Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an actor and producing Irish born the May 16th 1953 with Drogheda in Ireland. It holds the American citizenship now and is most known to have played the part of James Bond in four films: GoldenEye (1995), Demain never dies (1997), the world is not enough (1999) and Meurs another day (2002).

Biography

Pierce Brosnan is victim of a difficult childhood. Single child of Thomas and May (born Smith), it was born with Drogheda, in Ireland, in the Comté of Louth. But it grows in the Comté of Meath close to Navan. The local school where it goes, is a religious institution held by the brothers Of the Room. His/her father leaves the family hearth in 1964. His/her mother then will settle with London, in England. She divorces her father and remarie with an English veteran the Second world war, William Charmichael, who quickly takes the role of a father for Brosnan then 11 years old. It is Charmichael which takes along Brosnan to see its first James Bond, Goldfinger . It goes in Elliot School, a modern public school in Putney, a western district of London. It is where Brosnan knows its first very favorite for its professor of geography. “It wore these very tight skirts… a beautiful bottom and a beautiful pair of centres. ” When it goes to the college, it is called `Irish'. Once the finished school, Brosnan, which wanted to be an artist, off begins a formation in commercial illustration with the Holy Exchange Martins College Art and Design. At 16 years, whereas he plays the fire-eater in the street, he is noticed by an agent of circus which engages it. During 3 years, it follows a training of actor in London' S Drama Center.

Its Career

Its beginnings (1975 - 1993)

Once graduate, Brosnan obtains a work in 1975 in York Theater Royal, making its first appearance on scene in Seule in the night . In the 6 months space, the playwright Tennessee Williams in person notices it for the role of McCabe in the British first of the part The Red Devil Battery Sign . It obtains its first big role thus. Its performance creates sensation in London, Brosnan preserved besides the telegram sent then by Williams, simply telling him “Thank you my god for you, my dear boy”. It continues its career by making some short appearances in films such as The Long Good Friday (1980), the mirror broke (1980) like on television in the series the Professionals and Play for Today . He off becomes a star of the small screen in the United States for his role in the famous minisery The Manions America dividing the poster with Kate Mulgrew, David Soul and Linda Purl. He continues his career with the role of Robert Gould Shaw II in 1982 in documentary Masterpiece Theater telling the life of Lady Nancy Astor, originating in the state of Virginia, and first woman to be sat at the British Parliament. Its service in the role of Shaw, in love one deprived, is worth to him a nomination with the Golden Globe Award as a better actor in a supporting role in a minisery.

In 1982, Brosnan becomes famous in the United States, playing the part of a fop without delicacy in the popular romantic series the Investigations of Remington Steele , diffused by the NBC chain. It divides the high-speed motorboat with Stephanie Zimbalist, playing the part of Laura Holt, the creative one of the agency. The same year, in a publication of the Washington Post, one could read that “Pierce Brosnan could manage to play a James Bond young person. ” In 1986, Brosnan is indeed seen offering the role of James Bond before the oddment Remington Steele. However, it cannot break the contract with its producers. In 1987, he plays sides of Michael Caine in film, the Fourth Protocol . In 1992, it turns a pilot episode for the NBC chain, called Running Wilde , in which it plays one to defer for stores Auto World whose stories tell its extravagant adventures. Jennifer Love Hewitt interpreted her daughter, but the series was chosen and the pilot never diffused. The same year, he plays in science fiction film the Guinea-pig and the following year he illustrates himself at the sides of Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire . With the beginning of the year 1995, it appears in a film for television, Night Watch , a thriller of espionage based with HongKong, at the sides of Alexandra Paul. A romantic comedy follows in the tread, Love Affair , with Annette Bening and Warren Beatty.

