Sean Bean

Shaun Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959), credited professionally as Sean Bean (/ˈʃɔːn ˈbiːn/), 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.

Sean Bean
Bean at 2017 Film Festival Cologne Awards
Born	Shaun Mark Bean (1959-04-17) 17 April 1959 Handsworth, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1983–present
Spouse(s)	Debra James ​ ( m. 1981; div. 1988) Melanie Hill ​ ( m. 1990; div. 1997) Abigail Cruttenden ​ ( m. 1997; div. 2000) Georgina Sutcliffe ​ ( m. 2008; div. 2011) Ashley Moore ​ ( m. 2017)
Children	3

Bean's film roles include Patriot Games (1992), GoldenEye (1995), Ronin (1998), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), Equilibrium (2002), National Treasure (2004), Odysseus in Troy (2004), Flightplan (2005), North Country (2005), The Island (2005), Silent Hill (2006), Black Death (2010), Jupiter Ascending (2015), and The Martian (2015).

His television roles include the BBC anthology series Accused, 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 drama The Canterbury Tales, among others.

Early life

Sheffield Legends plaque in Bean's home city of Sheffield, England

Shaun Mark Bean[1] was born on 17 April 1959 in Handsworth, a suburb of Sheffield, which was then part of West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Rita (née Tuckwood) and Brian K. Bean (born 1934).[2][3] He has a younger sister, Lorraine. His paternal grandfather, Harold Bean Jr. (1914–2001), served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War[4] and was a stud mill labourer who later became a pacifist.[3] His father owned a fabrication company that employed 50 people, including Bean's mother, who worked as a secretary. Despite becoming relatively wealthy, the family never moved away from the council estate as they preferred to remain close to friends and family.[5] As a child, Bean smashed a glass door during an argument, which left a piece of glass embedded in his leg that briefly impeded his walking, and left a large scar.[2] This prevented him from pursuing his ambition of playing football professionally.

In 1975, Bean left Brook Comprehensive School with O levels in Art and English.[6] After a job at a supermarket and another for the local council, he started work at his father's firm. Once a week, on day release, he attended Rotherham College of Arts and Technology to study welding.[7] While at college, he came upon an art class, and decided to pursue his interest in art. After attending courses at two other colleges, one for half a day and the other for less than a week, he returned to Rotherham College, where he enrolled in a drama course. After some college plays and one at Rotherham Civic Theatre, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), starting a seven-term course in January 1981.[2]

Career

Bean at the premiere of North Country at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival

Bean graduated from RADA in 1983, making his professional acting debut later that year as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury.[2] His early career involved a mixture of stage and screen work. As an actor, he adopted the Irish spelling of his first name. His first national exposure came in an advert for non-alcoholic lager.[8] In 1984, he starred in David and Jonathan by William Douglas-Home at the Redgrave Theatre in Farnham.[9] Between 1986 and 1988, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in productions of Romeo and Juliet, The Fair Maid of the West, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.[10][11] He appeared in his first film, Derek Jarman's Caravaggio (1986), opposite Tilda Swinton, playing Ranuccio Tomassoni, followed by the same director's War Requiem (1988). In 1989, he starred as the evil Dominic O'Brien in The Fifteen Streets, where he gained a dedicated following.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bean became an established actor on British television.[12] In 1990, Bean starred in Jim Sheridan's adaption of the John B. Keane play The Field. Also in 1990, his role as the journalist Anton in Windprints examined the difficult problems of apartheid in South Africa. He appeared in the BBC productions Clarissa (1991) (with Saskia Wickham and Lynsey Baxter) and Lady Chatterley (1993) (with Joely Richardson).[13] In 1996, he combined his love of football with his career to finally achieve his childhood dream of playing for Sheffield United, starring as Jimmy Muir in the film When Saturday Comes.[14] Although the film was not critically acclaimed, Bean received credit for a good performance.[15] In August 1997, Bean appeared in what became a famous Sky Sports commercial for the upcoming 1997–98 Premier League season.[16] His football related work continued in 1998 when he narrated La Coupe de la Gloire, the official film of the 1998 FIFA World Cup held in France.[17]

Bean's critical successes in Caravaggio and Lady Chatterley contributed to his emerging image as a sex symbol, but he became most closely associated with the character of Richard Sharpe, the maverick Napoleonic Wars rifleman in the ITV television series Sharpe. The series was based on Bernard Cornwell's novels about the Peninsular War, and the fictional experiences of a band of soldiers in the famed 95th Rifles. Starting with Sharpe's Rifles, the series followed the fortunes and misfortunes of Richard Sharpe as he rose from the ranks as a Sergeant, promoted to Lieutenant in Portugal, to Lieutenant Colonel by the time of the Battle of Waterloo.

