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Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years. Following a stage acting career he rose to popularity in the television series Remington Steele (1982-87).

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Articles Pierce Brosnan Gay Future The Long Good Friday Manions of America Remington Steele Nomads (1986 film) Taffin The Fourth Protocol (film) The Deceivers (film) Noble House (TV miniseries) Around the World in 80 Days (TV miniseries) Phileas Fogg

Mister Johnson Victim of Love (film) The Lawnmower Man (film) Live Wire (film) Mrs. Doubtfire Death Train Love Affair (1994 film) Don't Talk to Strangers Night Watch (1995 film)

GoldenEye Mars Attacks! The Mirror Has Two Faces Robinson Crusoe (1997 film) Tomorrow Never Dies Dante's Peak Quest for Camelot The Nephew Grey Owl (film) The World Is Not Enough The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 film) The Tailor of Panama Die Another Day

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Evelyn (film) After the Sunset Laws of Attraction 007: Everything or Nothing The Matador Seraphim Falls Butterfly on a Wheel Married Life (film) Mamma Mia! (film) Thomas and Friends The Great Discovery The Greatest (2009 film) The Ghost Writer (film) Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Remember Me (2010 film) Oceans (2009 film) Salvation Boulevard I Don't Know How She Does It Bag of Bones (TV miniseries)

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Pierce Brosnan

Brosnan at Cannes, 2002

Pierce Brendan Brosnan 16 May 1953 Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland

Actor, producer, environmentalist

[1] 1977–present

Navan, County Meath, Ireland

Cassandra Harris (1980–91, her death, 1 child) Keely Shaye Smith (2001–present)

Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years. Following a stage acting career he rose to popularity in the television seriesRemington Steele (1982–87).

AfterRemington Steele, Brosnan took the lead in many films such asDante's PeakandThe Thomas Crown Affair. In 1995, he became the fifth actor to portray secret agent James Bond in the official film series, starring in four films between 1995 and 2002. He also provided his voice and likeness to Bond in the 2004 video gameJames Bond 007: Everything or Nothing. Since playing Bond, he has starred in such successes asThe Matador(nominated for a Golden Globe, 2005),Mamma Mia!(National Movie Award, 2008), andThe Ghost Writer(2010).

In 1996, along with Beau St. Clair, Brosnan formedIrish DreamTime, a Los Angeles-based production company. In later years, he has become known for his charitable work and environmental activism. He was married to Australian actress Cassandra Harris from 1980 until her death in 1991. He married American journalist and author Keely Shaye Smith in 2001, becoming an American citizen in 2004.

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Early life [1] Brosnan was born at Saint Mary's Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, to Thomas Brosnan, a carpenter, and May (n e Smith, born circa 1934), and was their only child. He lived in Navan, County Meath for 12 years and [2] considers it his hometown. Brosnan's mother moved to London to work as a nurse after his father abandoned the family. According to Brosnan, "Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents. To be Catholic in the '50s, and to be Irish Catholic in the '50s, and have a marriage which was not there, a father who was not there, consequently, the mother, the wife suffered greatly. My mother was very courageous. She took the bold steps to go away and be a nurse in England. Basically wanting a better life for her and myself. My [3] mother came home once a year, twice a year." [4] From a young age Brosnan was largely brought up by his grandparents, Philip and Kathleen Smith. After their [3] deaths, he lived with an aunt and then an uncle, but was subsequently sent to live with a woman named Eileen. [5][6][7] Brosnan was brought up in a Roman Catholic family and educated in a local school run by the Christian [7] Brothers while serving as an altar boy. Brosnan has expressed contempt for his education by the Christian [3] Brothers. In spite of this, Brosnan still attends Mass, but adheres to his own spiritual beliefs. When asked in a 2008 Reader's Digestinterview if he still practiced Catholicism, Brosnan replied, "I was an altar boy. That never leaves you. So when there are churches around, I go to church. I just went yesterday. I also love the teachings of Buddhist philosophy. It's my own private faith. I don't preach it, but it's a faith that is a comfort to me when the night is [7] long." Brosnan left Ireland on 12 August 1964 and was reunited with his mother and her new husband, a British World War [8][9] II veteran, William Carmichael, now living in the Scottish village of Longniddry, East Lothian. Brosnan quickly [8] embraced his mother's new husband as a father figure. Carmichael took Brosnan to see a James Bond film for the [10] first time (GoldfingerLater moving back to London, Brosnan was educated at Elliott School, a), at the age of 11. [11] state comprehensive school in Putney, West London. Brosnan has spoken about the transition from Ireland to England and his education in London; "When you go to a very large city, a metropolis like London, as an Irish boy of 10, life suddenly moves pretty fast. From a little school of, say, seven classrooms in Ireland, to this very large comprehensive school, with over 2,000 children. And you're Irish. And they make you feel it; the British have a [3] wonderful way of doing that, and I had a certain deep sense of being an outsider." When he attended school, his [12] nickname was "Irish". After leaving school at 16, he decided to be a painter and began training in commercial illustration at Central Saint [13] Martins College of Art and Design. At the Oval House in 1969, he came to a workshop to rehearse. A fire eater was teaching women how to put the flames across the chest while topless, and he decided to join in and learned how [14] [4] to fire-eat. A circus agent saw him busking and hired him for three years. He later trained for three years as an [15] actor at the Drama Centre London. Brosnan has described the feeling of becoming an actor and the impact it had on his life: "When I found acting, or when acting found me, it was a liberation. It was a stepping stone into another life, away from a life that I had, and acting was something I was good at, something which was appreciated. That [3] was a great satisfaction in my life."

