Jane Seymour

Jane Seymour OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951) is a British-American actress best known for her performances in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973), Somewhere In Time (1980), East of Eden (1981), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988), War and Remembrance (1988), the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française as the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette, Wedding Crashers (2005), and the American television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1998). She has earned an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2000.

Personal life Seymour has been married and divorced four times. Her first marriage, to Michael Attenborough, the son of film actor and director Richard Attenborough, was from 1971 to 1973 to be followed by marriage to Attenborough's friend Geoffrey Planer from 1977 to 1978.

In 1981, Seymour married David Flynn. This marriage produced two children: actress Katherine Flynn, born on 7 February 1982; and Sean Flynn, born 31 July 1985. Flynn had involved her in the housing market, an involvement which left her "completely beyond bankrupt". They divorced in 1992. The following year, Seymour married actor James Keach. Together they had twins, John Stacy and Kristopher Steven, born 30 November 1995, and named after family friends Johnny Cash and Christopher Reeve, and James's brother, actor Stacy Keach.

In February 2005, Seymour became a naturalised citizen of the United States.

Seymour is a celebrity ambassador for Childhelp, a national non-profit organisation dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect. In 2007, she sponsored a children's Art Pillow contest as part of the Jane Seymour Collection, with the proceeds going to Childhelp.

On 12 April 2013, it was announced that Seymour was divorcing Keach. The divorce was finalized in December 2015.

In February 2018, she posed for Playboy for a third time, becoming at the age of 67 the oldest woman to be photographed for the magazine. In the Playboy interview, Seymour revealed that she briefly quit acting after being sexually harassed by an unnamed film producer in the early 1970s.

Jane Seymour Actress - Born February 15, 1951 in Hayes, Hayes and Harlington, Middlesex, England, UK

Birth Name Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg

Nickname The Queen of the Miniseries

Height 5' 5½" (1.66 m)

Mini Bio (1) Jane Seymour was born as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg in 1951 in Middlesex, England, to a nurse mother and gynaecologist/obstetrician father. She is of Polish Jewish (father) and Dutch (mother) descent. She adopted the acting name of "Jane Seymour" when she entered show business as it was easier for people to remember (and the name of one of King Henry VIII's wives). She attracted the attention of the James Bond film producers when they saw her on British television. She was cast as the main Bond girl, "Solitaire", in Live and Let Die (1973). The role gained her international recognition but she was in danger of losing it all like the previous Bond girls, so she came to the U.S.

A casting director advised her to lose her English accent and acquire an American accent to land roles on American television. She did and started getting roles, earning five Emmy nominations, resulting in one win for Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988) for playing Maria Callas. She won Golden Globe awards for both East of Eden (1981) and the American television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), where she played the title role for 5 years. She occasionally appeared in feature films, memorably in Somewhere in Time (1980) and in Wedding Crashers (2005).

Married and divorced four times, she gave birth to four children and is a stepmother to two. They have children of their own, making her a grandmother. As of 2018, she has been acting in television movies and making guest-appearances.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges/Robert Sieger

James Keach (15 May 1993 - 16 December 2015) divorced 2 children

David Flynn (18 July 1981 - 1 May 1992) divorced 2 children

Victor Geoffrey Planer (20 August 1977 - 1978) divorced

Michael Attenborough (10 July 1971 - 1973) divorced

Heterochromia (different colored-eyes: one green and one brown)

Long brown flowing hair

Crooked smile

She appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song "Voices That Care".

Official celebrity spokesperson for UNICEF.

International Ambassador for Childhelp USA.

Honorary Chairperson for City Hearts.

She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of British Empire) in the 1999 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to drama.

Her daughter, Katherine Flynn, was Miss Golden Globe 2001. Her twin sons were named Johnny and Kristopher after family friends Johnny Cash (who is Johnny's godfather) and Christopher Reeve (who is Kris's godfather). Ex-stepmother of Kalen Keach and Jennifer Flynn.

Seymour (and then-husband James Keach) owned a 14th-century manor house outside Bath, England called St. Catherine's Court. Cunard Lines offers a four-night stay at St. Catherine's as an add-on to their QE2 cruises. The house was used for recording the album "OK Computer" by the rock band Radiohead. In December 2007, the property was sold. In October 2013, she filed for legal separation from Keach and the divorce was finalized two years later, in December 2015.

The eldest daughter of Mieke Gysbertha Johanna Adriana (Van Tricht; 1914-2007) and John Benjamin Frankenberg (1914-1990), Seymour has two younger sisters, named Sally and Anne Gould. She is the daughter of a Polish Jewish obstetrician (the first member in his family to be born in England) and his Dutch Protestant wife. Mieke Van Tricht was interned in a Japanese concentration camp during World War II for three and a half years. Mieke Frankenberg died on October 2, 2007 in England due to complications from a stroke at age 92. Seymour speaks Dutch well, which she demonstrated in an interview with Dutch television.

Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 20, 1999.

