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Mark Bean (born April 17, 1959) is an English actor
from Sheffield, South Yorkshire. As an actor, he adopted
the Irish spelling "Sean" of his first name.
He worked for his father's welding
firm before becoming an actor. He made his acting
debut in 1983 at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury,
Berkshire, England, as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet.
He is best known in the United States
for his role as the fictional character Boromir in
the Lord of the Rings movie series and, in the United
Kingdom, as Richard Sharpe in the television series
Sharpe. His popularity in the Sharpe series became
an in-joke in many of his later films -- he works
the word "sharp" into his characters' dialogue
whenever possible. The Sharpe series concluded in
1997, but Sean Bean has recently signed on to film
another installment of the popular franchise in the
autumn/winter of 2005.
Other notable appearances include
as an Irish terrorist in the 1992 film adaptation
of Patriot Games, as Mellors the gamekeeper in the
1992 BBC adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover and
as Alec Trevelyan (MI6's 006), the major villain of
the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. Producers of the
Bond film series were looking for an actor who could
have played Bond himself for the role of 006. They
have claimed to find those qualities in Bean.Bean
also featured in Moby's music video "We Are All
Made of Stars".
He has been married and divorced three
times, and has three daughters: Lorna, Molly and Evie
Trivia
He has a tattoo on his left shoulder that reads "100%
Blade" in reference to his support for Sheffield
United. His right shoulder has a tattoo of the Elvish
word for Nine to commemorate playing a member of the
Fellowship in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship
of the Ring.
During the filming of The Fellowship of the Ring he
refused to take the helicopters out to remote mountain
locations. Instead he chose to take a ski lift into
the mountains and then hike the final few miles, all
in full costume.
His characters nearly always die, in every film role
he undertakes. See Patriot Games, GoldenEye, Don't
Say a Word, Lord of the Rings and Equilibrium for
examples. This is mainly due to the fact that he is
a British actor in Hollywood films, and therefore
is often cast as the villain.
Selected Filmography
Silent Hill (2006) (Post-Production) ...as Christopher.
Flightplan (2005) .... as Captain Rich
The Island (2005) .... as Merrick
Pride (2004) .... as Dark
National Treasure (2004) .... Ian Howe
Troy (2004) .... as Odysseus
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
.... as Boromir
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (uncredited)
.... as Boromir (extended edition)
Equilibrium (2002) .... as Partridge
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(2001) .... as Boromir
Don't Say a Word (2001) .... as Patrick Koster
Bravo Two Zero (1999) .... as Andy McNab
Ronin (1998) .... as Spence
Anna Karenina (1997) .... as Vronsky
GoldenEye (1995) .... as Alec Trevelyan
Black Beauty (1994)
Patriot Games (1992) .... as Sean Miller
The Field (1990) .... as Tadgh McCabe
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) .... as Larry
Frisk
Caravaggio (1986) .... as Ranuccio
source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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