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Jacqueline Bisset is a Actor and Producer British born on 13 september 1944 at Weybridge (United-kingdom)

Jacqueline Bisset

Jacqueline Bisset
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Birth name Winnifred Jacqueline Fraser-Bisset
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 13 september 1944 (79 years) at Weybridge (United-kingdom)

Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset (born 13 September 1944) is an English actress. In 2010, she received one of France's highest honours, the Légion d'honneur.

Bisset began her film career in 1965 and first came to prominence in 1968, starring opposite Frank Sinatra in The Detective and Steve McQueen in Bullitt, and received a most promising newcomer Golden Globe nomination for The Sweet Ride. In the 1970s, she appeared in François Truffaut's Day for Night (1973) which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Murder on the Orient Express (1974), opposite Nick Nolte in The Deep (1977) and received a Golden Globe nomination for Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978).

Other film and TV credits 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), her Emmy nominated role in the miniseries Joan of Arc (1999) and the BBC miniseries Dancing on the Edge (2013), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress (television).

Biography

Bisset is godmother to actress Angelina Jolie.

Bisset has never married, though she has had lengthy romances with actor Michael Sarrazin, Russian-American dancer and actor Alexander Godunov, real estate magnate Victor Drai, actor Vincent Pérez, and martial arts instructor Emin Boztepe. "I feel like I was married to them because I was very dedicated to them", she said in a 2008 interview. "But I also used to feel claustrophobic. Like many people who don't easily commit, I think I had a fear of being known; I was not sure there was anybody inside there."

Best films

Airport (1970)
(Actress)
Bullitt (1968)
(Actress)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
(Actress)
La Ceremonie (1995)
(Actress)
Day for Night (1973)
(Actress)
The Magnificent One (1973)
(Actress)

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Filmography of Jacqueline Bisset (87 films)

