- Born
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- A character actor from Boston, Sean started acting in theatre at the age of ten through the urging of his brother Eddie and sister Mary, who were both performers themselves. His two other siblings, Timothy and Lesley, also performed on stage occasionally, as did their parents.
Sean Vincent Biggins was born at St. Elizabeth's hospital in Boston to Anne Louise (Dowdell) of Salem, Massachusetts and Edward Anthony Biggins of Waltham, Massachusetts. Receiving years of informal training, by both performing on stage and working behind the scenes, Sean then attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) in New York City. Afterwards he returned to the Boston stage scene and eventually into film. In 1998, after initially being called in to audition for a minor supporting role in the independent, Boston-made feature film "Working Stiff", he actually landed the lead role of 'Gene' and ended up receiving a Best Actor nomination for his performance at the Portland Festival of World Cinema in 2001, where the film itself won Best Screenplay. In a Providence Journal review of the film at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Michael Janusonis said, "Biggins has an Everyman sensibility that's charismatic."
Sean moved to Los Angeles in 1999 and by 2001 he had already booked his first television role on a new show called "Bull" and a supporting role in a feature film. He has continued to work in film, television and theater, as well as the internet ever since. In 2014 he made his first foray into producing with the short film "Kindness of Strangers," directed by Aaron Garcia. He has dabbled in writing a little bit as well. Sean is also an avid photographer and has had some of his work shown in Los Angeles galleries. He is still a New Englander at heart and remains loyal to his hometown teams, the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins. Another passion of his is history.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Witch Watch Films
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Sean's oldest brother Eddie and nephew Ryan make up two-thirds of the Boston-based Celtic/Irish band The Boston Harbor Bhoys. For several years, Sean's sister Mary was a writer and producer in both Boston and Los Angeles.
Sean met both David Mamet and William H. Macy on the set of "Oleanna" in 1993 when the film was shooting in his hometown of Waltham, Mass. Mamet asked him if he had something to fall back on, to which he replied "Not really." Mamet then went on to say, "Good. Because I find that most actors who have something to fall back on usually do fall back."
The Salem, Massachusetts house from the 1993 film "Hocus Pocus" is Sean's aunt and uncle's house.
The name of Sean's production company, Witch Watch Films, is comprised of the nicknames of the towns in which his parents grew up. Salem, Mass, where his mother is from, is known as 'The Witch City' because of infamous Salem Witch Trials of the 1600s. Waltham, Mass, the town both he and his father are from, is known as 'The Watch City' because of The Waltham Watch Company, which made world-renowned watches for over 100 years from the early 1800s until the mid-1900s.
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