“Keeley is a journalist, a reporter. She’s an artist in her own right. And as a woman, she has made a family for our sons,” the 70-year-old said.
Brosnan and Smith met in the mid-90s and married in 2001. (Getty Images)
“She allows me to go out into the wild blue yonder and do what I do as a man, as an actor, [she] always has.”
Brosnan gives Smith a kiss at the premiere of “The World is Not Enough” in 1999. (SGranitz/WireImage)
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VideoBrosnan and Smith married in 2001 and share sons Dylan and Paris. The “GoldenEye” star was previously married to his first wife, Cassandra Harris, until her death in 1991 from ovarian cancer. The couple shared three children: one together, Sean, and two from Harris’ first marriage, who Brosnan adopted, Charlotte and Chris. Charlotte died in 2013 at 42, also from ovarian cancer.
The “Mamma Mia” star is also a grandfather of four, with two grandchildren from his son, Sean, and two from his late daughter, Charlotte.
Brosnan and Smith share two sons: Paris, left, and Dylan. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Together, Brosnan and Smith are exploring the art world.
Brosnan unveiled his first solo exhibition, “So Many Dreams,” at Art Basel in Miami over the weekend, co-curated by Smith.
On Instagram, the actor shared a sweet selfie with Smith, writing in the caption, “On our way to Art Basel in Miami. You made it happen my love.”
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Brosnan and Smith are shown in 2001, the year they married. (Gregg DeGuire/WireImage)
The Irish-born actor has had a lifelong hidden passion for art: “It’s always been there. Just quietly there.”
He continued, “I’ve always been a painter, an artist at heart. So, it’s a work in progress, just like the acting. You just … keep showing up, and you refine yourself and you refine the work and the message you want to tell the people.”
“She allows me to go out into the wild blue yonder and do what I do as a man, as an actor, [she] always has,” Brosnan said, speaking on his relationship with Smith. (Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
With his pursuit of art well underway, there’s not much left on Brosnan’s bucket list.
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“I have to write the memoirs here. I hear myself telling the same old story, and I sound like some old goat,” he joked.
Brosnan joked he wants to write his memoirs because he sounds “like some old goat.” (KMazur/WireImage)
Brosnan will have plenty of people on hand to share his stories over the holidays.
Smith co-curated Brosnan’s first solo art exhibition, a passion that has “always been there” for the actor. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)
“Keely’s cooking up a storm. The boys are coming home. Friends are going to come over. Very simple, very simple, and that’s what we shall do,” he said.
Brosnan said that he and his wife will have friends and family over for the holidays. (Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for David Yurman)