After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years. in 1995, he became the fifth actor to portray secret agent James Bond in the official film series, starring in four films between 1995 and 2002. Brosnan was born at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, to Thomas Brosnan, a carpenter, and May (née Smith, born circa 1934), and was their only child. After their deaths, he lived with an aunt and then an uncle, but was subsequently sent to live in a boarding house run by a woman named Eileen. According to Brosnan, “Childhood was fairly solitary. I never knew my father.
