Sean Connery:
Is a retired Scottish actor and producer
Birth Name: Thomas Sean Connery

Born: August 25, 1930 (age 85), Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom 

 In the 1950s, he was cast in numerous films and television programs. In the early 1960s, he landed the lead role of James Bond in Dr. No. He continued to work regularly in film the reafter, and in 1987, won an Academy Award. Connery appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1990. In 2003, he starred in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award). He was knighted by Elizabeth II in July 2000 after receiving a Kennedy Center Honors in the US in 1999.

Early Life:

The oldest of two boys, he spent much of his youth working at menial jobs, just to get by. He left school at an early age and went to work fulltime. After three years of Naval service, a long bout with a stomach ulcer shortened his "naval career". He returned to Edinburgh and seemed to settle into a life of hard work: bricklayer, lifeguard, and coffin polisher. Sean spent much of his free time bodybuilding, a pastime that eventually started his acting career



Acting Carrer:

One rehearsal was all it took: "I decided then and there to make acting my career." He chose the stage name "Sean Connery" because Sean, besides being his middle name, reminded him of his favorite movie hero, Shane. "It seemed to go more with my image than Tom or Tommy," he recalled. "Sean Connery" was listed as a chorus member in the South Pacific program.

Over the next few years, Connery was cast in numerous films and television programs, including a much-acclaimed BBC staging of Requiem for a Heavyweight. Then in 1957, while filming Another Time, Another Place with Lana Turner.

Big Break as James Bond:

 In 1959, just as Connery's career was taking off, Cilento contracted tuberculosis, and the actor realized how devastated he would be if he lost her. He turned down a big break in the Charlton Heston film El Cid to be close to her while she recovered. The decision didn't hurt his career; in fact, Twentieth-Century Fox studios came calling with a contract, and Connery made several films in Hollywood.

Producers Harry Saltzman and Albert "Cubby" Broccoli cast him as the lead in a spy movie based on one of a series of Ian Fleming novels, Dr. No, and Bond—James Bond—was born. The film was hugely successful and had immediate sequels: From Russia with Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964). Thunderball (1965) and You Only Live Twice (1967) followed.

sexy and confident, Connery as Bond was the embodiment of the British secret agent (even if he did have to wear a toupee to cover his prematurely balding head).

We all agreed, he was 007." A notable non-Bond role was in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Marnie (1964). He declared his last role as Bond would be in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever.

Personal Challenged:

 While Connery was filming his second Bond film, From Russia With Love. They honeymooned briefly in Spain before the actor returned to the States for a flood of publicity.


Being 007:

Connery had made a total of six Bond pictures, and fans were in a frenzy. Once, he looked up from a urinal to find a photographer snapping a photo. The man who once reveled in notoriety now shrunk from the spotlight. It would be more than a decade before he reluctantly agreed to reprise his Bond role one last time, in 1983's Never Say Never Again. 

Recent Work :

Sean Connery continued to work regularly—The Man Who Would Be King,  El hombre que sería Rey(1975), Robin and Marian (1976), The Great Train Robbery (1979), Time Bandits, Time Bandits (1981) and The Name of the Rose, El nombre de la rosa  (1986)—and finally won an Academy Award (best supporting actor), for his role as a Chicago cop on the trail of Al Capone in 1987's The Untouchables, Los intocables

He played the father of the title character in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Indiana Jones y la última cruzada, (1989) and, in 1990, Connery played a defecting Russian submarine captain Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October, La caza al Octubre Rojo. Other films include Medicine Man (1992); The Rock La roca ,  (1996), his prison action-adventure with Nicolas Cage; The Avengers (1998) with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman; Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991); First Knight (1995); and Dragonheart (1996). Connery then played a cat burglar in the love story/thriller Entrapment (1999) with Catherine Zeta-Jones. In 2000, he had a starring role in the film Finding Forrester, Descubriendo a Forrester  . In 2003, he starred in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, La liga extraordinaria

His big breakthrough came in 1962 when he starred as secret agent James Bond in El satánico Dr. No (1962). He played James Bond in six more films: De Rusia con amor (1963), Dedos de oro (1964), Operación Trueno (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), Los diamantes son eternos (1971), and Never Say Never Again (1983). Was Sean's first major movie role, and it followed by several Tv-movies such as Anna Christie (1957), Macbeth (1961) and Anna Karenina (1961) and guest appearances on TV-series, and also films such as Hell Drivers (1957), Another Time, Another Place (1958), Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959), Los implacables (1961). In 1962 he appeared in El día más largo del siglo (1962) with a host of other stars.

 Highlander: El último inmortal (1986), Sol naciente (1993), After and during the success of the Bond-films he has maintained a successful career as an actor and has appeared in films, including Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Marnie (1964), The Hill (1965), Crimen en el Expreso de Oriente (1974


Personal Life:

Sean married actress Diane Cilento in 1962 and they had a son, Jason Connery, born on January 11, 1963, he followed in his father's footsteps and also became an actor. The marriage ended in divorce in 1973. In 1975 he married Micheline Roquebrune and they have stayed married, they have no children together. He is also a grandfather. His son, Jason and his ex-wife, actress Mia Sara had a son, Dashiell Quinn Connery, in 1997.