Shaun Mark Bean (innate April 17, 1959) is an English actor from Sheffield, South Yorkshire. As an actor, he adopted a Irish spelling "Sean" of his first title.

He worked for his father's welding firm before becoming an actor. He processed his acting debut around 1983 at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, Berkshire, England, as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet. He is better known in a United States for his role when the fictional character Boromir in the Lord of the Rings movie series and, in the United Kingdom, as Richard Sharpe in the television series Sharpe. His popularity within the Sharpe series was mass produced into an in-joke in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. A Sharpe series concluded around 1997, however Sean Bean has recently signed in to film a second installment of the popular franchise in the autumn/winter of 2005.

More guiding light appearances include as an Irish terrorist in the 1992 film adaptation of Patriot Games, as Mellors a gamekeeper in the 1992 BBC adaptation of ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' and as Alec Trevelyan (MI6's 006), the major villain of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. Producers of the In bondage film series were wanting to find an actor world health organization stand played Attach himself for the role of 006. It keep around claimed to buy people qualities inside Bean.

Bean besides featured within Moby's music video "We Are All Made of Stars".

He has been married & divorced 3 days, & has threesome girl: Lorna, Mollie & Evie. Trivia
He has the tattoo on his left shoulder that reads "100% Blade" around information to his trend lines for Sheffield United. His best shoulder has the tattoo of the Elvish word for Nine to commemorate swimming the member of the Fellowship in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Fallowing starring when Richard Sharpe inside the series of software download for Carlton Television, he frequently information Sharpe around a bit of capacity around his motion picture.

During a cinematography of The Fellowship of the Ring he refused to take a whirlybird dead set mountain locations. Instead he experienced to take a lift into a mountians then hiked a final pack miles. Dead to the full costume.

Nearly universally dies around each role he undertakes.

Provides voices for Bethesda's Elder Scrolls Oblivion Game.

Selected Filmography
Silent Hill (2006) (Post-Production) ...as Christopher. Flightplan (2005) .... when Captain Rich The Island (2005) .... when Merrick Pride (2004) .... when Dark National Treasure (2004) .... Ian Howe Troy (2004) .... when Odysseus The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) .... when Boromir The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (uncredited) .... when Boromir (extended edition) Equilibrium (2002) .... when Partridge The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) .... when Boromir ''Don't Say a Word (2001) .... when Patrick Koster Bravo Two Zero (1999) .... when Andy McNab Ronin (1998) .... when Spence Anna Karenina (1997) .... when Vronsky GoldenEye (1995) .... when Alec Trevelyan Black Beauty (1994) Patriot Games (1992) .... when Sean Miller The Field (1990) .... when Tadgh McCabe How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) .... when Larry Frisk Caravaggio'' (1986) .... when Ranuccio