The actress Jacqueline Bisset has worked with an impressive list of film directors, including François Truffaut and Roman Polanski, and her co-stars have included Paul Newman, Anthony Quinn, Steve McQueen and Frank Sinatra. Yet she always had more press attention for her exposure in bikinis and wet T-shirts than for her performances. Her latest film, Domino, a violent action movie directed by Tony Scott, is due for release next month. It is based on “a sort of true story” about the bounty hunter Domino Harvey, the daughter of the actor Laurence Harvey and the Vogue model Paulene Stone (played by Bisset). The film’s ending had to be changed when in June the character it is based on was found dead. About birthdays, Bisset says: “Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.” Jacqueline Bisset is 61 today.
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