The role is a complex one: Boromir is the eldest son of Denethor, Steward of Gondor, the southern realm of Middle-earth, which is beleaguered by the forces of the Dark Lord, Sauron. Having traveled to Rivendell to speak at the Council of Elrond on behalf of his people, Boromir becomes a member of the Fellowship.
Though noble and heroic, Boromir has a fatal flaw. "Being Human," says Bean, "he's more susceptible to the power of the Ring and is constantly having to fight against it. He knows that it's got a strong draw on him, and throughout the journey, tha tkeeps preying in his mind."
Boromir's fascination with the Ring places the entire quest in peril. As Bean remarks: "By the end, although it is too late, he understands why it's just not possible to take the Ring and use it."
With his recent film and television work, the British-born actor has gained two distinct reputations for himself: as the hard man and the lover. As well as playing Alex Tervelyan (006), the good-guy-turned-bad-guy who opposes Pierce Brosnan's Bond in Goldeneye, and Sean Miller, the terrorist who pursues Harrison Ford in Patriot Games, Bean has shown a more romantic side to his personality as the compromised photographer in A Woman's Guide to Adultery and as Mellors, the gamekeeper lover in Lady Chatterley, Ken Russell's TV adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's infamous novel.
After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean began his stage career in London's West End in variety of Shakespearean roles before making his film debut in Caravaggio. Other films include War Reqiuem,Black Beauty and the Robert DeNiro spy thriller Ronin, in which he plays the role of Spence, the British weapons expert. On television, Bean has starred in a number of popular series, among them Lorna Doone, Clarissa and Scarlette, and his performance in the title role of Sharpe, the Napoleonic war hero in the novels of Bernard Cornwell, was acclaimed.
A diverse and talented actor, bean has recently played the gangster Jason Locke in Essex Boys and provided the voice for the Nun's Priest in an award-winning puppet version of The Canterbury Tales.
Bean's role inThe Lord Of The Rings is both physically and emotionally demanding: grappling with a character who acts quite wrongly for many of the best motives. Sean Bean describes Boromir as "resolute, determined and clear thinking; a man of battle, Boromir has a very clear opinion about wanting to use the Ring to help his people. But although he has very direct ambitions, he eventually comes to see things in a different light."
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