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16th May 1953 -
Born in County Meath, Ireland, 11-year-old Pierce Brosnan joined his
mother in London in 1963. He started his professional involvement with
showbusiness as an acting assistant stage manager at the York Theatre
Royal and the Oval Theatre Club. Six months later he was chosen by
Tennessee Williams to create the role of McCane in The Red Devil
Battery Sign, first at The Roundhouse and later at the Phoenix
Theatre. He went on to play a number of leading stage roles in the UK
before playing the eldest son in Filumena, directed by Franco
Zefferelli in London’s West End.
After his TV debut in the drama documentary
Murphy’s Stroke, in which he played the role of Irish horse trainer
Tyrone Donnelly, Brosnan appeared as an IRA terrorist in the film The
Long Good Friday, before playing the leading role of Rory Manion in
The Manions of America. After an extensive search, Mary Tyler Moore
Productions offered Brosnan the title role in Remington Steele, a
private investigator who was charming, sophisticated, frequently inept and
always wittier than wise in the ways of detecting.
Ultimately, Remington Steele cost
Brosnan the 007 role in 1986, when MTM refused to release him from his
contract. (subsequently the role went to Timothy Dalton). However, after a
six-year absence from the cinema screens due to legal wrangles, James Bond
bounced back in 1995 with Brosnan as 007 in the phenomenally successful
GoldenEye.
Since appearing as 007, Brosnan’s other movies outside the Bond series
have been as eclectic as his illustrious predecessors, with starring roles
in The Mirror Has Two Faces, Mars Attacks, Dante’s Peak, The Nephew,
The Thomas Crown Affair, The Match, Grey Owl, The Nephew, Evelyn, The
Matador and Seraphim Falls.
Pierce Brosnan starred as James Bond four times in
GoldenEye (1995)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Die Another Day (2003) |
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Pierce Brosnan in
Die Another Day (2002) |
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