Bean was not the first actor to be chosen to play Sharpe. As Paul McGann was injured while playing football two days into filming, the producers initially tried to work around his injury, but it proved impossible and Bean replaced him. The series ran continuously from 1993 to 1997, with three episodes produced each year. It was filmed under challenging conditions, first in Ukraine and later in Portugal. After several years of rumours, more episodes were produced: Sharpe's Challenge, which aired in April 2006, and Sharpe's Peril, which aired in autumn 2008 and was later released on DVD.[18] Both of these were released as two cinema-length 90-minute episodes per series.[19] With a role as enigmatic Lord Richard Fenton in the TV miniseries Scarlett, Bean made the transition to Hollywood feature films. His first notable Hollywood appearance was that of an Irish republican terrorist in the 1992 film adaptation of Patriot Games. While filming his death scene, Harrison Ford hit him with a boat hook, giving him a permanent scar. Bean's rough-cut looks made him a patent choice for a villain, and his role in Patriot Games was the first of several villains that he would portray, all of whom die in gruesome ways.[20]

Bean at a press conference for Ridley Scott's The Martian, 2015 Toronto Film Festival

In the 1995 film GoldenEye, Bean portrayed James Bond's nemesis Alec Trevelyan (MI6's 006).[21] He played the weak-stomached Spence in Ronin (1998), a wife-beating ex-con in Essex Boys (2000), and a malevolent kidnapper/jewel thief in Don't Say a Word (2001). He was also widely recognised as villainous treasure hunter Ian Howe in National Treasure, and played a villainous scientist in The Island (2005). In the independent film Far North, he plays a Russian mercenary who gets lost in the tundra and is rescued by an Inuit woman and her daughter, whom he later pits against one another.

Bean's most prominent role was as Boromir in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. His major screen time occurs in the first instalment, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. He appears briefly in flashbacks in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, as well as in a scene from the extended edition of The Two Towers. Before casting finished, rumours circulated that Jackson had considered Bean for the role of Aragorn, but neither Bean nor Jackson confirmed this in subsequent interviews. Bean's fear of flying in helicopters caused him difficulties in mountainous New Zealand, where the trilogy was filmed. After a particularly rough ride, he vowed not to fly to a location again; in one instance, he chose to take a ski lift into the mountains while wearing his full costume (complete with shield, armour, and sword) and then hike the final few miles.[22][23]

Other roles gave more scope for his acting abilities. In 1999's Extremely Dangerous, his character walked a fine line between villain and hero.[24] He became a repentant, poetry-reading Grammaton cleric who succumbs to his emotions in 2002's Equilibrium, a quirky alien cowboy in 2003's The Big Empty, and a sympathetic and cunning Odysseus in the 2004 film Troy. He appeared with other Hollywood stars in Moby's music video "We Are All Made of Stars" in February 2002.[25] In the same year, he returned to the stage in London performing in Macbeth.[26] Due to popular demand, the production ran until March 2003.

Bean at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival

Bean has done voice-over work, mostly in the British advertising industry.[27] He has featured in television adverts for O2, Morrisons and Barnardos as well as for Acuvue and the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States. He also does the voice over for the National Blood Service's television and radio campaign. Bean has also done a TV ad for Yorkshire Tea a United Kingdom brand of tea. For the role playing video game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, he voiced Martin Septim.[28] Bean's distinctive voice has also been used in the intro and outro segments of the BBC Formula 1 racing coverage for the 2011 and 2012 seasons.

Bean completed a one-hour pilot, Faceless, for US television. He has also appeared in Outlaw, an independent British production, and a remake of 1986 horror film, The Hitcher (released in January 2007); here he used an American accent again. In 2009, he appeared in the Red Riding trilogy as the malevolent John Dawson. He also appeared in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), playing the role of Zeus, the king of Mount Olympus and god of the sky, thunder, and lightning. Also that year, Bean starred in Cash, playing the lead role of Pyke Kubic, a dangerous man determined to recover his wealth in a bad economy. Cash explored the role money plays in today's hard economic times. Bean also played the villain's twin brother, Reese.

