Best known for portraying agent 007, actor Pierce Brosnan has been considered a true Hollywood heartthrob. Landing the ultimate macho role of James Bond marked his professional life and cemented his career in the world of film.

During his early life, he was abandoned by his father, and his mother was forced to leave him with his grandparents in Ireland while she looked for a job that could help her support him in London.

Speaking of the time his spent with his grandma and grandpa as a young child, Brosnan recalled, “There were two lodgers — workingmen, one in the factory and one in the sawmill.

“I had a metal bed with a curtain around it…. That was my room and my haven and my space,” he shared with Esquire.

Even then, he loved watching films, mostly American Westerns, and dreamed of becoming an actor.