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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born on August 25, 1930) is a Scottish actor and producer, Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award winner.

He is famous for his James Bond character, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. Connery won the Academy Award in 1988 for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables.

Connery was considered the “greatest living Scot” and was knighted in July 2000. In 1989, People magazine named him the Sexiest Man Alive, while in 1999, at the age of 69, was voted as the Sexiest Man of the Century.

Connery was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, and he first worked as a milkman in Edinburgh at St. Cuthbert’s Co-operative Society. Later on he joined the Royal Navy where he got two tattoos; one of them is a tribute to his parents “Mum and Dad” while the other reads “Scotland Forever”. Following his discharge from the navy on medical grounds, he returned to the co-op working as a lorry driver, a labourer, an artist model for the Edinburgh College of Art, and as a coffin polisher.

Helping out backstage at the King’s Theatre around Christmas of 1951, Connery became interested in the procedures and thus his career was launched.
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Veteran actor Sir Sean Connery has denied any knowledge of a reported legal battle over a 30-year-old business deal – insisting he never received a court summons ordering him to give evidence in Switzerland.

The former James Bond star is reportedly being investigated for a dispute over a loan he offered to French-Swiss property developer, known only as Jean-René, in 1972.

Jean-René died of cancer in 2002, and his son Christian, who does not want the family surname to be made public, has taken legal action against Connery.

The actor is reportedly accused of lending the late businessman $4 million and then selling off the assets provided as security on the loan for a profit when Jean-René could not make the repayments.

Christian claims Connery sold off a portfolio of shares, property and gems worth $10 million, which would now be worth $50 million – realising the actor more than his original investment.

Reports surfaced on Monday (02Mar09) that Connery had been summoned to give evidence at a court in Switzerland as part of the case.

But a spokesman for the actor insists the star has absolutely no knowledge of the lawsuit: “Sean knows nothing about this and so far he’s received no summons to attend the court.”

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