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Career

Early career After graduating from the Drama Centre in 1975, Brosnan began working as an acting assistant stage manager at the York Theatre Royal, making his acting debut inWait Until Dark. Within six months, he was selected by playwright [16] Tennessee Williams to play the role of McCabe in the British premiare ofThe Red Devil Battery Sign. His performance caused a stir in London and Brosnan still has the telegram sent by Williams, stating only "Thank God [17] for you, my dear boy". In 1977 he was picked by Franco Zeffirelli to appear in the playFilumenaby Eduardo De [18] Filippo opposite Joan Plowright and Frank Finlay. He continued his career making brief appearances in films such asThe Long Good Friday(1980) andThe Mirror Crack'd(1980), as well as early television performances inThe Professionals,Murphy's Stroke, andPlay for Today. He became a television star in the United States with his leading role in the popular miniseriesManions of [19] Americafollowed this with his 1982. He Masterpiece Theatredocumentary that chronicled the life of Lady Nancy Astor, the first woman to sit in British Parliament. His portrayal of Robert Gould Shaw II garnered him a [20] 1985 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1982, Brosnan moved to Southern California and rose to popularity in the United States playing the title role in [1][8] the NBC romantic detective seriesRemington Steele. TheWashington Postnoted that same year that Brosnan [21] "could make it as a young James Bond." AfterRemington Steeleended in 1987, Brosnan went on to appear in several films, includingThe Fourth Protocol(1987), a Cold War thriller in which he starred alongside Michael Caine,The Deceiversand James Clavell'sNoble Houseboth in (1988), andThe Lawnmower Man(1992). In 1992, he shot a pilot for NBC calledRunning Wilde,playing a reporter forAuto Worldmagazine. Jennifer Love Hewitt [22] played his daughter. The pilot never aired, however. In 1993 he played a supporting role in the comedy filmMrs. Doubtfire. He also appeared in several television films, includingVictim of Love(1991),Death Train(1993) and Night Watch(1995), a spy thriller set in Hong Kong.

James Bond (1995–2004) Brosnan first met James Bond films producer Albert R. Broccoli on the sets ofFor Your Eyes Onlybecause his first wife, Cassandra Harris, was in the film. Broccoli said, "if he can act…he's my guy" to inherit the role of Bond from [21] Roger Moore. It was reported by bothEntertainment Tonightand theNational Enquirer,that Brosnan was going [21] to inherit another role of Moore's, that of Simon Templar inThe Saint. Brosnan denied the rumours in July 1993 [23] but added, "it's still languishing there on someone's desk in Hollywood." In 1986, Timothy Dalton was approached for the Bond role; his involvement with the 1986 film adaptation of Brenda Starrkept Dalton from being able to accept it. A number of actors were then screen-tested for the role— [24] notably Sam Neill—but were ultimately passed over by Broccoli.Remington Steelewas about to end, so Brosnan was offered the role, but the publicity revivedRemington Steeleand Brosnan had to decline the role, owing [21] to his contract. By then, Dalton had become available again, and he accepted the role forThe Living Daylights (1987), andLicence to Kill(1989). Legal squabbles about ownership of the film franchise resulted in the cancellation [25] of a proposed third Dalton film in 1991 (rumoured title:The Property of a Lady) and put the series on a hiatus, [21] which lasted six years. On 7 June 1994, Brosnan was announced as the fifth actor to play Bond. Brosnan was signed for a three-film Bond deal with the option of a fourth. The first, 1995'sGoldenEye, grossed US [26] [27] $350bmillion worldwide, the fourth highest worldwide gross of any film in 1995, making it the most successful [28] [29] Bond film sinceMoonraker, taking inflation into account. It holds an 80% Rotten tomato rating, while [30] MetacriticIn theholds it at 65%. Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of 4, and said Brosnan's Bond was "somehow more sensitive, more vulnerable, more psychologically complete" than the previous [31] ones, also commenting on Bond's "loss of innocence" since previous films. James Berardinelli described Brosnan as "a decided improvement over his immediate predecessor" with a "flair for wit to go along with his natural charm",

