Pierce Brendan Brosnan (born 16th May 1953) 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.
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.
