Sean Connery (James Bond) wiki: Age, Wife, Children, Height, Family and Net Worth

The handsome and Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known for portraying the iconic role of James Bond in the hugely successful movie. At his age of 32, he played a series of noteworthy roles besides James Bond at. As well as, he went on to distinguish himself in several major motion pictures. Sean Connery made more than 60 movies and he has become one of the most prominent movie actors in the world.

Sean Connery Wiki/Bio

• Name: Sean Connery
• Real Full Name: Thomas Sean Connery
• Born: 25 August 1930.
• Birth Place: Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Died: 31 October 2020
• Death Place: Nassau, The Bahamas
• Cause of death: Unknown
• Profession: Hollywood Actor
• Height: 1.88 m
• Spouse: Micheline Roquebrune (m. 1975–2020), Diane Cilento (m. 1962–1973)
• Children: Jason Connery

Early Life Of James Bond

The actual name of Sean Connery is Thomas Sean Connery. Sean Connery, the original actor was born on August 25, 1930, in Fountainbridge, Scotland. His father name is Joseph Connery who was a factory worker and lorry driver and his mother name was Euphamia C. Maclean who was a cleaning lady. He had a younger brother named Neil Connery who works as a plasterer in Edinburgh. At the age of 13, Connery quit school to make money because of his family situation. Before entering the film industry, Connery worked several jobs such as lorry driver, milkman, laborer, artist’s model for the Edinburgh College of Art, bodybuilder, and coffin polisher.

Even he joined the Royal Navy, and then he was discharged due to some health issues. At the age of 23, even though he had a keen interest in sports, he decided to become an actor and said it was one of his more intelligent moves.

Acting Career Of Connery

After deciding to become an actor, he gets advice from the actor Robert Henderson who encouraged him to pursue acting. Then, Sean Connery was notable in his first television role, a British production of Rod Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight.

The breakthrough of Connery came in 1962 when he starred in the role of secret agent James Bond in Dr. No in 1962. He also played a James Bond role in six more films. He has also starred in movies like ‘Robin and Marian’, ‘The Untouchables’, and ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’.

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Famed for his role as James Bond, Sean Connery has maintained a successful career and has starred in films including Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie, The Hill, Murder on the Orient Express, The Wind and the Lion, Highlander, The Hunt of Red October, The Rock, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and so on.

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Awards He Honored

Sean Connery was awarded a knighthood in 2000 for his contribution to the arts, starred the British spy in seven movies. In 1988, he received the Oscar award for his role in The Untouchable. After that, he began starring in more films and continues to prove his versatility as an actor. In 2002, Sean Connery received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Marriage Life

In 1962, Sean Connery married actress Diane Cilento and they had a son Jason Connery who is now a movie actor. The couple divorced in 1974. Then he married Micheline Roquebrune in 1975.

Conclusion

The bankable star died peacefully in his sleep in the Bahamas on October 31, 2020. No doubt, Connery was a wonderful person and he will be forever connected by Bond.