Bean starred in the first season of Game of Thrones, HBO's adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin, playing the part of Lord Eddard Stark.[29] Bean and Peter Dinklage were the two actors whose inclusion show runners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss considered necessary for the show to become a success, and for whose roles no other actors were considered. His portrayal won him critical praise; as The A.V. Club's reviewer put it, he "portrayed Ned as a man who knew he lived in the muck but hoped for better and assumed everyone else would come along for the ride."[30] HBO's promotional efforts focused on Bean as the show's leading man and best-known actor.

In August 2012, Bean appeared as cross-dressing teacher Simon in the opening episode of the second season of UK television series Accused, a role which would earn him a Royal Television Society best actor award. He starred in Soldiers of Fortune and the 2012 film Cleanskin, in which he plays a secret service agent faced with the task of pursuing and eliminating a suicide bomber and his terrorist cell. In 2012 he also appeared in Tarsem Singh's Snow White film, Mirror Mirror, which was released in the U.S. in March. He also reprised his role as Christopher Da Silva in the Silent Hill film sequel Silent Hill: Revelation,[31] and co-starred in the ABC drama series Missing, which premiered in early 2012.

Bean starred in the espionage television series Legends as Martin Odum, an FBI agent who takes on various fabricated identities to go undercover. The show was cancelled after its second season. An intensive viral marketing campaign was centred on the hashtag #DontKillSeanBean, focusing on the various deaths of his past characters and promising his character in Legends would not suffer the same fate.[32] The campaign culminated with a Funny or Die exclusive video featuring Bean filming a scene for the show where he's become so accustomed to dying on screen that he expects his character to die a bizarrely gruesome death despite the simplicity of the scene.[33]

From 2015 to 2017 Bean starred in the ITV Encore drama series The Frankenstein Chronicles.[34] In that time, he also starred in multiple notable films including Jupiter Ascending, Pixels, and The Martian.

Bean together with fellow Lord of the Rings castmates Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Miranda Otto, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, Karl Urban, and Elijah Wood, plus composer Howard Shore, writer Philippa Boyens and director Peter Jackson on 31 May 2020 joined Josh Gad's YouTube series Reunited Apart which reunites the cast of popular movies through video-conferencing, and promotes donations to non-profit charities.[35]

Image

Bean is often described as "down to earth" and has retained his Yorkshire accent.[13] He admits that he does not mind being considered as a "bit of rough" by women.[36] He has developed a reputation as a loner, a label that he considers unfair.[13] He has described himself instead as quiet, and interviewers confirm that he is a "man of few words",[37] with one interviewer calling him "surprisingly shy".[38] He admits that he can be a workaholic; he reads books or listens to music in his spare time, and is a skilled pianist. He is also a keen gardener, welder, and sketcher.[39] Popular in his home county, a 2018 poll for Yorkshire Day saw Bean ranked the second greatest Yorkshireman ever behind Monty Python comedian Michael Palin.[40]

A reputation for frequently portraying characters who are violently killed has earned Bean the status of an Internet meme.[41]

Acting style

Despite being professionally trained, Bean adopts an instinctive style of acting that some say makes him especially well-suited to portraying his characters' depths.[42] He has said that the most difficult part is at the start of filming when trying to understand the character.[43] After achieving this, he can snap in and out of character instantly. This ability to go from the quiet man on set to the warrior Boromir "amazed" Sean Astin during filming of The Fellowship of the Ring.[44] Other fans include directors Mike Figgis and Wolfgang Petersen, who described working with Bean as a "beautiful thing".[42]

Personal life

Bean has married five times and divorced four times. He married his secondary school sweetheart Debra James on 11 April 1981, and they were divorced in 1988. He met actress Melanie Hill at RADA, and they were married on 27 February 1990. Their first daughter was born in October 1987, and their second was born in September 1991. Their marriage ended in divorce in August 1997. During the filming of Sharpe, Bean met actress Abigail Cruttenden, and they were married on 22 November 1997. Their daughter was born in November 1998. They were divorced in July 2000. In addition to his three children, Bean has four grandchildren.[45]

