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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 17, 1959
Place of Birth
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Shaun Mark Bean
Sean Bean
4.8 Popularity
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.
Known For
8.0
The Yellow Tie
2025
0.0
Presenter
Original Gangsters with Sean Bean
2025
7.6
Sheriff of Nottingham
Robin Hood
2025
0.0
(voice)
Watch the Skies
2025
6.2
Jem Stoker
Anemone
2025
6.7
Billings
Deep Cover
2025
7.2
Ronnie Phelan
This City Is Ours
2025
6.5
Narrator
Gladiators
2024
6.8
Thomas Cromwell
Shardlake
2024
6.3
Alman Kido
Knights of the Zodiac
2023
Credits
The Yellow Tie
2025
8.0
Original Gangsters with Sean Bean
as Presenter
2025
0.0
Robin Hood
as Sheriff of Nottingham
2025
7.6
Watch the Skies
as (voice)
2025
0.0
Anemone
as Jem Stoker
2025
6.2
Deep Cover
as Billings
2025
6.7
This City Is Ours
as Ronnie Phelan
2025
7.2
Gladiators
as Narrator
2024
6.5
Shardlake
as Thomas Cromwell
2024
6.8
Knights of the Zodiac
as Alman Kido
2023
6.3
Marriage
as Ian
2022
6.5
Osprey: Sea Raptor
as Narrator
2021
0.0
Time
as Mark Cobden
2021
7.6
Identity Crisis: Bringing Possessor to Life
2020
0.0
Wolfwalkers
as Robyn's Father, Bill Goodfellowe (voice)
2020
8.2
Possessor
as John Parse
2020
6.4
Snowpiercer
as Joseph Wilford
2020
7.4
Reunited Apart
as Self
2020
5.5
World on Fire
as Douglas Bennett
2019
7.5
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
as Self
2019
7.1
Curfew
as The General
2019
5.6
Taniel
as Poetry Narrator
2018
0.0
The Oath
as Tom Hammond
2018
6.2
Dark River
as Richard Bell
2017
5.6
The Unconquered
as Narrator (English)
2017
8.4
Faster Than Light: the Dream of Interstellar Flight
as Narrator
2017
6.4
Broken
as Father Michael Kerrigan
2017
6.9
Drone
as Neil
2017
5.3
Roman Empire
as Narrateur
2016
7.0
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016
7.7
Wasted
as Sean Bean
2016
5.6
Life Inside Jail: Hell On Earth
as Narrator
2016
4.8
The Young Messiah
as Severus
2016
6.4
The Frankenstein Chronicles
as John Marlott
2015
6.9
Instruments of Darkness
as Macbeth
2015
10.0
The Martian
as Mitch Henderson
2015
7.7
Pixels
as Corporal Hill (SAS Officer)
2015
5.8
🎬
Jupiter Ascending Genetically Spliced
as Self
2015
0.0
Sean Bean on Waterloo
as Himself/narrator
2015
0.0
ARES: live
as Mitch Henderson
2015
4.3
Any Day
as Vian
2015
5.1
Jupiter Ascending
as Stinger Apini
2015
5.5
Legends
as Martin Odum
2014
6.4
Wicked Blood
as Uncle Frank Stinson
2014
5.5
🎬
Wild in the Streets
as Narrator
2013
6.0
🎬
Fight Club - A History of Violence
as Narrator
2012
0.0
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
as Harry Mason / Christopher Da Silva
2012
5.5
Georgian Fighting Women
as Narrator
2012
0.0
Hooligan
2012
6.5
Soldiers of Fortune
as Dimidov
2012
4.9
Mirror Mirror
as King
2012
5.9
Missing
as Paul Winstone
2012
6.2
Cleanskin
as Ewan
2012
5.6
Age of Heroes
as Maj. Jack Jones
2011
5.5
Game of Thrones
as Lord Eddard 'Ned' Stark
2011
8.5
Accused
as Simon Gaskell / Tracie Tremarco
2010
8.1
The Lost Future
as Amal
2010
4.8
Death Race 2
as Markus Kane
2010
5.8
Black Death
as Ulric
2010
6.0
Ca$h
as Pyke Kubic
2010
5.8
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
as Zeus
2010
6.2
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
as John Dawson
2009
6.7
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
as John Dawson
2009
7.0
Red Riding
as John Dawson
2009
6.7
Sharpe's Peril
as Richard Sharpe
2008
6.7
Crusoe
as James Crusoe
2008
6.8
Far North
as Loki
2008
6.0
Outlaw
as Danny Bryant
2007
5.4
The Hitcher
as John Ryder
2007
5.9
Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'
as Self
2006
5.9
🎬
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
2006
6.0
🎬
The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
2006
5.5
Sharpe's Challenge
as Richard Sharpe
2006
6.2
Silent Hill
as Christopher Da Silva
2006
6.6
🎬
Faceless
2006
1.0
The Reichen Show
as Self
