice over for the National Blood Service's television and radio campaign. Bean has also filmed a TV ad for Yorkshire Tea, a United Kingdom brand of tea.[32] For the role playing video game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, he voiced Martin Septim.[33] Bean's distinctive voice has also been used in the intro and outro segments of the BBC Formula 1 racing coverage for the 2011 and 2012 seasons.
Bean completed a one-hour pilot, Faceless, for US television. He has also appeared in Outlaw, an independent British production, and a remake of 1986 horror film, The Hitcher (released in January 2007); here he used an American accent again. In 2009, he appeared in the Red Riding trilogy as the malevolent John Dawson. He also appeared in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), playing the role of Zeus, the king of Mount Olympus and god of the sky, thunder, and lightning. Also that year, Bean starred in Cash, playing the lead role of Pyke Kubic, a dangerous man determined to recover his wealth in a bad economy. Cash explored the role money plays in today's hard economic times. Bean also played the villain's twin brother, Reese. Bean starred in the first season of Game of Thrones, HBO's adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin, playing the part of Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark.[34] Bean and Peter Dinklage were the two actors whose inclusion show runners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss considered necessary for the show to become a success, and for whose roles no other actors were considered. His portrayal won him critical praise; as The A.V. Club's reviewer put it, he "portrayed Ned as a man who knew he lived in the muck but hoped for better and assumed everyone else would come along for the ride."[35] HBO's promotional efforts focused on Bean as the show's leading man and best-known actor.
In August 2012, Bean appeared as cross-dressing teacher Simon in the opening episode of the second season of UK television series Accused, a role which would earn him a Royal Television Society best actor award.[36] He starred in Soldiers of Fortune and the 2012 film Cleanskin, in which he plays a secret service agent faced with the task of pursuing and eliminating a suicide bomber and his terrorist cell. In 2012 he also appeared in Tarsem Singh's Snow White film, Mirror Mirror, which was released in the U.S. in March. He also reprised his role as Christopher Da Silva in the Silent Hill film sequel Silent Hill: Revelation,[37] and co-starred in the ABC drama series Missing, which premiered in early 2012.[38]
Bean starred in the espionage television series Legends as Martin Odum, an FBI agent who takes on various fabricated identities to go undercover. The show was canceled after its second season. An intensive viral marketing campaign was centred on the hashtag #DontKillSeanBean, focusing on the various deaths of his past characters and promising his character in Legends would not suffer the same fate.[39] The campaign culminated with a Funny or Die exclusive video featuring Bean filming a scene for the show where he's become so accustomed to dying on screen that he expects his character to die a bizarrely gruesome death despite the simplicity of the scene.[40]
From 2015 to 2017, Bean starred in the ITV Encore drama series The Frankenstein Chronicles.[41] In that time, he also starred in multiple notable films including Jupiter Ascending, Pixels, and The Martian. In 2017, Bean starred in the BBC series Broken as the troubled priest Father Michael Kerrigan, which earned him a BAFTA award for Best Actor.[42] In 2019, Bean played a damaged veteran in the TV drama World on Fire, basing his interpretation on his late paternal grandfather.[43]
On May 31, 2020, Bean appeared on Josh Gad's YouTube series Reunited Apart which reunites the cast of popular movies through video-conferencing, and promotes donations to non-profit charities. The episode saw Bean reunited with fellow Lord of the Rings cast-mates Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Miranda Otto, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, Karl Urban, and Elijah Wood, plus composer Howard Shore, writer Philippa Boyens and director Peter Jackson.[44]
