SEAN BEAN (Ian Howe) gained international recognition portraying the character Boromir in New Line Cinema’s multi Academy Award®-winning motion picture trilogy of “The Lord of the Rings,” and most recently played Odysseus in Wolfgang Peterson’s “Troy” alongside Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom and Diane Kruger. He also starred in the indie film “The Big Empty,” with Jon Favreau, Kelsey Grammer, Daryl Hannah, Rachel Leigh Cook and Joey Lauren Adams, which premiered in 2003 at AFI. He will next be seen in the horror film “The Dark” and the thriller “Flightplan” with Jodie Foster and Peter Sarsgaard.
His other recent projects include the sci-fi thriller, “Equilibrium” with Christian Bale, and “Don’t Say a Word” with Michael Douglas for director Gary Fleder. Among his credits are also “Tom and Thomas,” “Essex Boys,” “Ronin,” “Anna Karenina,” “GoldenEye,” “When Saturday Comes,” “Black Beauty,” “Patriot Games,” “Caravaggio,” “Lorna Doone,” “The Field,” “Stormy Monday” and “Windprints,” among others.
On stage, Bean starred opposite Samantha Bond in a 2003 production of “Macbeth” in London’s West End. He has received critical acclaim for his work as Macbeth, making the show the fastest non-musical to sell out in the West End. Bean has appeared in numerous stage productions for The Royal Court Theatre, Glasgow Citizen Theatre, and The Royal Shakespeare Company, including “Romeo and Juliet,” “Fair Maid of the West,” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
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