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Actor, Environmentalist Pierce Brosnan to Deliver Dickinson College's 2019 Commencement Address
Honorary degree and Rose-Walters Prize recipients announced
Actor, producer and environmental activist Pierce Brosnan will deliver Dickinson College’s Commencement address on Sunday, May 19. He also will receive a Doctor of Environmental Advocacy honorary degree. Fellow honorary degree recipients are Karen Attiah, global opinions editor for The Washington Post, and Adrian Zecha '52, one of the world’s leading creators and operators of award-winning luxury hotels and resorts.
Additionally, in keeping with a Commencement tradition established in 2012, Dickinson will present The Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism. This year’s recipient is the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The award will be accepted by Brosnan—a longtime supporter of the NRDC and winner of its 2015 Forces for Nature Award—and Joel Reynolds, NRDC’s western director and senior attorney.
Pierce Brosnan
Doctor of Environmental Advocacy, honorary degree
Pierce Brosnan is a legendary Irish-American actor, film producer, philanthropist, artist, two-time Golden Globe Award nominee and environmentalist who partnered with the NRDC to stop a proposed salt factory at Laguna San Ignacio on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. In doing so, they protected the last pristine breeding ground for the Pacific gray whale. In addition to receiving NRDC’s Forces for Nature Award, Brosnan’s environmental work was recognized with the 2007 Goldene Kamera award.
He, along with his wife, Keely Shaye, have been drawn into a passionate leadership role in numerous environmental issues, lending their voices and efforts to clean air and water campaigns, marine mammal and wetland protection and opposing environmentally disruptive projects such as the Cabrillo Port Liquefied Natural Gas facility being proposed off the coast of Malibu.
Most recently, the two worked together on the documentary film Poisoning Paradise, which they co-produced. The film takes audiences on a journey to the seemingly idyllic world of Native Hawaiians, whose communities are surrounded by experimental test sites for genetically engineered seed corn and pesticides. To date, Poisoning Paradise has screened at over 30 prestigious film festivals across the United States and abroad and has won 124 awards—many for best documentary—and has been accepted into the 2018 International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva, the Manchester Film Festival in England and the London International Filmmaker Festival, among others. The film screened in the market at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was sold for worldwide distribution with Gravitas Ventures, which will release Poisoning Paradise in June 2019.
For more than four decades, audiences have enjoyed Brosnan’s portrayal of iconic characters, including James Bond. In the 1990s, he reinvigorated the popularity of the Bond franchise in box-office blockbusters including Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. Brosnan’s first three Bond films earned over a billion dollars at the international box office, and Die Another Day alone garnered nearly half a billion dollars worldwide. Brosnan has starred in more than 30 films, including John Boorman’s critically acclaimed film from the novel by John LeCarre, The Tailor of Panama; Sir Richard Attenborough’s Grey Owl; The Mirror Has Two Faces, alongside Barbra Streisand; Mrs. Doubtfire, with Robin Williams; Dante’s Peak; and Mars Attacks.
Brosnan’s current projects include a return for Season 2 of the AMC series The Son. He also will be seen in the action thriller The Misfits. Most recently, audiences saw Brosnan reunite with Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and Amanda Seyfried in the Universal film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, the sequel to the blockbuster film Mamma Mia!
Having achieved international stardom as an actor, Brosnan expanded the range of his film work by launching his own production company, Irish DreamTime, in 1996, along with producing partner Beau St. Clair. The company’s first studio project, The Thomas Crown Affair, was a critical and box-office success and one of the best-loved romantic thrillers in years. Irish DreamTime has produced 11 films to date, including The Matador, for which Brosnan received a Golden Globe nomination for best performance by an actor in a motion picture and a nomination for best actor in a lead role from the Irish Film & Television Academy.
In November 2016 the European Film Academy presented Brosnan with the honorary European Achievement in World Cinema award. He also received the 2011 Caritas Award from St. John’s Health Center Foundation for extensive community service. In 2003, Brosnan was awarded an honorary doctorate of arts from the Dublin Institute of Technology, an honorary doctorate from the University College Cork and an Order of the British Empire bestowed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. For over two decades, Brosnan has been an ambassador for His Royal Highness Prince Charles’ the Prince’s Trust as well as an ambassador for UNICEF Ireland. Brosnan also serves as campaign chairman for the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
Exhibiting another side of his artistic talent, Brosnan is an avid painter who attended art school and trained as a commercial artist. Most recently, one of his original paintings, depicting singer Bob Dylan, was auctioned off for $1.4 million at the 25th annual gala amFAR Cannes charity event, Cinema Against AIDS.
Brosnan was born in County Meath, Ireland, and moved to London at age 11. At 20, he enrolled in The Oval House and continued his studies at The Drama Center in London. After graduation, Brosnan performed in several West End stage productions, including Franco Zeffirelli’s Filumena Marturano and Tennessee Williams’ The Red Devil Battery Sign at the York Theater Royal. Brosnan relocated to Los Angeles in 1982 and immediately landed the role of private investigator Remington Steele in the popular NBC television series of the same name.
