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Shaun Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959) is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean made his professional debut in a theatre production of Romeo and Juliet in 1983. Retaining his Yorkshire accent, he first found mainstream success for his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the ITV series Sharpe, which originally ran from 1993 to 1997. Bean's film roles include Patriot Games (1992), GoldenEye (1995), Ronin (1998), Don't Say a Word (2001), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), Equilibrium (2002), National Treasure (2004), Troy (2004), Flightplan (2005), North Country (2005), The Island (2005), Silent Hill (2006), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Black Death (2010), Jupiter Ascending (2015), and The Martian (2015). His television roles include the BBC anthology series Accused, Broken, Game of Thrones, and the ITV historical drama series Henry VIII and Legends. As a voice actor, Bean has been featured in the video games The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Sid Meier's Civilization VI, and the feature films Wolfwalkers and Mummies among others. Bean has also been the main voice over for O2 and their adverts for over 20 years having originally taken the job in 2002. In 2022, Bean won the British Academy Television Award as Leading Actor in Time, a BBC One drama.
The Roanoke colony settlers disappeared but they weren’t abducted by native Americans or died off. They were never actually alone. A second ship arrived with them carrying over $500 million worth of gold that England assumed could be used to pay for items settlements and alliances. The leader of the Roanoke colony took the treasure for himself and relocated everyone to another colony buying their silence. One of the original Roanoke settlers was Clifford Gates a very old relative to Cage’s character. When his journal is unearthed aboard a ship wreck after a recent hurricane off of the Carolinas, it explains the origins of CROATOAN which turns out to be a code leading to the treasure and solving the mystery of what happened to those settlers. With the possibility of $500 mil to be found. Researchers and treasure hunters will stop at nothing to solve the mystery of Roanoke first. This hunt leads Nic Cage on an adventure from the Carolinas to Virginia and all the way to England as he unearths a centuries long secret regarding the disappearance and wealth of the Roanoke colony. What he discovers impacts our understand of our nations history altogether and the lengths at which some went to to colonize America.
