Five children across two marriages, four of them living, and a run of 2025 and 2026 film and gallery work by the two youngest sons

Pierce Brosnan’s 5 Children: Charlotte, Christopher, Sean, Dylan and Paris

Birth order runs Charlotte on 27 November 1971, Christopher on 11 November 1972, Sean on 13 September 1983, Dylan on 13 January 1997 and Paris on 27 February 2001. The first three belong to the Cassandra Harris branch. Charlotte and Christopher were fathered by her second husband, Dermot Harris, brother of the actor Richard Harris; Brosnan adopted them in 1986 after Dermot died, and both took his surname. Sean is the only one of the five born to Brosnan and Cassandra together.

Two deaths sit inside this family and both are usually reported loosely. Cassandra Harris died of ovarian cancer on 28 December 1991 in Los Angeles, aged 43. Charlotte died of the same disease on 28 June 2013. Her age at death is printed as 41 in some reports and 42 in others; from a birth date of 27 November 1971 she was 41, and would have turned 42 that November. The birth date is the durable fact and the age is the sum you do from it.

Every surviving child is an adult, so this guide works from credits, festival records, gallery listings and dated interviews rather than sightings, and it labels which is which. Brosnan has four grandchildren: two are adults, two are young children, and for the children the page carries only the names and dates the family published itself.

Pierce Brosnan’s children at a glance

That age column has a short shelf life and it is worth knowing where the edges are. Sean turns 43 on 13 September 2026, twenty-four days after this check. Christopher turns 54 on 11 November. Dylan and Paris both have winter and early-spring birthdays, so their numbers hold until January and February 2027. A page written in October will therefore print two different figures from this one without either being wrong about a birth date.

Pierce Brosnan himself was born in Drogheda, County Louth, on 16 May 1953 and turned 73 in May 2026. He married Cassandra Harris in December 1980 and Keely Shaye Smith on 4 August 2001 at Ballintubber Abbey in County Mayo. Those two marriages are the whole structure of the family, and every claim below is attached to one of them rather than floated free.

How five children arrived across two marriages

The commonest flattening on Brosnan family pages is the phrase “his five children with two wives”, which quietly implies he fathered all five. He did not. Three of the five belong to Cassandra Harris, and only one of those three is his by birth. The other two joined the family through an adoption with a date on it.

The sequence in the last row catches people out. Dylan was four and Paris was five months old when their parents married on 4 August 2001, a wedding RTE covered as a national news story that week. Couples marrying after their children arrive is ordinary; profiles that reverse the order and date the boys from the wedding are the ones that end up two or three years wrong.

Cassandra Harris was an Australian actress who appeared in For Your Eyes Only in 1981, fourteen years before her husband took the Bond role himself. She died on 28 December 1991, days short of what would have been their eleventh wedding anniversary. Sean was eight, Christopher was 19 and Charlotte was 20.

Dylan Brosnan: modelling first, then a producer credit and a first speaking part

Dylan Thomas Brosnan was born in Los Angeles on 13 January 1997 and is 29. He arrived in public life through fashion rather than film, fronting a Saint Laurent campaign at 18 in 2015 and then walking for Dolce and Gabbana, Erdem for H and M, and Moschino. He also writes and records as Raspberry Blonde, a pop and psychedelic-rock project he takes on stage with a backing band.

The film side is where the record hardens into credits. He produced So Many Dreams, the 2023 documentary short directed by Thom Zimny about his father’s painting, which travelled the festival circuit that year. He then took a producer credit on The Unholy Trinity, the Richard Gray western that premiered at the Zurich Film Festival on 12 October 2024 and reached cinemas on 13 June 2025.

On that film he also acted for the first time, as a frontier pastor, opposite his father as the lawman Gabriel Dove and Samuel L. Jackson as the drifter St Christopher. Both Brosnan sons have said the roles came out of a Father’s Day visit to the Montana location rather than an audition, which is a nice story and also an accurate description of how the credits happened.

Six years earlier the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had named Dylan and Paris the 2020 Golden Globe Ambassadors, announced on 14 November 2019 and the first time two brothers shared the role. They chose FEED, which funds school meals, and Dylan said the lesson their father had drilled into them was simply to be kind. He is also the son most often beside Brosnan on a carpet lately, including the Leicester Square premiere of The Thursday Murder Club in August 2025.

