Following Mrs. Doubtfire‘s business success, Brosnan, now aged 69, was forged because the suave superspy 007 — the fifth actor to play James Bond within the eponymous collection.
If he wasn’t a family identify previous to his portrayal of the MI6 agent with a license to kill, then he was now.
Brosnan starred in 4 Bond movies — GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow By no means Dies (1997), The World Is Not Sufficient (1999) and Die One other Day (2002) — earlier than confirming he was completed with the position in February 2005, and Daniel Craig took over shortly after.
Following his tenure as Bond, Brosnan went on to star in each Mamma Mia! movies, his efficiency within the first of which earned him a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor. The Irishman additionally appeared in varied movie and tv initiatives, along with his subsequent movie The King’s Daughter, the place he performs King Louis XIV, anticipated to be launched quickly.
Brosnan has been concerned with a number of charitable and activist causes, together with changing into an envoy for UNICEF Eire in 2001, advocating for the tip of nuclear testing with Greenpeace and being a vocal supporter of same-sex marriage.
Together with his second spouse and Halle Berry, Cindy Crawford and Daryl Hannah, Brosnan efficiently fought a proposed pure gasoline facility off the coast of Malibu in a three-year marketing campaign from 1997 to 2000.
In addition to this, Brosnan, who’s an artist and illustrator, usually raises cash for charitable causes by the gross sales of his paintings.
Brosnan met his second spouse, American journalist Keely Shaye Smith, in Mexico in 1994. They married in Eire in 2001, and had two sons, Dylan and Paris, collectively. Brosnan can be a father to Sean, 37, whom he had along with his first spouse, Cassandra Harris, in addition to to Harris’ youngsters Charlotte and Chris.
Whereas initially he was a step-father to Charlotte and Chris, Brosnan adopted them after their father died in 1986.
In 2013, his daughter Charlotte handed away from ovarian most cancers on the age of 41, two years youthful than her mom had been. Cassandra Harris had handed away from ovarian most cancers 22 years earlier.
