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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.
Serving in a war, Burt Kenyon saved his comrade Frank Castle's life. Both Castle and Kenyon assumed this was a life debt. Kenyon was released from service because he was deemed psychologically unstable. Upon returning to the USA, Kenyon took work for the Maggia as Hitman, a villainous analoge to Frank Castle's emerging vigilante identity of the Punisher. On his first assignment, Hitman ran afoul of Spider-Man by taking a contract on the hero's life. Spider-Man passed his tracker onto the Punisher who began to hunt his former friend. During Kenyon's next assignment to assassinate J. Jonah Jameson, Hitman, Punisher, and Spider-Man held a final battle at the Statue of Liberty. When Punisher chose to save an injured Spider-Man and Jameson hanging over the monument's edge over his former ally in similar dire straits, Kenyon released him of his debt to him from the war and let go, falling to his death. Several years later, Hitman was one of the many friends or foes of Spider-Man returned to life by the Jackal using his cloning. Jackal intended to use the return of these people as an incentive to make Spider-Man join his enterprise. Most of the people cloned back to life by the Jackal died shortly afterwards, but Hitman was one of the few survivors, and continued working as a mercenary. Kenyon devised a way to constantly cheat death, by establishing a system in which his consciousness was uploaded to a cloud and then downloaded into a new body whenever necessary.