Bean began dating actress Georgina Sutcliffe in 2006. After cancelling their planned January 2008 wedding on the eve of the ceremony for "personal reasons", he married Sutcliffe at the Marylebone Town Hall in London on 19 February 2008.[46] During allegations that Bean physically abused Sutcliffe in 2009,[38] domestic disturbances resulted in the police being called to their home in Belsize Park on three occasions. Bean and Sutcliffe's separation was announced on 6 August 2010,[47] and a decree nisi was granted on 21 December 2010.[48] He married Ashley Moore on 30 June 2017.[49]

Bean has been a fan of Sheffield United since he was eight years old, and has a tattoo on his left shoulder that reads "100% Blade".[50][51] He opened their Hall of Fame in 2001 and, after making a six-figure contribution to the club's finances, was on their board of directors between 2002 and 2007 to help raise the profile of the club. He stepped down in 2007 to "go back to being an ordinary supporter" where he feels at home.[52] During his time there, he had a dispute with Neil Warnock, former manager of Sheffield United, after Warnock claimed that Bean stormed into his office and shouted at him in front of his wife and daughter when the club had just been relegated from the Premier League. Bean denies it, calling Warnock "bitter" and "hypocritical."[53] He wrote the foreword and helped to promote a book of anecdotes called Sheffield United: The Biography.[54] He also follows Yorkshire County Cricket Club.[55]

Bean has a tattoo of the number nine on his shoulder, written using Tengwar, in reference to his involvement in the Lord of the Rings films and the fact that his character was one of the original nine companions of the Fellowship of the Ring. The other actors of "The Fellowship" (Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, and Viggo Mortensen) have the same tattoo. John Rhys-Davies, whose character was also one of the original nine companions, arranged for his stunt double to get the tattoo instead.[56]

Aligned with the British Left, Bean is a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn and of "old Labour",[57] the era before former Prime Minister Tony Blair rebranded the Labour Party as New Labour, and has expressed his admiration for Tony Benn.[58]

Bean self-identifies as a Christian.[59]

Bean is a keen gardener in his spare time.[60]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Winter Flight	Hooker
1986	Caravaggio	Ranuccio
1988	Stormy Monday	Brendan
1989	How to Get Ahead in Advertising	Larry Frisk
1989	The Fifteen Streets	Dominic O'Brien
1989	War Requiem	German Soldier
1990	Windprints	Anton
1990	The Field	Tadgh McCabe
1992	Patriot Games	Sean Miller
1994	Shopping	Venning
1994	Black Beauty	Farmer Grey
1995	GoldenEye	Alec Trevelyan / Janus
1996	When Saturday Comes	Jimmy Muir
1997	Anna Karenina	Vronsky
1998	Ronin	Spence
1998	Airborn	Dave Toombs
1999	Bravo Two Zero	Andy McNab
2000	Essex Boys	Jason Locke
2001	Don't Say a Word	Patrick Koster
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Boromir
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers		Extended edition only
2002	Equilibrium	Errol Partridge
2002	Tom and Thomas	Paul Shepherd
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Boromir
2003	The Big Empty	Cowboy
2004	National Treasure	Ian Howe
2004	Troy	Odysseus
2005	North Country	Kyle Dodge
2005	Flightplan	Captain Marcus Rich
2005	The Island	Dr. Merrick
2005	The Dark	James
2006	Silent Hill	Chris Da Silva
2007	The Hitcher	John Ryder
2007	Outlaw	Danny Bryant
2007	Far North	Loki
2010	Black Death	Ulric
2010	Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief	Zeus
2010	Cash	Pyke Kubic / Reese Kubic
2010	Death Race 2	Markus Kane	Direct-to-DVD
2011	Age of Heroes	Jones
2012	Cleanskin	Ewan
2012	Soldiers of Fortune	Dimidov
2012	Mirror Mirror	The King, Snow White's father
2012	Silent Hill: Revelation	Christopher Da Silva / Harry Mason
2014	Wicked Blood	Frank Stinson
2015	The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King	Arrog	Voice
2015	Any Day	Vian
2015	Jupiter Ascending	Stinger Apini
2015	Pixels	Corporal Hill
2015	The Martian	Mitch Henderson
2016	The Young Messiah	Severus
2016	Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV	King Regis	Voice[61]
2017	Drone	Neil
2017	Dark River	Richard Bell
2017	The Unconquered	Narrator	Voice; short film[62]
2018	Taniel	Narrator	Voice; short film
2020	Possessor	John Parse
2020	Wolfwalkers	Bill Goodfellowe	Voice

