He met his fifth wife, Ashley Moore, whom he has been married to since 2017, entirely by chance in a Camden pub. I, however, couldn't work again for a year."ħ. "He'd been drafted in to take over the part. "I woke up in London's Cromwell Hospital to a call from Sean Bean," McGann told The Guardian many years later. the Eighth Doctor – was originally cast as the 19th-century soldier Richard Sharpe, but had to withdraw after suffering a knee injury a couple of weeks into filming.
He wasn't the first choice to star in Sharpe, ITV's enormously popular historical series based on Bernard Cornwell's novels. because he hasn't been drinking alcohol during the flight. In the ad below, Bean's character is able to pilot an airplane that's about to crash.
Before he became famous, he starred in TV commercials for the Barbican, a non-alcoholic lager. I've put nest boxes up and I plant a lot of native trees, a few hundred actually since I've been there."ĥ. " got mature trees, a large pond with moorhens, an otter occasionally. "I spend a lot of my time outside when I’m not working, and that was part of the attraction," Bean told The Times. He now lives in rural Somerset, where he is a keen gardener.
There was a photograph of Rowan Atkinson for him to sign, and I sent it back saying 'Sean Bean!'"Ĥ. Bean, London," and I think they just thought it was me. Bean star Rowan Atkinson.īean told Vulture this happened "once or twice," adding: "It just said “Mr. When he lived in London, he would occasionally receive mail meant for Mr. He was a mild-mannered man and a kind man, and I suppose those things rub off in your everyday life. But we respected him very much and we loved him very much, of course. "I always remember him as a very fair man with humor," Bean told Vulture. He partly based his Game of Thrones character, Ned Stark, on his father Brian, who ran a successful metalworks. Later, Bean worked on the cheese counter at Marks & Spencer and began training to become a welder, before switching his ambitions to acting.Ģ. But I wasn't as skilled as I thought I was." "We played all the time that's all we did at school or wherever, until it went dark and you couldn't see the ball. "Where I come from, all of us wanted to be footballers," Bean told The Independent.
Growing up in Sheffield, northern England, he dreamed of becoming a professional footballer. Here are 10 things you might not know about this incredibly prolific, Yorkshire-born actor.ġ. Wilford in the third season of TNT's dystopian thriller series Snowpiercer, so we're brushing up on our Bean knowledge. This week, he reprises his role as eccentric inventor Mr.
In 2018, he won a BAFTA for his brilliant performance as a troubled Roman Catholic priest in the acclaimed BBC series Taken. You probably know him as Ned Stark in Game of Thrones, Boromir in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, GoldenEye's Bond villain Alec Trevelyan, and the title character in '90s historical drama series Sharpe. Since he began his acting career in 1983, Sean Bean has become one of the most familiar faces around.