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Pierce Brosnan

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Biography

Moving to London with his family at an early age, Irish-born actor Pierce Brosnan made ends meet as a commercial illustrator and cab driver before turning to acting full-time. After training at the London Drama Centre, Brosnan made his West End stage bow in 1976, and appeared in his first film, The Long Good Friday, four years later.

American audiences got their first glimpse of the charismatic, muscular young actor in the 1981 network miniseries The Manions of America. The following year, he was cast as the suave adventurer hero of the weekly TV series Remington Steele. Brosnan's casual panache and his gift for quippery led the producers of the James Bond movies to select him as the new Bond upon the departure of Roger Moore in 1986. However, at the last moment, the canceled Remington Steele was renewed, and Brosnan was contractually obligated to remain with the program, forcing him to relinquish the James Bond role to Timothy Dalton. Insult was later added to injury when it became evident that the renewal of Steele was something of a subterfuge by its producers to keep Brosnan on their leash. This professional setback was further compounded by personal tragedy seven years later when Brosnan's actress wife Cassandra Harris died after a long illness.

The actor began to regain his motion picture bankability when he was cast in a choice secondary role in the megahit 1993 comedy Mrs. Doubtfire. In 1995, he finally got his chance to play Agent 007 in Goldeneye and proved that the producer's instincts were right on target. Brosnan not only provided a much-needed boost for the ailing series, but he also cemented his status as a capable leading man in a variety of roles ranging from the title character in Daniel Dafoe's Robinson Crusoe (1996) to a stuffy, lovestruck professor who meets a ludicrous fate in Mars Attacks! (1996) to a courageous vulcanologist trying to save a town threatened by a reawakened volcano in Dante's Peak (1997). Brosnan played Bond for the second time in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), essaying the role with great success. Following his turn as the titular thief in the stylish 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair , the actor went on to his third Bond outing in The World is Not Enough, again proving that saving the world was most convincingly done by those with convincing tans, straight teeth, and plenty of fun gadgets. ~

Filmography

Laws of Attraction (2003)
MTV Europe Music Awards 2002 (2002) (TV) .... Presenter
Best Ever Bond (2002) (TV) .... Himself/James Bond
Die Another Day (2002) .... James Bond
... aka D.A.D. (2002) (USA: promotional abbreviation)
Evelyn (2002) .... Desmond Doyle
Judi Dench: A BAFTA Tribute (2002) (TV) .... Himself
Perfect Fit, The (2001) (V) .... Himself
... aka Conversation with Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush, A (2001) (V) (Australia: DVD title)
"Human Face, The" (2001) (mini) TV Series .... Himself
Tailor of Panama, The (2001) .... Andrew 'Andy' Osnard
2000 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (2000) (TV)
Building the Impossible (2000) .... Narrator
... aka Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, The (2000) (UK)
Music of James Bond, The (2000) (V) (archive footage)
World Is Not Enough, The (2000) (VG) (uncredited) (archive footage) .... James Bond
Dolphins (2000) .... Narrator
James Bond Story, The (2000) (TV) .... Himself
... aka 007: The James Bond Story (2000) (TV) (New Zealand: English title)
"Tom Green Show, The" (1997) TV Series (uncredited) .... Himself (1999)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1999) (VG) (voice) .... James Bond
World Is Not Enough, The (1999) .... James Bond
... aka Pressure Point (1999) (USA: changed title)
... aka T.W.I.N.E. (1999) (UK: promotional abbreviation)
Grey Owl (1999) .... Archie Grey Owl
Match, The (1999) .... John MacGhee
... aka Beautiful Game, The (1999) (UK)
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1999) .... Thomas Crown
Nobody Does It Better: The Music of James Bond (1998) (TV) (archive footage) .... James Bond
Nephew, The (1998) .... Joe Brady
Quest for Camelot (1998) (voice) .... King Arthur
... aka Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot, The (1998)
Highly Classified: The World of 007 (1997) (V) .... Himself
Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files, The (1997) (TV) .... Himself
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) .... James Bond
Dante's Peak (1997) .... Harry Dalton
Disappearance of Kevin Johnson, The (1996) .... Himself
Robinson Crusoe (1996) .... Robinson Crusoe
... aka Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1996)
Mars Attacks! (1996) .... Professor Donald Kessler
Mirror Has Two Faces, The (1996) .... Alex
American Film Institute Salute to Clint Eastwood, The (1996) (TV) .... Himself
Behind the Scenes with Goldfinger (1995) (V) .... Himself
... aka Making of 'Goldfinger', The (1999) (V) (USA: DVD title)
GoldenEye (1995) .... James Bond
World of 007, The (1995) (TV)
Night Watch (1995) (TV) .... Michael 'Mike' Graham
... aka Alistair MacLean's Night Watch (1995) (TV)
... aka Detonator 2: Night Watch (1995) (TV)
Love Affair (1994) .... Ken Allen
Don't Talk to Strangers (1994) (TV) .... Patrick Brody
... aka Dangerous Pursuit (1994) (TV)
Entangled (1993) .... Garavan
... aka Fatal Attack (1993) (Europe: cable TV title English title)
... aka Veufs, Les (1993) (France)
Broken Chain, The (1993) (TV) .... Sir William Johnson
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) .... Stuart 'Stu' Dunmeyer
Death Train (1993) (TV) .... Mike Graham
... aka Alistair MacLean's Death Train (1993) (TV)
... aka Detonator (1993) (TV)
Live Wire (1992) .... Danny O'Neill
Lawnmower Man, The (1992) .... Dr. Lawrence Angelo
... aka Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man (1992)
Robin Hood: Myth, Man, Movie (1991) (TV) .... Host/Narrator
Victim of Love (1991) (TV) .... Paul Tomlinson
... aka Raw Heat (2002) (TV) (USA: DVD title)
Murder 101 (1991) (TV) .... Charles Lattimore
Happy Birthday, Bugs!: 50 Looney Years (1990) (TV) .... Himself
Mister Johnson (1990) .... Harry Rudbeck
Heist, The (1989) (TV) .... Neil Skinner
"Around the World in 80 Days" (1989/I) (mini) TV Series .... Phileas Fogg
... aka "Giro del mondo in 80 giorni, Il" (1989) (mini) (Italy)
... aka "In 80 Tagen um die Welt" (1989) (mini) (West Germany)
Deceivers, The (1988) .... Captain/Colonel William Savage
Taffin (1988) .... Mark Taffin
"Noble House" (1988) (mini) TV Series .... Ian Dunross
... aka "James Clavell's Noble House" (1988) (mini)
Fourth Protocol, The (1987) .... Valeri Petrofsky
Remington Steele: The Steele That Wouldn't Die (1987) (TV) .... Remington Steele
NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration (1986) (TV) .... Himself
Nomads (1986) .... Jean Charles Pommier
"Nancy Astor" (1984) (mini) TV Series .... Robert 'Bob' Gould Shaw
"Remington Steele" (1982) TV Series .... Remington Steele
"Manions of America, The" (1981) (mini) TV Series .... Rory O'Manion
Long Good Friday, The (1980) .... First Irishman
Mirror Crack'd, The (1980) (uncredited) .... Actor playing 'Jamie'
Carpathian Eagle, The (1980) .... Last Victim
Murphy's Stroke (1979) (TV)
Resting Rough (1979)

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