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Cassandra Harris
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Cassandra Harris (December 15, 1948 – December 28, 1991) was an Australian-born actress.
Born Sandra Colleen Waites in Sydney, Australia, she appeared in The Greek Tycoon (1978), Rough Cut (1980), and the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only as the Countess Lisl Von Schalf, the ill-fated mistress of Milos Colombo (played by Israeli actor Topol). While filming this movie, her husband, Pierce Brosnan, met James Bond series producer Albert R. Broccoli, which led to his starring in 4 James Bond films.
She guest starred in several episodes of the
television series Remington Steele with her husband
Pierce Brosnan (who would go on to play
James Bond), to whom she was married from
1980 until her death in
Los Angeles, California from
ovarian cancer at the age of 43.
Her husband and three children (the eldest two, Christopher and Charlotte Harris, were from her first marriage to Dermot Harris — a younger brother of the late actor,
Richard Harris — which ended in divorce) survive her.