Jacqueline Bisset is a French actress who has worked on over sixty films. She was born on June 25, 1951, in Paris, France. Bisset was first discovered by director Louis Malle while she was still a student at the prestigious Lycée Français de New York (now Lycée Français de Los Angeles) and subsequently made her film debut in Malle's Pretty Baby (1978). She married businessman John Asher in 1976; the couple divorced five years later
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In 1983 Bisset starred with Richard Gere and Elliott Gould in Bob Fosse's drama All That Jazz and gained international attention for her performance as a grief-stricken single woman at loose ends in Martin Scorsese's New York City of the early 1970s, Tootsie (1982). Following her marriage to Australian actor Bruce Spence in 1986, she returned to acting with a role as a Frenchwoman visiting Los Angeles for a modeling job in Stanley Donen's comedy The Man with Two Brains (1983). In 1989 she appeared as the prostitute "Dora" opposite Richard Burton in Ed Wood, for which she received an Academy Award nomination.
She is currently married to television personality Richard Belzer.