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Sean Astin Wiki Biography

• Sean Astin is an American actor who was born on February 25, 1971, in Santa Monica, California. 
• Sean has worked in the entertainment industry since 1981 and is best known for his role as Samwise Gamgee in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. 
• He is also a publisher, a writer, and a voice-over actor who has contributed to the promotion of music. 
• So, how wealthy is the well-known actor Sean Astin? 
• Sean Astin’s net worth is currently estimated to be in the $40 million range, according to sources. 
• Sean has been able to save his money while working as an actor, a film director, and an occasional producer. 
• Patty Duke, Sean Astin’s mother, worked in the film industry as well. 
• Michael Tell is Sean’s biological father, and he and Patty married in 1970. 
• Sean Astin’s net worth began to rise in 1981, when he made his first appearance on television in the film “Please Don’t Hit Me, Mom.” 
• Sean Astin has also ‘appeared’ as a voice actor on Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 
• “Moms Night Out,” “Ribbit,” “The Surface,” and “Justice League: Throne of Atlantis” are among Sean’s most recent projects. 
• Sean Astin has been married to Christine Harrell since 1992, according to his personal biography. 
• Alexandra (born 1996), Elizabeth (born 2002), and Isabella (born 2004) are the couple’s three daughters (born 2005). 
• Sean has declared himself a vegetarian. 
• Wikipedia IMDB “The Lord of the Rings trilogy” “There and Back Again” “Dorothy and the Witches of Oz” (2004) “Click” on “50 First Dates.” 
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• The Lord of the Rings is a fantasy novel written by Tolkien Mackenzie Astin is a Canadian actress. 
• The Two Towers of The Lord of the Rings (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition) The Lord of the Rings film trilogy is a trilogy of films based on the Lord of the Rings The Witches of Oz on the Surface Tom Astin is a well-known actor. 
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• I have a very eclectic kind of upbringing in regards to religiosity or religion. You know, my mom was sort of a Catholic and then a lapsed Catholic and then an ex-communicated Catholic and then a brought-back-into-the-fold Catholic and then a kind of Shirley Maclaine New Age kind of something-or-other (laughter). And then my dad was very secular, raised by a schoolteacher as a mom and a scientist as a father and then I was in Catholic school for three years as a kid; there was a confirmation process and I wanted to be confirmed, I had never been baptized. And so I asked if I could be baptized and he said no, not until I was 18. And then he discovered Buddhism a few years later and he wanted me to be a Buddhist, and so I kinda practiced Buddhism for a little while, and my older brother was sort of a swinging singles guy who discovered a guy named swami Vivekananda and like shaved his head and went to India when I was like 10 or 11. And he was someone who I always admired, so I kind of got to see that strain. My biological father is Jewish and I never really knew him until I was 25 but then I did so he’s kind of an interesting and wonderful man who I’ve gotten to know over the last few years, so there’s kind of that strand.
• [on Rudy (1993)] I loved this movie because it shows that if you work hard, you can achieve anything.
• The sidekick business has been good to me.
• [2/12/04, on souvenirs from Middle-earth] I got Sam’s backpack, which began to feel like a second skin, albeit a very uncomfortable skin. I also got to keep Sam’s sword, as well as some Hobbit feet and ears. I can take them out and make the whole family smile!
• [2/12/04] I remember before we started principal photography on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Peter Jackson screened Braveheart (1995), and The Thin Red Line (1998) for the cast. He said, “This is the tone I want to strike with the Ring movies. I want to see the grime on their faces, the dirt on the ground, and I want that level of gritty emotionalism and intensity.” I think his idea was that you can enjoy the fantasy more if you really believe it.
• [2/12/04] I don’t care if I’m 5’7″ and pretty heavy, weight-wise, in the film [the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy]. I still see myself as Errol Flynn. Even when I was a little boy, playing war games in the backyard, I pictured myself as the hero.
• [12/14/03, on his character Sam Gamgee] I spent the film doing lots of things, but the crying is what lived. He [Peter Jackson] tricks you into thinking you’re going to get to do all these brave, heroic things most of the time, and you have to cry once in a while . . . and then he cuts out the heroic moments and you’re left thinking, “I look like a big baby”.
• [12/18/03, about the scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) in which Sam helps Frodo up Mount Doom] It was an incredible acting experience, being on the side of a volcano with that language. That language is so beautiful: “It’ll be springtime soon, and they’ll be sowing barley on the fields.” When Peter [Peter Jackson] came up to tell me to lower my arm, something like that, tears were streaming down his face, and to see him that emotional just forced me into it . . . It [finally seeing the last three reels of the film] was a huge cry. It was all of the tension and stress and pressure of having a wife and children, having a career, the investment of these movies. I was sobbing and heaving, I could barely breathe, and the movie facilitated that. It was just a huge release.
• I’d never heard of the “Lord of the Rings”, actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, “Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?”
• [refuting the remarks of cast and crew that he IS Samwise Gamgee] But I’m not really Sam . . . nobody could be that good, that noble. He’s just better than the rest of us. I’m a lot more Hollywood than Sam would ever be.
• I was told I had to gain a lot of weight because Hobbits are very portly. Peter [Peter Jackson] is forever suggesting I have more food: “A little more food for Mr. Astin.”

