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Pierce Brendan Brosnan, Order of the British
Empire|OBE (born May 16, 1953) is an Anglo-Irish
film actor and producer.  He is best known for
portraying the James Bond secret agent character
in four spy films: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies,
The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day. He
is credited with reviving the James Bond film
series after a six year hiatus caused by legal
disputes over ownership of the series.

Pierce Brosnan was born in the Republic of Ireland
in Drogheda, County Louth. He later moved  to
London in 1964. In the early-1980s, he became a
television star with his leading role in the
popular miniseries Manions of America which was
followed in 1982 by Brosnan taking the role of the
eponymous character of the NBC detective series
Remington Steele.

Brosnan's first wife, the Australia|Australian
actress Cassandra Harris, died of ovarian cancer,
in 1991, after eleven years of marriage. In 2001,
Brosnan remarried, to American journalist Keely
Shaye Smith.

In July 2003, Elizabeth II of the United
Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II awarded Brosnan an
honorary OBE for his "outstanding contribution to
the British film industry". As an Irish citizen,
he is ineligible to receive the full OBE honour,
which is awarded only to a British subject.

On September 23, 2004, Pierce Brosnan became a
naturalized citizen of the United States. He is
the father of three American sons, and has lived
in the United States for more than twenty years.

==James Bond==

In 1986, with Roger Moore's retirement from the
role of  James Bond, Timothy Dalton was offered
the role of Bond once again, but the 1986 film
adaptation of Brenda Starr (comic strip)|Brenda
Starr kept him from being able to accept the role.
 Sam Neill was then screentested for the role, but
ultimately was passed over by Cubby Broccoli. 
Pierce Brosnan (whose Remington Steele series had
just ended), was offered the role, but publicity
revived the Remington Steele programme and forced
Brosnan to back out of the role due to his
contract with the show. Timothy Dalton was
available at this time and accepted the role. 
Dalton's second film Licence to Kill (1989 in
film|1989) was a disappointment at the American
box office, and legal squabbles about ownership of
the film franchise resulted in cancellation of a
proposed third Dalton film in 1991 (rumoured
title: Octopussy and The Living Daylights|The
Property of a Lady) and would put the series in a
six-year hiatus. During that time, Timothy Dalton
announced his lack of interest in playing James
Bond, which left the door open for Brosnan, in
1994.

Brosnan's appointment as Bond brought things full
circle for the actor, who stated in interviews
that the very first movie he ever saw was
Goldfinger and that Sean Connery's performance as
Bond inspired him to enter show business.

Aware of the danger of being typecasting
(acting)|typecast as James Bond, Pierce Brosnan
asked EON Productions, when accepting the role, to
be allowed to work in other projects between Bond
series films. The request was granted, and for
every Bond series film, Brosnan appeared in at
least two mainstream films, including several he
had produced. For a time, rumour was that
Brosnan's Bond contract forbade him from wearing a
dinner suit (in the United States generally as a
tuxedo) in any non-Bond film; that rumour was
false.

Brosnan was signed for a four-film deal and first
appeared as agent 007 in 1995 in film|1995's
GoldenEye to much critical praise. GoldenEye more
than doubled the gross of Dalton's previous film
in worldwide ticket box office sales. Pierce
returned as Bond in 1997 in film|1997's Tomorrow
Never Dies and 1999 in film|1999's The World Is
Not Enough to virtually the same success. In 2002
in film|2002 Brosnan appeared for his fourth and
final time as the super suave secret agent in Die
Another Day. Die Another Day, while controversial
to fans as being perhaps one of weaker entries in
the Bond series, shattered all previous Bond films
in terms of worldwide box office gross and is
currently the highest grossing Bond film ever.

In early 2004, Brosnan starred in the James Bond
video game Everything or Nothing, allowing his
likeness to be used as well as doing the voice
work for the character.

Shortly after, the media began questioning whether
or not Brosnan would reprise the role for a fifth
and final time, Brosnan keeping in mind that
aficionados and critics both were unhappy with
actor Roger Moore playing the role well into his
50s. Throughout 2004 Brosnan was rumoured numerous
times to have been fired from the role to make way
for a new and younger actor to take over the role.
This was denied by MGM, EON Productions, and even
Brosnan himself. As early as October 2004,
however, Brosnan had been quoted as saying "its
absolutely over" and that he indeed had been fired
from the role. Although Brosnan has been rumoured
frequently as still in the running to play 007, he
has denied it several times and in February 2005
posted on his website that he was finished with
the role. In spite of this, rumours continued to
circulate that he was in negotiations with
producers.
http://www.commanderbond.net/Public/Stories/2734-1
.shtml EON confirmed in April 2005 that Brosnan
would not be returning.
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For more information on actors currently being
considered to play James Bond see Casino Royale
(2006 film)|Casino Royale, the next Bond film due
in 2006 in film|2006.

==Selected filmography==

* The Long Good Friday (1980)
* Nomads (movie)|Nomads (1986)
* The Fourth Protocol (1987)
* Mister Johnson (1990)
* The Lawnmower Man (1992)
* Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
* Love Affair (1994)
* The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
* Mars Attacks! (1996)
* Dante's Peak (1997)
* Robinson Crusoe (1997)
* Quest for Camelot (1998)
* The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
* The Tailor of Panama (2001)
* Evelyn (movie)|Evelyn (2002)
* Laws of Attraction (2004)
* After the Sunset (2004)
* The Matador (2005)

==External links==
* imdb name|id=0000112|name=Pierce Brosnan
* http://www.piercebrosnan.com Pierce Brosnan's
official website