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Bertie Brosnan is an Irish screenwriter, film producer, actor and screen director.

He was born in Tralee, the capital of County Kerry, in the Republic of Ireland.

Education
Bertie did his leaving certificate with Mercy Secondary School, Mounthawk in 2002.

He went onto study Civil Engineering in the Institute of Technology, Tralee in 2002, obtaining a Diploma in 2005.

Bertie started part-time theatre performance training with the Gaiety School of Acting in late 2008 and went on to take classes in screen acting with the school in 2009. However, he did not complete the full course. Bertie continued his screen acting training in 2010 with Company D Theatre Company and David Scott in Dublin. Bertie trained with the Improv Olympic in Hollywood and took screen acting classes with renowned acting coach Doug Warhit. Bertie also attended masterclasses in the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and The Sanford Meisner Center for the Arts while visiting the United States in 2011.

Film and Television Work
Bertie made his Television acting debut on TG4's television programme Marú in 2010.

In the subsequent years, Bertie landed acting roles in various films such as Chemical 13 a horror short film from producer Guillermo Arredondo at Garredondo Productions; Prey another horror short film which was written & directed by award-winning director Randal Plunkett, who is the current Lord Dunsany. And, Guerrilla a dystopian war feature film which was produced by Randal Plunkett & directed by Blaine Rennicks who is also an award-winning cinematographer. Later, Bertie gained roles on an RTÉ/Filmbase funded short film called Empty & various television commercials including a controversial Meteor Commercial. Bertie landed other small roles throughout the years with the big break alluding him somewhat. All the while working as an actor his film school was underway unbeknown to himself. Through working on many film sets from large to small, as many as eighteen so far, this created a springboard into Independent Film Production bringing his experience of being an actor to behind the camera and onto the page.

Bertie began writing screenplays early on in his career and his script, Oh, the Accent! came to fruition in 2012 with Bertie starring in the lead role. Oh, the Accent! was aired on Planet 3 TV in 2012, and received Official Selections at Fastnet Short Film Festival & Charlie Chaplin Comedy festival in Ireland.

Bertie's directorial debut came with the short film, Jacob Wrestling With The Angel in 2013 and the next year he went on to direct his second short film titled Sineater. Both films went to many international film festivals including Cork Film Festival and others in several countries. Sineater picked up an award for its cinematography in 2015 at Limerick Film Festival. The two short films (Sineater, Jacob Wrestling With The Angel) went to the market at the Cannes Short Film Corner and gained worldwide deals with Shorts TV & SoFy.TV.

Off the back of that success, Bertie won a film bursary from Cork City Arts in 2016. He produced two more arthouse short films Forgotten Paradise & Last Service that went straight to YouTube. All of Bertie's professional short films deal with Life, Death and the In-Between through exploring universal themes.

From here, Bertie began branching out with his new found production skills particularly in producing Independent Film and co-produced an RTÉ funded short film by the popular comedy troupe CCCahoots Productions, the short film Fitzgibbons' Budget Funerals is currently on YouTube and being developed into a TV Series.

Next up, Bertie was drafted in by fellow Tralee man Seanie Sugrue to develop and help produce the Award-Winning feature film Misty Button which began its run of festivals in 2019. Bertie will continue working with Sugrue on their next feature Thorne of Tralee to be shot in Ireland in the coming years.

Bertie opened up his own production company Brosnanfilm Limited in 2019 and is developing several film and media projects for the future.