As a child, Bean smashed a glass door during an argument, which left a piece of glass embedded in his leg that briefly impeded his walking and left a large scar. This prevented him from pursuing his dream of playing football professionally.
After a job at a supermarket and another for the local council, he started working for his father’s firm with a day release at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology to take a welding course.
16. Young Kristofer Hivju And As Tormund Giantsbane (In GoT)
As his grandmother and parents were both actors, his school gave him the lead role in Hamlet when he was 16 without an audition. He began acting at Oslo’s National Theatre when he was 19.
Shaved his trademark beard for a role in M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth (2013).