The James Bond actor did not have an easy life and his first years marked him forever.
Pierce Brosnan became a legend when he put himself in the shoes of secret agent James Bond. The first time he grabbed the role was in the 1995 film GoldenEye and then he did it four more times.
But before gaining such popularity as 007, he had a 15-year career in the cinema, working on more than a dozen films. However, fame and popularity are not everything, because behind that man who stole countless sighs and conquered many hearts around the world, a sad childhood is hidden.
Pierce Brosnan was born in a town in Ireland, in 1953, and soon after his father abandoned him and his mother. But that was not all, because she also left him to go to work as a nurse in London and was left in the care of his maternal grandparents, who died at the age of ten.
That led the actor to have to live with his uncles, moving from one house to another without having the affection and presence of father figures that every child needs. His mother visited him only once a year and that was not enough.
If Pierce Brosnan has memories of that life, it was full of abandonment and deprivation, which made him become a great family man over time, and he said it in dialogue with the newspaper El Mundo: "Not having met my father has made me develop a very strong sense of family. Maybe that's why I enjoy home life so much and my role as a father."
But going back to his childhood, which makes him remember so much pain, the actor recalled on more than one occasion that during the first years of his life, at school they called him "the orphan", due to the absence and abandonment of his parents. Only at the age of eleven was she able to meet his mother again and begin to establish a bond that made her stop being a stranger to him.
Over time, her mother took him to live with her in London, where he also found it difficult to integrate because being Irish they bullied him and made fun of her accent. Over the years he was able to establish a great bond also with Bill Carmichael, a Scotsman who had a relationship with his mother and who became his father figure. He was in charge of taking him to the movies and making him discover that world that so dazzled him and defined Pierce Brosnan completely.
