Jane Seymour

At 73 years old, Jane Seymour has this physical status:

Jane Seymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Frankenberg; 15 February 1951), is a British-American actress best known for her appearances in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1980); She Embers (1988); and the American television series Dr. Antoinette (1989).

Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993-1998).

She has received an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a role on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2000.

Early life

Joyce Penelope Frankenberg was born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, to Mieke van Tricht (1914–1990), a distinguished gynaecologist and obstetrician, and Benjamin John Frankenberg FRCOG (1914-1929), a distinguished gynaecologist and obstetrician. Her father was Jewish; he was born in England to a family from Nowe Trzepowo, a village in Poland. Her mother was a Dutch Protestant (with family from Deventer) who was a prisoner of war during World War II and had lived in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Seymour has said she learned Dutch from her mother and her fellow Japanese internment campers, who spent holidays in the Netherlands when she was a child. She learned to speak fluent French from her parents (who brought her to Geneva to work with family friends to learn her languages).

After fleeing the Czarist pogroms when he was 14 years old, Seymour's paternal grandfather Lee Grahame had come to live in London's East End. He appeared in the 1911 census as a hairdresser living in Bethnal Green and went on to found his own business. Benjamin Seymour's father attended the University of California in 1938. After the outbreak of war, he joined the medical branch of the RAFVR, serving in England, Belgium, Italy, and South Africa, leaving his service as a squadron chief with no mention in despatches. Frankenberg continued his work in London hospitals, including St Leonard's Hospital, Hackney, the East End Maternity Hospital, the City of London Maternity Hospital, and finally Hillingdon Hospital, where he conceived the maternity unit. Patrick Steptoe's close associate helped pioneer discussions on in-vitro fertilization and published papers on adolescent and teenage sexual behaviours.

Seymour was educated at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire. Jane Seymour, after English queen Jane Seymour, was chosen because it seemed more attractive. Seymour's most noticeable features is heterochromia, which makes her right eye brown and her left eye green.

Personal life

Seymour has been married and divorced four times. Michael Attenborough, the son of film actor and producer Richard Attenborough, was born in 1971 to 1973. She then briefly married Geoffrey Planer, a friend of Attenborough, from 1977 to 1978.

Seymour married David Flynn in 1981. Katherine Flynn (born on 7 February 1982) and Sean Flynn (born on 31 July 1985) married. Flynn had her participation in the housing market, which had left her "completely beyond bankrupt." In 1992, the couple wed. Seymour married actor James Keach the following year. John Stacy and Kristopher Steven, both born in 1995 and named after family friends Johnny Cash and Christopher Reeve and James' brother, actor Stacy Keach, was the subject of the twins.

Seymour became a naturalized citizen of the United States in February 2005.

Seymour is a national charity dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect. As part of the Jane Seymour Collection in 2007, she sponsored a children's Art Pillow competition, with the proceeds going to Childhelp.

Seymour's divorcing Keach was confirmed on September 12, 2013. In December 2015, the divorce was finalized.

In February 2018, she posed for Playboy for the third time, becoming the first woman to be photographed for the magazine at the age of 67. Seymour said in the Playboy interview that she briefly stopped acting after being sexually assaulted by an unidentified film maker in the early 1970s.

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Acting career

Seymour appeared uncredited in her debut film, Oh! By Richard Attenborough, 1969. What a Lovely War. Seymour appeared in her first major film role in The Only Way in 1970. Lillian Stein, a Jewish woman looking for refuge from Nazi persecution, was portrayed in this film. Emma Callon appeared on television in 1973 as Emma Callon in the hit 1970s series The Onedin Line. She appeared as female lead Prima in the two-part television miniseries Frankenstein: The True Story at this time. In Young Winston, she appeared as Winston Churchill's wife Pamela Plowden, who was born by her father-in-law Richard Attenborough.

Seymour's role as Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die was released in 1973. IGN ranked her as 10th in a Top ten Bond Babes list. Seymour was portrayed as Princess Farah in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, the third part of Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad trilogy in 1975. The film was not released until its stop motion animation sequences were complete in 1977. Serina appeared in the Battlestar Galactica film and in the first five episodes of the television series in 1978. In the comedy Oh Heavenly Dog opposite Chevy Chase, Seymour returned to the big screen.

Seymour appeared on stage of Constanze by Peter Shaffer in 1980, opposite Ian McKellen as Salieri and Tim Curry as Mozart. The play premiered on Broadway in 1980 and was nominated for seven Tony Awards out of 1,181 performances, of which it received five.

