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Pierce Brosnan: Remington Steele
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Brosnan gave up his day job and enrolled at the Drama Centre in London, beginning three years of study. His hard work was rewarded by several years of stage work and a small but growing number of roles on TV. In 1981, he appeared in the hit TV mini-series The Manions of America which gave him his biggst exposure so far in the States. On the back of this series, he won the title role in the popular and long-running series Remington Steele.
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Brosnan would star as Remington Steele until 1987. In the meantime, there'd be only one foray into cinema. This was Nomads, the directorial debut of John McTiernan (soon to make both Predator and Die Hard). Here Pierce played an anthropologist who discovers demonic creatures in LA. Terrified out of his mind, he tells doctor Lesley-Anne Down about it, and is then murdered. But somehow he's transmitted all his memories to her, allowing her to battle the beasts herself.
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After Remington Steele finally ended in 1987, Brosnan cut back on filming when his wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Cassandra Harris Brosnan died on December 29, 1991, leaving two children from her first marriage and a third from her marriage with Pierce. Since her death, Brosnan has lent his support to several different cancer charities.
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Brosnan was made, but refused to let Bond keep him out of movies in the way Remington Steele had. He moved on to play the handsome actor husband of Barbra Streisand's sister in Streisand's own The Mirror Has Two Faces. Then came Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!, where he revealed a real comedic touch as a professor flirting with ditzy TV host Sarah Jessica Parker, an affair that continues even when Martians cut off their heads and attach them to the bodies of small dogs. Next came disaster flick Dante's Peak where he played a scientist who, believing a volcano is about to blow, must convince Linda Hamilton, mayoress of a nearby town. The filming here was tough, as Pierce suffers badly from claustrophobia.
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Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an actor born on May 16, 1953, in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland to May and Thomas Brosnan. He's best known for playing the secret agent James Bond in the Bond films. He's ... well known in the role of Remington Steele.
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In the early-1980s, Pierce became a television star in the United States with his leading role in the popular miniseries Manions of America, which he followed in 1982 by playing the title role in the high-rated NBC detective series Remington Steele. He was actually offered the job as James Bond before the Remington Steele series could be completed, but Brosnan was unable to break the contract with the producers.
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