Sean Connery Biography

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



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
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