– I had actually never heard of “Lord of the Rings”, he said at a cultural fair in Jamaica in 2017.
– So I went to the bookstore, and there it was: Three shelves with books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I thought: “Dude, what else am I missing”.
But otherwise, the American actor, who turns 50 on February 25, has starred in a large number of films and series.
Among others, “The Goons” written by director Steven Spielberg, “50 First Dates” starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore and the Netflix series “Stranger Things”.
Sean Astin has had success in the film world, but his privacy has not always been easy.
He is the son of Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke. She was manic depressive, and he has repeatedly told how much it affected his childhood.
But that was not all.
As a 14-year-old – when his parents divorced – his mother told him that the man he thought was his father was not at all.
Until then, he believed that the American actor John Astin, was his father. He was only his adoptive father.
The mother told Sean Astin that American actor and musician Desi Arnaz Jr. instead, he was his real father.
Sean Astin contacted Desi Arnaz Jr. and they built a good relationship.
But that was not how it was connected either.
Sean Astin knows today – via genetic testing – that the author and music producer Michael Tell is his biological father.
And then there’s the fourth father. When Sean Astin was 15, his mother remarried. She married a man named Mike Pearce. He became Sean Astin’s stepfather.
It was a turbulent time, but today he is very happy for his four fathers.
– I can call them all, whenever I want. John, Desi, Mike and Dad Mike. They are my four fathers, he told the American media ABC News in 2004.
Privately, he is married to Christine Harrell. They have three daughters together.
Source: The Nordic Page