Sir
Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930) is a Scottish actor and
producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray
James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. In 1988 he won
the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The
Untouchables. Sir Sean Connery was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
in July 2000. Connery is known for retaining his Scottish accent
in films, regardless of the nationality of the character played,
and for his rugged good looks. He has repeatedly been named as one
of the most attractive men alive by various magazines, despite the
fact that he is older than most sex symbols. He was planning to
star in an $80 million movie about Saladin and the Crusades that
would be filmed in Jordan before the producer Moustapha Akkad was
killed in the 2005 Amman bombings. Connery received the American
Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award on 8 June 2006, where
he again confirmed his retirement from acting. On 7 June 2007, he
denied rumours that he would appear in the fourth Indiana
Jones film, stating that "retirement is just too much
damned fun" ... more
