Debbie Allen

Allen is also the sister of actress Phylicia Rashad, aka Phylicia Ayers-Allen. Bisset, who is known as a good autograph signer who even personalises her signature if fans ask her to, has never been married, but she has had a number of well publicized relationships with men. She then spun-off the successful Fame franchise into a reality show in 2003, which failed. The movie, a biographical story about Robert Kennedy, will be released shortly. Debbie Allen (born Deborrah Kaye Allen on January 16, 1950 in Houston, Texas) choreographed the movie and television show, Fame in the early 1980s, and also taught former L.A. Laker dancer-turned singer, Paula Abdul, how to choreograph. A role she has become familiar with, first in TV and most recently in cinema movies, is the character of Jacqueline Kennedy. Besides in movies, Bisset has played in many TV films, especially during the last 10 years, some of these films having been quite successful.

Several of her movies are French or Italian productions. During her career, Bisset has been in movies directed by such stars as François Truffaut, John Huston, George Cukor and Roman Polanski, among others. In 1996, she was nominated for a Cesar Award, France's version of the Oscars, for her role in La Ceremonie. In 1978 she had already earned her first nomination for Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?.

Soon thereafter she played in the movies Rich and Famous with Candice Bergen, and Under The Volcano with Albert Finney, which was made in 1984 and gave her a Golden Globe award nomination. At the time, Newsweek magazine declared her to be "the most beautiful film actress of all time". In 1977, Bisset made great strides towards becoming a better known entertainer in North America with her movie The Deep, co-starring Robert Shaw, where her appearance swimming underwater wearing only a t-shirt made many to credit her with beginning a world wide revolution that led to a "wet T-shirt contest craze". In 1973, she participated in Francois Truffaut's movie Day for Night, where she earned the respect of European critics and movie goers as a serious actress.

Then, she was cast opposite Steve McQueen in Bullit. In 1968, Mia Farrow, who was having personal problems, dropped out of a movie named The Detective, and her job was given to Bisset instead. Next, she participated in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale, playing the character of "Miss Goodthighs". After playing in a few small roles, in 1967 Bisset was cast for the movie Two for the Road, which became a critically acclaimed effort for her.

She had taken ballet lessons as a young child, and now began taking acting lessons, and fashion modelling to pay for those lessons. After her parents divorced, she moved in to help her mother. When Bisset was a teenager, her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis. Her French mother taught her fluent French which prompted many to erroneously believe she was born in France.

Jacqueline Bisset (born September 13, 1944) is a British actress, born in Surrey, England. Cul-de-sac (1966). Drop Dead Darling (1966). Two for the Road (1967).

Casino Royale (1967). The Cape Town Affair (1967). The Detective (1968). The Sweet Ride (1968).

Bullitt (1968). The First Time (1969). Secret World (1969). Airport (1970).

The Grasshopper (1970). Secrets (1971). The Mephisto Waltz (1971). Believe in Me (1971).

Stand Up and Be Counted (1972). The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972). The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973). La Nuit américaine (1973).

The Magnificent One (1973). Murder on the Orient Express (1974). The Spiral Staircase (1975). End of the Game (1975).

Ives (1976). St. The Sunday Woman (1976). The Deep (1977).