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Sean Bean is an English actor. Recognised for his work in both film and television, he has received various accolades including three BAFTA TV Awards, a Critics' Choice Award, an Actor Award and an International Emmy Award.
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Born 17 April 1959 · Q191104
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“Getting to be involved in a Jimmy McGovern drama again is a real privilege and it will be great to be reunited with Stephen. Mark Cobden is another of Jimmy’s complex and superbly written characters and I am looking forward to bringing him to life on screen.”
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Played the main role of Ronnie Phelan, head of a drug dealer family, alongside Julie Graham, and Jack McMullen, playing his wife and son, and James Nelson-Joyce, his number two, in the BBC Liverpool based gangster tel
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Won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for Time, a BBC One drama
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The actor was reunited with Jimmy McGovern (author of Broken and Accused) and Stephen Graham (his co-star in Tracie's Story) for the 3-part BBC prison drama Time
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Bean played a damaged veteran in the TV drama World on Fire, basing his interpretation on his late paternal grandfather
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Hitman 2 video game as an elusive target named Mark Faba aka "The Undying" for his seeming inability to die
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Bean starred in the BBC series Broken as the troubled priest Father Michael Kerrigan, which earned him a BAFTA award for Best Actor
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Bean expressed support for Jeremy Corbyn and for "old Labour", the era before Tony Blair rebranded the party as New Labour; Bean also spoke of his admiration for Tony Benn
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Bean appeared in four films: Soldiers of Fortune; Cleanskin, in which he plays a secret service agent faced with the task of pursuing and eliminating a suicide bomber and his terrorist cell; Tarsem Singh's Snow White ada
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Bean and Sutcliffe's separation was announced on 6 August 2010, and a decree nisi was granted on 21 December 2010.
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Domestic disturbances resulted in the police being called to their home in Belsize Park on three occasions
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Appeared in the Red Riding trilogy as the malevolent John Dawson
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Sheffield (2007).
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To "go back to being an ordinary supporter" where he feels at home
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Bean had sizeable roles in the films Flightplan and North Country
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2004).
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Awarded Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
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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
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When he narrated La Coupe de la Gloire, the official film of the 1998 FIFA World Cup held in France
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And a Doctor of Letters in English Literature from the University of Sheffield in July 2007
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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
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Bean starred in Jim Sheridan's adaptation of the John B
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His role as the journalist Anton in Windprints examined the difficult problems of apartheid in South Africa
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Starred as the evil Dominic O'Brien in The Fifteen Streets, where he gained a dedicated following
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Starred in David and Jonathan by William Douglas-Home at the Redgrave Theatre in Farnham
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Studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1981–1983).
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Making his professional acting debut later that year as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury
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Bean left Brook Comprehensive School with O levels in Art and English
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Born 1959-04-17.
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