Biography of Jacqueline Bisset


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September 13, 1944 is the woman who has populated the erotic dreams of millions, although now that he has some age its reputation as a Maneater is outclassed by younger and aggressive starlette well. Lately she was chosen for the roles chaste and committed as to mother of Joan of arc or even of Jesus of Nazareth. But, beyond his reputation for strong sensuality and female specimen from the subtle erotic charge, intangible and unrelenting, Jaqueline Bisset also be remembered for their role within the history of cinema. Perfect because of its innate class to interpret upper-class women maybe a little frivolous and flawed, its image is likely to be tied to this cliché, as he definitely remembered that this lady flawless worked alongside the film giants like Chabrol, Truffaut, John Huston or our Comencini and Mario Monicelli. Born in Weybridge, England, September 13, 1944, Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset is the youngest daughter of Max Fraser Arlette Alexander Bisset, French lawyer, doctor, and that after marriage and relocation to England has ceased to exercise the profession. During the war he went to live with his parents and older brother in a 16th-century cottage near Reading. At fifteen must mature quickly and demonstrate a great strength of mind, when forced to take care of his mother, suffering from a severe form of multiple sclerosis. After attending the French high school at 18, he moved to London (is the moment when the sixties touching the apex), where just by working as a model. She's beautiful and the cinema soon to notice her. Not everybody has "debut" (Richard Lester, 1965), followed a little later "Cul de Sac". Replaces Mia Farrow alongside Frank Sinatra for "dangerous Investigation" (Gordon Douglas, 1968) and in the same year binds sentimentally to the actor Michael Sarrazin in which runs several movies, including "Jackie, the girl in Greenwich Village" (Stuart Hagmann, 1971). It was already the daughter of Judge Roy Bean-Paul Newman ("L'uomo dai 7 capestri", John Huston, 1972) and the neighbor of an enterprising Jean-Paul Belmondo ("How do you destroy the reputation of the greatest secret agent in the world", Philippe de Broca, 1973), when Francois Truffaut offered her the role of Julie Baker-Pamela in "day for night" (1973). And with that character, as well as Truffaut, enchants audiences internationally. After the end of the love affair with Michael Sarrazin, in 1974 he falls in love with Victor Drai, film producer, soon replaced in her heart by Alexander Godunov. On the threshold of forty years, and you start to receive a Golden Globe nomination for "under the volcano" (John Huston, 1983), continues to demonstrate his distaste for marriage that will take her to be called "the most beautiful maid of Hollywood". A very special spinster who in 1997 is the love between the reassuring arms of a martial arts instructor, Emin Boztepe. On the big screen, when do you personally deal with her love life, is followed by two strange waiters in "scenes from the class struggle in Beverly Hills" (Paul Bartel, 1989). Fun atmosphere, very different from those of "La cérémonie" (Claude Chabrol, 1995), where of course the fictional history, will pay with their lives for "guilty" of being a very rich Lady. Jaqueline Bisset throughout his long career he has created a range of characters that, despite the discretion inherent to his way of doing things, left a subtle design but deep in our collective imagination.

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