Award-winning actor Sean Bean has enjoyed a 37-year career that spans across theatre, radio, television and film. Having graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in 1983, Sean began his career on stage appearing in productions such as the RSC’s ‘Fair Maid of the West’ (1985) and ‘Killing The Cat' (1990).

After becoming a household name due to his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the ‘Sharpe’ series, an array of major international film roles followers, including his portrayal of super-villain Alec Trevelyan in ‘Golden Eye’ (1995) and as Boromir in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’ (2001), a role for which he received the Awards Circuit Community Award for Best Acting Ensemble, an Empire Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Subsequent notable roles include his appearance in ‘Troy’ (2004) and ‘The Frankenstein Chronicles’ (2017).

Sean received critical acclaim for his role in the award-winning series ‘Game of Thrones’ (2011), starring as protagonist Eddard “Ned” Stark. In 2013, Sean was awarded his first International Emmy Award for his portrayal of a transvestite teacher accused of murder in BBC crime drama ‘Accused.’ He again returned to primetime TV as Father Michael Kerrigan in the BBC’s drama series ‘Broken’ (2017), a role for which he won the BAFTA for Leading Actor.

Sean returned to our screens in February 2019, starring in Sky's original series ‘Curfew,’ where he played the lead character ‘The General’. In September 2019, the first series of the critically-acclaimed BBC war drama ‘World on Fire’ aired, which saw Sean star as Douglas Bennett. In 2020, Sean played a leading role in Canadian sci-fi horror film ‘Possessor,’ voiced a character in the award-winning animation ‘Wolfwalkers,’ and starred in the second series of ‘Snowpiercer,’ a television-adaption of the wildly popular Bong Joon-ho film.

In 2021, Sean reunited with former collaborator (Broken) and Emmy-winning writer Jimmy McGovern for the highly-anticipated BBC Drama ‘Time.’ He then went on to star in TV drama ‘Marriage’ in 2022, as well as the third series of ‘Snowpiercer’. This year, Sean has featured in film ‘Mummies’ as the voice of Pharoah and action film ‘Knights of the Zodiac’ as Alman Kido.