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Sean Connolly, an actor and voice artist, was raised in Derbyshire, England, by Anglo-Irish parents. He relocated to Birmingham in the mid-1980s and trained at the Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, where he met his actress wife, Bella Hamblin. Shortly after graduating, Sean landed his first theatre role as the Cheshire Cat and Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland in Barnsley, England. He proudly earned his Equity card playing a cat and an egg!
He soon took on extensive audio drama work for the BBC and independent companies, including a recent role as Keith Horrobin in BBC Radio 4's long-running soap, The Archers.
Sean made his British television debut in Boon (1986) for Central Television, playing The Librarian in the episode "Bully Boys," featuring character actor Graham Stark, known for The Pink Panther films. His other TV credits include the British sci-fi series Jupiter Moon (1990), ITV children's favourite Woof! (1989) opposite Nigel Havers, Resnick: Rough Treatment (1993) alongside Jim Carter and Tom Georgeson, Cruel Train (1996) with David Suchet, The Bill (1999), Doctors (2003) with Stephanie Cole, and the Channel 4 nurse drama No Angels (2004).
His film credits include Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2001) alongside Stellan Skarsgård, Chris Penn, and Paul Bettany. More recent films include N.F.A. (No Fixed Abode) (2012), iWitness (2014), We Are the Freaks (2013), and The Marker (2017), all produced by the award-winning 104 Films. Sean co-produced his first feature film, the acclaimed British paranormal mystery thriller The Casebook of Eddie Brewer (2012), starring Peter Wight and Ian Brooker, also serving as its casting director. He was Associate Producer on the 2014 documentary More Canal than Venice, nominated for an RTS Midlands Centre Award. In 2015, he portrayed Alf Robertson in the RTS Midlands Centre Award-winning short drama Battle Lines (2014), again with 104 Films and the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust.
In addition to screen acting, Sean has notable voice work in film and television, primarily with Aardman Animations and the BBC. He voiced 30 characters across 13 episodes of the classic claymation series Rex the Runt (1991) in partnership with Studio Canal. He provided voices for 10 characters in the Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA-nominated Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) and voiced Hector the Head Llama in the Aardman/BBC Christmas special Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas (2015). Sean also voiced all male prairie dog characters in the CBeebies series Little Prairie Dogs (2010), opposite Kate Sachs, daughter of Andrew Sachs. For the Oscar-winning BreakThru Films, he performed all voices—including a family of mice and a villainous cat—in the CGI animated short Papa's Boy (Isän poika) (2010), which was long-listed for an Oscar in 2012 but did not secure a nomination for Best Animated Short.