Seymour played Elise McKenna in the 1980s period drama Somewhere in Time. Despite the fact that the film was made with a decidedly poor budget, Seymour was attracted by a woman she disliked, who was unaware of it. The effort was a deliberate departure from her earlier work and marked the start of her co-star Christopher Reeve's co-starship.

She appeared in the television film East of Eden, based on John Steinbeck's novel. Cathy Ames, the main antagonist of her story, was given a Golden Globe. In 1982, she appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews and her Amadeus costar Ian McKellen. Seymour appeared nude in the film Lassiter, co-starring Tom Selleck, but the film was a box office flop in 1984. Seymour's 1987 photoshoot in Playboy magazine, although she did not appear nude.

Seymour took the female lead in the twelve-part television miniseries War and Remembrance, the continuation of the miniseries The Winds of War's. Natalie Henry played Natalie Henry, an American Jewish woman who was trapped in Europe during World War II. That same year, she received an Emmy Award for her role in Onassis: The Richest Man in the World.

Seymour appeared in television film La révolution française in 1989, both French and English, on the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. Seymour appeared as the doomed French queen, Marie Antoinette; Seymour's two children, Katherine and Sean, appeared as the queen's children;

Seymour received acclaim and skepticism for her role as Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn in the television series Doctor Quinn's Medicine Woman and its television sequels (1993–2001). Her Golden Globe Award was given to her second for her role on the series. She met her fourth husband, actor James Keach, while on the show Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

Seymour began to work mainly in television in the 2000s. Genevieve Teague, Jason Teague's wealthy, scheming mother, appeared in six appearances in The WB's Smallville in 2004, 2005 (Jensen Ackles). Seymour performed Kathleen Cleary, the wife of fictional Treasury Secretary William Cleary played by Christopher Walken, in 2005. She appeared in the short lived The WB's Modern Men in spring 2006. Seymour appeared on a CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother and as a wealthy client in the Fox legal drama Justice later this year. In 2007, she appeared in In Case of Emergency, an ABC sitcom. Marple: Ordeal By Innocence, an ITV series based on the Agatha Christie novel, was also based on Agatha Christie's book. On season five of the US reality show Dancing with the Stars, she and her partner Tony Dovolani finished in sixth position; she was a contestant. Seymour's guest appeared in a soap opera-themed storyline for ABC's crime drama "One Life to Lose" in "One Life to Lose" Seymour's soap opera-themed taleline.

Seymour appeared in the Hallmark Channel film Dear Prudence (2008); the romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011); and the Hallmark Movie Channel film Lake Effects (2012).

She appeared in No.l Coward's play The Vortex, which was presented in Singapore by the British Theatre Playhouse in April 2016. Seymour became Ireland's top character and executive producer in the Irish television series Harry Wild in 2022.

Writing and fashion careers

Seymour began writing Self-Help and Inspiration books in the 1980s, including Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living (1986). Two at a Time: Having Twins (2002), Remarkable Changes (2003) and Among Angels (2010). She co-wrote several children's books with her then-husband James Keach for the This One'N That One series.

Seymour appeared at Fashion Aid, a one-time fashion show fundraiser held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, in 1985. Bob Geldof's main event, which was arranged to raise funds for the soaring Ethiopian famine, took place during the show's conclusion. Seymour wore a white lace wedding dress made by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, who had earlier designed Princess Diana's wedding dress.

Selina Scott was the new star of fashion label CC (formerly known as Country Casuals) under the Austin Reed banner of retailers in 2008.

Seymour's brother designed the "Open Heart Collection" for Kay Jewelers in 2008, which included the following: "Keep your heart open and love will always find its way into." She saw to it that she'd always be sporting one of the collection's necklaces whenever seen in public, when she wasn't in character for any of her acting roles as early as 1990. Seymour wrote and published Open Hearts: If Your Heart Is Open, Love Will Always Find Its Way In and Open Hearts Family.

World of Diamonds Group, which had mined it in Russia, cut and set it a 2.08-carat cushion-cut fancy vivid blue diamond in an 18-karat rose-gold-plated platinum setting, named "The Jane Seymour" in her honour. The ring was presented to Seymour in Singapore in April 2016, when she was in Singapore to appear in The Vortex.

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Awards

• 1981 Saturn Award for Somewhere in Time (1980)
• 1982 Golden Globe for East of Eden (1981)
• 1988 Emmy Award for Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988)
• 1996 Golden Globe Award for Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman (1993)
• 2000 OBE Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) - 2000 New Years Honours List. "For services to acting and entertainment".
• 2010 Ellis Island Medal of Honor