In 2021, the actor was reunited with Jimmy McGovern (author of Broken and Accused) and Stephen Graham (his co-star in Tracie's Story) for the 3-part BBC prison drama Time.[45]
In September 2021, it was announced that Stefan Golaszewski's new drama, Marriage would air in 2022 and would star Bean alongside Nicola Walker.[46][47] The series opened to mixed reviews from both critics and viewers.[48][49][50][51][52]
Public image[]
Personality[]
Bean is often described as "down to Earth" and has retained his Yorkshire accent.[16] He says that he does not mind being considered as a "bit of rough" by women.[53] He has developed a reputation as a loner, a label that he considers unfair.[16] He has described himself instead as quiet, and interviewers confirm that he is a "man of few words",[54] with one interviewer calling him "surprisingly shy".[55] He admits that he can be a workaholic; he reads books or listens to music in his spare time, and is a skilled pianist. He is also a keen gardener, welder, and sketcher.[56] Popular in his home county, a 2018 poll for Yorkshire Day saw Bean ranked the second greatest Yorkshireman ever behind Monty Python comedian, and fellow Sheffielder, Michael Palin.[57]
Acting style[]
Despite being professionally trained, Bean adopted an instinctive style of acting that some say makes him especially well-suited to portraying his characters' depths.[58] He has said that the most difficult part is at the start of filming when trying to understand the character.[59] After achieving this, he can snap in and out of character instantly. This ability to go from the quiet man on set to the warrior Boromir "amazed" Sean Astin during filming of The Fellowship of the Ring.[60] Other fans include directors Mike Figgis and Wolfgang Petersen, who described working with Bean as a "beautiful thing".[58]
Deaths of characters[]
Bean's characters tend to die on screen, a phenomenon that has gained notoriety on the internet and in The Lord of The Rings, Game of Thrones and James Bond fandoms. In September 2019, Bean revealed that he had been turning down roles that would have his character killed following Game of Thrones, so that his performances would not become predictable.[61][62] Bean's favorite on-screen death is Boromir in The Fellowship of the Ring: "I thought his death was very heroic and triumphant and poignant. It had pathos."[63] A reputation for frequently portraying characters who are violently killed has earned Bean the status of an Internet meme.[64]
Personal life[]
Bean has been married five times and divorced four times. He married his secondary school sweetheart Debra James on April 11, 1981, and they were divorced in 1988. He met actress Melanie Hill at RADA, and they were married on February 27, 1990. Their first daughter was born in October 1987, and their second was born in September 1991. Their marriage ended in divorce in August 1997. During the filming of Sharpe, Bean met actress Abigail Cruttenden, and they were married on November 22, 1997. Their daughter was born in November 1998. They were divorced in July 2000. In addition to his three children, Bean has four grandchildren.[65]
Bean began dating actress Georgina Sutcliffe in 2006. After canceling their planned January 2008 wedding on the eve of the ceremony for "personal reasons", he married Sutcliffe at the Marylebone Town Hall in London on February 19, 2008.[66] During allegations that Bean physically abused Sutcliffe in 2009,[55] domestic disturbances resulted in the police being called to their home in Belsize Park on three occasions. Bean and Sutcliffe's separation was announced on August 6, 2010,[67] and a decree nisi was granted on December 21, 2010.[68] He married Ashley Moore on June 30, 2017.[69]
