Jacqueline Bisset

Bisset, who is known as a good autograph signer who even personalises her signature if fans ask her to, has never been married, but she has had a number of well publicized relationships with men. Carroll also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom A Different World as Whitley Gilbert's (Jasmine Guy) mother. The movie, a biographical story about Robert Kennedy, will be released shortly. She has also starred in the series Dynasty and The Colbys. A role she has become familiar with, first in TV and most recently in cinema movies, is the character of Jacqueline Kennedy. In 1974 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Claudine. Besides in movies, Bisset has played in many TV films, especially during the last 10 years, some of these films having been quite successful. Opera singer Loulie Jean Norman provided Carroll's singing voice.

Several of her movies are French or Italian productions. and Pearl Bailey. During her career, Bisset has been in movies directed by such stars as François Truffaut, John Huston, George Cukor and Roman Polanski, among others. In 1959, she played Clara in the film version of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess along with such distinguished actors as Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr. In 1996, she was nominated for a Cesar Award, France's version of the Oscars, for her role in La Ceremonie. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role. In 1978 she had already earned her first nomination for Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?. Her first film role was in Carmen Jones in 1954, but her big break came when she became the first African American actress to star in her own television series in which she did not play a domestic worker, when Julia debuted in 1968.

Soon thereafter she played in the movies Rich and Famous with Candice Bergen, and Under The Volcano with Albert Finney, which was made in 1984 and gave her a Golden Globe award nomination. Born Carol Diahann Johnson in The Bronx, New York, she attended the New York City High School of the Performing Arts, along with schoolmate Billy Dee Williams. At the time, Newsweek magazine declared her to be "the most beautiful film actress of all time". Diahann Carroll (born July 15, 1935) is an American actress and singer. In 1977, Bisset made great strides towards becoming a better known entertainer in North America with her movie The Deep, co-starring Robert Shaw, where her appearance swimming underwater wearing only a t-shirt made many to credit her with beginning a world wide revolution that led to a "wet T-shirt contest craze". No Strings (1962) in the part of Barbara Woodruff. In 1973, she participated in Francois Truffaut's movie Day for Night, where she earned the respect of European critics and movie goers as a serious actress. House of Flowers (1954) in the part of Ottilie.

Then, she was cast opposite Steve McQueen in Bullit. In 1968, Mia Farrow, who was having personal problems, dropped out of a movie named The Detective, and her job was given to Bisset instead. Next, she participated in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale, playing the character of "Miss Goodthighs". After playing in a few small roles, in 1967 Bisset was cast for the movie Two for the Road, which became a critically acclaimed effort for her.

She had taken ballet lessons as a young child, and now began taking acting lessons, and fashion modelling to pay for those lessons. After her parents divorced, she moved in to help her mother. When Bisset was a teenager, her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis. Her French mother taught her fluent French which prompted many to erroneously believe she was born in France.

Jacqueline Bisset (born September 13, 1944) is a British actress, born in Surrey, England. Cul-de-sac (1966). Drop Dead Darling (1966). Two for the Road (1967).

Casino Royale (1967). The Cape Town Affair (1967). The Detective (1968). The Sweet Ride (1968).

Bullitt (1968). The First Time (1969). Secret World (1969). Airport (1970).

The Grasshopper (1970). Secrets (1971). The Mephisto Waltz (1971). Believe in Me (1971).

Stand Up and Be Counted (1972). The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972). The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973). La Nuit américaine (1973).

The Magnificent One (1973). Murder on the Orient Express (1974). The Spiral Staircase (1975). End of the Game (1975).

Ives (1976). St. The Sunday Woman (1976). The Deep (1977).