Happy Birthday Sean Bean!

Happy Birthday Sean Bean!  One of Bean’s early genre roles was playing the Prince in “The True Bride” (1988) episode of The Storyteller.  He was part of the McCabe family in The Field (1990) based on the John B. Keane play. Bean was a deadly villain, Sean Miller, in Patriot Games (1992).  He started the tv films of Richard Sharpe based on the Bernard Cornwell novels playing the lead in Sharpe’s Rifles (1993) and Sharpe’s Eagle (1993).  Bean played the romantic lead in the tv mini-series Lady Chatterley (1993).  He returned as Sharpe in Sharpe’s Company (1994), Sharpe’s Enemy (1994), and Sharpe’s Honour (1994). Farmer Grey was played by Sean Bean in Black Beauty (1994) based on the classic novel by Anna Sewell.  Bean was back in Sharpe’s Gold (1995), Sharpe’s Battle (1995), and Sharpe’s Sword (1995). Then, he was the secret agent turned villain, Alec Trevelyan, opposing James Bond in GoldenEye (1995).  Sean Bean continued the Sharpe films with Sharpe’s Regiment (1996), Sharpe’s Siege (1996), and Sharpe’s Mission (1996).  

He played another romantic lead, Count Vronsky, in Anna Karenina (1997) based on the Leo Tolstoy classic.  Bean continued the Sharpe movies with Sharpe’s Revenge (1997), Sharpe’s Justice (1997), and Sharpe’s Waterloo (1997).  He was part of the team of operatives in Ronin (1998).  Bean took another iconic role as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).  He was a partner and Grammaton Cleric in the sci fi movie, Equilibrium (2002). Bean returned as Boromir for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).  He played the Greek hero, Odysseus, in Troy (2004).  He was the villainous rival, Ian Howe, in National Treasure (2004).  Bean concluded the Sharpe films with Sharpe’s Challenge (2006) and Sharpe’s Peril (2008).  Zeus was played by Sean Bean in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010).  Ned Stark was another iconic role for Sean Bean in the first season of Game of Thrones (2011).  Bean was in the video game adaptation, Silent Hill: Revelation (2012).  He played another secret service agent in the action movie Cleanskin (2012).  Bean was in the sci fi movie Jupiter Ascending (2015) as Stinger Apini.  In The Martian (2015), the adaptation of the Andy Weir book, he played Mitch Henderson. He is currently playing The General in the street racing show Curfew.  Happy Birthday Sean Bean! 

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