Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset, born 13 September 1944, is an English actress. In 2010, she received France's highest honour, the Légion d'honneur.
Bisset began her film career in 1965 and gained prominence in 1968 with roles in The Detective, Bullitt, and The Sweet Ride, earning a Golden Globe nomination as a promising newcomer. In the 1970s, she starred in Airport (1970), Day for Night (1973), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Deep (1977), and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978), receiving a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy. Her other credits include Rich and Famous (1981), Class (1983), Under the Volcano (1984), La Cérémonie (1995), Joan of Arc (1999), and the BBC miniseries Dancing on the Edge (2013), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in television.
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