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  • Thomas Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25 1930) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and BAFTA Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. In 1988 he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. Sir Sean Connery was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July 2000. Connery is known for retaining his Scottish accent in films, regardless of the nationality of the character played. Despite being older than most contemporary sex symbols, he has repeatedly been named as one of the most attractive men alive by various magazines due to his rugged good looks and his height (6' 2½"). Connery was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, the son of Euphamia C. "Effie" (née Maclean), a cleaning woman, and Joseph Connery, a factory worker and truck driver. His father was a Roman Catholic of Irish descent with roots in County Wexford, while his mother was a Scottish...

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Entrapment
  • Apr 30, 1999
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
  • Jul 11, 2003
The Rock
  • Jun 7, 1996
Medicine Man
  • 1992

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Pretty Irish Girl
In My Life
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