Jacqueline Bisset

Jacqueline Bisset (born September 13, 1944) is a British actress, born in Surrey, England. Her French mother taught her fluent French which prompted many to erroneously believe she was born in France. When Bisset was a teenager, her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis. After her parents divorced, she moved in to help her mother. She had taken ballet lessons as a young child, and now began taking acting lessons, and fashion modelling to pay for those lessons.

After playing in a few small roles, in 1967 Bisset was cast for the movie Two for the Road, which became a critically acclaimed effort for her. Next, she participated in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale, playing the character of "Miss Goodthighs".

In 1968, Mia Farrow, who was having personal problems, dropped out of a movie named The Detective, and her job was given to Bisset instead. Then, she was cast opposite Steve McQueen in Bullit.

In 1973, she participated in Francois Truffaut's movie Day for Night, where she earned the respect of European critics and movie goers as a serious actress. In 1977, Bisset made great strides towards becoming a better known entertainer in North America with her movie The Deep, co-starring Robert Shaw, where her appearance swimming underwater wearing only a t-shirt made many to credit her with beginning a world wide revolution that led to a "wet T-shirt contest craze". At the time, Newsweek magazine declared her to be "the most beautiful film actress of all time".

Soon thereafter she played in the movies Rich and Famous with Candice Bergen, and Under The Volcano with Albert Finney, which was made in 1984 and gave her a Golden Globe award nomination. In 1978 she had already earned her first nomination for Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?. In 1996, she was nominated for a Cesar Award, France's version of the Oscars, for her role in La Ceremonie.

During her career, Bisset has been in movies directed by such stars as François Truffaut, John Huston, George Cukor and Roman Polanski, among others. Several of her movies are French or Italian productions. Besides in movies, Bisset has played in many TV films, especially during the last 10 years, some of these films having been quite successful. A role she has become familiar with, first in TV and most recently in cinema movies, is the character of Jacqueline Kennedy. The movie, a biographical story about Robert Kennedy, will be released shortly.

Bisset, who is known as a good autograph signer who even personalises her signature if fans ask her to, has never been married, but she has had a number of well publicized relationships with men.

Filmography

• Latter Days (2003)
• Swing (2003)
• Fascination (2002)
• New Year's Day (2001)
• The Sleepy Time Gal (2001)
• People Who Love Each Other (2000)
• Let the Devil Wear Black (1999)
• Dangerous Beauty (1998)
• Once You Meet a Stranger (1996)
• A Judgement in Stone (1995)
• La classe américaine (1993)
• Crimebroker (1993)
• Hoffman's Hunger (1993)
• The Groundhogs (1993)
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• Rossini! Rossini! (1991)
• The Maid (1991)
• Wild Orchid (1990)
• Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
• The House of Jade (1988)
• High Season (1987)
• Forbidden (1984)
• Under the Volcano (1984)
• Class (1983)
• Rich and Famous (1981)
• Inchon (1981)
• When Time Ran Out (1980)
• I Love You, I Love You Not (1979)
• Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
• The Greek Tycoon (1978)
• The Deep (1977)
• The Sunday Woman (1976)
• St. Ives (1976)
• End of the Game (1975)
• The Spiral Staircase (1975)
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
• The Magnificent One (1973)
• La Nuit américaine (1973)
• The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
• Stand Up and Be Counted (1972)
• Believe in Me (1971)
• The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
• Secrets (1971)
• The Grasshopper (1970)
• Airport (1970)
• Secret World (1969)
• The First Time (1969)
• Bullitt (1968)
• The Sweet Ride (1968)
• The Detective (1968)
• The Cape Town Affair (1967)
• Casino Royale (1967)
• Two for the Road (1967)
• Drop Dead Darling (1966)
• Cul-de-sac (1966)

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