Look Again at ‘Fortunate Day’ He Met Spouse Keely

Joyful birthday, Pierce Brosnan.

The previous James Bond actor turns 71 on Could 16. Brosnan’s birthday comes simply over a month after he and his spouse of twenty-two years Keely Shaye Brosnan mirrored on the thirtieth anniversary of their first assembly in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

As Brosnan instructed PEOPLE again in 2001, he first related with Keely at a celebration after she was scheduled to interview Ted Danson and the actor was pulled away. Keely lately wrote in regards to the second on Instagram April 9 to notice the anniversary of the couple’s preliminary meet-cute.

“4-8-94 was my fortunate day. How may I’ve often called I walked across the nook and into your life that my future was about to alter endlessly?” she wrote in a caption alongside a collection of throwback images.

“Thanking my fortunate stars that I had the braveness to introduce myself to you and endlessly grateful for the connection and household we share 3 many years later,” she added. “Joyful thirtieth Anniversary! @piercebrosnanofficial. Time flies on loves wings.”

“Thank God for you my expensive Keely, you have got given me wings to fly,” Brosnan wrote within the remark part. “Love you dearly.”

Brosnan, who was born and raised in Eire, started his display screen performing profession in 1980 with roles within the tv film Murphy’s Strike and the movie The Lengthy Good Friday, amongst different appearances.

Earlier than assembly Keely and subsequently taking over his famed 007 position for 1995’s GoldenEye, Brosnan was married to his first spouse Cassandra Harris, who died of most cancers in 1991 at 43; the pair shared two kids from Harris’ first marriage, whom Brosnan adopted within the Eighties, in addition to their son Sean, 40.

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Keely instructed PEOPLE in 2001 that Pierce “was fascinating” once they first met in 1994. “Tall, darkish and good-looking — every thing that everyone would instantly be interested in. He had this mischievous sparkle in his eyes. I assumed, ‘Wow! Wow!’ ”

Pierce and Keely married in 2001 and have since welcomed two kids of their very own: Dylan, 27, and Paris, 23.

In December 2023, the actor spoke with Fox Information in regards to the couple’s marriage, saying, “We like one another so much. We love one another so much. And we have been down the highway, and we have seen many, many hardships as households do, as all of us do.”

“However watching somebody develop up with you and develop previous with you is a really religious journey,” he added. “To look at one another change … no matter it might be, the hair, the waist. However it’s the love within the coronary heart.” 

Keely celebrated Pierce’s milestone seventieth birthday in 2023 by sharing a photograph of her actor husband posing towards a backdrop of yellow flowers on Instagram.

“Joyful Birthday my darling @piercebrosnanofficial,” she wrote on the time. “Wishing you a blessed, bountiful and adventurous new journey across the solar. It’s not how previous you’re … it’s how daring you’re in life. I like you with all my coronary heart.”

Brosnan subsequent stars in The Nice Lillian Corridor reverse Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Lily Rabe and Jesse Williams, on HBO and Max Could 31.