James Bond (1995 - 2004)

The first report/ratio of Brosnan with the role of James Bond starts with the visit which it returns to his wife Cassandra Harris on the turning of Only for your eyes . According to a ratio of 1986, Albert “Cubby” Broccoli would have declared that “if it can play… it is my man” to replace the James Bond of the time, Roger Moore. He was deferred during this same period, at the same time by Entertainment Tonight and the National Enquirer, which one thought of Brosnan to succeed Moore in another of his roles, that of Simon Templar in the Saint. In 1993, it rectifies the rumors in a publication of stores Orange Coast, but stresses that “that must still wait on the desk of somebody in Hollywood. ” The film is finally carried out in 1997 with Val Kilmer in the main role.

In 1986, when Roger Moore withdraws role of Jump, Timothy Dalton is approximate once more, after having diverted the role before in 1967,1969, and 1980. The film of Brenda Starr once again prevents Dalton from immediately accepting the role of the secret agent. A certain number of actors are then auditioned for the role, of which Sam Neill, but Albert Broccoli is not enthusiastic. Brosnan, from which the televised series the Investigations of Remington Steele come to stop, is seen offering the role, but publicity revives Remington Steele and Brosnan force to desist the role from James Bond, because of her contract with the series. Dalton is then available and agrees to play the part of James Bond in Tuer is not to play into 1987 which makes a success with the boxoffice. Its second attempt as James Bond, Allowed to kill in 1989 fact a failure with the American boxoffice and the legal arguments concerning the property rights of the frankness from film cause the cancellation of the third James Bond proposed with Dalton, in 1991. According to the rumors, the English title would have being: The Property off has Lady . The series stops then during 6 years. GoldenEye is written at the origin for Dalton which refuses it, that leaves the open door to Brosnan in 1994. And on June 7th, 1994, Brosnan is officially the 5th actor to play James Bond.

The choice of Brosnan to play Bond brings back it to its origins, when he declares in interviews which the first film which he never saw was Goldfinger and which it is the performance of Sean Connery in the role of Jump which inspired it to launch out in the show business.

Brosnan signs a contract for 3 films with an option for a fourth, and appears for the first time under the features of agent 007 in 1995 in GoldenEye . It receives the praise of criticisms. James Berardinelli describes it then as “a Net progress compared with its predecessor” with “a smoothness of spirit which goes with its charm”, it adds however that “a quarter of GoldenEye is entirely filled of passages of violent deaths. ” GoldenEye brings back 26 million dollars during its weekend of opening to the United States, and at the time of its world exit, approximately 350 million dollars. The film brings back the 4th most important profit to the world in 1995, and if one takes into account inflation, it was the film of James Bond more successful since Moonraker . Brosnan turns then Demain never dies in 1997 and the world is not enough into 1999 which are same success. In 2002, Brosnan appears in the skin of agent 007 for the fourth and last time in Meurs another day . For this twentieth episode of the adventures of the famous secret agent, Pierce Brosnan is directed by Lee Tamahori, and has as a partner beautiful the Halle Berry.

Little time after the exit of film, the press starts to wonder about the possibility of the fifth James Bond with Brosnan, in the last heading Casino Royal . Brosnan remembers whereas at the same time amateurs and the critics had not appreciated Roger Moore playing the part until its 58 years, but it then receives a support of the public of any edge. For that, there remains enthusiastic with the thought to take again its role after the expiry of its initial contract, in spite of its first reserves.

With the length of the year 2004, rumors appear concerning a rupture of the negotiations between Brosnan and the producers in order to leave the place with new and younger actor. That is denied by MGM and EON Productions. In July 2004, Brosnan announces in Entertainment Weekly that it leaves the role, informant that “Jump, it is another life, it is behind me, now”. However, that is regarded as a failure of the stratagems of negotiations. Nevertheless, that does not prevent the rumors from continuing with frequently implying that Brosnan always holds its role of 007. He denies it several times and in February 2005, he announces on his Internet site that he will not play any more the part of James Bond. Despite everything, the rumors continue on possible negotiations between Brosnan and the producers. That is completed finally on October 14th, 2005, when Daniel Craig is officially declared new James Bond. Brosnan gives its support for Craig then. In an interview with The Globe and Email, with the question “Which do you think of new James Bond, Daniel Craig? Will you see Casino Royal? ”, he answers “I await film impatiently, like everyone. Daniel Craig is a talented actor and it will do a fantastic work. ” Later, it confirms its remarks in an interview with the The International Herald Tribune, informant who “is on the way to become a memorable Jump. ”

