Brosnan continued his career making brief appearances in films such as "The Long Good Friday" (1980) and "The Mirror Crack'd" (1980), as well as early television performances in "The Professionals", "Murphy's Stroke", and "Play for Today". He became a television star in the United States with his leading role in the popular miniseries "Manions of America". He followed this in 1982 with the BBC's 9-part miniseries "Nancy Astor" (which aired in America on "Masterpiece Theatre") that dramatised the life of Lady Astor, the first woman to sit in the British Parliament. His portrayal of Robert Gould Shaw II garnered him a 1985 Golden Globe Award nomination for .