Editing Jacqueline Bisset (section)

==Early life==
Bisset was born Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset<ref>''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005''; at ancestry.com</ref> in [[Weybridge]], [[Surrey]], England, the daughter of George Maxwell Fraser Bisset (1911–1982), a [[general practitioner]], and Arlette Alexander (1914–1999), a lawyer-turned-housewife.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/808627005|last=Crewe|first=Quentin|date=17 January 1965|title=I Have Hopes|work=Sunday Mirror}}</ref> Her mother was of French and English descent and her father was of Scottish descent;<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LB&p_theme=lb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAE916B1F906876&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=NewsLibrary Search Results|url-status=dead|access-date=15 June 2008|archive-date=27 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127090450/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LB&p_theme=lb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAE916B1F906876&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF6698042776E29&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=NewsLibrary Search Results|url-status=dead|access-date=15 June 2008|archive-date=27 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127075843/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF6698042776E29&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM}}</ref> Bisset's mother cycled from Paris and boarded a British [[troopship]] to escape the Germans during the 1940 [[Battle of France]].<ref name="YahooMovies">{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800021522/bio|title=Jacqueline Bisset Biography|work=movies.yahoo.com|publisher=Yahoo! Movies|access-date=10 October 2010|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104080923/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800021522/bio}}</ref>

Bisset grew up in a 17th-century country cottage in [[Tilehurst]], near [[Reading, Berkshire]].{{citation needed|date=August 2024}} She has an older brother, Max (b. 1942), a Florida-based business consultant;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/608791199|last=Kleiner|first=Dick|date=15 November 1967|title=Beautiful Miss Bisset Makes Everyone Take Notice|work=Guam Daily News}}</ref> they have a paternal half-brother named Nick (b. circa 1981), who was an infant when their father died aged 70.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/790676901|date=10 February 1990|title=Secret Fear: Jackie's Terror of Becoming Ill|work=Derby Evening Telegraph}}</ref> Her mother taught her to speak French fluently, and she was educated at the {{lang|fr|[[Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle#Early years|Lycée Français de Londres]]}} in London. She took ballet lessons as a child and began taking acting lessons while working as a fashion model to pay for them. When Bisset was a teenager, her mother was diagnosed with [[multiple sclerosis]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1101127103008678698 |title=Charlie Rose: January 28, 1997 |date=28 January 1997 |access-date=10 October 2010 |archive-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629110000/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1101127103008678698 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Bisset's parents divorced in 1968 after 28 years of marriage.<ref name="YahooMovies" />