'Game of Thrones' Star Sean Bean Stabbed in Bar Brawl, Is a Total Badass

Art imitates life. And sometimes life imitates art...at least when it comes to being an honorable hero such as the one Sean Bean plays on "Game of Thrones."

Bean, who plays Ned Stark on the freshman HBO series, was standing outside of a bar in London with his girlfriend, model and Playboy bunny April Summers, when a drunk man approached and began taunting Summers about the topless modeling she has done in the past. The 52-year-old Bean wasn't having it and told the man off, who then retreated.

The man returned later, though, and started a fistfight with Bean that left the actor with a black eye and a shard of glass stabbed in his arm.

Here's the good part: Bean refused to be taken to the hospital, but instead used the bar's first aid kit to patch things up, and ordered another drink.

Bean is known for playing tough-guy roles such as the villain in the Bond film "GoldenEye" and the ultimately heroic Boromir in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." And, interestingly enough, with those two roles and the twist in the most recent episode of "Game of Thrones," Bean's characters tend to be injury-prone, too.

I guess a few stabbings come with defending one's honor.