Jacqueline Bisset has been an international film star since the late 1960s. She received her first roles mainly because of her stunning beauty, but over time she has become a fine actress respected by fans and critics alike. Bisset has worked with directors 'John Huston . She continues to make numerous films, and frequently participates in film festivals and award ceremonies around the world.
Her first job was a waitress in a Chinese restaurant.
Favorite films: Brief Encounter , Splendor in the Grass .
Favorite actresses: Jeanne Moreau , Jessica Lange
Favorite actors: Marlon Brando , Anthony Hopkins , Montgomery Clift
Considers her most fulfilling role to be Julie in Franois Truffaut s La nuit amricaine .
Her favorite scene: fighting with Anthony Quinn in The Greek Tycoon .
Dated French actor, Vincent Perez.
Godmother of actress Angelina Jolie.
Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001.
No relation to Josie Bissett.
Said her last name is pronounced "Bissit" and rhymes with "Kiss it".
(1967-1973) Cohabited with Michael Sarrazin.
(1975-1980) Cohabited with Victor Drai.
(1981-1988) Cohabited with Alexander Godunov.
(1994-2005) Cohabited with Emin Boztepe.
When she accepted her Golden Globe Award for her role in the British television miniseries "Dancing on the Edge" in 2014, she reminded the audience that it had been 45 years since she had first been honored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Turned down the role of Elizabeth McGraw in Nine 1/2 Weeks due to the amount of nudity the script called for.
Friends with Isabelle Huppert , as well as with Marcheline Bertrand and Sharon Tate (both deceased).
Drives a black Cadillac Eldorado convertible.
In a late 1990s radio interview, she spoke in defense of Mary Kay Letourneau , the 35-year-old Seattle schoolteacher who had a baby with her 13-year-old student, suggesting Letourneaus feelings for the boy were "genuine".
Jacqueline Bisset was actually among the earliest actresses to earn a seven-figure fee for a single performance, when she was paid $1.65 million to do Inchon . The movie turned out to be a huge flop, and for many years held the record as being the largest financial failure in cinema history.
Was considered for the role of Amy in Straw Dogs .
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth,fades.
[on her childhood home] Not one newspaper that came into the house ever,left it. There were masses of books everywhere and furniture enough for,three homes. My brother and I were extremely upset by it - and have now,turned into clean freaks.
I look at photos of myself and think, "God, if I had realized I was so,cute, I would have been naughtier!". But you could put any woman in a,wet T-shirt and men would lust after her.
I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make,films, I perhaps need to make films.
My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not,give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him,not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They,need to be taught things.
Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for,them together.
Marriage has just never interested me.
The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study,learn.
To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you,know you have something to give.
Ultimately, there will be a shallowness and a taking from life rather,than giving.
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
We all lose our looks eventually better develop your character and interest in life.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct a standard of courage discipline fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.
Ideally couples need three lives one for him one for her and one for them together.
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger. .
