Grieving Pierce Brosnan throws himself back into work as he resumes filming after death of daughter Charlotte
PUBLISHED: 21:59 GMT, 2 July 2013 | UPDATED: 00:10 GMT, 3 July 2013
Grieving Pierce Brosnan headed back to work on Tuesday, just days after the tragic death of his daughter Charlotte.
The Irish actor, 60, had rushed back from shooting November Man in Serbia to be at his daughter's bedside when she passed away in London on Friday following a three=year battle with ovarian cancer.
However, the former Bond star couldn't spend too long away from the big budget spy thriller and resumed filming in the capital Belgrade this week.
Pierce has been shooting the film, in which he plays an ex-CIA operative opposite Olga Kurylenko, since May.
When his 42-year-old daughter's condition deteriorated, Pierce joined his family in London, who were all by her side when she died at 2pm on Friday afternoon.
News of the mother-of-two's death was revealed in the early hours of Tuesday morning in a statement by the actor.
He said: 'On June 28 my darling daughter Charlotte Emily passed on to eternal life, having succumbed to ovarian cancer.
'She was surrounded by her husband Alex, children Isabella and Lucas and brothers Christopher and Sean.
‘Charlotte fought her cancer with grace and humanity, courage and dignity. Our hearts are heavy with the loss of our beautiful dear girl.
‘We pray for her and that the cure for this wretched disease will be close at hand soon. We thank everyone for their heartfelt condolences.’
Her death comes 22 years after the same disease killed her mother Cassandra.
Charlotte, who was adopted by the actor after he married her mother, leaves behind her husband, artist Alex Smith, and children Isabella, 15, and eight-year-old Lucas. She is also survived by her brothers Christopher, Sean, Dylan and Paris.
Charlotte was nine years old when her mother Cassandra, an Australian actress who played a Bond girl in For Your Eyes Only, married Mr Brosnan at Chelsea Registry Office in 1980.
Charlotte and her brother Christopher, from Cassandra's previous marriage to Dermot, were joined by a half-sibling Sean in 1983.
Although Pierce and Charlotte were not biologically related, he has previously spoken of the close relationship he enjoyed with her and her brother after he married Cassandra.
'We just clicked as a family,' he said. 'To begin with I was Pierce, then I was Daddy Pierce, and then I just became Dad. Charlotte and Chris have just been amazing in my life.'
Pierce adopted his wife's children after their biological father Dermot Harris died in 1986, and they changed their surname to his.
Cassandra became ill while filming in India in 1987 and after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer, fought a four-year battle with the disease.
She was just 43 when she died in Los Angeles in December 1991.
In an interview with the Mail on Sunday in March, Mr Brosnan spoke about drawing on his own family's experiences in order to play a widower who falls in love with a cancer sufferer in his latest film Love Is All You Need.
Pierce and Cassandra's youngest son Sean was only eight years old when she died.
He told the MoS: 'I went through it all, very publicly. Such things draw a mark across your heart and it’s always a part of your life. To watch someone you love have their life eaten away – bit by bit, by this insidious and horrid disease – becomes an indelible part of your psyche.
'It certainly did for me and, of course, when I received this script, the challenge of playing this part was not lost on me.'
Three years following Cassandra's death, Pierce met journalist Keely Shaye Smith, who he went on to marry in 2001.
They have two sons together - 16-year-old Dylan and Paris, 12.
Charlotte battled drug dependency and depression in her early 30s and volunteered for treatment at the Priory Clinic in 2003.
It was her third stay at the £4,000-a-week rehab centre in Richmond, London, after she developed depression following a temporary split from her long-term partner Alex.
She had previously been treated there for cocaine addiction, and her brother Christopher had received similar therapy for drink and drug addictions.
i know your gonna be my angel and that you will lead me in the right path! i wish i could have had one last word to you before you passes away..but i was in macdonalds :// kinda feel bad, but i know you wanted everyone out the house to pass because then it was fair on everyone !
i love you so! so! much and I'm going to try and make you as proud as possible !! because u have made me proud and being very inspirational with your strength and braveness !i wish i could be in heaven with you ..or you still be alive but my place is here and your place is up there in the bigg sky! but i will see you in about 75-80 years hehe! when its my time to go too!, but for now I'm here to make u proud and have my own children and tell them how amazing you are !♥, i promise i will try and look after lucas and daddy and everything is going to be okay ...iloveyou my beautiful mummy!! R.I.P 
