Jacqueline Bisset (born Winifred Jacqueline Fraser-Bisset on September 13, 1944) is a British actress, born in Weybridge, Surrey, England to Max Fraser Bisset, a Briton of Scottish descent and a General Practitioner from Reading, Berkshire and Arlette Alexander, a French attorney. Her mother taught her to speak French fluently, which has led many to believe erroneously that she was born in France. When Bisset was a teenager, her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis. After her parents divorced, she moved in to help her mother. She had taken ballet lessons as a young child, and now began taking acting lessons, and fashion modelling to pay for them.