<P> At the Metropolitan Museum of Art , an attempted robbery of precious paintings fails when museum employees discover imposters posing as staff who have been smuggled in using a Trojan Horse . In all the confusion of locking down the museum and capturing the robbers , billionaire Thomas Crown ( Pierce Brosnan ) slips into an adjacent room and steals the painting of San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk by Monet . The insurers of the $100 million artwork send investigator Catherine Banning ( Rene Russo ) to assist NYPD Detective Michael McCann ( Denis Leary ) in solving the crime . McCann is annoyed that he has a civilian involved in the investigation , but is attracted to Banning . He asks his second in command to do a background check on her and finds she is more than just a pretty face . </P>
<P> At the Metropolitan Museum of Art , an attempted robbery of precious paintings fails when museum employees discover imposters posing as staff who have been smuggled in using a Trojan Horse . In all the confusion of locking down the museum and capturing the robbers , billionaire Thomas Crown ( Pierce Brosnan ) slips into an adjacent room and steals the painting of San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk by Monet . The insurers of the $100 million artwork send investigator Catherine Banning ( Rene Russo ) to assist NYPD Detective Michael McCann ( Denis Leary ) in solving the crime . McCann is annoyed that he has a civilian involved in the investigation , but is attracted to Banning . He asks his second in command to do a background check on her and finds she is more than just a pretty face . </P>
who played catherine banning in the 1999 remake of the thomas crown affair
who played catherine banning in the 1999 remake of the thomas crown affair
( Rene Russo
( Rene Russo