Bean has been a fan of Sheffield United (the "Blades") since he was eight years old, and has a tattoo on his left shoulder that reads "100% Blade".[70][71] He opened their Hall of Fame in 2001 and, after making a six-figure contribution to the club's finances, was on their board of directors between 2002 and 2007 to help raise the profile of the club. He stepped down in 2007 to "go back to being an ordinary supporter" where he feels at home.[72] During his time there, he had a dispute with Neil Warnock, former manager of Sheffield United, after Warnock claimed that Bean stormed into his office and shouted at him in front of his wife and daughter when the club had just been relegated from the Premier League. Bean denies it, calling Warnock "bitter" and "hypocritical".[73] He wrote the foreword and helped to promote a book of anecdotes called Sheffield United: The Biography.[74] He also follows Yorkshire County Cricket Club.[75]
Bean has a tattoo of the number nine on his shoulder, written using Tengwar, in reference to his involvement in the Lord of the Rings films and the fact that his character was one of the original nine companions of the Fellowship of the Ring. Seven of the other actors of "The Fellowship" (Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, and Viggo Mortensen) have the same tattoo. John Rhys-Davies, whose character was also one of the original nine companions, arranged for his stunt double to get the tattoo instead.[76]
Aligned with the British left, in 2015 Bean expressed support for Jeremy Corbyn and for "old Labor", the era before Tony Blair rebranded the party as New Labor; Bean also spoke of his admiration for Tony Benn.[77]
Bean is a Christian[78] and a keen gardener in his spare time.[79]
Filmography[]
Film[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Winter Flight | Hooker | |
| 1985 | Exploits at West Poley | Scarred Man | Television film |
| 1986 | Caravaggio | Ranuccio | |
| 1988 | Stormy Monday | Brendan | |
| Troubles | Capt. Bolton | Television film | |
| 1989 | How to Get Ahead in Advertising | Larry Frisk | |
| The Fifteen Streets | Dominic O'Brien | ||
| War Requiem | German Soldier | ||
| 1990 | Windprints | Anton | |
| The Field | Tadgh McCabe | ||
| Lorna Doone | Carver Doone | Television film | |
| Wedded | Man | ||
| 1992 | Patriot Games | Sean Miller | |
| Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery | Micky McAvoy | Television film | |
| My Kingdom for a Horse | Steve | ||
| 1993 | Sharpe's Rifles | Sergeant / Lieutenant Richard Sharpe | |
| Sharpe's Eagle | Captain Richard Sharpe | ||
| 1994 | Shopping | Venning | |
| Black Beauty | Farmer Grey | ||
| Jacob | Esau | Television film | |
| Sharpe's Company | Captain Richard Sharpe | ||
| Sharpe's Enemy | Major Richard Sharpe | ||
| Sharpe's Honor | |||
| 1995 | GoldenEye | Alec Trevelyan / Janus | |
| Sharpe's Gold | Major Richard Sharpe | Television film | |
| Sharpe's Battle | |||
| Sharpe's Sword | |||
| 1996 | When Saturday Comes | Jimmy Muir | |
| Sharpe's Regiment | Major Richard Sharpe | Television film | |
| Sharpe's Siege | |||
| Sharpe's Mission | |||
| 1997 | Sharpe's Revenge | ||
| Sharpe's Justice | |||
| Sharpe's Waterloo | Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe | ||
| Anna Karenina | Vronsky | ||
| 1998 | Ronin | Spence | |
| Airborn | Dave Toombs | ||
| 1999 | Bravo Two Zero | Andy McNab | |
| 2000 | Essex Boys | Jason Locke | |
| 2001 | Don't Say a Word | Patrick Koster | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Boromir | ||
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Extended edition only | |
| Equilibrium | Errol Partridge | ||
| Tom and Thomas | Paul Shepherd | ||
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Boromir | |
| The Big Empty | Cowboy | ||
| Henry VIII | Robert Aske | Television film | |
| 2004 | National Treasure | Ian Howe | |
| Troy | Odysseus | ||
| Pride | Dark | Voice; television film | |
| 2005 | North Country | Kyle Dodge | |
| Flightplan | Captain Marcus Rich | ||
| The Island | Dr. Merrick | ||
| The Dark | James | ||
| 2006 | Silent Hill | Chris Da Silva | |
| Sharpe's Challenge | Sergeant / Colonel Richard Sharpe | Television film | |
| Faceless | Eddie Prey | ||
