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Pierce Brosnan was born in Ireland in 1956 - Black Irish is the
nickname for a person with his colouring!
I first saw Pierce in the 80's show, Remington
Steele, where he played the
sophisticated, often inept, con man with no name/private investigator of the
title. His looks where eye catching and so was his comic timing in this great
detective series.
When Remington Steele was believed to be finishing he became
highly favoured to replace the departing Roger Moore in the James Bond series.
However, contractual obligations to the show (they decided to make a fifth
season much to the annoyance of both leads) where he starred opposite Stephanie
Zimbalist, made him unavailable and it was passed to Timothy Dalton.
Pierce finally got the part of James Bond in 1994 and proved an
elegant yet hard-edged Bond in GoldenEye (1995).
Pierce entered show business as a teen runaway, working with the
circus as a fire eater. He gained a more conventional experience as a member of
an experimental London theatre workshop before making his stage debut in a 1976
production of 'Wait Until Dark'. His theatrical breakthrough came from
playwright Tennessee Williams who chose the handsome young actor to create the
role of McCabe in the British premiere of his 'Red Devil Battery Sign'.
Additional stage work followed before his film debut in a character turn in the
well-received British gangster film, 'The Long Good Friday' (1981).
TV miniseries 'The Manions of America' brought him exposure in
America. He played Rory O'Manion, an Irish immigrant who makes it big in 19th
century America. It was due to this portrayal that he was cast as Remington
Steele. He continued to turn up on a number of specials during the series' run
and one failed movie, 'Nomads' (1986), in which he played a bedevilled French
anthropologist. The transition to film actor proved difficult, but TV offered
regular work in telefilms and miniseries. Pierce Brosnan was well cast as
urbane eccentric Phineas Fogg in a miniseries adaptation of Jules Verne's novel
'Around the World in 80 Days' (1989).
Pierce initially found little success in movies but did receive
some good notices for his portrayal of a ruthless Russian agent opposite
Michael Caine in The Fourth Protocol (1987).
His marriage to actress Cassandra Harris ended in 1991 when she
passed away after a long battle with ovarian cancer. He is now with a new
partner, Keely Shaye Smith, with whom he has a son called Dylan Thomas.
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