Actor, producer and environmental activist Pierce Brosnan will deliver Dickinson College’s Commencement address on Sunday, May 19. He also will receive a Doctor of Environmental Advocacy honorary degree. Fellow honorary degree recipients are Karen Attiah, global opinions editor for The Washington Post, and Adrian Zecha '52, one of the world’s leading creators and operators of award-winning luxury hotels and resorts.
Additionally, in keeping with a Commencement tradition established in 2012, Dickinson will present The Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism. This year’s recipient is the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The award will be accepted by Brosnan—a longtime supporter of the NRDC and winner of its 2015 Forces for Nature Award—and Joel Reynolds, NRDC’s western director and senior attorney.
Pierce Brosnan
Doctor of Environmental Advocacy, honorary degree
Pierce Brosnan is a legendary Irish-American actor, film producer, philanthropist, artist, two-time Golden Globe Award nominee and environmentalist who partnered with the NRDC to stop a proposed salt factory at Laguna San Ignacio on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. In doing so, they protected the last pristine breeding ground for the Pacific gray whale. In addition to receiving NRDC’s Forces for Nature Award, Brosnan’s environmental work was recognized with the 2007 Goldene Kamera award.
He, along with his wife, Keely Shaye, have been drawn into a passionate leadership role in numerous environmental issues, lending their voices and efforts to clean air and water campaigns, marine mammal and wetland protection and opposing environmentally disruptive projects such as the Cabrillo Port Liquefied Natural Gas facility being proposed off the coast of Malibu.
Most recently, the two worked together on the documentary film Poisoning Paradise, which they co-produced. The film takes audiences on a journey to the seemingly idyllic world of Native Hawaiians, whose communities are surrounded by experimental test sites for genetically engineered seed corn and pesticides. To date, Poisoning Paradise has screened at over 30 prestigious film festivals across the United States and abroad and has won 124 awards—many for best documentary—and has been accepted into the 2018 International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva, the Manchester Film Festival in England and the London International Filmmaker Festival, among others. The film screened in the market at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was sold for worldwide distribution with Gravitas Ventures, which will release Poisoning Paradise in June 2019.
For more than four decades, audiences have enjoyed Brosnan’s portrayal of iconic characters, including James Bond. In the 1990s, he reinvigorated the popularity of the Bond franchise in box-office blockbusters including Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. Brosnan’s first three Bond films earned over a billion dollars at the international box office, and Die Another Day alone garnered nearly half a billion dollars worldwide. Brosnan has starred in more than 30 films, including John Boorman’s critically acclaimed film from the novel by John LeCarre, The Tailor of Panama; Sir Richard Attenborough’s Grey Owl; The Mirror Has Two Faces, alongside Barbra Streisand; Mrs. Doubtfire, with Robin Williams; Dante’s Peak; and Mars Attacks.
Brosnan’s current projects include a return for Season 2 of the AMC series The Son. He also will be seen in the action thriller The Misfits. Most recently, audiences saw Brosnan reunite with Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and Amanda Seyfried in the Universal film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, the sequel to the blockbuster film Mamma Mia!
Having achieved international stardom as an actor, Brosnan expanded the range of his film work by launching his own production company, Irish DreamTime, in 1996, along with producing partner Beau St. Clair. The company’s first studio project, The Thomas Crown Affair, was a critical and box-office success and one of the best-loved romantic thrillers in years. Irish DreamTime has produced 11 films to date, including The Matador, for which Brosnan received a Golden Globe nomination for best performance by an actor in a motion picture and a nomination for best actor in a lead role from the Irish Film & Television Academy.
In November 2016 the European Film Academy presented Brosnan with the honorary European Achievement in World Cinema award. He also received the 2011 Caritas Award from St. John’s Health Center Foundation for extensive community service. In 2003, Brosnan was awarded an honorary doctorate of arts from the Dublin Institute of Technology, an honorary doctorate from the University College Cork and an Order of the British Empire bestowed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. For over two decades, Brosnan has been an ambassador for His Royal Highness Prince Charles’ the Prince’s Trust as well as an ambassador for UNICEF Ireland. Brosnan also serves as campaign chairman for the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
Exhibiting another side of his artistic talent, Brosnan is an avid painter who attended art school and trained as a commercial artist. Most recently, one of his original paintings, depicting singer Bob Dylan, was auctioned off for $1.4 million at the 25th annual gala amFAR Cannes charity event, Cinema Against AIDS.
Brosnan was born in County Meath, Ireland, and moved to London at age 11. At 20, he enrolled in The Oval House and continued his studies at The Drama Center in London. After graduation, Brosnan performed in several West End stage productions, including Franco Zeffirelli’s Filumena Marturano and Tennessee Williams’ The Red Devil Battery Sign at the York Theater Royal. Brosnan relocated to Los Angeles in 1982 and immediately landed the role of private investigator Remington Steele in the popular NBC television series of the same name.