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	The Bill	Horace Clark	Episode: "Long Odds"
1985	Exploits at West Poley	Scarred Man	Television film
1986	The Practice	Terry Donlan	2 episodes
1988	The Storyteller	The Prince	Episode: "The True Bride"
1988	Troubles	Capt. Bolton	Television film
1989	The Jim Henson Hour	Prince	Episode: "Musicians"
1990	Screen Two	Vic	Episode: "Small Vones"
1990	Lorna Doone	Carver Doone	Television film
1990	Wedded	Man	Television film
1991	4 Play	Smith	Episode: "In the Border Country"
1991	Screen One	Gabriel Lewis / Jack Morgan	2 episodes
1991	Clarissa	Lovelace	4 episodes
1992	Inspector Morse	Alex Bailey	Episode: "Absolute Conviction"
1992	Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery	Micky McAvoy	Television film
1992	My Kingdom for a Horse	Steve	Television film
1993	Sharpe's Rifles	Sergeant/Lieutenant Richard Sharpe	Television film
1993	Sharpe's Eagle	Captain Richard Sharpe	Television film
1993	Lady Chatterley	Mellors	4 episodes
1993	A Woman's Guide to Adultery	Paul	3 episodes
1994	Jacob	Esau	Television film
1994	Sharpe's Company	Captain Richard Sharpe	Television film
1994	Sharpe's Enemy	Major Richard Sharpe	Television film
1994	Sharpe's Honour		Television film
1994	Scarlett	Lord Richard Fenton	3 episodes
1995	Sharpe's Gold	Major Richard Sharpe	Television film
1995	Sharpe's Battle		Television film
1995	Sharpe's Sword		Television film
1996	Decisive Weapons	Narrator	Documentary
1996	Sharpe's Regiment	Major Richard Sharpe	Television film
1996	Sharpe's Siege		Television film
1996	Sharpe's Mission		Television film
1997	Sharpe's Revenge		Television film
1997	Sharpe's Justice		Television film
1997	Sharpe's Waterloo	Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe	Television film
1998	The Canterbury Tales	The Nun's Priest	Voice Episode: "Leaving London"
1999	Bravo Two Zero	Andy McNab	Television film
1999	Extremely Dangerous	Niel Bryne	4 episodes
1999	The Vicar of Dibley	Himself	Episode: "Spring"
2003	Henry VIII	Robert Aske	Television film
2004	Pride	Dark	Voice Television film
2006	Faceless	Eddie Prey	Unaired pilot
2006	Sharpe's Challenge	Sergeant/Colonel Richard Sharpe	Television film
2007	Once Upon a Time in Iran	Narrator	Voice Documentary[63]
2008	Crusoe	James Crusoe	4 episodes
2008	Sharpe's Peril	Colonel Richard Sharpe	Television film
2009	Red Riding	John Dawson	2 episodes
2010	The Lost Future	Amal	Television film
2011	Game of Thrones	Eddard "Ned" Stark	9 episodes
2012	Missing	Paul Winstone	8 episodes
2012	Accused	Simon / Tracie	Episode: "Tracie's Story"
2013	Family Guy	Portrait Griffin	Voice Episode: "No Country Club for Old Men"
2014	Robot Chicken	North / Heathcliff	Voice Episode: "Catdog on a Stick"
2014–2015	Legends	Martin Odum	20 episodes; also producer
2015–2017	The Frankenstein Chronicles	John Marlott	12 episodes; also co-producer
2015	Sean Bean on Waterloo	Himself (Presenter)	Documentary
2016	Wasted	Sean Bean	6 episodes
2016	Roman Empire: Reign of Blood	Narrator	Voice Documentary
2017	Broken	Father Michael Kerrigan	6 episodes
2017	Yorkshire: A Year in the Wild	Narrator	Voice Documentary
2018	Medici: Masters of Florence	Jacopo de' Pazzi	8 episodes
2018	The Oath	Tom Hammand	10 episodes
2018	Sally4Ever	Sean Bean	Episode #1.7
2019	Curfew[64]	Errol "The General" Chambers	4 episodes
2019	World on Fire	Douglas Bennett	7 episodes
2020–2021	Snowpiercer[65][66]	Mr. Wilford	11 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
1997	GoldenEye 007	Alec Trevelyan	Likeness
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Boromir
2006	The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion	Emperor Martin Septim
2012	Lego The Lord of the Rings	Boromir
2013	Papa Sangre II	Narrator / Guide
2013	Train Simulator 2014	Narrator for the trailers
2014	Train Simulator 2015	Narrator for the trailers
2015	Kholat	Narrator
2015	Life Is Feudal	Narrator
2016	Sid Meier's Civilization VI	Narrator
2018	Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Rise and Fall	Narrator
2018	Hitman 2	Mark Faba	Likeness, faba means bean in multiple languages
2019	Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm	Narrator
2019	A Plague Tale: Innocence	Narrator