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[32] but added that "fully one-quarter ofGoldeneyeis momentum-killing padding." In 1996, Brosnan formed a film production company entitled "Irish DreamTime" along with producing partner and [1] long time friend Beau St. Clair. Three years later the company's first studio project,The Thomas Crown Affair, [33] was released and met both critical and box office success. Brosnan returned in 1997'sTomorrow Never Diesand 1999'sThe World Is Not Enough, which were also successful. In 2002, Brosnan appeared for his fourth time as Bond inDie Another Day, receiving mixed reviews but was a success at the box office. Brosnan himself subsequently criticised many aspects of his fourth Bond movie. During the promotion, he mentioned that he would like to continue his role as James Bond: "I'd like to do another, sure. [34] Connery did six. Six would be a number, then never come back." Brosnan asked EON Productions when accepting the role, to be allowed to work on other projects between Bond films. The request was granted, and for [12] every Bond film, Brosnan appeared in at least two other mainstream films, including several he produced, playing a wide range of roles, ranging from a scientist in Tim Burton'sMars Attacks!, to the title role inGrey Owlwhich documents the life of Englishman Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, one of Canada's first conservationists. During a press conference for Grey Owl 1999 Tom Green serenaded star Pierce Brosnan and kissed him surreptitiously filming a segment for `The Tom Green Show` Thinking Green was a journalist Brosnan advised him not to give up his `day job` Shortly after the release ofDie Another Day,the media began questioning whether or not Brosnan would reprise the role for a fifth time. Brosnan kept in mind that both fans and critics were unhappy with Roger Moore playing the role until he was 58, but he was receiving popular support from both critics and the franchise fanbase for a fifth [35] installment. For this reason, he remained enthusiastic about reprising his role. Throughout 2004, it was rumoured [36] that negotiations had broken down between Brosnan and the producers to make way for a new and younger actor. This was denied by MGM and EON Productions. In July 2004, Brosnan announced that he was quitting the role, [37] stating "Bond is another lifetime, behind me". In October 2004, Brosnan said he considered himself dismissed [38] from the role. Although Brosnan had been rumoured frequently as still in the running to play 007, he had denied [39] it several times, and in February 2005 he posted on his website that he was finished with the role. Daniel Craig [40] took over the role on 14 October 2005. In an interview withThe Globe and Mail, Brosnan was asked what he thought of Daniel Craig as the new James Bond. He replied, "I'm looking forward to it like we're all looking forward [41] to it. Daniel Craig is a great actor and he's going to do a fantastic job". He reaffirmed this support in an interview [42] to theInternational Herald Tribune, stating that "[Craig's] on his way to becoming a memorable Bond." During his tenure on the James Bond films, Brosnan also took part in James Bond video games. In 2002, Brosnan's likeness was used as the face of Bond in the James Bond video gameNightfire(voiced by Maxwell Caulfield). In 2004, Brosnan starred in the Bond gameEverything or Nothing,contracting for his likeness to be used as well as [43] doing the voice-work for the character. He also starred along with Jamie Lee Curtis and Geoffrey Rush inThe Tailor of Panamain 2001, and lent his voice toThe Simpsonsepisode "Treehouse of Horror XII", as a machine with Pierce Brosnan's voice. Brosnan bought the typewriter of Ian Fleming for c52,800.