Paris Brosnan: a Mayfair exhibition with a price list and a first screen role

Paris Beckett Brosnan was born in Los Angeles on 27 February 2001 and is 25. He graduated from Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television, walked for Dolce and Gabbana at 17 in January 2018, and made a short film about childhood hunger for the UN World Food Programme in June 2019 during the ambassadorship he shared with his brother.

Painting is now the load-bearing part of his record, and it is the kind of record a guide can check. Collective Energy, his debut UK collection, ran at Clarendon Fine Art in Mayfair from 26 February to 6 March 2026. The works were made between California and London in acrylic, spray paint and oil stick, and were priced from 2,500 to 17,000 pounds, sold through the gallery.

He gave the collection its title, he said, because the people around him are the subject: faces and figures surface, overlap and answer each other across the canvases. Pierce Brosnan and Dylan were at the opening on 26 February 2026; his mother, Keely Shaye Brosnan, was not there and addressed her absence separately. He finished the evening by spray-painting a car in front of the room, which is showmanship rather than a career fact, and this guide files it as one.

His screen credit is the same western as his brother’s. In The Unholy Trinity he plays Thomas, attached to one of Gabriel Dove’s rivals in the town. One released film and one dated gallery run is a small filmography and a real one, and it is worth more than a paragraph of adjectives about promise.

Sean Brosnan: the writer-director who made his own losses the material

Sean William Brosnan was born in Los Angeles on 13 September 1983 and is 42 until 13 September 2026. He is the only one of the five born to Brosnan and Cassandra Harris, and he was eight years old when his mother died in December 1991. He has spoken about that publicly as an adult, in his own words, on the record.

He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and took his degree with honours at 21, then studied poetry at UCLA under Rick Bursky. He acted before he directed, including a part in the HBO miniseries Generation Kill, and worked alongside Nick Nolte, Anne Hathaway and Val Kilmer, whose own three children KidsCo profiles separately. Families that mix birth and adoption at this size are read the same way here as Angelina Jolie’s six children, where three joined by adoption and all six are now adults.

In 2012 he set up the production company KnightMarcher with Sanja Banic, whom he married on 23 August 2014. He wrote, directed, produced and appeared in My Father Die, which premiered at SXSW in 2016 and took best director and best editing at Screamfest that year. Before it, his short The Kid collected festival prizes in Louisville, Hollywood and Malibu.

He and Banic have two children: a daughter, Marley, born in 2015, and a son, Jaxxon Elijah, born on 12 November 2022. Sean is the sibling whose public trail is a festival trail rather than a red-carpet one, which is why his section here is built from programme entries and awards lists instead of party photographs.

Christopher Brosnan: a dated public record, and a dinner in November 2025

Christopher Ivan Brosnan was born in London on 11 November 1972 and is 53. He and Charlotte were Cassandra Harris’s children by Dermot Harris, which makes Christopher a nephew of the actor Richard Harris. He was 19 when his mother died, and he was adopted by Brosnan alongside his sister in 1986.

His working record belongs to the 1990s and mid-2000s: production-side jobs on his father’s Bond-era films, then a place in the 2006 series Celebrity Love Island. After that the public trail stops, and a guide that keeps writing past that point is inventing. What is on the file is a dated set of credits and then twenty years of privacy.

The estrangement is real and it is quotable. In a 2005 Playboy interview Brosnan said he had cut Christopher off during his addiction, telling him to get busy living or get busy dying. He named him again in a Father’s Day post in June 2022. Then, on 5 November 2025, father and son ate dinner together at Dorian in Notting Hill with Dylan, their first documented public appearance together in more than two decades.

His birth year is the one contested number on this page. Some databases list 1973. Reporting on the November 2025 dinner put him at 52 six days before his birthday, which only works from 11 November 1972; the 1973 entries would have made him 51. Where a database and a dated report disagree, the arithmetic that reconciles with a named event is the stronger of the two.

Charlotte Brosnan, 27 November 1971 to 28 June 2013

Charlotte Emily Brosnan was born in London on 27 November 1971 to Cassandra Harris and Dermot Harris. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked as an actress before stepping back to raise her children. Brosnan married her mother in December 1980 and adopted her and Christopher in 1986; she used the Brosnan name from then on.

Cassandra Harris died of ovarian cancer on 28 December 1991 in Los Angeles, aged 43. Charlotte was 20. She was later diagnosed with the same disease and died on 28 June 2013, aged 41. Two weeks before her death, on 14 June 2013, she married her long-term partner Alex Smith in a private ceremony; her father walked her down the aisle and her daughter was a bridesmaid.

