Name: Sean Connery

Birth Name: Thomas Sean Connery

Birthdate: Aug. 25, 1930

Birthplace: Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Born to a truck driver living in an Edinburgh, Scotland, tenement, Connery started helping to support the family by delivering milk at the age of 9. He eventually left school at the age of 13, first taking jobs as a laborer, steel bender and cement mixer, and then, at 15, enlisting in the British Royal Navy for what was to have been a 12-year stint. Severe stomach ulcers hastened his discharge within three years, at which point he returned to Edinburgh and set about making his living working variously as a bricklayer, lifeguard and coffin polisher. While in London competing in the Mr. Universe contest, Connery auditioned for and won a part as a singing sailor in a year-long touring production of South Pacific. Several years later, he beat out several name actors to originate the cinematic incarnation of novelist Ian Fleming's glossy superspy, James Bond, in 1962's Dr. No, the first feature in what would prove to be an immensely lucrative franchise in the decades to come. Since then, he kept unceasingly busy throughout a five decade–long screen career, transitioning effortlessly into mature roles and never losing any of the sex appeal and effortless virility that have made him a perennial favorite. 1987's The Untouchables earned him both an Oscar and a Golden Globe. He retired quietly in 2007 — a fact discovered only when he refused to reprise his role as Indy's dad in the fourth Indiana Jones flick.


1. He was voted People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 1989.
2. He once competed in a Mr. Universe contest.
3. He did a total of six James Bond films.
4. Connery has been threatening to retire since 2004.
5. He works extensively with Scottish children's charities.


On the state of the movie industry: "I'm fed up with the idiots … the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies."
— New Zealand Herald, July 2005


Wife: Marcia Lucas, film editor, married Feb. 22, 1969, divorced Sept. 6, 1973

1996: Golden Globe: Cecil B. DeMille Award

1990: Golden Globe nomination: Best Supporting Actor, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1988: Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor, The Untouchables; Golden Globe: Best Supporting Actor, The Untouchables

FILMS

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/Entrapment - (2003) - Actor
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/X2: X-Men United - (2003) - Actor
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - (2003) - Actor
Pearl Harbor/The Rock - (2002) - Actor
Finding Forrester - (2000) - Actor, Producer
Entrapment - (1999) - Actor, Producer
The Avengers - (1998) - Actor
Playing by Heart - (1998) - Actor
Playing by Heart/Flirting With Disaster - (1998) - Actor
Dragonheart - (1996) - Actor
Rock, The/ Ransom - (1996) - Actor
The Rock - (1996) - Actor
Just Cause - (1995) - Actor, Executive Producer
First Knight - (1995) - Actor
James Bond 007 - Yesterday and Today - (1995) - Featured
Three Decades of James Bond 007 - (1995) - Featured
A Good Man in Africa - (1994) - Actor
Rising Sun - (1993) - Actor
Medicine Man - (1992) - Actor, Executive Producer
Highlander 2: The Quickening - (1991) - Actor
The Russia House - (1991) - Actor
The Hunt for Red October - (1990) - Actor
Family Business - (1989) - Actor
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - (1989) - Actor
The Presidio - (1988) - Actor
The Untouchables - (1987) - Actor
Highlander - (1986) - Actor
The Name of the Rose - (1986) - Actor
Sword of the Valiant - (1984) - Actor
Never Say Never Again - (1983) - Actor
Five Days One Summer - (1982) - Actor
Time Bandits - (1982) - Actor
Outland - (1981) - Actor
Wrong Is Right - (1981) - Actor
The Great Train Robbery - (1979) - Actor
Meteor - (1979) - Actor
Cuba - (1979) - Actor
A Bridge Too Far - (1977) - Actor
Robin and Marian - (1976) - Actor
The Next Man - (1976) - Actor
The Man Who Would Be King - (1975) - Actor
The Wind and the Lion - (1975) - Actor
Murder on the Orient Express - (1974) - Actor
The Terrorists - (1974) - Actor
Zardoz - (1974) - Actor
The Offence - (1973) - Actor
The Anderson Tapes - (1972) - Actor
Diamonds Are Forever - (1971) - Actor
The Molly Maguires - (1970) - Actor
The Red Tent - (1969) - Actor
Shalako - (1968) - Actor
You Only Live Twice - (1967) - Actor
A Fine Madness - (1966) - Actor
Thunderball - (1965) - Actor
The Hill - (1965) - Actor
Goldfinger - (1964) - Actor
Marnie - (1964) - Actor
Dr. No - (1963) - Actor
From Russia With Love - (1963) - Actor
The Longest Day - (1962) - Actor
The Frightened City - (1962) - Actor
On the Fiddle - (1961) - Actor
Hard Drivers - (1960) - Actor
Darby O'Gill and the Little People - (1959) - Actor
Another Time, Another Place - (1958) - Actor
A Night to Remember - (1957) - Actor
Time Lock - (1957) - Actor
Lilacs in the Spring - (1954) - Actor