Sean Astin Important Facts

• He and his brother Mackenzie both guest-starred in Season 9 of N.C.I.S. Mackenzie was in the episode “Life Before His Eyes” and Sean was in “The Tell”.
• His biological father, Michael Tell, is of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish ancestry. His mother, Patty Duke, was of seven eighths Irish and one-eighth German, descent.
• Narrated the American version of Meerkat Manor. The British version was narrated by Bill Nighy, who also preceded him in the role of Sam Gamgee.
• His casting in the fifth season of 24 (2001) came about by sheer luck. One day at his chiropractor’s, he discovered that Joel Surnow was also a patient; they had a short meeting and Surnow offered him the role of Lynn McGill.
• Attending Collectormania 7 at Milton Keynes, and… negotiating to appear in a baseball movie if funding can be secured. [May 2005]
• Reshooting scenes for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). [June 2003]
• His brother MacKenzie Astin appeared in the 200th episode of NCIS and a month later, Sean appeared on the same show in episode 204.
• Keith Coogan is the grandson of Jackie Coogan who played Uncle Fester in The Addams Family (1964). Sean Astin is the son of John Astin who played Gomez Addams in The Addams Family (1964). Keith Coogan and Sean Astin played friends in Toy Soldiers (1991).
• Gave the 2008 commencement address at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, along with Kent Stock, Luther alum, whose story Sean depicted in The Final Season (2007).
• Has hit bad guys over the head with a frying pan in two different movies: Sam Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and also as Billy Tepper in Toy Soldiers (1991).
• Believed that Desi Arnaz Jr. was his biological father until a blood test in 1990 revealed that Michael Tell is his biological father.
• Because Sean’s mother was bipolar, Sean is very active in trying to educate and help the public with identifying and treating mental disorders.
• He and his father, John Astin, have both appeared in the Best Picture winner. Sean appeared in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and John appeared in West Side Story (1961).
• Attended the same elementary school as Camilla Belle, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, and Paris Hilton.
• In The Goonies (1985), his character cries out “Holy Mackenzie!” His brother is Mackenzie Astin. He claimed he was allowed to keep the treasure map used in the film. However, the map was lost forever when his mother discovered it several years later, thought it was just a crinkled piece of paper, and threw it in the trash.
• July 22, 2005, welcomed third child, daughter Isabella Louise at 5lb 4oz. She was a month premature.
• He is a Verizon Literacy Champion and the National Center for Family Literacy celebrity spokesperson.
• Nephew of Ray Duke.
• The title of his autobiography, “There and Back Again,” is actually the alternate title for “The Hobbit” and, in the story, is the title of Bilbo Baggins’ autobiography.
• Is the second actor from a “Lord of the Rings” adaptation to have a relative in an Addams Family adaptation. His father, John Astin, played Gomez on The Addams Family (1964). John Huston, who voiced Gandalf in the animated version of The Return of the King (1980), is the father of Anjelica Huston, who played Morticia in the films.
• September 2004 – Attended the Armaggeddon Pulp Culture Expo Convention in Wellington, New Zealand, as a Lord of the Rings guest.
• Calls four people “Dad”: John Astin, Desi Arnaz Jr., Mike Tell, and Michael Pearce (his step-father).
• Wanted to direct Fantastic Four (2005) at one point.
• Attended Crossroads High School in Santa Monica, California, with actor/musician Jack Black. Was cast in a school play/film when Black-backed out.
• Started his own production company, Lava Entertainment, in the late 1980s.
• Appeared at Wizard World signing autographs on August 9, 2003.
• While filming The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Astin (as Samwise Gamgee) ran into a lake to stop Frodo (Elijah Wood). When he did this, he stepped on a piece of glass and had to be rushed to the hospital. He received many stitches to repair the injury.
• Announced at the Texas Film Festival on 22 February 2003 that he has optioned the book “Issac’s Storm” and is planning on shooting an epic film centered around the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.
• In February 2003, Sean was appointed to the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.
• Had to gain 35 to 40 pounds for his role of Samwise ‘Sam’ Gamgee in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
• During a break in principal photography from the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Astin directed trilogy director Peter Jackson and fellow cast members in a five-minute short film, The Long and Short of It (2003), about camaraderie and friendship within difficult working environments, which mirrored a significant theme of the trilogy. Astin was able to borrow a cutting-edge digital camera from Lucasfilm representatives (who had been demonstrating the camera for Jackson) for a day to make the short. The film was included as a bonus on the DVD release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).
• August 6, 2002, welcomed second child daughter Elizabeth Louise.
• On 4 December 2001, Sean had his image as Samwise Gamgee immortalized on a 90-cent New Zealand postage stamp that he shares with “Lord of the Rings” co-star Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins). However, Sean’s last name is spelled incorrectly on the presentation pack of the stamps (Austin instead of Astin).
• Graduated from UCLA with honors & a B.A. in History & English.
• His biological father is actually Michael Tell, whom Patty Duke was married to for less than a month in 1970. Sean was adopted at age 3 by John Astin but considers both men to be his father.
• Left the room halfway during recording DVD commentary for The Goonies (1985) and never returned. The recording session started late, and Sean had an earlier commitment to introduce friend Joe Pantoliano who was M.C.’ing at a local theatre. Left the recording studio to change clothes, then returned to explain why he had to leave, give a “shout out to Joey Pants,” and left an action figure of Sam Gamgee to take his place. However, the departure and explanation were edited out by the DVD producers.
• Son of Michael Tell and actress Patty Duke.
• Has three other half brothers: David, Allen, and Tom.
• Older brother of actor Mackenzie Astin.
• Daughter born: Ali Astin. [November 1996]

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