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Sean Bean
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Biography
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.
Notable films
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
As Boromir
The Martian
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Troy
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
As Boromir
Possessor
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Dark River
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Jupiter Ascending
As Stinger Apini
National Treasure
As Ian Howe
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Discs That Changed How Britain Watched
When DVD landed in Britain in 1997 it promised cinema in your living room. The discs that followed rewired what collectors expected from a film at home.
10 films
The Epic Journey: An Odyssey Narrative Chain
Homer's Odyssey is the foundational blueprint for the homebound journey, tracking a weary warrior's attempt to return to his family. This six-film narrative cha...
6 films
When Studios Marry: Films Born of Corporate Chaos
From the ashes of mergers and acquisitions come some of cinema's most fascinating experiments. This chain traces how boardroom decisions shaped the art on scree...
8 films
No shared language, just shared work
A chain of six films where collaboration, not language, becomes the bridge between alien intelligences. Diplomacy assumes a shared frame of reference, words, ge...
6 films
The Last Picture Shows
In an age of digital gloss, a new generation of filmmakers has returned to celluloid for its warmth, grain, and honesty. This chain follows the medium's resurge...
8 films
Machines That Open the Wrong Doors
A chain of films where scientists build devices to widen the mind and find something with teeth waiting on the other side. Practical effects, saturated colour a...
8 films
20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own
There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...
20 films
The DVDs That Changed Everything
In the autumn of 1997, the first DVD players reached British shops, and the format arrived with a sales pitch that sounded too good to be true: cinema in your l...
13 films
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Deep Cover
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Mummies
2023 · Pharaoh (voice)
Possessor
2020 · John Parse
Dark River
2017 · Richard Bell
The Young Messiah
2016 · Severus
The Martian
2015 · Mitch Henderson
Pixels
2015 · Corporal Hill (SAS Officer)
Jupiter Ascending
2015 · Stinger Apini
Ca$h
2010 · Pyke Kubic
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2010 · Zeus
Flightplan
2005 · Captain Rich
The Island
2005 · Dr. Bernard Merrick
National Treasure
2004 · Ian Howe
Troy
2004 · Odysseus
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Boromir
Henry VIII
2003 · Robert Aske
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Boromir
Don't Say a Word
2001 · Patrick Koster
Ronin
1998 · Spence
Patriot Games
1992 · Sean Miller