| 2007 | The Hitcher | John Ryder | |
| Outlaw | Danny Bryant | ||
| Far North | Loki | ||
| Once Upon a Time in Iran | Narrator | Voice; documentary[80] | |
| 2008 | Sharpe's Peril | Colonel Richard Sharpe | Television film |
| 2010 | Black Death | Ulric | |
| Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | Zeus | ||
| Cash | Pyke Kubic / Reese Kubic | ||
| Death Race 2 | Markus Kane | Direct-to-DVD | |
| The Lost Future | Amal | Television film | |
| 2011 | Age of Heroes | Jones | |
| 2012 | Cleanskin | Ewan | |
| Soldiers of Fortune | Dimidov | ||
| Mirror Mirror | The King, Snow White's father | ||
| Silent Hill: Revelation | Christopher Da Silva / Harry Mason | ||
| 2014 | Wicked Blood | Frank Stinson | |
| 2015 | The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King | Arrog | Voice |
| Any Day | Vian | ||
| Jupiter Ascending | Stinger Apini | ||
| Pixels | Corporal Hill | ||
| The Martian | Mitch Henderson | ||
| Sean Bean on Waterloo | Himself | Presenter; documentary | |
| 2016 | The Young Messiah | Severus | |
| Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV | King Regis | Voice[81] | |
| 2017 | Drone | Neil | |
| Dark River | Richard Bell | ||
| The Unconquered | Narrator | Voice; short film[82] | |
| 2018 | Taniel | Voice; short film | |
| 2020 | Possessor | John Parse | |
| Wolfwalkers | Bill Goodfellowe | Voice | |
| 2023 | Mummies | Pharaoh | |
| Knights of the Zodiac | Alman Kiddo (Mitsumasa Kido) | Lead role[83] |
Television[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | The Bill | Horace Clark | Episode: "Long Odds" |
| 1986 | The Practice | Terry Donlan | 2 episodes |
| 1988 | The Storyteller | The Prince | Episode: "The True Bride" |
| 1989 | The Jim Henson Hour | Prince | Episode: "Musicians" |
| 1990 | Screen Two | Vic | Episode: "Small Vones" |
| 1991 | 4 Play | Smith | Episode: "In the Border Country" |
| Screen One | Gabriel Lewis / Jack Morgan | 2 episodes | |
| Clarissa | Lovelace | 4 episodes | |
| 1992 | Inspector Morse | Alex Bailey | Episode: "Absolute Conviction" |
| 1993 | Lady Chatterley | Mellors | 4 episodes |
| A Woman's Guide to Adultery | Paul | 3 episodes | |
| 1994 | Scarlett | Lord Richard Fenton | |
| 1996 | Decisive Weapons | Narrator | Documentary |
| 1998 | The Canterbury Tales | The Nun's Priest | Voice; episode: "Leaving London" |
| 1999 | Extremely Dangerous | Niel Bryne | 4 episodes |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Himself | Episode: "Spring" | |
| 2008 | Crusoe | James Crusoe | 4 episodes |
| 2009 | Red Riding | John Dawson | 2 episodes |
| 2011 | Game of Thrones | Eddard "Ned" Stark | 9 episodes |
| 2012 | Missing | Paul Winstone | 8 episodes |
| Accused | Simon / Tracie | Episode: "Tracie's Story" | |
| 2013 | Family Guy | Portrait Griffin | Voice; episode: "No Country Club for Old Men" |
| 2014 | Robot Chicken | Doctor Doom / North / Heathcliff | Voice; episode: "Catdog on a Stick" |
| 2014–2015 | Legends | Martin Odum | 20 episodes; also producer |
| 2015–2017 | The Frankenstein Chronicles | John Marlott | 12 episodes; also co-producer |
| 2016 | Wasted | Himself | 6 episodes |
| Roman Empire: Reign of Blood | Narrator | Voice; documentary | |
| 2017 | Broken | Father Michael Kerrigan | 6 episodes; also executive producer |
| Yorkshire: A Year in the Wild | Narrator | Voice; documentary | |
| 2018 | Medici: Masters of Florence | Jacopo de' Pazzi | 8 episodes |
| The Oath | Tom Hammand | 10 episodes | |
| Sally4Ever | Himself | 1 episode | |
| 2019 | Curfew[84] | Errol "The General" Chambers | 6 episodes |
| World on Fire | Douglas Bennett | 7 episodes | |
| 2020–2021 | Snowpiercer[85] | Mr. Wilford | 11 episodes |
| 2021 | Time[86] | Mark Cobden | 3 episodes; also executive producer |
| 2022 | Marriage | Ian | [87] |
Video games[]
| Year | Title | Voice role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | GoldenEye 007 | Alec Trevelyan | Likeness |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Boromir | |
| 2006 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | Emperor Martin Septim | |