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Actress

Rossini! Rossini!, 2h35
Directed by Mario Monicelli
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Sergio Castellitto, Philippe Noiret, Giorgio Gaber, Jacqueline Bisset, Assumpta Serna, Sabine Azéma
Roles Isabella Colbran
Rating58% 2.914422.914422.914422.914422.91442
In 1868 the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini is already famous all over the country. However, his last opera The Barber of Seville is not understood and even booed by the audience at La Scala for the indecency of the sets and love situations. Also disappointed by the replicas at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, then Rossini decides to move to Paris, where he is hailed as a genius.
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, 1h35
Directed by Paul Bartel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Sharkey, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, Ed Begley Jr., Wallace Shawn
Roles Clare
Rating59% 2.9500252.9500252.9500252.9500252.950025
Clare Lipkin is a recent widow, dealing with everything from house guest Lisabeth, to Lisabeth's libidinous ex, Howard, to family problems. She is also being haunted by the ghost of her recently deceased husband, Sidney.
Wild Orchid, 1h43
Directed by Zalman King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Erotic, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Mickey Rourke, Carré Otis, Jacqueline Bisset, Bruce Greenwood, Assumpta Serna, Oleg Vidov
Roles Claudia Dennis
Rating45% 2.258742.258742.258742.258742.25874
Emily Reed (Otis) travels to New York City for an interview with an international law firm, which immediately offers her a job on the condition that she can fly to Rio de Janeiro the following morning. Emily agrees and is introduced to Claudia Dennis (Bisset), one of the firm's top executives. They arrive in Rio to finalize the purchase of a hotel, but angry Claudia must fly to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to meet the man the hotel's owner. Claudia instructs Emily to take her date for the night. While viewing the hotel, Emily sees two locals having animalistic sex, which unnerves her and she returns to her own hotel. She meets Claudia's date; a wealthy man named James Wheeler (Rourke). They have dinner, accompanied by James' bodyguards.
The House of Jade, 1h35
Directed by Nadine Trintignant
Origin France
Actors Jacqueline Bisset, Vincent Pérez, Véronique Silver, Fred Personne, Serge Marquand, Jean-Noël Brouté
Roles Jane Lambert
Rating60% 3.00383.00383.00383.00383.0038
Jade, journaliste et écrivain ayant la quarantaine, fait la connaissance de Bernard, qui tente de la séduire. Elle quitte son travail et emménage chez lui sur l'Île Saint-Louis, mais après une période heureuse, il devient fuyant.
High Season, 1h30
Directed by Clare Peploe
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Irène Papas, Kenneth Branagh, Lesley Manville, Robert Stephens
Roles Katherine Shaw
Rating53% 2.6633052.6633052.6633052.6633052.663305
Katherine (Jacqueline Bisset) is an English photographer who, with her husband Patrick (James Fox), came to live at a coastal town on Rhodes before the tourists discovered it. Their thirteen-year-old daughter Chloe (Ruby Baker) grew up there, and even though Kath and Patrick have separated, they have both stayed on. He supports himself through his sculpture pieces, which Kath despises, and she, by her photography books featuring antiquities and peasant life, which he finds fuddy-duddy.
Choices
Choices (1986)
, 1h35
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors George C. Scott, Jacqueline Bisset, Melissa Gilbert, Lorena Gale
Roles Marisa Granger
Rating58% 2.908482.908482.908482.908482.90848
The film focuses on a 62-year-old judge who rethinks his opposition to abortion when he finds out both his 19-year-old daughter and 38-year-old wife are pregnant. When his daughter contemplates an abortion without informing her boyfriend, the judge immediately expresses his disapproval. He changes his mind when he finds out his wife is pregnant as well. The three are all forced to make important choices.
Forbidden
Forbidden (1985)
, 1h54
Directed by Anthony Page
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow, Irene Worth, Peter Vaughan
Roles Nina von Halder
Rating64% 3.2340953.2340953.2340953.2340953.234095
German countess Nina von Hadler (Bisset) is a student in veterinary medicine in Berlin, Germany on the eve of World War II. Ostracized by her family due to her liberal views and opposition to the Nazi government, she lives alone, independent and strong-willed. The film opens with Nina studying at the library the day Germany invades Poland. She is angered and tells a classmate she knows the reasons Hitler gave for the invasion (to allegedly rescue ethnic Germans) are a pack of lies.
Anna Karenina, 2h30
Directed by Simon Langton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Reeve, Paul Scofield, Ian Ogilvy, Anna Massey, Joanna David
Roles Anna Karenina
Rating62% 3.142563.142563.142563.142563.14256
Tragic Anna Karenina (Russian: «Анна Каренина»; [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) leaves her cold husband for the dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia. The unfortunate series of events leave her hopelessly depressed.
Under the Volcano, 1h52
Directed by John Huston, Danny Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Katy Jurado, Ignacio López Tarso, James Villiers
