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Cassandra Harris (15 December 1952 – 28 December 1991) was an Australian actress.

Born Sandra Colleen Waites in Sydney, Australia, Harris was a student of NIDA acting school in 1961 and performed in the successful Sydney stage production of Boeing Boeing from 1964 to 1965. She appeared in The Greek Tycoon
The Greek Tycoon

The Greek Tycoon is a 1978 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay by Morton S. Fine is based on a story by Fine, Nico Mastorakis, and Win Wells loosely based on Aristotle Onassis and his relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis....
 (1978), Rough Cut
Rough cut

In filmmaking, the Rough cut is the second of three stages of offline editing. The rough cut is the first stage in which the movie begins to resemble its final product....
 (1980), and the James Bond
James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
 film, For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (film)

For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
 as the Countess Lisl von Schlaf
Countess Lisl von Schlaf

Countess Lisl von Schlaf is a fictional character from the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only , portrayed by Cassandra Harris, coincidentally the late wife of later Bond star Pierce Brosnan....
, the ill-fated mistress of Milos Colombo (played by Israeli actor Topol
Chaim Topol

Chaim Topol , often billed simply as Topol, is one of the most famous Israeli theater and film performers....
).






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Cassandra Harris (15 December 1952 – 28 December 1991) was an Australian actress.

Born Sandra Colleen Waites in Sydney, Australia, Harris was a student of NIDA acting school in 1961 and performed in the successful Sydney stage production of Boeing Boeing from 1964 to 1965. She appeared in The Greek Tycoon
The Greek Tycoon

The Greek Tycoon is a 1978 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay by Morton S. Fine is based on a story by Fine, Nico Mastorakis, and Win Wells loosely based on Aristotle Onassis and his relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis....
 (1978), Rough Cut
Rough cut

In filmmaking, the Rough cut is the second of three stages of offline editing. The rough cut is the first stage in which the movie begins to resemble its final product....
 (1980), and the James Bond
James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
 film, For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (film)

For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
 as the Countess Lisl von Schlaf
Countess Lisl von Schlaf

Countess Lisl von Schlaf is a fictional character from the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only , portrayed by Cassandra Harris, coincidentally the late wife of later Bond star Pierce Brosnan....
, the ill-fated mistress of Milos Colombo (played by Israeli actor Topol
Chaim Topol

Chaim Topol , often billed simply as Topol, is one of the most famous Israeli theater and film performers....
). While she was filming this movie, her third husband, Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan, Order of the British Empire is an Republic of Ireland actor, film producer and environmentalist, who holds both Ireland and United States citizenship....
, met James Bond series producer Albert R. Broccoli
Albert R. Broccoli

Albert Romolo Broccoli, Order of the British Empire , nicknamed "Cubby", was an Academy Award-winning United States film producer, who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career, most of them in the United Kingdom, and often filmed at Pinewood Studios....
, which eventually led to his casting as the new James Bond with starring roles in four James Bond films.

She guest starred in several episodes of the television series Remington Steele
Remington Steele

Remington Steele is an United States television series, produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 in television to 1987 in television....
 with her husband Brosnan, to whom she was married from 1977 until her death in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

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 from ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer is a malignant tumor arising from an ovary. Although ovarian cancer is known to occur in many species, the majority of the medical literature and the focus of this article is on ovarian cancer in humans....
 at the age of 39.

She had three children -- Christopher
Chris Brosnan

Chris Brosnan is the son of actress Cassandra Harris and Dermot Harris , and the adopted son of former James Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan. His half brother, actor Aaron Harris, stars as Detective Seargent Miles Byrne in Irish TV series Fair City....
 and Charlotte Harris, from her second marriage to Dermot Harris — a younger brother of the late actor, Richard Harris
Richard Harris

Richard St. John Harris was a two-time Academy Award-nominated and Grammy Award-winning Ireland actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer....
 -- and son Sean Brosnan, from her third marriage to Pierce. Christopher and Charlotte were adopted by Brosnan after Dermot Harris's death in 1986. Harris had allegedly always wanted to see her husband portray James Bond, but her death occurred prior to his selection for the role in "Golden Eye."

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