Sean Connery (Sir August De Wynter)
Sean Connery
SEAN CONNERY won both a Best Supporting Actor Oscar and a Golden Globe Award in 1987 for "The Untouchables."

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Connery had small parts in movies and television before landing the role that would launch his career. Cast as James Bond, Agent 007, in a small-budget British picture called "Dr. No," Connery inaugurated the longest-running series in film history, starring as the urbane Bond in "From Russia with Love," "Goldfinger," "Thunderball," "You Only Live Twice," "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Never Say Never Again."

Connery also starred in Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" and in "A Fine Madness," "The Molly Maguires," "The Anderson Tapes," "Murder on the Orient Express," "The Wind and the Lion," "The Man Who Would Be King," "Robin and Marion," "A Bridge Too Far," "Outland," "Zardoz," "The Name of the Rose," "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," "The Russia House," "The Hunt for Red October," "Medicine Man," "Rising Sun" (on which he also served as executive producer) and "First Knight."

More recently, Connery starred in the blockbuster "The Rock" and in "Dragonheart" (as the voice of the dragon). Upcoming projects include the ensemble drama "Dancing About Architecture" and the thriller "Entrapment," also starring Katherine Zeta Jones.

Among the many international honors Connery has received for his work are the Legion d'Honneur and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (the highest honors given in France) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Best Actor Award for "The Name of the Rose" (1987), as well as a Lifetime Achievement Tribute Award presented by BAFTA in 1990. Connery also founded the Scottish International Education Trust in 1968.

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