How Foreign-Born Actress Jacqueline Bisset Made it in Hollywood

In 1998, she appeared in Dangerous Beauty, a historical drama set in 16th-century Venice. The film added another period piece to her later-career filmography and showed how well her screen presence fit stories built around class, power, sexuality, and social expectation.

By this stage, Bisset was no longer chasing the same kind of Hollywood stardom she had known in the 1970s. Instead, she was becoming a dependable presence in textured supporting roles, and television was about to give her another major sign of recognition.