Jacqueline Bisset

Nick Nolte revealed in his 2018 memoir that he and Bisset had an affair while making The Deep (1977). She also reportedly had brief romances with Terence Stamp, Ryan O'Neal, François Truffaut, Jon Peters, Gigi Rizzi, Kirk Kerkorian, Sean Ferrer and Frank Howson. One claim she has made a point of addressing is that of an affair with Steve McQueen, and is annoyed that this rumor still exists after she's repeatedly denied it.

When she accepted her Golden Globe Award for her role in the British television miniseries Dancing on the Edge (2013) in 2014, she reminded the audience that it had been 47 years since she had first been honored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Awarded France's Legion of Honor from President Nicolas Sarkozy. [2010]

In Carolina Moon (2007), she played the mother of Oliver Hudson's character. Hudson's real-life mother Goldie Hawn had a long-term relationship with Victor Drai right after Jackie broke up with Victor.

In 2006, she appeared in the fourth season of the FX series Nip/Tuck (2003) as the ruthless extortionist "James.

In 2005 Jacqueline was back on the big screen, playing Keira Knightley's mother in the Domino Harvey biopic Domino (2005) for Tony Scott.

Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001.

Other notable credits included the miniseries Joan of Arc (1999) alongside Leelee Sobieski, which gained her an Emmy nomination, and The Sleepy Time Gal (2001), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival but unfortunately was not picked up for theatrical distribution.

She held roles in period productions like Dangerous Beauty (1998), as a retired courtesan in 16th-century Venice, and the Biblical epics Jesus (1999) and In the Beginning (2000), playing the Virgin Mary and Sarah, wife of Abraham, respectively.

In 1996, she was nominated for a César Award, the French equivalent of the Oscar, for her performance in Claude Chabrol's La Cérémonie (1995).

In 1989 she co-starred in the racy comedy Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) and the controversial erotic thriller Wild Orchid (1989), neither of which fared well critically or financially, but her output would remain consistent with television projects and independent features.

(1988-1992) Cohabited with French actor, Vincent Perez.

Turned down the role of Elizabeth McGraw in 9½ Weeks (1986) due to the amount of nudity the script called for.

She also earned praise for her work in the cable adaptation of Anna Karenina (1985) with Christopher Reeve, and the miniseries Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987) with Armand Assante.

She rebounded neatly with Class (1983), playing Rob Lowe's attractive mother who has an affair with her son's prep school roommate (Andrew McCarthy), and as Albert Finney's wife in Under the Volcano (1984), a part that earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Was among the first actresses to earn a seven-figure fee for a single performance when she was paid $1.65 million to do Inchon (1981). 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.

In the early 1980s, Bisset starred in the box office disasters When Time Ran Out. . .

(1980) and Inchon (1981), but her well-received turn opposite Candice Bergen in Rich and Famous (1981) in between those two films gained her recognition as a serious actress from American audiences.

She was next seen in high-profile roles in The Greek Tycoon (1978), a thinly disguised fictionalization of the marriage of Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis, and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Comedy.

Bisset's looks and figure made quite a splash in The Deep (1977). Her underwater swimming scenes in that movie inspired the worldwide wet T-shirt craze, and Newsweek magazine declared her "the most beautiful film actress of all time. " The film's producer, Peter Guber, said "That T-shirt made me a rich man. " However, she hated the wet T-shirt scenes because she felt exploited. At the time of filming she was not told that the filmmakers would shoot the scenes in such a provocative way, and she felt tricked. Nevertheless, the huge success of the picture made Bisset officially bankable.

Ives (1976).

Was taken aback when Marcheline Bertrand asked her to be Angelina Jolie's godmother, because she hardly knew Marcheline at the time. (They'd only just met as Bertrand's then-husband Jon Voight was co-starring with Bisset in End of the Game (1975).) They nevertheless formed a friendship that would last more than 30 years.

Although she scored another domestic hit with Murder on the Orient Express (1974), her part in it, as had often been the case, was decorative.

In 1973, she became recognized in Europe as a serious dramatic actress when she played the lead in Truffaut's Day for Night (1973). However, it would be several years before her talents would be taken seriously in the U. S.

She did appear to good effect in The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973), Le Magnifique (1973), The Sunday Woman (1975) and St.

Then she co-starred with Alan Alda in the well-reviewed but commercially underperforming horror movie, The Mephisto Waltz (1971).

In 1970 she was featured in the star-studded disaster film Airport (1970) and had the starring role in The Grasshopper (1970).

Was considered for the female leads in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and Straw Dogs (1971).

In 1968 her career got a boost when Mia Farrow unexpectedly dropped out of the shooting of The Detective (1968); Farrow's marriage to co-star Frank Sinatra was on the rocks, and her role was eventually given to Bisset, who received special billing in the film's credits.

That same year she earned a Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Newcomer for The Sweet Ride (1968) and gained even more attention playing opposite Steve McQueen in the popular action film Bullitt (1968).

In 1967, Bisset gained her first critical attention in Two for the Road (1967), and in that same year appeared briefly in the popular James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967), playing Miss Goodthighs.

She and Ursula Andress have played a love interest for 8 of the same leading men onscreen: Dean Martin as Joe Jarrett opposite Andress's Maxine Richter in 4 for Texas (1963) and as Vernon Demerest opposite Bisset's Gwen Meighen in Airport (1970); Jean-Paul Belmondo as Arthur Lempereur opposite Andress's Alexandrine Pinardel in Up to His Ears (1965) and as François Merlin opposite Bisset's Tatiana/Christine in Le Magnifique (1973); Marcello Mastroianni as Poletti opposite Andress's Caroline Meredith in The 10th Victim (1965) and as Salvatore Santamaria opposite Bisset's Anna Carla Dosio in The Sunday Woman (1975); Peter Sellers as Evelyn Tremble opposite both Andress's Vesper Lynd and Bisset's Miss Goodthighs in Casino Royale (1967); Michael Sarrazin as Denny McGuire opposite Bisset's Vickie Cartwright in The Sweet Ride (1968) and as Scaramouche opposite Andress's Joséphine De Beauharnais in The Loves and Times of Scaramouche (1976); George Segal as Dan Rockland opposite Andress's Erica Kramer in The Southern Star (1969) and as Robby Ross opposite Bisset's Natasha O'Brien in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978); Marc Porel as Olivier opposite Bisset's Wendy Sinclair in Secret World (1969) and as Manuel opposite Andress's Nora Green in Loaded Gun (1975); and Charles Bronson as Link Stuart opposite Andress's Cristina in Soleil rouge (1971) and as Raymond St. Ives opposite Bisset's Janet Whistler in St. Ives (1976).

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, François Truffaut, George Cukor and Roman Polanski. Her co-stars have included Anthony Quinn, Paul Newman, Nick Nolte, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kenneth Branagh and Marcello Mastroianni. She was brought up in England and had to study to learn French. Her mother was French and was an attorney before being married. As a child Jacqueline studied ballet. During her teenage years her father left the family when her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis; Jacqueline worked as a model to support her ailing mother and eventually her parents divorced, an experience she has said she considered character-strengthening. She took an early interest in film, and her modeling career helped pay for acting lessons.

Favorite films: Brief Encounter (1945), Splendor in the Grass (1961).

Her father was a doctor in general practice who came from a long line of family doctors all of whom wanted her to carry on the line. She has an older brother, Max Fraser-Bisset Jr. (born 1942), a Florida-based business consultant.