Roles Yvonne Firmin
Rating68% 3.446353.446353.446353.446353.44635
Cuernavaca, capitale de l'État de Morelos au Mexique, le 1er novembre 1938 traditionnel jour des Morts, fêté en grande liesse par toute la population locale. Geoffrey Firmin, ancien consul britannique, qui a (été) démissionné de sa fonction, déambule, copieusement imbibé, de cantinas en cervecerias, de souvenirs en palabres, parmi l'étrange liesse mortuaire. Son épouse a quitté le Mexique, depuis presque une année. Ils semblent désormais, d'après un vague courrier d'avocat, officiellement divorcés. Anis, brandy, tequila, whisky, mezcal (la boisson des damnés), la brûlure de l'alcool lui permet d'oublier cet invivable abandon et de survivre à sa déchéance, (« les tremblements, voilà ce qui rend cette vie insupportable. Mais ils s'apaisent, si on s'y prend bien, avec la nécessaire lampée, la dose thérapeutique »).
Class
Class (1983)
, 1h38
Directed by Lewis John Carlino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about virginity
Actors Andrew McCarthy, Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Cliff Robertson, John Cusack, Alan Ruck
Roles Ellen
Rating59% 2.99952.99952.99952.99952.9995
When Jonathan Ogner (Andrew McCarthy) first shows up to prep school, he is laughed at for wearing his school uniform. He then goes up to his dorm and meets his new roommate (Rob Lowe), who introduces himself as Squire Franklin Burroughs IV but tells Jonathan to call him "Skip." Skip then takes off his trench coat and is shown to be wearing a red bra and girls' underwear. He explains to the shocked Jonathan that it isn't what it looks like and that it's a tradition for the seniors to parade around campus wearing only girls' underwear. When Jonathan doesn't have any, Skip gives him a set that he had in his dresser. Skip and Jonathan travel out of the dorm together until they get to the final door where Skip stays behind and locks the door. The other students begin to laugh and mock Jonathan for wearing girls' underwear. Mortified, Jonathan attempts to flee the scene. After discovering that Skip has locked all the doors, Jonathan climbs a trellis that leads into his dorm where he finds Skip lying on the floor laughing hysterically.
Inchon
Inchon (1982)
, 1h45
Directed by Terence Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune, Richard Roundtree, David Janssen
Roles Barbara Hallsworth
Rating28% 1.4330751.4330751.4330751.4330751.433075
The film depicts the Battle of Inchon during the Korean War, which took place September 15–19, 1950 and is considered the turning point of the war. The protagonist of the film is General Douglas MacArthur (Laurence Olivier), who led the United States surprise amphibious landing at Incheon in 1950. A subplot in the film involves an American couple who encounter difficulties in their relationship because of the ongoing war.
Rich and Famous, 1h57
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Feminist films, Political films, Films based on plays, Buddy films
Actors Candice Bergen, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Jacqueline Bisset, Steven Hill, George Cukor
Roles Liz Hamilton
Rating57% 2.899462.899462.899462.899462.89946
Two women find their friendship is tested when one rises from obscurity to success while the other stagnates in a stalled career. Liz Hamilton, a young woman with literary ambitions, and Merry Noel Blake, an all-American blond beauty from Atlanta, are close friends who met while they were freshmen at Smith College in the 1950s.
When Time Ran Out..., 2h1
Directed by James Goldstone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Volcanisme, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, James Franciscus, Ernest Borgnine, Edward Albert
Roles Kay Kirby
Rating45% 2.260322.260322.260322.260322.26032
Shelby Gilmore (William Holden), who owns a newly constructed hotel on a remote Pacific island, wants desperately to marry his secretary, Kay Kirby (Jacqueline Bisset) and proposes to her under the impression that she'll become his seventh wife. Kay is in love with Hank Anderson (Paul Newman), an oil rigger whose scientists are warning him that a nearby active volcano is about to erupt.
The Greek Tycoon, 1h47
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Anthony Quinn, Jacqueline Bisset, James Franciscus, Raf Vallone, Edward Albert, Joss Ackland
Roles Liz Cassidy
Rating54% 2.7030952.7030952.7030952.7030952.703095
The film focuses on the courtship and marriage of aging Greek Theo Tomasis, who rose from his humble peasant roots to become an influential mogul who owns oil tankers, airlines, and Mediterranean islands and longs to be elected President of Greece, and considerably younger Liz Cassidy, the beautiful widow of the assassinated President of the United States. The two first meet when she is visiting his island estate with her husband James, the charismatic Senator from the state of Massachusetts. Theo immediately is attracted to her and, despite the fact she obviously is happily married, begins to woo her aboard his yacht while her husband is deep in conversation with the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. As the plot unfolds, Theo's beloved son Nico dies in an accident, his wife Simi commits suicide, James becomes President and appoints his brother John Attorney General, and Theo ends his affair with Paola to comfort and eventually marry grieving widow Liz.