Jacqueline Bisset consolidated her fame and talent in the 1980s thanks to a handful of unforgettable films.
Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset, who would become known worldwide only as Jaqueline Bisset, was born in Surrey, England, in 1944. The daughter of a British doctor and a French lawyer, she studied chemistry but abandoned it for a promising artistic career. Thanks to her impressive beauty, where her deep blue eyes and angelic features stood out, she worked as a model from the age of 18, which would be the previous step for her to start working in the cinema.
Her first prominent role would be in the movie "Bullit" (1968), where she shared the screen with the great Steve McQueen. In 1973, the famous French director François Truffaut included her in the cast of the film "The American Night", which earned her the interest of the general public and prestigious European directors.
In this decade she began to participate in Hollywood blockbusters, such as "Airport" and "Murder on the Orient Express", directed by the late director Sidney Lumet.
After shooting the movie "Abyss" (1977), along with the actors Robert Shaw and Nick Nolte, the North American magazine Newsweek would describe her as the "most attractive actress of all time", alluding to some commented scenes in which she was swimming only dressed with a t-shirt. Time magazine, meanwhile, anointed her as "the most beautiful woman in the world."
Although during the '70s Jaqueline Bisset enjoyed relative success, the definitive recognition of her talents as an actress would come in the '80s, thanks to titles such as "Under the Volcano" (1984), based on the famous novel by the writer Malcolm Lowry and where he shared the screen with the English actor Albert Finney. This film, directed by award-winning director John Houston, earned the actress a Golden Globe nomination for best actress. In 1983 Jacqueline Bisset would also star in "Class", one of the best comedies of the decade, along with young actors Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy. In that tape, which caused more than one S- fantasy in a teenager of the time, she played an attractive mature woman who unknowingly seduced the best friend of her own son. Years later, to confirm that she was still a current S- symbol, La Bisset would participate in films such as "Wild Orchid", together with the former pretty boy of the time, Mickey Rourke.
In the following decade, Jacqueline Bisset's talent would remain unscathed, thanks to titles such as "The Ceremony", by French director Claude Chabrol, which earned her a César Award nomination for best actress. Around this time he also began to successfully venture into television series such as "Ana Karenina", "Joan of Arc", "The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story (where he played Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis), and "Dancing on the Edge", for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Now, her last appearance in national theaters was in the film "Welcome to New York", the controversial film by director Abel Ferrara that recreated the scandalous S- life of the Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his fall into the head of the International Monetary Fund.
In that film, The Bisset played Simone Deveraux (a character inspired by Anne Sinclair, Strauss-Khan's wife), a woman who tried to keep her marriage afloat, despite the infidelities of her husband, an old, debased, and powerful civil servant. governmental S- addict. “S- desire is the central theme of the film. The central character represents that type of man who needs personal glorification, and who thrives on narcissism, self-hatred, low self-esteem, and insecurity. They have to prove the opposite at all times and they are never happy with the person next to them; what's more, they don't look at them with love. The other thing is that they have to feel attractive every minute, especially when they get old. Either way, we women feel the same way, we need others to shut us up from time to time. After all, female S- desire does not decrease with fertility. Mature women want S-, they are hot, and they need that connection. But the big difference is that men don't want to sleep with that type of woman. In fact, Simone is one of those few with whom Georges, the central character, has no relationship in the film”, Jacqueline Bisset opined about the “leitmotiv” of this controversial film.
The beautiful face of Jaqueline Bisset
In 2010, thanks to her distinction, elegance, and beauty that were not consistent with her 65 years, Jaqueline Bisset became the face of the prestigious Avon cosmetics brand, to represent the launch of an exclusive anti-aging treatment for women over 60. years. “I don't hide my age, my skin does”, was the motto of this campaign.
The beautiful Jaqueline Bisset, who always refused to marry despite having high-profile romances with movie characters such as Canadian actor Michael Sarrazin (with whom she had her daughters Catherine and Michele), Victor Drav, Vicent Pérez, Marcelo Mastroianni or Terence Stamp, visited our country for the first time in 1981, when she arrived with her boyfriend at the time, the Russian actor and dancer Alexander Gudonov. On that occasion, she caused an impact not only because of her beauty but also because of her sympathy and humility. Today, at the age of 70, and almost five decades after her film debut, Jacqueline Bisset has aged gracefully, and, unlike many of her generational colleagues, she did not succumb to Botox injections or cosmetic surgery to look more beautiful. young. "Staying in shape is essential, like making love, working and reflecting", is the recipe for "the most attractive actress of all time" to still be valid.