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Post-James Bond

Since 2004, Brosnan has talked of backing a film about Caitlin Macnamara, wife of poet Dylan [44] Thomas, the title role to be played by Miranda Richardson. Brosnan's first post-Bond role was that of Daniel Rafferty in 2004'sLaws of Attraction. Garreth Murphy, of entertainment.ie, described Brosnan's performance as Brosnan (2nd from the left) with the cast of Mamma Mia! and ABBA (1st, 5th, and 6th "surprisingly effective, gently riffing from left and 2nd from right) off his James Bond persona and supplementing it with a raffish [45] energy". In the same year, Brosnan starred inAfter the Sunsetalongside Salma Hayek and Woody Harrelson. The [46] film elicited generally negative reviews and a 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Brosnan's next film was 2005's The Matador. He starred as Julian Noble, a jaded, neurotic assassin who meets a travelling salesman (Greg Kinnear) [47] in a Mexican bar. The film garnered generally positive reviews. Roger Ebert for theChicago Sun-Timescalled [48] Brosnan's performance the best of his career. Brosnan was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in [49] a Musical or Comedy but lost to Joaquin Phoenix forWalk the Line.In December 2005, Brosnan was reported to [50] be starring inThe November Man,an adaptation of Bill Granger's novel,There Are No Spies, but the project was cancelled in 2007.

In 2007, Brosnan appeared in the filmSeraphim Fallsalongside fellow Irishman Liam Neeson. The film was released for limited screenings on 26 January 2007 to average reviews. Kevin Crust of theLos Angeles Timesnoted [51] that Brosnan and Neeson made "fine adversaries;" Michael Rechtshaffen ofThe Hollywood Reporterthought that [52] they were "hard-pressed to inject some much-needed vitality into their sparse lines." During the same year, [53] Brosnan spoke of making a western with fellow Irishmen Gabriel Byrne and Colm Meaney and making an adaptation of the 1990 novelThe True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.It was suggested that Brosnan would play the [54] ship's captain, Jaggery, joining Saoirse Ronan and Morgan Freeman. In that same year Brosnan starred as Tom Ryan inButterfly on a Wheel. [55] In 2008, Brosnan joined Meryl Streep in the film adaption of the ABBA musicalMamma Mia!. He played Sam Carmichael, one of three men rumoured to be the father of lead Amanda Seyfried, while Streep played her [56] mother. Judy Craymer, producer to the film, said "Pierce brings a certain smooch factor, and we think he'll have [57] great chemistry with Meryl in a romantic comedy." Brosnan's preparation in singing for the role included walking up and down the coast and singing karaoke to his own voice for about six weeks, followed by rehearsals in New [58] York in which he noted he "sounded dreadful." Brosnan's singing in the film was generally disparaged by critics, [59] [60] with his singing compared in separate reviews to the sound of a water buffalo, a donkey, and a wounded [61] raccoon. In September 2008, Brosnan provided the narration forThomas the Tank EngineinThomas and Friends andThe Great Discovery. In 2009, Brosnan starred inThe Big Biazarro,(alternative titleThe Ace), an adaptation of the Leonard Wise novel, [62] directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall. Brosnan portrayed a card player who mentors a headstrong prot g . Also In 2009, Brosnan finished the well-receivedThe Ghost Writer, playing a disgraced British Prime Minister, directed and produced by Roman Polanski. The film won a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. He starred as Charles Hawkins in the filmRemember Meand as Chiron inPercy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, both released in 2010.

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His latest announced project is a role in the Danny DeVito helmed feature Charlotte Doyle in which he will appear [63] alongside Morgan Freeman

