Jason Joseph Connery is an actor and is the son of Scottish actor Sean Connery and Australian actress Diane Cilento.

Connery was educated at Millfield School, a co-educational independent school in Somerset, England, and later at Gordonstoun School in Scotland.

Jason's acting career in television and film is minor compared to his father. He has also done much theatre work. He made his film debut in the 1983 film The Lords of Discipline.

He appeared in the Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos in 1985. Jason also portrayed Robin Hood (a role his father had taken on in the film Robin and Marian) in the final season of the television series Robin of Sherwood in 1986. Connery became well known in England for this role.

He portrayed James Bond creator Ian Fleming in the 1990 television drama Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming. (Fleming created the James Bond character which was the role that made his father Sean Connery a star.)

In 1997, he shot a fantasy movie; playing the title role of Merlin in Merlin: The Quest Begins, directed by David Winning and filmed on location in Peebles, Scotland. In 2001, he appeared in Faithful Dealing in London, an English Restoration Whodunit produced by Dominic Madden.

In 2003, he toured with a stage production of The Blue Room. In 2004 he starred as a main character in the children's show Shoebox Zoo and returned in the second series in September 2005.