Music videos

Year	Artist	Title	Role
2002	Moby	We Are All Made of Stars	Himself

• 2020- Narrator of the BBC Radio 4 series Legacy of War, exploring the impact of the Second World War on subsequent generations through interviews and oral history.[67]

Awards and honours

In his home city of Sheffield, he has received several honours and acclaims, including an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University in 1997 and a Doctor of Letters in English Literature from the University of Sheffield in July 2007.[68][69] He was selected as one of the inaugural members of Sheffield Legends (the Sheffield equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame) and a plaque in his honour has been placed in front of Sheffield Town Hall.[70] Bean commented: "I did get a doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University about 11 or 12 years ago so now I'm a double doctor. But this was wonderful, especially from my home city."[68][69]

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2002	Phoenix Film Critics Society Award	Best Acting Ensemble	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring[71]	Won
2002	The Empire Award	Best British Actor	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring[72]	Nominated
2002	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring[73]	Nominated
2002	DVDX Award	Best Audio Commentary, New Release	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring[74]	Nominated
2003	Online Film Critics Society Award	Best Ensemble	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers[75]	Won
2003	Phoenix Film Critics Society Award	Best Acting Ensemble	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers[71]	Nominated
2003	DVDX Award	Best Audio Commentary, New Release	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers[76]	Nominated
2004	Phoenix Film Critics Society Award	Best Acting Ensemble	Lord of the Rings: Return of the King	Won
2004	Screen Actor's Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Lord of the Rings: Return of the King[77]	Won
2004	Critic's Choice Award	Best Cast	Lord of the Rings: Return of the King[78]	Won
2004	National Board of Review	Best Acting by an Ensemble	Lord of the Rings: Return of the King[79]	Won
2010	Screamfest Horror Film Festival	Best Actor	Black Death[80]	Won
2011	Portal Award	Best Actor	Games of Thrones[81]	Won
2011	IGN Summer Movie Award	Best Television Hero	Game of Thrones[82]	Won
2011	IGN People's Choice Award	Best Television Hero	Game of Thrones[82]	Won
2011	EWwy Award	Best Actor in a Drama	Game of Thrones[83]	Nominated
2011	Scream Award	Best Ensemble	Game of Thrones[84]	Nominated
2011	Scream Award	Best Fantasy Actor	Game of Thrones[84]	Nominated
2012	Screen Actor's Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Game of Thrones[85]	Nominated
2012	Saturn Award	Best Actor on Television	Game of Thrones[86][87]	Nominated
2012	Fangoria Chainsaw Awards	Best Actor	Black Death[88]	Nominated
2013	International Emmy Award	Best Actor	Accused[89]	Won
2013	Royal Television Society Awards	Best Actor	Accused[90]	Won
2013	BAFTA	Leading Actor	Accused[91]	Nominated
2013	People's Choice Award	Favorite Cable TV Actor	Legends[92]	Nominated
2017	Royal Television Society NW	Best Performance in a Single Drama or Drama Series (Male)	Broken[93]	Won
2017	Cologne Film Festival	Hollywood Reporter Award	Himself[94]	Won
2018	BAFTA	Leading Actor	Broken[95]	Won

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Further reading

• Trowbridge, Simon: The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Oxford: Editions Albert Creed (2010) ISBN 978-0-9559830-2-3

External links

• Sean Bean on IMDb
• The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of the RSC: Online database
• Works by or about Sean Bean in libraries (WorldCat catalog)