Jacqueline Bisset

**Jacqueline Bisset** (/ˈbɪsɪt/ BISS-it; born **Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset** on September 13, 1944) is an award winning English film and television actress.

## Career

### Early work (1960's-1970s)

Jacqueline began her film career in 1965, first coming to prominence in 1968 with roles in *The Detective*, *Bullitt* with Wikipedia:Steve McQueen, and *The Sweet Ride*, for which she received a most promising newcomer Golden Globe nomination.

In 1967, Bisset had her first noticeable part in the Albert Finney/Audrey Hepburn vehicle *Two for the Road*, as a woman in whom Finney's character is romantically interested. It was made by 20th Century Fox who put her under contract..

Next, she participated in the James Bond satire/action flick, *Casino Royale* (1967), as Miss Goodthighs. In the 1970s, she starred in *Airport* (1970), the made for TV horror movie *The Mephisto Waltz* with Alan Alda, Wikipedia:Barbara Parkins and Bradford Dillman, *Day For Night* (1973) which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, *Murder on the Orient Express* (1974), *The Deep* (1977), and *Wikipedia:Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?* |Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?]] *(1978), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Comedy.*

### 1980's-1990's

Jacqueline's other film and TV credits since the early-1980s include *Rich and Famous* (1981), *Class* (1983), her Golden Globe-nominated role in *Under the Volcano* (1984), her Cesar-nominated role in *La Cérémonie* (1995), the cable adaptation of *Anna Karenina* with Christopher Reeve in 1985.

### Late 1990's-present work

In 1996, Bisset was nominated for a César Award for her role in the French film *La Cérémonie*. She appeared in the 16th-century period drama *Dangerous Beauty* (1998) as Catherine McCormack's mother, a retired Venetian courtesan, and had the leading role in the 2001 independent feature *The Sleepy Time Gal*, which premiered on the Sundance Channel and was cited by the Village Voice in its annual survey of the year's best undistributed films.

One of her later TV movies, in 2003, was *America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story*, in which she portrayed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Bisset's other television work includes the Biblical epics *Jesus* (1999) and *In the Beginning* (2000), and the CBS-TV miniseries *Joan of Arc*, which earned her an Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

In 2005, she was seen in the Domino Harvey biographical film *Domino* with Keira Knightley, directed by Tony Scott, in which Bisset played a fictionalized version of Paulene Stone (renamed "Sophie Wynn") whom she actually knew from her time as a model in London.

## Honors

She received France's highest honour, the Légion d'honneur, in 2010. She fluently speaks English, French and Italian.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Jacqueline Bisset body measurements. *PlasticSurgeryIndex.com*. Retrieved on May 25, 2020.
2. ↑ Jacqueline Bisset, Lady-Swinger in Life and Films. Haber, Joyce. Los Angeles Times, May 4, 1969: o13.
3. ↑ JACQUELINE BISSET, HOLLYWOOD `LIONESS': [ALL Edition]
BRIDGET BYRNE Entertainment News Wire. Sun Sentinel 24 Sep 1996: 3.E.
4. ↑ Jacqueline Bisset does Hollywood her way Davis, Ivor. The Ottawa Citizen; Ottawa, Ont. 09 Nov 2000: E8.

## External links

* Jacqueline Bisset article at *Wikipedia*
* Jacqueline Bisset links at FreeOnes
* Jacqueline Bisset biography, filmography, commentary
* Jacqueline Bisset interview
* Interview with Jacqueline Bisset – The Spectrum, October 9, 2018.