Cast
Sean Bean
Acting
Cast
Sean Bean
Known for
Acting
Born
1959-04-17
From
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Also known as Shaun Mark Bean
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 (2001β2003), 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.
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7.2
MOVIE2004
Troy
as Odysseus
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8.5
MOVIE2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Boromir
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8.4
MOVIE2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Boromir
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7.7
MOVIE2015
The Martian
as Mitch Henderson
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5.8
MOVIE2015
Pixels
as Corporal Hill (SAS Officer)
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5.5
MOVIE2015
Jupiter Ascending
as Stinger Apini
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8.2
MOVIE2020
Wolfwalkers
as Robyn's Father, Bill Goodfellowe (voice)
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6.7
MOVIE2025
Deep Cover
as Billings
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6.2
MOVIE2010
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
as Zeus
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6.7
MOVIE2004
National Treasure
as Ian Howe
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5.8
MOVIE2010
Death Race 2
as Markus Kane
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5.5
MOVIE2012
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
as Harry Mason / Christopher Da Silva
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6.0
MOVIE2025
Anemone
as Jem Stoker
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6.9
MOVIE2023
Mummies
as Pharaoh (voice)
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6.3
MOVIE2023
Knights of the Zodiac
as Alman Kido
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6.1
MOVIE1997
Anna Karenina
as Vronsky
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6.6
MOVIE2006
Silent Hill
as Christopher Da Silva
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6.7
MOVIE2005
The Island
as Dr. Bernard Merrick
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5.9
MOVIE2012
Mirror Mirror
as King
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6.9
MOVIE1995
GoldenEye
as Alec Trevelyan
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4.9
MOVIE2010
The Lost Future
as Amal
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7.1
MOVIE2002
Equilibrium
as Errol Partridge
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6.4
MOVIE2020
Possessor
as John Parse
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8.3
MOVIE2025
The Yellow Tie
as Demostene Celibidache
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6.4
MOVIE2005
Flightplan
as Captain Rich
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7.0
MOVIE1998
Ronin
as Spence
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5.6
MOVIE2012
Cleanskin
as Ewan
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7.0
MOVIE2019
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
as Self
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5.9
MOVIE2007
The Hitcher
as John Ryder
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6.7
MOVIE1992
Patriot Games
as Sean Miller
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4.8
MOVIE2012
Soldiers of Fortune
as Dimidov
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5.3
MOVIE2017
Drone
as Neil
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8.0
MOVIE2001
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
as Self
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6.8
MOVIE1993
Sharpe's Rifles
as Lieutenant Richard Sharpe
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7.3
MOVIE1997
Sharpe's Waterloo
as Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe
MOVIE2026
The Isolate Thief
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6.3
MOVIE2001
Don't Say a Word
as Patrick Koster
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7.0
MOVIE1996
Sharpe's Regiment
as Major Richard Sharpe
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6.8
MOVIE1994
Sharpe's Company
as Captain Richard Sharpe
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7.2
MOVIE1997
Sharpe's Revenge
as Major Richard Sharpe
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5.4
MOVIE1994
Shopping
as Venning
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6.1
MOVIE1997
Sharpe: The Legend
as Richard Sharpe
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6.8
MOVIE1994
Sharpe's Enemy
as Major Richard Sharpe
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5.7
MOVIE2000
Essex Boys
as Jason Locke
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6.9
MOVIE1996
Sharpe's Mission
as Major Richard Sharpe
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7.3
MOVIE1995
Sharpe's Sword
as Major Richard Sharpe
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7.2
MOVIE2005
North Country
as Kyle
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6.4
MOVIE1989
The Fifteen Streets
as Dominic O'Brien
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6.1
MOVIE2010
Black Death
as Ulric
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5.4
MOVIE2011
Age of Heroes
as Maj. Jack Jones
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7.0
MOVIE1984
Punters
as Lurch
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6.7
MOVIE2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
as John Dawson
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8.0
MOVIE2003
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)
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5.5
MOVIE2014
Wicked Blood
as Uncle Frank Stinson
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8.1
MOVIE2017
The Unconquered
as Narrator (English)
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6.7
MOVIE1994
Black Beauty
as Farmer Grey
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5.4
MOVIE2007
Outlaw
as Danny Bryant
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6.8
MOVIE1998
La Coupe de la Gloire
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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5.8
MOVIE1999
Bravo Two Zero
as Andy McNab
MOVIE2025
Watch the Skies
as (voice)
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6.7
MOVIE1994
Sharpe's Honour
as Major Richard Sharpe
MOVIE2015
Jupiter Ascending Genetically Spliced
as Self
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7.2
MOVIE1993
Sharpe's Eagle
as Captain Richard Sharpe
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5.7
MOVIE2001
Quest for the Ring
as Self
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6.4
MOVIE2016
The Young Messiah
as Severus
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5.6
MOVIE2017
Dark River
as Richard Bell
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7.1
MOVIE1997
Sharpe's Justice
as Major Richard Sharpe
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6.1
MOVIE1986
Caravaggio
as Ranuccio
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6.9
MOVIE1995
Sharpe's Battle
as Major Richard Sharpe
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8.0
MOVIE2015
Instruments of Darkness
as Macbeth
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6.0
MOVIE1995
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
as Self
MOVIE2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
as John Dawson
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4.7
MOVIE1995
In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
as Alec Trevelyan
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6.1
MOVIE2003
The Big Empty
as Cowboy
MOVIE2026
Rogue Trooper
as (voice)
MOVIE2012
Georgian Fighting Women
as Narrator
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6.7
MOVIE2008
Sharpe's Peril
as Richard Sharpe
MOVIE2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Road Goes Ever On..