For the period when it held the role of Jump, Brosnan invested in the video games inspired of film. In 2002, the appearance of Brosnan is used in the video game of James Bond, Nightfire , the English voice is that of Maxwell Caulfield. At the beginning of 2004, Brosnan appears in the video game James Bond 007: Free or double , allowing the use of its appearance and its voice for the character, that is his last performance as James Bond.

Other Works (1994 - today)

Conscious of the danger which it runs to being catalogued like James Bond, Brosnan requires of EON Productions, when it accepts the role of Jump, the permission to work on other projects between films. The request is accepted, and for each James Bond, Brosnan appears in at least two other principal films, including/understanding some that it produces. Brosnan, like its partner of production Beautiful Clear St, form a company of production of films in 1996, called `Irish DreamTime'. During a time, a rumor emerges stressing that its contract with Bond prevents it from carrying a Smoking (clothing) in its other films, the rumor was false. Brosnan then plays a vast range of roles between its appearances in films of James Bond. Business man art lover and pretty women in Thomas Crown, of which it also ensured the role of producer (just like it had done it for the nephew and The Match , an English comedy with Ian Holm, in which it granted a small role). He plays moreover the role of a scientist wedged in Attacks Mars! of Tim Burton, a Volcanologist in the Peak of Dante . In Grey Owl , it has the main role and incarnates an Indian, it acts of a film carried out by Richard Attenborough, on the life of a Canadian conservative éponyme, the drama is held in the Thirties. In 2001, it is found in the skin of an English spy (a coincidence!) with the poster of the Tailor of Panama ( The tailor off Panama ), of its compatriot John Boorman.

Its first film after James Bond is a love affair where he plays the part of Daniel Rafferty, at the sides of Julianne Moore. Garreth Murphy de Entertainment.ie describes its performance of one “surprising effectiveness, being released delicately from its character of James Bond and adding a superb energy to him”. The same year, Brosnan plays sides of Salma Hayek and Woody Harrelson in Coup of glare . The film received generally negative reviews and holds a score of 17% on site of the Rotten Tomatoes. The following film leaves in 2005, it acts of The Matador . Shaking its image of sophisticated secret agent, Brosnan plays Julian Noble, an exhausted assassin who meets a representative (Greg Kinnear) in a Mexican bar. The film is received better than Coup of glare, with criticisms positive. Roger Ebert, of Chicago Sun-Times, described its performance like best of its career. Brosnan is nominated for a reward with the Award Golden Globe: Better actor in a musical film or a comedy, for his work in film, but loses, vis-a-vis Joaquin Phoenix ( Walk the Line ).

Its first film in 2007 is Seraphim Falls , in which he plays sides of Liam Neeson. The film leaves only in one limited number of rooms, on January 26th, 2007. The film receives criticisms averages with some praises for the services of the two actors. Kevin Crust, of Los Angeles Times, notices that both “make very good adversaries”. However, Michael Rechtshaffen, of NewYork Times thinks that they “were badgered in order to add a vitality necessary in their some lines”.

The projects to come from Brosnan include/understand Butterfly one has Wheel and Married Life . A pre-production started for The Topkapi Affair , the continuation of Thomas Crown of 1999. This continuation is inspired by the book of Eric Ambler, The Light off Day and of the adaptation of 1964, Topkapi . In December 2005, it was reported that Brosnan was interested to play in The November Man , an adaptation of the book of Bill Grainger, There Are No Spies . Since, no new information was revealed and it is not known if the project will be concretized. In 2008, Brosnan will financially support Caitlin , a film on Caitlin MacNamara, woman of the poet Dylan Thomas. The main role was offered to Miranda Richardson and Brosnan will play only one small role, that of the literary agent of Thomas, John Brinnin. The partner of Brosnan in Die another day , Rosamund Pike, will appear it-also in film. In 2008, also, Brosnan will join Meryl Streep in an adaptation of the musical comedy Mamma Mia! of ABBA. He will play the part of Sam Charmichael, one of the three men who would be, according to the rumors the father of Amanda Seyfried. Streep will interpret his/her mother. Judy Craymer, the producing one of film, declared that “Pierce brings a certain charm, and it is thought that there will be an alchemy between Meryl and him in a romantic comedy. ”

