



ET/PT) as Martin Odum, an undercover agent in the FBI’s Deep Cover Operations division. The actor stars in Legends, the network’s new drama (debuting Wednesday at 9 p.m. (Yes, he’s also made it through several films intact, including National Treasure, Ronin, and Troy, but what’s the fun in that?) Bean is to dying onscreen what Kevin Bacon is to being connected with every other actor.īut TNT is giving Bean a new lease on life. His 20-plus deaths-so many that even Bean himself has trouble remembering them (see below)-have been chronicled in the Sean Bean Death Reel, which has been viewed more than 2 million times. He’s been shot, blown up, hanged, buried alive, impaled, crushed, drawn and quartered, and even, somehow, run off a cliff by a herd of cattle (in 1990’s The Field). For decades, he has made his living by dying in films like GoldenEye, Patriot Games, and The Island. The actor is most famous for a pair of spectacular onscreen deaths: going down swinging while being skewered by arrows as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and especially his shocking Game of Thrones demise as Ned Stark, who seemed to be the show’s star until his head was stunningly chopped off late in Season 1.īut Bean’s death toll didn’t stop there. Spoiler alert about Sean Bean’s acting career: He dies.
