Who Is Sean Connery?
Sean Connery was born on August 25, 1930, in Fountainbridge, Scotland. In the 1950s, he was cast in numerous U.K. films and television programs. In the early ’60s, he landed the lead role of James Bond in Dr. No, continuing the role in followups like Goldfinger and Thunderball while gaining massive popularity. He worked regularly in film thereafter, and in 1987 won an Academy Award in the category of supporting actor for The Untouchables. Connery later starred in the adventure films Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, before retiring from acting.
Childhood in Scotland
Leading actor Sean Connery was born Thomas Sean Connery on August 25, 1930, in Fountainbridge, Scotland. The son of Joe, a truck driver, and Euphamia, a laundress, Connery had a modest upbringing in a neighborhood known as “the street of a thousand smells” for the stench of the local rubber mill and several breweries that filled the air. His home was a two-room flat where the infant slept in a bureau drawer because his parents couldn’t afford a crib. “We were very poor,” Connery has commented, “but I never knew how poor because that’s how everyone was there.” Joe brought home only a few shillings a week, and those were often spent on whiskey or gambling.