In 2009, Brosnan will play in The Big Biazarro , directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall. The film is an adaptation of the book of Leonard Wise of the same name. It plays there a card player who takes under his wing one protected obstinate. Brosnan was recently in talks for a western where it would divide the screen with two other Irish, Gabriel Byrne and Colm Meaney.

Its Personal life

Its Family

Brosnan Marie in 1980 with the Australian actor Cassandra Harris and adopts his/her two children, Charlotte (born in 1971) and Christopher (born in 1972), after the death of their father in 1986. Brosnan and Harris have a son together, Sean (born in 1984). Harris dies in 1991, of a Cancer of the ovary, after 11 years of marriage. In 2001, Brosnan Marie with the journalist American Keely Shaye Smith, and together they have two wire, Dylan Thomas (born in 1997) and Paris Beckett (born in 2001). In February 2007, Brosnan withdraws ceremony of the IFTA Awards to Dublin to which it was to take part in order to go near his father-in-law who fights against a grave disease.

September 23rd, 2004, Brosnan becomes a citizen of the United States, but it keeps its Irish citizenship. On its Irish origin, Brosnan said “Irish to be belonged to me in all that I do. It is the spirit of what I am, as a man, as an actor, as a father. It is there from where I come. ” One of its fans took one day to him if that annoyed it when people were mistaken on his nationality. He answered: “That amuses me that one takes to me for English when I am completely impregnated by Ireland, where I was born and I grew… But, not, that does not disturb me. ” He currently lives with Malibu, in California and has a house with Hawaii. He has also a house in the north of Dublin.

Its Causes

Brosnan supports John Kerry at the time of the presidential elections of 2004, and he is a defender of the Contrôle of the firearms and Homosexual marriage. Honest environmentalist, Brosnan was named `Best-dressed Environmentalist', the most elegant environmentalist, by Sustainable Style Foundation. Brosnan starts to be interested in the nuclear Désarmement at the 9 years age. In the Nineties, it takes part in press conferences with Washington (District of Columbia) to help Greenpeace to draw the attention to this problem. From 1997 to 2000, Brosnan and its Smith wife work with the NRDC and the IFAW to be opposed to the construction of a factory of production of salt with Laguna San Ignacio. The couple was also opposed to the installation of natural gas of Cabrillo Port which was proposed close to the coast of Malibu, State Lands Commission denied the existence of the lease to build the terminal.

During the disease of Harris, Brosnan takes again its pastime and paints during its spare time, producing coloured landscapes and portraits of family. The profits of the sales of its paintings of style squirted are given to funds for charity associations which he prefers. Since the death of Harris, Brosnan is militant for sensitizing and in 2006, he becomes the spokesperson of Lee National Denim Day, a collection of funds for the Breast cancer which brings back million dollars and reports more than the other collections of funds of breast cancer.

Rewards

In 1997, it receives the Saturn Award better actor for the film Demain never dies.

In July 2003, the queen Elisabeth II of the United Kingdom gives the to him Ordre of the British empire for `her contribution exceptional to the industry of British film'. As an Irish citizen, Brosnan cannot receive the complete honor of the OBE Ordre of the British empire, which is only allotted to the British citizens or of the one of the Member States of the the Commonwealth. In 2002, Brosnan receives off an honorary diploma of the Dublin Institute Technology and two years later of University College Cork.

It receives moreover one Golden delicious Award Camera with Berlin for at the same time its artistic success and its environmental activism.

Catalog of films

External bonds

  • Irish-Pierce - French Site

  • Official site

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