Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan is a Golden Globe-nominated Irish actor who is best known for playing James Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002. Pierce narrated The Great Discovery as a special guest narrator. He had recorded lines for the twelfth series of Thomas & Friends, but when the series aired, Michael Angelis and Michael Brandon remained the series' narrators, this was an executive decision by Simon Spencer, who felt Brosnan was not appropriate for a production on a smaller scale rather than a feature length special. Had he stayed as narrator of the series, he would have narrated the twelfth to fourteenth series, as well as three specials. A clip of him narrating Gordon Takes a Shortcut was published on Dino Athanassiou's website, in his interview there were also a few short recordings played for Thomas Puts the Brakes On and Best Friends.

Brosnan has stated he shares an interest and love of the characters, having read the stories with his children when they were young. He also stated he was inspired by Ringo Starr when providing his narration.

Filmography
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Films

 * The Long Good Friday (1980)
 * The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
 * Nomads (1986)
 * Taffin (1987)
 * The Fourth Protocol (1987)
 * The Deceivers (1988)
 * Mister Johnson (1990)
 * The Lawnmower Man (1992)
 * Live Wire (1992)
 * Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
 * Entangled (1993)
 * Love Affair (1994)
 * GoldenEye (1995)
 * Mars Attacks (1996)
 * The Mirror has Two Faces (1996)
 * Robinson Crusoe (1997)
 * Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
 * Dante's Peak (1997)
 * Quest for Camelot (1998)
 * The Nephew (1998) - also producer
 * Grey Owl (1999)
 * The World is Not Enough (1999)
 * The Match (1999) - also producer
 * The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) - also producer
 * The Tailor of Panama (2001)
 * Die Another Day (2002)
 * Evelyn (2002) - also producer
 * After the Sunset (2004)
 * Laws of Attraction (2004) - also executive producer
 * The Giant Seabass (2005) - also producer
 * The Matador (2005)
 * Seraphim Falls (2006)
 * Butterfly on a Wheel (2007) - also producer
 * Married Life (2007)
 * The Great Discovery (2008)
 * Behind the Scenes with Pierce Brosnan (2008)
 * Mamma Mia! (2008)
 * The Greatest (2009)
 * The Ghost Writer (2010)
 * Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
 * Remember Me (2010)
 * Oceans (2010)
 * Salvation Boulevard (2011)
 * I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)
 * Bag of Bones (2011)
 * The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (2011)
 * The Topkapi Affair (2011)
 * Love is All You Need (2013)
 * The World's End (2013)
 * The Love Punch (2014)
 * A Long Way Down (2014)
 * The November Man (2014)
 * Some Kind of Beautiful (2015)
 * Survivor (2015)
 * No Escape (2015)
 * A Christmas Star (2015)
 * Urge (2016)
 * I.T. (2016)
 * The Foreigner (2017)
 * The King's Daughter (2017)
 * Final Score (2018)
 * The Only Living Boy in New York (2018)
 * Spinning Man (2018)
 * Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

Television
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 * Murphy's Stroke (1979)
 * Remington Steele (1982-1987)
 * Noble House (1988)
 * Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
 * The Heist (1989)
 * Murder 101 (1991)
 * Victim of Love (1991)
 * Death Train (1993)
 * The Broken Chain (1993)
 * Don't Talk to Strangers (1994)
 * Night Watch (1995)
 * The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XII (2001)
 * Thomas & Friends (original twelfth series narration) (2008)
 * The Son (2017)

Trivia

 * Brosnan is the only narrator in the UK dub not to be from Liverpool.
 * He is also the only English language narrator that is not from either Liverpool or New York City.
 * He was the first narrator to not have any of his narrations paired with music from Mike O'Donnell or Junior Campbell at all.

Major awards and nominations

 * Won - Golden Raspberry Award - Worst Supporting Actor, 2008, for "Mamma Mia!"
 * Nominated - Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, 2005, for "The Matador" - lost to Joaquin Phoenix for Walk the Line.