Sean Bean

Shaun Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959) is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean made his professional debut in a theatre production of Romeo and Juliet in 1983. 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), 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. Bean has also been the main voice over for O2 and their adverts for over 20 years having originally taken the job in 2002. In 2022, Bean won the British Academy Television Award as Leading Actor in Time, a BBC One drama.

Known For: Acting

Born: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK, 1959-04-17

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	Punters	Lurch	0
2	1984	Winter Flight	Hooker	55
3	1985	Exploits at West Poley	Scarred Man	47
4	1986	Caravaggio	Ranuccio	61
5	1988	Stormy Monday	Brendan	57
6	1989	The Fifteen Streets	Dominic O'Brien	63
7	1989	War Requiem	The German Soldier	64
8	1989	How to Get Ahead in Advertising	Larry Frisk	63
9	1990	Small Zones	Vic	0
10	1990	Windprints	Anton van Heerden	61
11	1990	Wedded	Man	0
12	1990	The Field	Tadgh McCabe	71
13	1990	Lorna Doone	Carver Doone	59
14	1991	My Kingdom for a Horse	Steve Deakin	0
15	1991	Tell Me That You Love Me	Gabriel Lewis	0
16	1991	Prince	Jack Morgan	0
17	1992	Patriot Games	Sean Miller	67
18	1992	Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery	Micky McAvoy	50
19	1993	Sharpe's Rifles	Richard Sharpe	66
20	1993	Sharpe's Eagle	Richard Sharpe	71
21	1994	Sharpe's Company	Richard Sharpe	67
22	1994	Sharpe's Enemy	Richard Sharpe	69
23	1994	Sharpe's Honour	Richard Sharpe	66
24	1994	Black Beauty	Farmer Grey	67
25	1994	Jacob	Esau	65
26	1994	Shopping	Venning	54
27	1995	GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast	Self	60
28	1995	Sharpe's Gold	Richard Sharpe	65
29	1995	Sharpe's Battle	Richard Sharpe	68
30	1995	Sharpe's Sword	Richard Sharpe	72
31	1995	GoldenEye	Alec Trevelyan	69
32	1995	In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross	Alec Trevelyan	30
33	1995	Goldeneye: The Secret Files	Self	60
34	1996	When Saturday Comes	Jimmy Muir	57
35	1996	Sharpe's Regiment	Richard Sharpe	69
36	1996	Sharpe's Siege	Richard Sharpe	72
37	1996	Sharpe's Mission	Richard Sharpe	68
38	1997	Anna Karenina	Vronsky	60
39	1997	Sharpe's Revenge	Richard Sharpe	71
40	1997	Sharpe's Justice	Richard Sharpe	70
41	1997	Sharpe's Waterloo	Richard Sharpe	73
42	1997	Sharpe: The Legend	Richard Sharpe	60
43	1998	La Coupe De La Gloire	Self - Narrator (voice)	68
44	1998	Airborne	Dave Toombs	27
45	1998	Ronin	Spence	70
46	1999	Bravo Two Zero	Andy McNab	58
47	2000	Essex Boys	Jason Locke	56
48	2001	Don't Say a Word	Patrick Koster	62
49	2001	Quest for the Ring	Self	56
50	2001	A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'	Self	78
51	2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Boromir	84
52	2002	Tom & Thomas	Paul Sheppard	66
53	2002	The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring	Self	88
54	2002	Equilibrium	Errol Partridge	70
55	2003	The Big Empty	Cowboy	61
56	2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Boromir	85
57	2004	D-Day to Berlin	Narrator (voice)	67
58	2004	The Making of the Return of the King	Self	88
59	2004	Troy	Odysseus	72
60	2004	Pride	Dark (voice)	62
61	2004	Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane	Self	0
62	2004	National Treasure	Ian Howe	66
63	2005	North Country	Kyle	73
64	2005	The Island	Dr. Bernard Merrick	67
65	2005	Flightplan	Captain Rich	65
66	2005	The Dark	James	57
67	2006	Silent Hill	Christopher Da Silva	66
68	2006	Sharpe's Challenge	Richard Sharpe	63
69	2006	Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles		60
70	2006	The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event		55
