Career

Prior to his role on Damages, Bean had a number of minor and less notable roles on the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Ed, Joan of Arcadia, Numb3rs, and Crumbs, the films Williamstowne and Stay, and a number of commercials.

He labels his signing on the role of David Connor on Damages, the fiancé of the protagonist, as being "lucky", praising the script of the show and also the fact that it is shot in New York, where he is currently living. He also says he was aware that his character dies in the first season and was disappointed but "thrilled" for the opportunity to have a full season. He also summarizes working with Glenn Close, Željko Ivanek and Ted Danson as "a dream come true". Bean returned for guest appearances in one episode each of the show's second, third, and fifth seasons.

Bean has also been involved in theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway. His first role was in Philadelphia Here I Come!, a role which he was offered when the originally cast actor left the show four days before the opening. He co-runs a theatre company, Stage 13, with several other actors, directors and playwrights, including Dan Fogler, in New York, and although he prefers screen acting, he says, "I love the theater and would always go back to do a play if it was an exciting project." He appeared as a guest star in the episode "Ability" of the TV series Fringe. In 2015, he starred as Aaron Marker in Syfy's Science-Fiction series 12 Monkeys.

He was also a series regular on The CW television series Nikita, as CIA Agent Ryan Fletcher.

Personal life

Bean was born in Boston, Massachusetts. As a child, Bean attended Pine Point School and The Williams School in Connecticut. An only child, he describes himself as being so quiet and shy that his school would phone his parents asking whether anything was wrong at home: "I was deathly shy and basically scared of people in general." In high school his mother encouraged him to become involved in drama, which he says helped him open up, "I found when I had a script in my hand I could speak." He later attended Boston University's College of Fine Arts before he was offered his first theatre role by director Michael Ritchie.

The son of Richard Bean and Ruth Crocker, Bean hails from Mystic, Connecticut, although he has lived and worked in Los Angeles and is currently living in New York. He is friends with actor Seth Gabel and director Jack Bender and also says he has come to be good friends with Damages co-actor and on-screen fiancée Rose Byrne. He has been in a relationship with Nikita co-star Lyndsy Fonseca since 2013. In February 2016 Fonseca announced their engagement.

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Director
1998	Williamstowne	Tom	Richard Horian
2005	Stay	Clerk/Student Guide	Marc Forster
2009	Peter and Vandy	Andrew	Jay DiPietro
	Hysterical Psycho	Chuck	Dan Fogler
2010	Morning Glory	First Date	Roger Michell
2011	Little Murder	Paul Marais	Predrag Antonijević
	The Pill	Fred	J. C. Khoury

Television

Television
Year	Title	Episodes	Role	Director
2000	Ed	"Your Life Is Now"	Tim Cooper	Marc Buckland
2001		"The Music Box"
		"Mixed Signals"		Alan Myerson
		"Prom Night"		Marc Buckland
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	"Pixies"	Shoe Store Clerk	Jean de Segonzac
2003	Joan of Arcadia	"Pilot"	Officer Osbourne	Jack Bender
				James Hayman
2005	Numb3rs	"Identity Crisis"	Desk Clerk	Martha Mitchell
2006	Crumbs	"Maybe I'm Tony Randall"	Paul	Ted Wass
2007	Damages	"Get Me a Lawyer"	David Connor	Allen Coulter
		"Jesus, Mary and Joe Cocker"		Greg Yaitanes
		"And My Paralyzing Fear of Death"		John David Coles
		"Tastes Like a Ho-Ho"		Lawrence Trilling
		"A Regular Earl Anthony"		Jean de Segonzac
		"She Spat at Me"		Mario Van Peebles
		"We Are Not Animals"		Dan Attias
		"Blame the Victim"		Guy Ferland
		"Do You Regret What We Did?"		Thomas Carter
		"Sort of Like a Family"		Timothy Busfield
		"I Hate These People"		Ed Bianchi
		"There's No 'We' Anymore"		Mario Van Peebles
		"Because I Know Patty"		Todd A. Kessler
2008	Medium	"Drowned World"	Charles Winters	Aaron Lipstadt
	The Verdict	—	Nick	Mark Piznarski
	Lipstick Jungle	"Help!"	Noah Mason	Don Scardino
		"Let It Be"		Tricia Brock
	Private Practice	"Crime and Punishment"	Sean	Mark Tinker
2009	Fringe	"Ability"	FBI Agent	Norberto Barba
	Damages	"They Had to Tweeze That Out of My Kidney"	David Connor	Michael Pressman
	The Cleaner	"Does Everybody Have a Drink?"	Michael Zellman	Janice Cooke
	Dark Blue	"Purity"	Scott Muller	Jeffrey Hunt
		"K-Town"		Nathan Hope
		"Betsy"		Dermott Downs
		"A Shot in the Dark"		Nick Gomez
	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	"The Gang Reignites the Rivalry"	Art Sloan	Randall Einhorn
2010	Cold Case	"Two Weddings"	Dan Palmer	Nathan Hope
	Damages	"All That Crap About Your Family"	David Connor	Matthew Penn
	Nikita	"Dark Matter"	Ryan Fletcher	Danny Cannon
2011-13		"Free"		Jonathan Glassner
		"The Next Seduction"		David Solomon
		"Betrayals"		Eagle Egilsson
		"Pandora"		Ken Fink
		"Clawback"		Eagle Egilsson
		"Pale Fire"		Deran Sarafian
2012	Once Upon a Time	"The Stable Boy"	Daniel	Dean White
		"The Doctor"
2015	12 Monkeys		Aaron Marker
2016	Vinyl	"Cyclone"	David Bowie	Nicole Kassell

Notes

• A ^ Denotes a TV series.
• B ^ Denotes a television film.

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