2005
4.8
The Dark
as James
2005
5.7
Flightplan
as Captain Rich
2005
6.5
The Island
as Dr. Bernard Merrick
2005
6.7
D-Day to Berlin
as Narrator
2005
7.1
North Country
as Kyle
2005
7.2
National Treasure
as Ian Howe
2004
6.6
Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
as Self
2004
0.0
Pride
as Dark (voice)
2004
6.2
Troy
as Odysseus
2004
7.2
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
as Self
2004
8.8
D-Day to Berlin
as Narrator (voice)
2004
6.7
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Boromir
2003
8.5
Henry VIII
as Robert Aske
2003
6.8
The Big Empty
as Cowboy
2003
6.1
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Boromir (uncredited)
2002
8.4
Equilibrium
as Errol Partridge
2002
7.0
🎬
HypaSpace
as Self
2002
4.0
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
as Self
2002
8.8
Tom & Thomas
as Paul Sheppard
2002
6.6
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Boromir
2001
8.4
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
as Self
2001
7.8
Quest for the Ring
as Self
2001
5.6
Don't Say a Word
as Patrick Koster
2001
6.3
Essex Boys
as Jason Locke
2000
5.6
Extremely Dangerous
as Neil Byrne
1999
0.0
Bravo Two Zero
as Andy McNab
1999
5.7
Family Guy
as Portrait Griffin (voice)
1999
7.4
Ronin
as Spence
1998
7.0
Airborne
as Dave Toombs
1998
2.7
La Coupe De La Gloire
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1998
6.8
Sharpe: The Legend
as Richard Sharpe
1997
5.0
Sharpe's Waterloo
as Richard Sharpe
1997
7.3
Sharpe's Justice
as Richard Sharpe
1997
7.0
Sharpe's Revenge
as Richard Sharpe
1997
7.1
Anna Karenina
as Vronsky
1997
6.1
Decisive Weapons
as Narator
1996
0.0
Sharpe's Mission
as Richard Sharpe
1996
6.8
Sharpe's Siege
as Richard Sharpe
1996
7.2
Sharpe's Regiment
as Richard Sharpe
1996
7.0
When Saturday Comes
as Jimmy Muir
1996
5.6
TFI Friday
as Self
1996
6.8
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
as Self
1995
6.0
In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
as Alec Trevelyan
1995
3.0
GoldenEye
as Alec Trevelyan
1995
6.9
The Frank Skinner Show
as Self
1995
7.5
Soccer AM
as Self
1995
6.0
Sharpe's Sword
as Richard Sharpe
1995
7.2
Sharpe's Battle
as Richard Sharpe
1995
6.8
Sharpe's Gold
as Richard Sharpe
1995
6.5
🎬
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
as Self
1995
6.0
Shopping
as Venning
1994
5.3
Jacob
as Esau
1994
6.5
Scarlett
as Lord Richard Fenton
1994
6.5
Black Beauty
as Farmer Grey
1994
6.7
Sharpe's Honour
as Richard Sharpe
1994
6.6
Sharpe's Enemy
as Richard Sharpe
1994
6.8
Sharpe's Company
as Richard Sharpe
1994
6.7
A Woman's Guide to Adultery
as Paul
1993
1.0
Lady Chatterley
as Oliver Mellors
1993
6.2
Sharpe's Eagle
as Richard Sharpe
1993
7.1
Sharpe
as Richard Sharpe
1993
8.0
Sharpe's Rifles
as Richard Sharpe
1993
6.7
Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery
as Micky McAvoy
1992
5.0
Patriot Games
as Sean Miller
1992
6.7
Clarissa
1991
4.0
Prince
as Jack Morgan
1991
0.0
Tell Me That You Love Me
as Gabriel Lewis
1991
0.0
My Kingdom for a Horse
as Steve Deakin
1991
0.0
Lorna Doone
as Carver Doone
1990
5.9
The Field
as Tadgh McCabe
1990
7.0
Wedded
as Man
1990
0.0
Windprints
as Anton van Heerden
1990
6.1
Small Zones
as Vic
1990
0.0
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Larry Frisk
1989
6.2
War Requiem
as The German Soldier
1989
6.4
The Fifteen Streets
as Dominic O'Brien
1989
6.2
This Morning
as Self - Guest
1988
5.2
The Storyteller
as Prince
1988
8.2
Stormy Monday
as Brendan
1988
5.7
Troubles
as Captain Bolton
1988
10.0
Inspector Morse
as Alex Bailey
1987
7.8
Caravaggio
as Ranuccio
1986
6.1
Exploits at West Poley
as Scarred Man
1985
4.7
Winter Flight
as Hooker
1984
5.5
Punters
as Lurch
1984
0.0
The Bill
1984
6.7
🎬
Samson and Delilah
as Billy
1984
0.0
Natural World
as Narrator
1983
7.1
🎬
The 4th Reich
as Sergeant Major Gordon
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Isolate Thief
N/A
0.0
Rogue Trooper
N/A
0.0