Celebrity Biographies

Sean Bean's Biography

Trained at RADA, award-winning British actor Sean Bean's distinguished career has spanned film, TV and theatre over the past twenty years.

Trained at RADA, award-winning British actor Sean Bean's distinguished career has spanned film, TV and theatre over the past twenty years. Major highlights have included the role of Boromir in Peter Jackson's acclaimed Lord of the Rings trilogy for which Bean received the Best British Actor accolade at the Empire Awards; as well as Chris Columbus' Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Troy, Black Death, John Frankenheimer's Ronin, Goldeneye, Don’t Say A Word, National Treasure, The Dark, Flight Plan, The Island, Silent Hill, The Hitcher, True North, Anna Karenina, Shopping, Patriot Games, Caravaggio, Lorna Doone, The Field and Stormy Monday. Most recently he has finished working on Hadi Hajaig’s Clean Skin, Adrian Vitoria’s Age of Heroes and Maxim Korostyshevsky’s Soldiers Of Fortune. He is currently working on HBO’s series Game Of Thrones.

He first came to the attention of television audiences in the 1990s in the role of Richard Sharpe in the hugely popular series Sharpe, a role he recently reprised. Other major television dramas have included Channel Four's celebrated Red Riding, Bravo Two Zero, A Woman's Guide to Adultery, Lady Chatterley, Fool's Gold, Inspector Morse, Clarissa, Prince, Tell Me That You Love Me, Wedded, The Loser, Troubles, Small Zone, My Kingdom For a Horse, War Requiem, Winter Flight, Samson & Delilah and The True Bride. Notable theatre credits include the RSC's Romeo & Juliet directed by Michael Boghdanov, Trevor Nunn's RSC Stratford/Mermaid production of Fair Maid of the West, A Midsummer Night's Dream and more recently Edward Hall's Macbeth.

David Haye's Biography

David Haye is the current WBA heavyweight champion of the world and is Britain's hardest-hitting boxing star.

The 30-year-old is known as 'The Hayemaker' and has knocked out a staggering 22 of his 24 beaten opponents within the distance and has won four world titles as a professional. As well as emerging as the world's leading heavyweight, Haye also won world titles as a cruiserweight, where he carved his reputation as one of the sport's biggest punchers and most exciting characters.

Last November, Haye travelled to Nuremberg, Germany and realised his heavyweight dream, as he conquered the 7-feet-2-inch, 23-stone 'Beast From The East' Nikolai Valuev to take home the world heavyweight crown. Despite conceding a foot in height and seven-stone in weight, Haye managed to outbox and outfox his giant opponent to become Britain's first world heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis.

Born in Bermondsey, South London, Haye now rules the world as a heavyweight champion, having finally achieved his dream of lifting the sport's greatest prize. As a mere 10-year-old, the boxer once made a promise to his mother that he'd bring the world heavyweight title home and now, nineteen years later, hard work has finally paid off for 'The Hayemaker'.