Was one of two actresses to audition for the role of Meggie Cleary in the epic miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983). The other actress was Rachel Ward, who ended up winning the role because producers thought Jane was not "vulnerable" enough.

Her house was used for recording the album "Wild Mood Swings" by the rock band The Cure.

Became a United States citizen on February 11, 2005; wore a cream-colored suit to ceremony at the downtown Los Angeles Convention Center. She sat between more than a dozen United States military personnel who also received their citizenship.

She and James Keach's longtime friendship with June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash led to the Cashes guest-starring on Seymour's television program Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) and to Keach producing the Cash biopic Walk the Line (2005).

She turned down the role of Natalie Jastrow Henry in War and Remembrance (1988) three times before finally accepting the role.

Had recently married her first husband, Michael Attenborough when she filmed Live and Let Die (1973). While filming it, she visited a psychic who predicted that she would be married three more times. Though the thought was a shock to her at the time, it proved to be eerily accurate.

An accomplished portrait artist, one of Seymour's paintings was auctioned off at a high school benefit in Illinois.

Along with her then-husband James Keach, Seymour hosted a private wake for David Carradine at their home, which was attended by Steve Railsback, Sally Kirkland, James Cromwell, Vicki Roberts, Rob Schneider, Daryl Hannah and other luminaries.

Seymour and her twin sons, John and Christopher, were featured as the Gerber babies in a series of baby food television commercials from 1996-97.

Spent a substantial part of her youth in the Dutch town of Vught, where her grandmother resided. In those years (1955-1965), she learned to speak Dutch fluently.

Seymour loaned her name to a line of home furnishings from the AICO Furniture Group called "Hollywood Swank". The line features bedroom and dining room groups made of white leather, gray "alligator print", mirrored and jewel-lined furniture.

Seymour selected her own stage name -- for the third wife of Henry the VIII, the only one of his six wives able to give Henry the male heir he sought; she died in childbirth.

Has four children: daughter Katherine Flynn (Katherine Jane Flynn; b. January 7, 1982) and son Sean Flynn (Sean Michael Flynn; b. July 31, 1986) with ex-husband David Flynn; twin sons, John Keach (John Stacy Keach) and Kris Keach (Kristopher Steven Keach; b. November 30, 1995) with ex-husband James Keach.

Competed on ABC's Dancing with the Stars (2005), coming in at sixth place. [October 2007]

Came out with her "Open Hearts" jewelry collection. [December 2008]

Starred opposite Hart Bochner in three miniseries: as his mother in East of Eden (1981), his would-be paramour in The Sun Also Rises (1984), and as his wife in War and Remembrance (1988).

She appeared in two films directed by her former father-in-law Richard Attenborough: Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) and Young Winston (1972).

Acting mentor and friends of: Chad Allen and Shawn Toovey.

She never succumbed to the "Curse of the Bond Girl" (e.g. when an unknown girl acts in a James Bond film, she gets a great buildup but then quickly disappears from acting and becomes a forgotten actress, such as Daniela Bianchi, Mie Hama, etc). She was an unknown twenty-year-old actress when she got her big break in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973) but escaped the curse by following the advice of casting director Renée Valente who told her to lose her English accent and acquire an American accent. Once she did that, she was able to work consistently on American television and winning the prestigious Emmy Award in 1988. She continues to act well into her sixties. She said that people still approach her every day and ask her about her performance in the James Bond film, even though it was more than 40 years ago.

Inducted into the Hair Fan's Hall of Fame in 2005.

An autographed portrait of her from Somewhere in Time (1980) hangs in a restaurant/bar called Valley Inn located at 4557 Sherman Oaks Avenue in Sherman Oaks, California.

Worked with actor and friend Joe Lando on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie (1999), Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within (2001), Perfectly Prudence (2011), and Dr. Quinn, Morphine Woman with Jane Seymour (2014).

Has one green eye and one brown eye; a condition known as heterochromia.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

[on her looks] I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

After I had my first child, I stopped breastfeeding early because I had been told that there was a possibility that I might star in The Thorn Birds (1983), which I wanted more than life itself. I went to do the screen test and everything went great until we [Richard Chamberlain and I] did the love scene. I had stopped feeding for three weeks and unexpectedly my milk came in! I lifted myself up in my pink 1930s negligee, and it's a wet T-shirt contest! I looked up and it was just terrible. There was a big puddle of white milk all over his bare chest. I mean a puddle. This was a serious incident. His reaction was not good. You just say, "What can you do?".

Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes, I take melatonin, but at other times, a glass of wine will do it.

[In 2015, on her long successful career following her big break in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973)] It wasn't really hard to get roles directly after that. I met Renée Valente, who was a casting director at the time. And she said, "If you can lose your English accent, you would do very well in America." I came to America with no work permit, no agent, nowhere really to live, and within six weeks I got my first role. I became labeled as the "queen of the mini-series" because I did one mini-series after another. Basically, I worked consistently and usually with a different American accent every time.