Appearances

Title	Role	Year	Approx. Age
Hercules	Linus	2005	34
Toy Soldiers	Billy Tepper	1991	20
The Willies	Michael	1990	19
Like Father Like Son	Clarence / Trigger	1987	16
White Water Summer	Alan	1987	16
the Goonies!	Michael 'Mikey' Walsh	1985	14

Sean Patrick Astin was born in Santa Monica, California to Patty Duke. His younger Mackenzie Astin is also an actor. At age 9, Sean starred with his mother in the after-school special Please Don't Hit Me, Mom (1981) (TV). The Goonies (1985) followed and since then he has had a steady stream of roles. Sean attended Crossroads High School for the Arts and studied with the famous Stella Adler. In 1987 he co-starred with another teen heartthrob, Kirk Cameron in Like Father Like Son (1987), followed, by Toy Soldiers (1991), Where the Day Takes You (1992), Rudy (1993) and the Showtime movie Harrison Bergeron (1995) (TV).

He's also become involved behind the camera, directing and co-producing the short film Kangaroo Court (1994) which was nominated in the best short film category at the 67th Annual Academy Awards in 1995. Coincidentally, Sean's step-father John Astin (The Addams Family (1964)) was nominated for the same award in 1969. Graduated from UCLA with honors & a B.A. in History & English. But Sean's greatest role was as Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. His claim to fame is that has hit bad guys over the head with a frying pan in two different movies: as Sam Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and also as Billy Tepper in Toy Soldiers (1991). Sean has three children.