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I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

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Jacqueline Bisset
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: September 13
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Model
Television Actor
Weybridge
Surrey
Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset
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London
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Cosmopolitan

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