Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930), best known as Sean Connery, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scottish actor and producer.

He is best known for portraying the character James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1973.[2] In 1988, Connnery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables.[3] His film career also includes such notable films as Marnie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October and The Rock.

Considered by many in Scotland to be the Greatest Living Scot,[4] Connery was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July 2000.[5] In 1989 he was branded the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine and in 1999, at the age of 69, he was voted the Sexiest Man of the Century.