Birthplace: Ilford, Essex, England, United Kingdom
biography
Pinups featuring the warm smile and boy-next-door good looks of sandy-haired, blue-eyed actor Sean Maguire decorated many a young British girl's bedroom in the early 1990s when his run as a promising Irish footballer training in Walford in the British soap "EastEnders" launched his career. Having worked as a child actor in such projects as the TV-movie drama "A Voyage Round My Father" (1982) and the popular school-set soap "Grange Hill" (BBC), Maguire worked steadily as a child actor, but would garner much greater popularity as a teen. Though his role on "EastEnders" lasted for only one full
Had early acting credit with a role in the British TV-movie drama "A Voyage Round My Father", starring Laurence Olivier and Alan Bates
Acted on the popular British soap "Grange Hill"
1992
Appeared in the feature "Waterland"
Played Aidan Brosnan, an affable young teen who gives up his dreams of professional football after an injury leaves him benched, on the hit BBC soap "Eastenders"