How Foreign-Born Actress Jacqueline Bisset Made it in Hollywood

As a teenager, Bisset faced a serious change at home when her mother developed multiple sclerosis. The illness affected the family deeply, and it gave her early life a weight that was very different from the glamorous image later attached to her career.

To support herself and start building a future, she worked as a model and took acting classes. Those first steps were practical as much as artistic, but they slowly moved her toward the screen, where opportunity was about to arrive.