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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.
Jacqueline Bisset
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Jacqueline Bisset
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: September 13
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Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset
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