Jane Seymour (actress) - Definition and Overview

Seymour as Dr. Quinn

Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg (born February 15, 1951) is a British actress who took the stage name of Jane Seymour at age 17. A Bond girl in Live and Let Die (1973), she is probably best known today as the star of television's Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, of which she was also executive producer. She has had a long career in both film and television going back to 1969. Her first major role was as Emma Callon in The Onedin Line.

Seymour was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth on New Year's Eve, 1999.

She is mother to twin sons by actor James Keach (her fourth and present husband). The twins were named "Johnny" and "Kris" after family friends Johnny Cash and Christopher Reeve (with whom she starred with in Somewhere in Time). She is also mother to a son and daughter by David Flynn (her third husband).

Trivia

• Her eyes are different colors. Her right eye is green and her left eye is brown. (see heterochromia iridis).
• Due to her mother's nationality, she is fluent in Dutch and well as English.
• The Cure and Radiohead have both recorded in her house in England.

Notable films

• Head Office (1985)
• Somewhere in Time (1980)
• Battlestar Galactica (1978)
• Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
• Live and Let Die (1973)

See also

• Bond girl

External links

• Official website (http://www.janeseymour.com/)
• Official fan website (FriendsOfJane.com) (http://www.friendsofjane.com/)
• Jane Seymour (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005412/) at the Internet Movie Database