Personal life Brosnan met Australian actress Cassandra Harris through David Harris, one of Richard Harris' nephews, in 1977, [1] shortly after he left drama school. On meeting her, he has described his feelings, saying, "What a beautiful looking woman. I never for an instant thought she was someone I'd spend 17 years of my life with. I didn't think of wooing [3] her, or attempting to woo her; I just wanted to enjoy her beauty and who she was." They began dating, and eventually bought a house in Wimbledon. They married on 27 December 1980 and had one son together, Sean, who was born on 13 September 1983. They lived with her children, Charlotte and Christopher, and after their father [1][64] Dermot Harris died in 1986, he adopted them and they took the surname Brosnan. Financially, Brosnan was concerned about earning enough money to get by at this time, and supplemented their [3] income by working in West End productions, and a television film about Irish horse racing. Soon after Harris appeared in the James Bond filmFor Your Eyes Onlyin 1981, with a bank loan, they moved to southern California where Brosnan had his first interview in Hollywood forRemington Steele,and subsequently no longer had financial worries. When Remington Steele was sent to Ireland to film an episode there, generating significant publicity in doing so, Brosnan was briefly reunited with his father who visited his hotel. Brosnan had expected to see a very tall man, but describes his father as "a man of medium stature, pushed-back silver hair, flinty eyes and a twizzled jaw. He had a [3] very strong Kerry accent." However, Brosnan expresses regret that they met under such circumstances in a public environment rather than on his own terms which would have given him the opportunity to speak privately with [3] him. While filmingThe Deceiversin Rajasthan, India, in 1987, his wife Cassandra Harris became seriously ill. She was [65] later diagnosed with ovarian cancer and she died as a result of the illness in December 1991, aged 43. Brosnan struggled to cope with her cancer and death: "When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying. And it was that way through the chemotherapy, through the first-look operation, the second look, the third look, the fourth look, the fifth look. Cassie was very positive about life. I mean, she had the most amazing energy and outlook on life. It was and is a terrible loss, and I see it reflected, [3] from time to time, in my children." Harris had always wanted Brosnan to play the role of James Bond, and in 1995, some four years after her death, Brosnan achieved this when he appeared inGoldenEye. In 1994, Brosnan met American journalist Keely Shaye Smith in Mexico. In 2001, at Ballintubber Abbey in County [1][66] Mayo, Ireland, they married. They have two sons together, Dylan Thomas Brosnan (birth 13 January 1997) and [4] Paris Beckett Brosnan (birth 27 February 2001). In July 2003, Queen Elizabeth II awarded Brosnan an honorary OBE for his "outstanding contribution to the British [67] film industry". As an Irish citizen, he is ineligible to receive the full OBE honour, which is awarded only to a citizen of the Commonwealth realms. In 2002, Brosnan was also awarded an Honorary degree from the Dublin [68] [69] Institute of Technology and, one year later, the University College Cork. On 23 September 2004, Brosnan became a citizen of the United States, but has retained his Irish citizenship. Brosnan said that "my Irishness is in everything I do. It's the spirit of who I am, as a man, an actor, a father. It's where I come [34] from." Brosnan was asked by a fan if it annoyed him when people get his nationality confused. He said: "It amuses me in some respects that they should confuse me with an Englishman when I'm dyed-in-the-wool, born and [70] bred Irishman...I don't necessarily fly under any flag. But no, it doesn't bother me."

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Environmental and charitable work

Pierce Brosnan has been an Ambassador for UNICEF Ireland since 2001 and recorded a special announcement to mark the launch of UNICEF's "Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS" Campaign with [71] Liam Neeson. Brosnan supported John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election and is a vocal supporter of [72] same-sex marriage.

Brosnan first became aware of nuclear disarmament at the age of nine when worldwide condemnation of the 1962 U.S. nuclear tests in Nevada headlined [1] international news. During the 1990s, he participated in news conferences in Washington, D.C. to help [1] Greenpeace draw attention to the issue. Brosnan Pierce Brosnan at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2005. boycotted the French GoldenEye premiere to support Greenpeace's protest against the French nuclear testing [73] program. From 1997 to 2000, Brosnan and wife Smith worked with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to stop a proposed salt factory from being built at [1] Laguna San Ignacio. The couple with Halle Berry, Cindy Crawford and Daryl Hannah successfully fought the Cabrillo Port Liquefied Natural Gas facility that was proposed off the coast of Malibu and would cause damage to [74] the marine life there; the State Lands Commission eventually denied the lease to build the terminal. In May 2007, [75] Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the facility. Brosnan is also listed as a member of the Sea Shepherd's [76] Board of Advisors. Brosnan was named 'Best-dressed Environmentalist' by the Sustainable Style Foundation in [77] 2004.

Brosnan also raises money for charitable causes through sales of his paintings. He trained early on as an artist, but later shifted to theatre; during his first wife's terminal illness, he withdrew from acting to be with her and took up painting again for therapeutic reasons, producing colourful landscapes and family portraits. He has continued painting since then, using spare time on set and at home. Profits from sales of gicl e prints of his works are given to [1] a trust to benefit "environmental, children's and women's health charities." Since Harris's death, Brosnan has been an advocate for cancer awareness and, in 2006, he served as spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day, a breast cancer fundraiser which raises millions of dollars and raises more money in a single day than any other breast cancer [78] fundraiser. In May 2007, Brosnan and Smith donated $100,000 to help replace a playground on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, [79] [80] where they own a home. On 7 July 2007, Brosnan presented a film at Live Earth in London. He also recorded [1] a television advertisement for the cause. Brosnan lives with his family in Malibu, California.

Filmography

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