In the statement his family issued at the time, Brosnan said Charlotte had fought her cancer with grace and humanity, courage and dignity. That sentence, the two dates and the survivor list are what this page takes from 2013. There is no treatment chronology here, no account of anyone’s grief, and nothing drawn from her children.

The 41-or-42 split in the reporting is easy to resolve and worth resolving, because it is the single most repeated error about her. Counting from 27 November 1971, she was 41 on 28 June 2013 and had five months to run before her next birthday. Outlets that printed 42 were rounding to the year she would have reached, not misreading a certificate.

Four grandchildren, and the line this guide holds

Brosnan became a grandfather through Charlotte and then through Sean, and he has announced the arrivals himself. Two of the four are adults now; two are young children. The difference decides how much each one gets here, because a family guide that treats a seven-year-old and a twenty-eight-year-old identically is not being fair to either.

The two youngest grandchildren carry different middle names in different write-ups, which happens when a detail travels from one post to another without a document behind it. The birth dates their grandfather published are firm, so those are what appear above, and the rest stays out.

What the record supports, and what most Brosnan pages still get wrong

A guide is only as good as the line it draws between a document and a sighting. A cast listing, a festival programme, a gallery run with dates and prices, and a wire obituary are records. A restaurant photograph and a twenty-year-old quote are dated events. Here is the family put through that filter, and then the shortcuts that keep surviving without it.

Sibling sections in a family guide do not need to be the same length. Dylan and Paris generate credits, listings and price lists, so their sections are longer; Christopher has chosen privacy and his is shorter and stops where the evidence does. Stretching the quieter sections to match would manufacture a symmetry the record does not have, which is the same trap as the seven-child Kevin Costner household and the two sons Liam Neeson raised after their mother died both set for anyone writing about a blended or bereaved family.

The Brosnan family timeline, and what each date proves

Two more dates finish the picture and both belong to 2025 and 2026. On 13 June 2025 The Unholy Trinity put father and both youngest sons on the same screen for the first time. On 5 November 2025 the eldest son sat down to dinner with his father for the first time in twenty years. Neither is a career milestone; both are the kind of dated fact a family guide exists to get right.

Brosnan’s own year has been busy in a way that keeps pulling family searches with it. The Thursday Murder Club arrived on Netflix in August 2025, Giant opened in UK cinemas on 9 January 2026 with him as the Sheffield boxing trainer Brendan Ingle, and the second season of MobLand returned him to the Harrigan family. For the wider set of profiles built the same way, the KidsCo celebrity family index applies the same dated-evidence rule to every page in it, including the Jamie Dornan guide and its three daughters.

Questions people ask about Pierce Brosnan’s five children

How many children does Pierce Brosnan have?

Pierce Brosnan has five children: Charlotte, Christopher, Sean, Dylan and Paris. Charlotte died on 28 June 2013. On 20 August 2026 Christopher is 53, Sean is 42, Dylan is 29 and Paris is 25.

What are the birth dates of Pierce Brosnan’s children?

Charlotte was born on 27 November 1971, Christopher on 11 November 1972, Sean on 13 September 1983, Dylan on 13 January 1997 and Paris on 27 February 2001. The first two were born in London, the last three in Los Angeles.

Which of Pierce Brosnan’s children are adopted?

Charlotte and Christopher. Both were born to Cassandra Harris and her second husband Dermot Harris. Brosnan adopted them in 1986, after Dermot Harris died, and both took the Brosnan surname.

How did Pierce Brosnan’s daughter Charlotte die?

Charlotte Brosnan died of ovarian cancer on 28 June 2013, aged 41, two weeks after marrying Alex Smith on 14 June 2013. Her mother, Cassandra Harris, died of the same disease on 28 December 1991.

What do Dylan and Paris Brosnan do now?

Dylan produces films and models, with producer credits on So Many Dreams and The Unholy Trinity. Paris paints and models, and his debut UK collection, Collective Energy, ran at Clarendon Fine Art in Mayfair from 26 February 2026.

Is Pierce Brosnan still estranged from his son Christopher?

Brosnan said in 2005 that he had cut Christopher off during his addiction. On 5 November 2025 the two had dinner together with Dylan at Dorian in Notting Hill, their first documented public appearance together in over twenty years.