71	2006	Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'	Self	60
72	2007	The Hitcher	John Ryder	59
73	2007	Outlaw	Danny Bryant	54
74	2008	Far North	Loki	61
75	2008	Sharpe's Peril	Richard Sharpe	67
76	2009	Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983	John Dawson	69
77	2009	Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974	John Dawson	67
78	2010	Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief	Zeus	62
79	2010	Ca$h	Pyke Kubic	58
80	2010	Black Death	Ulric	61
81	2010	Death Race 2	Markus Kane	58
82	2010	The Lost Future	Amal	49
83	2011	Age of Heroes	Maj. Jack Jones	55
84	2012	Cleanskin	Ewan	56
85	2012	Mirror Mirror	King	59
86	2012	Soldiers of Fortune	Dimidov	49
87	2012	Hooligan		65
88		The 4th Reich	Sergeant Major Gordon	0
89	2012	Georgian Fighting Women	Narrator	0
90	2012	Silent Hill: Revelation 3D	Harry Mason / Christopher Da Silva	55
91	2013	Wild in the Streets	Narrator	60
92	2014	Wicked Blood	Uncle Frank Stinson	54
93	2015	Jupiter Ascending	Stinger Apini	55
94	2015	Any Day	Vian	51
95	2015	Sean Bean on Waterloo	Himself/narrator	0
96	2015	Pixels	Corporal Hill (SAS Officer)	58
97	2015	The Martian	Mitch Henderson	77
98	2018	Taniel	Poetry Narrator	0
99		Rogue Trooper		0
100	2015	Jupiter Ascending Genetically Spliced	Self	0
101	2015	Instruments of Darkness	Macbeth	100
102	2016	The Young Messiah	Severus	64
103	2017	Drone	Neil	53
104	2017	Faster Than Light: the Dream of Interstellar Flight	Narrator	64
105	2017	The Unconquered	Narrator (English)	84
106	2017	Dark River	Richard Bell	56
107	2019	Game of Thrones: The Last Watch	Self	71
108	2020	Possessor	John Parse	64
109	2020	Wolfwalkers	Robyn's Father, Bill Goodfellowe (voice)	82
110	2025	Deep Cover	Billings	67
111		Watch the Skies	(voice)	0
112	2020	Identity Crisis: Bringing Possessor to Life		0
113	2025	Anemone		0
114		The Yellow Tie		0
115	2021	Osprey: Sea Raptor	Narrator	0
116	2023	Knights of the Zodiac	Alman Kido	63
117		The Isolate Thief		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1983	Natural World	Narrator	71
2	1984	The Bill		67
3	1987	Inspector Morse	Alex Bailey	78
4	1988	Troubles	Captain Bolton	100
5	1988	The Storyteller	Prince	82
6	1988	This Morning	Self - Guest	52
7	1991	Clarissa		46
8	1993	Sharpe	Richard Sharpe	79
9	1993	Lady Chatterley	Mellors	64
10	1993	A Woman's Guide to Adultery	Paul	0
11	1994	Scarlett	Lord Fenton	66
12	1995	Soccer AM	Self	60
13	1995	The Frank Skinner Show	Self	75
14	1996	TFI Friday	Self	68
15	1996	Decisive Weapons	Narator	0
16	1999	Family Guy	Portrait Griffin (voice)	74
17	1999	Extremely Dangerous	Neil Byrne	0
18	2002	HypaSpace	Self	40
19	2003	Henry VIII	Robert Aske	69
20	2005	D-Day to Berlin	Narrator	71
21	2005	The Reichen Show	Self	48
22	2006	Faceless		10
23	2008	Crusoe	James Crusoe	68
24	2009	Red Riding	John Dawson	65
25	2010	Accused	Simon Gaskell / Tracie Tremarco	81
26	2011	Game of Thrones	Lord Eddard 'Ned' Stark	85
27	2012	Missing	Paul Winstone	62
28	2012	Fight Club - A History of Violence	Narrator	0
29	2014	Legends	Martin Odum	64
30	2015	ARES: live	Mitch Henderson	43
31	2015	The Frankenstein Chronicles	John Marlott	70
32	2016	Life Inside Jail: Hell On Earth	Narrator	48
33	2016	Wasted	Sean Bean	56
34	2016	Medici: Masters of Florence		78
35	2016	Roman Empire	Narrateur	69
36	2017	Broken	Father Michael Kerrigan	69
37	2018	The Oath	Tom Hammond	62
38	2019	Curfew	The General	55
39	2019	World on Fire	Douglas Bennett	76
40	2020	Reunited Apart	Self	55
41	2020	Snowpiercer	Joseph Wilford	74
42	2021	Time	Mark Cobden	76
43	2022	Marriage	Ian	65
44	2024	Shardlake	Thomas Cromwell	69
45	2024	Gladiators	Narrator	100
46		Robin Hood	Sheriff of Nottingham	0
47	2025	This City Is Ours	Ronnie Phelan	73

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