Sean Bean was born and raised in Sheffield, England. He left school
at the age of 16 and discovered acting while studying art at Rotherham
College, he abandoned a prospective career at his fathers welding firm
after winning a place at RADA. Sean's first movie was titled Winter
Flight, although he first came to prominence in television roles; as
Napoleonic hero Sharpe, or rugged Oliver Mellors in Lady Chatterley.
On the big screen he's found a niche as the ruthless baddie, the IRA
terrorist in Patriot Games, a bitter double agent in GoldenEye,
a weapons expert in euro-thriller Ronin. Bean briefly returned to television
for the adaptation Andy McNab’s Gulf War novel Bravo Two Zero. More
recently he has played Boromir in The Fellowship of the Rings, the first
of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
