Sir Thomas Sean Connery was born on August 25th 1930 in Fountainbridge Edinburgh. His mother was Euphemia or Effie, a cleaner and Joseph Connery a factory worker and lorry driver. His mother was a Protestant and his father a Roman Catholic of Irish heritage. He has a brother Neil. His first job was as a milkman. He worked for the St Cuthbert’s Co-operative Society in Edinburgh. Sean then went on to join the Royal Navy. While in the Navy, Sean decided to get two tattoos, one for his family and one for his country. One tattoo says Mum and Dad, and the other says Scotland Forever. They are a tribute to his parents and to his country of Birth and the place he loves. He was discharged from the Navy on medical grounds. He turned his hand to many more jobs including a lorry driver, a coffin polisher, a laborer and artist’s model for the Edinburgh College of Art, before becoming an actor.

Sean has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award. He is probably most famous for his version of the character James Bond. Sean starred in seven Bond films in all, from 1962 to 1983 and then again in 1988. Some of his other roles have been in films that include The Untouchables, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Hunt for Red October and Dragonheart. Sir Sean Connery was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July 2000. He has been polled as the greatest living Scott, and in 1989 was proclaimed the Sexiest Man Alive by People Magazine. In 1999 and at the age of 69 Sean was voted the Sexiest Man of the Century. Sean is a very popular Celebrity worldwide.