Jacqueline Bisset is a famous British actress who has been repeatedly called the most beautiful film actress of our time. She has many years of hard work and more than 100 successful projects behind her.
Biography
Winfred Jacqueline Fraser-Bisset was born in the small town of Weybridge in the southeastern part of Great Britain in 1944. She is of Scottish descent on her father's side, physician Max Fraser-Bisset, and French descent on her maternal side. Her mother, Arlette Alexander, left France during World War II to move to Great Britain.
While still at school, Jacqueline Bisset realized that she was drawn to the stage, so immediately after graduation she began to study acting. The father left the family and could not financially help his daughter, and the mother was seriously ill, so Jacqueline had to work a lot in parallel with her studies in order to get money for life and her own education.
Film career
Already in 1966, the young actress gets her first cameo role in the film Dead End, and a year later she was lucky to work on the same set with Audrey Hepburn in the film Two on the Road. The film was nominated for the prestigious Oscar, but Jacqueline Bisset herself received no awards or nominations.
Bisset's first wave of fame came in 1968 when she played the girl character Frank Bullitt in Peter Yates' Oscar-winning film Detective Bullitt. A year later, she first got a leading role in the film "The First Time".
In the 1977 thriller The Abyss, Jacqueline Bisset took part in a scene where a wet T-shirt stuck to her naked body. These shots, like the actress herself, became popular all over the world overnight.
The actress received her first Golden Globe nomination in 1969 for her work in the film Nice Trip. In subsequent years, she was noted in this award four more times, but was able to win only in 2014 for her role in the television series "Dancing on the Edge."
In Russia, her most popular roles are in the films American Night, Wild Orchid and the three-part series Napoleon and Josephine. Love story . She currently continues to play in films and receives dozens of offers a year.
Personal life
Jacqueline Bisset is the godmother of the popular Hollywood actress and one of the most beautiful women of our time, Angelina Jolie. However, she has no children of her own, and she has never been married. In 1988, Bisset began dating the Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Borisovich Godunov, but their relationship, which lasted 7 years, was cut short by the sudden death of the man. He was only 45 years old. After this lengthy romance, Jacqueline Bisset did not have a long relationship.