as Self
MOVIE2018
Britain's Poppies: The First World War Remembered
as Self- Narrator
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5.7
MOVIE2005
The Dark
as James
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6.0
MOVIE1995
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
as Self
MOVIE2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth + Weta Workshop + Costume Design
as Self
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6.8
MOVIE1994
Jacob
as Esau
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5.9
MOVIE2010
Ca$h
as Pyke Kubic
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6.2
MOVIE2006
Sharpe's Challenge
as Richard Sharpe
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6.3
MOVIE1984
Winter Flight
as Hooker
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7.2
MOVIE1996
Sharpe's Siege
as Major Richard Sharpe
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3.3
MOVIE1998
Airborne
as Dave Toombs
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6.2
MOVIE1990
Lorna Doone
as Carver Doone
MOVIE2021
Osprey: Sea Raptor
as Narrator
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5.7
MOVIE1996
When Saturday Comes
as Jimmy Muir
MOVIETBA
The 4th Reich
as Sergeant Major Gordon
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6.2
MOVIE2012
Hooligan
MOVIE2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
as Self
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6.7
MOVIE1995
Sharpe's Gold
as Major Richard Sharpe
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5.9
MOVIE2006
Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'
as Self
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6.3
MOVIE1989
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Larry Frisk
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5.7
MOVIE1988
Stormy Monday
as Brendan
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7.0
MOVIE1990
The Field
as Tadgh McCabe
MOVIE1988
The Storyteller: The True Bride
as Prince
MOVIE2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth
as Self
MOVIE1984
Samson and Delilah
as Billy
MOVIE2018
Taniel
as Poetry Narrator
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6.3
MOVIE1989
War Requiem
as The German Soldier
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6.4
MOVIE2004
D-Day to Berlin
as Narrator (voice)
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6.1
MOVIE2004
Pride
as Dark (voice)
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6.4
MOVIE2017
Faster Than Light: the Dream of Interstellar Flight
as Narrator
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8.8
MOVIE2002
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
as Self
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6.0
MOVIE2008
Far North
as Loki
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6.0
MOVIE2013
Wild in the Streets
as Narrator
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8.8
MOVIE2004
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE1990
Wedded
as Man
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5.1
MOVIE2015
Any Day
as Vian
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6.5
MOVIE1990
Windprints
as Anton van Heerden
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5.5
MOVIE2006
The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
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7.0
MOVIE1992
Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery
as Micky McAvoy
MOVIE2015
Sean Bean on Waterloo
as Himself/narrator
MOVIE2020
Identity Crisis: Bringing Possessor to Life
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6.0
MOVIE2006
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
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5.8
MOVIE1985
Exploits at West Poley
as Scarred Man
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6.7
MOVIE2002
Tom & Thomas
as Paul Sheppard
MOVIE2004
Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
as Self
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9.0
MOVIE1991
Tell Me That You Love Me
as Gabriel Lewis
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9.0
MOVIE1991
My Kingdom for a Horse
as Steve Deakin
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9.0
MOVIE1990
Small Zones
as Vic
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8.0
MOVIE1991
Prince
as Jack Morgan
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10.0
MOVIE1982
Waiting for Waiting for Godot
as Self
MOVIE2024
Shardlake
as Thomas Cromwell