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Shaun Mark Bean, credited professionally as Sean Bean, is an English actor born on the 17th of April, 1959. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean made his professional debut in a theatre production of Romeo and Juliet in 1983. His early career involved a mixture of stage and screen work. 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. 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. In 1990, Bean starred in Jim Sheridan's adaption of the John B. Keane play The Field. 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. His television roles include the BBC anthology series Accused, 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, the dramas The Canterbury Tales and World on Fire, among others. His largest television success was playing the lead protagonist, Lord Eddard Stark, in first season of HBO’s medieval fantasy series, Game of Thrones. In 2017 Bean starred in the BBC series Broken as the troubled priest Father Kerrigan, which earned him a BAFTA award for Best Actor.

Bean's film roles include Patriot Games (1992), Ronin (1998), Equilibrium (2002), National Treasure (2004), Odysseus in Troy (2004), Flightplan (2005), North Country  (2005),  The Island (2005), Silent Hill (2006), Black Death (2010), Jupiter Ascending (2015), and The Martian (2015). In the 1995 film GoldenEye, Bean portrayed James Bond's nemesis Alec Trevelyan and his most prominent role was as Boromir in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003). 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.

FILMOGRAPHY

2020-2022 Snowpiercer (TV Series)
Joseph Wilford (21 episodes)

2021 Time (TV Series)
Mark Cobden (3 episodes)

2020 Possessor
John Parse

2019 World on Fire (TV Series)
Douglas Bennett (7 episodes)

2019 Curfew (TV Series)
The General (6 episodes)

2018 Hitman 2 (Video Game)
Mark Faba (voice)

2018 Medici (TV Series)
Jacopo de' Pazzi (8 episodes)

2018 The Oath (TV Series)
Tom Hammond (10 episodes)

2015-2017 The Frankenstein Chronicles (TV Series)
John Marlott (12 episodes)

2017 Dark River
Richard Bell

2017 Broken (TV Series)
Father Michael Kerrigan (6 episodes)

2017 Drone
Neil Wistin

2016 Civilization VI (Video Game)
Narrator (voice)

2016 Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
Regis Lucis Caelum (voice)

2016 The Young Messiah
Severus

2014-2015 Legends (TV Series)
Martin Odum (20 episodes)

2015 The Martian
Mitch Henderson

2015 Kholat (Video Game)
Narrator (voice)

2015 Pixels
Corporal Hill (SAS Officer)

2015 Any Day
Vian

2015 Jupiter Ascending
Stinger Apini

2014 Instruments of Darkness
Macbeth

2014 The Snow Queen 2
General Arrog (English version, voice)

2014 Robot Chicken (TV Series)
North / Heathcliff (voice - 1 episode)

2014 Wicked Blood
Frank Stinson

2013 Papa Sangre II (Video Game)
Guide (voice)

2013 Family Guy (TV Series)
Portrait Griffin (voice - 1 episode)

2012 Silent Hill: Revelation
Harry

2012 Accused (TV Series)
Simon Gaskell / Tracie Tremarco (1 episode)

2012 Soldiers of Fortune
Dimidov

2012 Missing (TV Series)
Paul Winstone (8 episodes)

2012 Mirror Mirror
King

2012 Cleanskin
Ewan

2011 Game of Thrones (TV Series)
Eddard 'Ned' Stark (10 episodes)

2011 Age of Heroes
Jones

2010 Death Race 2 (Video)
Markus Kane

2010 The Lost Future (TV Movie)
Amal

2010 Black Death
Ulrich

2008-2010 Crusoe (TV Series)
James Crusoe (5 episodes)

2010 Ca$h
Pyke Kubic / Reese Kubic

2010 Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Zeus

2007 Far North
Loki

2007 Outlaw
Danny Bryant

2007 The Hitcher
John Ryder

2006 Faceless (TV Movie)
Eddie Prey

2006 Silent Hill
Christopher Da Silva

2006 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Video Game)
Emperor Martin Septim (voice)

2005 Flightplan
Captain Rich

2005 North Country
Kyle

2005 The Island
Dr. Bernard Merrick

2005 The Dark
James

2004 National Treasure
Ian Howe

2004 Pride (TV Movie)
Dark (voice)

2004 Troy
Odysseus

2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Boromir

2003 Henry VIII (TV Movie)
Robert Aske

2003 The Big Empty
Cowboy

2002 Equilibrium
Partridge

2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Boromir (extended edition)

2002 Tom & Thomas
Paul Sheppard

2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Boromir

2001 Don't Say a Word
Patrick Koster

2000 Essex Boys
Jason Locke

1999 Extremely Dangerous (TV Mini-Series)
Neil Byrne

1999 Bravo Two Zero (TV Movie)
Andy McNab

1998 The Canterbury Tales (TV Series)
The Nun's Priest (1 episode)

1998 Ronin
Spence

1998 Airborne
Dave Toombs

1997 Anna Karenina
Vronsky

1996 When Saturday Comes
Jimmy Muir

1995 GoldenEye
Alec Trevelyan

1994 Jacob (TV Movie)
Esau

1994 Scarlett (TV Mini-Series)
Lord Richard Fenton

1994 Black Beauty
Farmer Grey

1994 Shopping
Venning

1993-2008 Sharpe (TV Series)
Major Richard Sharpe (16 episodes)

1993 A Woman's Guide to Adultery (TV Series)
Paul (3 episodes)

1993 Lady Chatterley (TV Mini-Series)
Mellors

1992 Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery (TV Movie)
Micky McAvoy

1992 Patriot Games
Sean Miller

1992 Inspector Morse (TV Series)
Alex Bailey (1 episode)

1991 My Kingdom for a Horse (TV Series)
Steve

1991 Clarissa (TV Series)
Lovelace (4 episodes)

1990 Lorna Doone (TV Movie)
Carver Doone

1990 The Field
Tadgh McCabe

1989 Windprints
Anton van Heerden

1989 The Fifteen Streets (TV Movie)
Dominic O'Brien

1989 The Jim Henson Hour (TV Series)
Prince (1 episode)

1989 How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Larry Frisk

1989 War Requiem
The German Soldier

1988 Troubles (TV Mini-Series)
Captain Bolton

1988 Stormy Monday
Brendan

1986 The Practice (TV Series)
Terry Donlan (2 episodes)

1986 Caravaggio
Ranuccio

1985 Exploits at West Poley (TV Movie)
Scarred Man

1985 Samson and Delilah (Short)
Billy

1984 Punters (TV Movie)
Lurch

1984 Winter Flight
Hooker

1984 The Bill (TV Series)
Horace Clark