Robin of Sherwood

Background:

“I get it all the time. You know, ‘Will he look like him, will he talk like him?,’ that sort of thing.” Jason Connery on being compared to his father

English actor Jason Connery, son of the fame Scottish actor Sean Connery and his Australian actress-wife, Diane Cilento, became famous in England for starring as “Robin Hood” in the popular television series “Robin of Sherwood” (1985-1986) and after playing the title character in the big screen remake of Macbeth (1997). He also has starred in the television biopic The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990, TNT) and appeared in the blockbuster hit Shanghai Noon (2000). Other film credits include Bullet to Beijing (1995), Urban Ghost Story (1998), Requiem (2001), Hoboken Hollow (2005), The Far Side of Jericho (2006) and more recently, Night Skies (2007) and Chinaman’s Chance (2007). He has completed filming Brotherhood of Blood (2007).

Connery is the former husband of actress Mia Sara (together from 1996 to 2002). He has a young son named Dashiell Quinn Connery.


Son of Actors

Childhood and Family:

Jason Joseph Connery was born on January 11, 1963, in London, England, to celebrity parents Sean Connery and Diane Cilento. His parents divorced when he was 10, and they both remarried. He has a half-sister, Giovanna Volpe, from his mother side. His uncle Neil Connery is also an actor.

Young Jason was raised in London and Scotland. He enrolled at Millfield School, a celebrated co-educational independent school in Somerset, England, in which he was given a half scholarship for swimming and seized the under-16 freestyle record for the south of England. Later, he was educated at the Gordonstoun School for Boys in Scotland and found a knack for acting while studying there. He went on to train at London’s Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and later at Scotland’s Perth Repertory Company.

On March, 17, 1996, Jason married Brooklyn-born actress Mia Sara (born on June 19, 1967), and welcomed a son, Dashiell Quinn Connery, in June 1997. The couple divorced in 2002. Jason currently lives in Los Angeles and spends every bit of spare time with his son.


Macbeth

Career:

Son of famous actors, Jason Connery became interested in acting while studying at the Gordonstoun School in Scotland where he started the Inter House Players Group and directed several school’s plays, including “Hotel Paradiso,” which starred fellow classmate Edward Wessex (aka. Prince Edward). After leaving The Bristol Old Vic Drama School, he spent six moths at Perth Repertory Theatre, doing weekly repertory work, acting, and working as the assistant stage manager in an attempt to get his Equity card.

In 1983, Connery made his film debut as a cadet at a Southern military academy in The Lords of Discipline, and resurfaced a year later as the star of The Boy Who Had Everything, directed and written by Stephen Wallace. There he portrayed a college student who has troubles with his mother (played by her real-life mother), his girlfriend, as well as life. Unfortunately, the movie did not make Connery “box office,” and subsequently he disappeared from the big screen.

The same year, Connery was also seen on the small careen playing a conceited athlete in his American miniseries debut, The First Olympics: Athens: 1896 (NBC), and went on to appear as Jondar in two episodes of “Doctor Who” serial in 1985. It was also 1985 that Connery finally received a huge break when he landed the role of “Robin Hood” in the well-liked BBC series “Robin of Sherwood.” The role made him an overnight star in England. He returned to movies in 1988 in the little-seen flicks Bye Bye Baby and Puss in Boots.

Kicking off the 1990s, Connery took on one of his plum roles as the writer of the James Bond stories, Ian Fleming, on the TNT made-for-television biopic The Secret Life of Ian Fleming, which he followed with roles in the telepics Lenin: The Train (1990), Mountain of Diamonds (1991) and The Other Side of Paradise (1992). He was cast as a geologist from Germany escaping to Southwest Africa in the movie The Sheltering Desert (1992), appeared with his dad close friend Michael Caine on the actions Bullet to Beijing (1995) and Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996), as well as starred in the indie-thriller The Successor (1996). A year later, he gained admiration after portraying the title role in a new remake of the Shakespearean classic, Macbeth. He closed up the decade by starring as John Fox in Urban Ghost Story (1998).

2000 saw Jason in the Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker hit Shanghai Noon, where he briefly appeared as the villain who kidnaps a Chinese princess and brings her to the US, before returning to the movie as a star in the horror Requiem (2001). He next could be seen working on the small screen where he had roles in the series “Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!” (2001), “Liberty’s Kids: Est. 1776” (2002) and “Smallville” (2001-2003). In the English-Canadian series “Shoebox Zoo” (2004), he was cast as Dad along side Vivien Endicott Douglas as Marnie McBride, Krystina Coates as Laura and Frances Low as Ms. MacKay to name a few. He provided the vocal for Mr. Trollheimer Star in several episodes of “Trollz” (2005-2006).

From 2005-2006, Connery also had numerous film projects under his belt. Among his works include costarring with C. Thomas Howell on the horror Hoboken Hollow (2005), The Far Side of Jericho (2006) and having supporting role in Tim Hunter’s The Far Side of Jericho (2006). More recently, he had a led in the thriller Night Skies (2007) and shared the screen with Reggie Lee and Timothy Bottoms on Chinaman’s Chance (2007).

Connery will play a vampire hunter in Brotherhood of Blood (2007) and costar with Nick Soderblom in the British movie Velocity (2007).


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