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Jason Connery
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Jason Joseph Connery (born January 11, 1963) is an English actor. Born in London, he is the son of actors Sean Connery and Diane Cilento.
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Jason's acting career in television and film is minor compared to his father. He has also done much theatre work. He made his film debut in the 1983 film The Lords of Discipline. He appeared in the Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos in 1985. Jason also portrayed Robin Hood (a role his father had taken on in the film Robin and Marian) in the final season of the television series Robin of Sherwood in 1986.
He portrayed James Bond creator Ian Fleming in the 1990 television drama Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming. (Fleming created the James Bond character which was the role that made his father Sean Connery a star.) In 2001 he appeared in Faithful Dealing in London, an English Restoration Whodunit produced by Dominic Madden. In 2003 he toured with a stage production of The Blue Room. In 2004 he starred as a main character in the children's show Shoebox Zoo and returned in the second series in September 2005.
He has a lead role in the film Night Skies, . In his latest movie, Brotherhood of Blood, he plays a vampire hunter.
Connery was educated at Millfield School, a famous co-educational independent school in Somerset, England, and later at Gordonstoun School in Scotland, where one of his classmates was Prince Edward.[1]
Connery was married to the actress Mia Sara from 1996 until 2002. The marriage produced one child, Dashiell Quinn Connery (born in June 1997).
- ^ IMDB biography. imdb.com. Retrieved on July 22, 2006.