| 2012 | LEGO The Lord of the Rings | Boromir | |
| 2013 | Papa Sangre II | Narrator / Guide | |
| Train Simulator 2014 | Narrator for the trailers | ||
| 2014 | Train Simulator 2015 | ||
| 2015 | Kholat | Narrator | |
| Life Is Feudal | |||
| 2016 | Sid Meier's Civilization VI | ||
| 2018 | Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Rise and Fall | ||
| Hitman 2 | Mark Faba | Likeness; faba is the Latin word for bean | |
| 2019 | Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm | Narrator | |
| A Plague Tale: Innocence | Marketing trailer only |
Music videos[]
| Year | Artist | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Moby | "We Are All Made of Stars" | Himself |
Voice over[]
| Year/s | Brand | Project | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002–present | O2 | TV adverts | Narrator/voice over |
Awards and honors[]
In his home city of Sheffield, he has received several honors and acclaims, including an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University in 1997 and a Doctor of Letters in English Literature from the University of Sheffield in July 2007.[88][89] He was selected as one of the inaugural members of Sheffield Legends (the Sheffield equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame) and a plaque in his honor has been placed in front of Sheffield Town Hall.[90] Bean commented: "I did get a doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University about 11 or 12 years ago so now I'm a double doctor. But this was wonderful, especially from my home city."[88][89]
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Phoenix Film Critics Society Award | Best Acting Ensemble | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring[91][92][93][94] | Won |
| Empire Award | Best British Actor | Nominated | ||
| Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | |||
| DVD Exclusive Award | Best Audio Commentary, New Release | |||
| 2003 | Online Film Critics Society Award | Best Ensemble | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers[95][91][96] | Won |
| Phoenix Film Critics Society Award | Best Acting Ensemble | Nominated | ||
| DVD Exclusive Award | Best Audio Commentary, New Release | |||
| 2004 | Phoenix Film Critics Society Award | Best Acting Ensemble | The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King[97][98][99] | Won |
| Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | |||
| Critics' Choice Award | Best Acting Ensemble | |||
| National Board of Review | Best Acting by an Ensemble | |||
| 2010 | Screamfest Horror Film Festival | Best Actor | Black Death[100] | |
| 2011 | Portal Award | Game of Thrones[101][102][103][104][105][106][107] | ||
| IGN Summer Movie Award | Best Television Hero | |||
| IGN People's Choice Award | ||||
| EWwy Award | Best Actor in a Drama | Nominated | ||
| Scream Award | Best Ensemble | |||
| Best Fantasy Actor | ||||
| 2012 | Screen Actor's Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | ||
| Saturn Award | Best Actor on Television | |||
| Fangoria Chainsaw Award | Best Actor | Black Death[108] | ||
| 2013 | International Emmy Award | Accused[109][110][111] | Won | |
| Royal Television Society Awards | ||||
| BAFTA Award | Leading Actor | Nominated | ||
| People's Choice Award | Favorite Cable TV Actor | Legends[112] | ||
| 2017 | Royal Television Society NW | Best Performance in a Single Drama or Drama Series (Male) | Broken[113] | Won |
| Cologne Film Festival | Hollywood Reporter Award | Himself[114] | ||
| 2018 | BAFTA Award | Leading Actor | Broken[115] | |
| 2021 | BAFTA TV Award | Time[116] |
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Further reading[]
- Trowbridge, Simon (2010). "The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company". Oxford: Editions Albert Creed.
External links[]
- Sean Bean at Death Race Wiki
- Sean Bean at James Bond Wiki
- Sean Bean at The Lord of the Rings Wiki
Sean Bean at the Internet Movie Database- The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of the RSC: Online database
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