Top 40 Amazing Facts About Sean Connery...
Voted as one of the “Sexiest Man of the Century,” Sir Sean Connery is an actor and
a film producer. Here are some interesting facts about the “Greatest Living Scot.”
1. Sean Connery is a retired Scottish actor and producer.
2. His full name is Thomas Sean Connery.
3. He was born on August 25, 1930, in Fountainbridge, Scotland.
4. His mother, Euphemia McBain “Effie” (née McLean), was a cleaning woman, and his
father, Joseph Connery, was a factory worker and truck driver.
5. He has a younger brother Neil Connery, born in 1938.
6. Sean Connery is of Irish and Scottish descent.
7. Connery started working to help support the family at age nine, delivering milk and
assisting a butcher.
He left school at age thirteen.
8. Connery joined the British Royal Navy in 1946. Though he signed up for a seven-year
stint, he was released from service after three years due to stomach ulcers.
9. Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18, and from 1951 trained heavily with Ellington,
a former gym instructor in the British army.
10. In 1953 Connery won third place in the Mr. Universe competition.
11. At the age of 23, he had a choice between becoming a professional footballer or an actor,
and even though he showed much promise in the sport, he chose acting and said it was
one of his more intelligent moves.
12. No Road Back (1957) 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 guests
appearances on TV-series.
13. In 1962 Connery was cast in the role of James Bond, Agent 007 of the British Secret
Intelligence Service, in the screen adaptation of Ian Fleming’s spy thriller Dr. No.
14. The immense success of the film and its immediate sequels, From Russia with Love (1963)
and Goldfinger (1964), established the James Bond films as a worldwide phenomenon and Connery
as an international celebrity.
15. After completing the next two James Bond films, Thunderball (1965) and You Only Live
Twice (1967), Connery renounced the role of Bond.
16. Four years later, however, he was persuaded to return to the role for Diamonds Are Forever
(1971), which he declared was his last movie as Bond.
17. After Bond, Connery continued to work regularly—Murder on the Orient Express (1974),
The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Robin and Marian (1976), with Audrey Hepburn, The Great
Train Robbery (1979), Time Bandits (1981), Highlander (1986) and The Name of the Rose
(1986), winning a British Film Academy award for the latter project, which was based on
the book by Umberto Eco.
18. Connery 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, co-starring Kevin Costner,
Andy Garcia, and Robert De Niro.
19. In Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Connery played
the title figure’s father, and in The Hunt for Red October (1990) he played a defecting
Soviet submarine captain.
20. Connery’s memorable films of the 1990s include Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991),
First Knight (1995), The Rock (1996), Dragonheart (1996), The Avengers (1998), and Entrapment
(1999).
21. In 2000, Connery had a starring role in the drama Finding Forrester, followed by 2003’s
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a comic book adaptation in which he depicted fictional
explorer Allan Quatermain.
22. When Connery received the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award on
8 June 2006, he confirmed his retirement from acting. But he went on to perform various
voice roles.
23. Sean Connery 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).
24. He was knighted by Elizabeth II in July 2000 after receiving Kennedy Center Honors
in the US in 1999.
25. Sean Connery has an estimated net worth of $120 million.
26. 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.
27. Connery is a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), a center-left political party
campaigning for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom, and has supported the
party financially and through personal appearances.
28. Connery stated in interviews that he was offered a role in The Lord of the Rings series,
declining it due to “not understanding the script.” CNN reported that the actor was
offered up to 15% of the worldwide box office receipts to play Gandalf,
which had he accepted, could have earned him as much
as $400 million for the trilogy.
29. Connery has been called “the rogue with the brogue,” and in 1989, at almost 60 years
of age, he was named People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive.”
30. He has two small tattoos on his right arm. One says “Scotland forever”, the
other “Mum and Dad.” He got them when he enlisted in the Royal Navy at the age of
16.
31. Connery used to live in Marbella, Spain, near a golf course where he played daily when
not filming. He left following disagreements with the local
press, and now resides in the Bahamas where he plays golf much less frequently.
32. His film production company, Fountainbridge Films, is named after the area of Edinburgh
where he was born and grew up.
33. His favorite Bond film is From Russia with Love, as confirmed to ABC News in 2002.
34. He wore a toupee in all the James Bond movies. He started losing his hair at the
age of 17, and began wearing a hairpiece in films in 1958. Privately and in most of his
post-Bond movies he did not wear a toupee.
35. He was almost killed filming the helicopter chase scene in From Russia with Love (1963)
when the inexperienced helicopter pilot flew in too close and almost decapitated him.
36. Connery said in an interview that during the filming of Never Say Never Again (1983),
he was taking martial arts lessons and in the process angered
the instructor who in turn broke his wrist. Connery
stayed with the wrist broken for a number of years thinking it was only a minor pain…
the instructor was Steven Seagal.
37. He donated his salary from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) to charity.
38. According to a poll, conducted by British film magazine Empire, he created the worst
accent in the history of cinema in the movie The Untouchables
(1987).
39. Connery attended dancing lessons for 11 years under the tutelage of Swedish dance
Yat Malmgren.
40. He was once stopped for speeding by an officer named Sergeant James Bond.
He attained his full height of 188 centimeters (6 ft 2 in) at the age of 18. He was called
“Big Tam” in his teens.
He was a very good football player and played for Bunnyrigg Rose in his younger days. Manchester
United’s manger, Matt Busby was impressed by Connery’s play that he offered him a
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