Thomas Sean Connery was born on August 25, 1930 in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. His mother, Euphamia McBain (Maclean), was a cleaning lady, and his father, Joseph Connery, was a factory worker and truck driver. He also has a brother named Neil Connery, who works as a plasterer in Edinburgh. He is of Irish and Scottish descent. Before going into acting, Sean had many different jobs, such as a Milkman, lorry driver, a laborer, artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, coffin polisher and bodybuilder. He also joined the Royal Navy, but was later discharged because of medical problems. 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.
Les criminels de Londres (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 guest appearances on TV-series, and also films such as Train d'enfer (1957), Je pleure mon amour (1958), Darby O'Gill et les farfadets (1959), L'enquête mystérieuse (1961). In 1962 he appeared in Le jour le plus long (1962) with a host of other stars,
His big breakthrough came in 1962 when he starred as secret agent James Bond in James Bond 007 contre Dr. No (1962). He played James Bond in six more films: Bons baisers de Russie (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Opération Tonnerre (1965), On ne vit que deux fois (1967), Les diamants sont éternels (1971), and Jamais plus jamais (1983).
After and during the success of the Bond-films he has maintained a successful career as an actor and has appeared in films, including Alfred Hitchcock's Pas de printemps pour Marnie (1964), La colline des hommes perdus (1965), Le crime de l'Orient-Express (1974), L'homme qui voulut être roi (1975), Le lion et le vent (1975), Bandits, bandits (1981), Highlander (1986), Le nom de la rose (1986), Les incorruptibles (1987) (which earned him an Oscar for best actor in a supporting role), Indiana Jones et la dernière croisade (1989), À la poursuite d'Octobre Rouge (1990), Soleil levant (1993), Rock (1996), À la rencontre de Forrester (2000), and La ligue des gentlemen extraordinaires (2003).
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.
