Sean Connery was born August 25, 1930, in Edinburgh, Scotland.  He was born under the name of Tomas Sean Connery to Joseph and Euphamia Connery.  His father worked as a truck driver and his mother was a housewife.  Besides his parents, he lived and grew up with his brother Neil, who is eight years younger than himself and also an actor.  He, like many other actors and actresses, grew up very poor.  When he was little, he had to sleep in a bureau drawer because his parents could not afford a crib.  The fact that they were poor never really bothered Sean, because that is how everyone lived in his neighborhood.  Sean attended Tollcross Elementary School and had very advanced mathematical skills.  Even as a young lad, he had a fascination with film.  He used to skip school and go to a local movie theater to watch “the pictures”.
 
         At age thirteen, he quit school to work full time at the dairy to help support his family.  Three years later he joined the Royal Navy and, like all other good sailors, got two tattoos on his arm.  One of them says “MUM AND DAD”, and the other says “SCOTLAND FOREVER”.  He had signed up for a seven-year service but was released after three years due to stomach ulcers.
 
         Sean later joined a weightlifting club to impress the ladies and his fellow gym mates nominated him for the Mr. Universe contest. He was chosen third in the tall men's division and was given a medal.  While he was in London for the contest, a local casting director noticed him and asked him to join the chorus of a new musical, South Pacific, playing on Drury Lane in London's theater district.  At the first rehearsal, he decided acting was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. He decided to go by the name Sean because it was his middle name and reminded him of an admired actor, (Shane) and he did not think the name Tom or Tommy fit his image.  He was called Sean long before he was an actor because when he was twelve, he had an Irish buddy named Seamus (pronounced Sha-mus), and all of their friends nicknamed them “Seamus and Shawn”.
 
         While filming one of his movies, he met an actress on the set named Diane Cilento.  At the time, Diane was married to someone else, but she and Sean fell in love.  She divorced her first husband, and she and Sean got married in 1962.  They had a son in 1963 named Jason Joseph Connery, who is now also an actor and gave Sean his first grandson in 1997 named Dashiell Quinn Connery.  In 1973, Sean had an interview with the press, during which he had commented that he saw nothing wrong with hitting a woman as long as it was justified and as long as she had plenty of warning.  Rumors began to spread that he was abusive to his wife, so he and Diane got a divorce.  Sean married again in 1975 to a woman named Micheline Roquebrune.  They met during a golf tournament where Sean won the men’s award and Micheline won the woman’s award.
 
         Sean Connery is an actor, director, producer, and model. Though most commonly known as Bond, James Bond, Mr. Connery was in a number of other movies such as: Lilacs in the Spring, Action of the Tiger, Hell Drivers, Time Lock, No Road Back, Another Time; Another Place, Tarzan's Greatest Adventure, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, On the Fiddle, The Frightened City, Dr. No, The Longest Day, From Russia with Love, Marnie, Woman of Straw, Goldfinger, The Hill, Thunderball, Un monde nouveau, A Fine Madness, You Only Live Twice, Shalako, The Molly Maguires, Krasnaya Palatka, The Anderson Tapes, Diamonds Are Forever, España Campo de Golf, The Offence, Zardoz, Murder on the Orient Express, The Terrorists, The Wind and the Lion, The Man Who Would Be King, The Dream Factory, Robin and Marian, The Next Man, A Bridge Too Far, The First Great Train Robbery, Meteor, Cuba, Outland, Time Bandits, Wrong Is Right, Sword of the Valiant, G'ole!, Five Days One Summer, Never Say Never Again, Highlander, Der Name der Rose, Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond, The Untouchables, The Presidio, Memories of Me, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Family Business, The Hunt for Red October, The Russia House, Highlander II: The Quickening, Robin Hood; Prince of Thieves, Medicine Man, Rising Sun, A Good Man in Africa,  Just Cause, First Knight, Behind the Scenes with Thunderball, Behind the Scenes with Goldfinger, Dragonheart, The Rock, The Avengers, Playing by Heart, Entrapment, The James Bond Story, and Finding Forrester.
 
         An interesting fact about Sean Connery is that during all the James Bond movies, he wore a toupee.  He started losing his hair at the early age of twenty-one.  Another interesting thing about him is that he donated all of his salary from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves to charity in 1991.  Also, it was said in an interview that during the filming of Never Say Never, he was taking martial arts lessons.  In the process of the lessons, he angered his instructor whom in turn, broke his wrist.  Sean stayed with the broken wrist for a number of years thinking it was only a minor pain.  Who the instructor was surprised me; it was Steven Seagal.
 
         I think Sean is a great actor, and I admire him for his age. There aren't too many actors or actresses out there who are still producing action movies at the age of 70.  Most people retire five to ten years earlier  with much less stressful jobs.
 
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