Beans 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. While filming his death scene, Harrison Ford hit him with a boat hook, giving him a permanent scar. His first notable Hollywood appearance was that of an Irish republican terrorist in the 1992 film adaptation of Patriot Games.
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With a role as enigmatic Lord Richard Fenton in the TV miniseries Scarlett, Bean made the transition to Hollywood feature films. Both of these were released as two cinema-length 90 minute episodes per series. After several years of rumours, more episodes were produced: Sharpes Challenge, which aired in April 2006, and Sharpes Peril, which aired in autumn 2008 and was later released on DVD.
It was filmed under challenging conditions, first in Ukraine and later in Portugal.
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The series ran continuously from 1993 to 1997, with three episodes produced each year. 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.
Starting with Sharpes 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.īean was not the first actor to be chosen to play Sharpe. The series was based on Bernard Cornwells novels about the Peninsular War, and the fictional experiences of a band of soldiers in the famed 95th Rifles. In 1996, he combined his love of football with his career to finally achieve his childhood dream of playing for Sheffield United, as Jimmy Muir in the film When Saturday Comes.Although the film was not critically acclaimed, Bean received credit for a good performance.In August 1997, Bean appeared in what became a famous Sky Sports commercial for the upcoming 1997-98 Premier League season 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.īeans 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. Also in 1990, his role as the journalist Anton in Windprints examined the difficult problems of apartheid in South Africa. In 1989, he starred as the evil Dominic OBrien in The Fifteen Streets, where he gained a dedicated following.ĭuring the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bean became an established actor on British television. He appeared in the BBC productions Clarissa and Lady Chatterley (1993) with Joely Richardson. In 1990, Bean starred in Jim Sheridans adaption of the John B. He appeared in his first film, Derek Jarmans Caravaggio (1986), opposite Tilda Swinton, playing Ranuccio Tomassoni, followed in the same directors War Requiem (1988). His first national exposure came in an advert for non-alcoholic lager. Between 19, 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 Nights Dream. As an actor, he adopted the Irish spelling of his first name. His early career involved a mixture of stage and screen work.
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Sean Bean Acting Careerīean 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. Other roles include Alec Trevelyan in the James Bond film GoldenEye (1995) and Odysseus in Troy (2004), as well as roles in Patriot Games (1992), Ronin (1998), National Treasure (2004), North Country (2005), The Island (2005), Silent Hill (2006), Black Death (2010), Jupiter Ascending (2015) and The Martian (2015).
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