Sean Bean
Best for: A bit of Yorkshire rough
Sean Bean has played the rugged hero in everything from TV’s ‘Sharpe’ to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ – so when he takes a bad-guy role, you sit up and listen. His disgraced MI6 agent Alec Trevelyan in ‘Goldeneye’ remains one of James Bond’s most convincingly down-to-earth adversaries.
Key films: ‘GoldenEye’, ‘The Hitcher'