Jane Seymour - Fact Sheet

Profession: Actress

A British born beauty, Jane Seymour is the Emmy nominated actress you've enjoyed watching on shows such as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg on February 15, 1951 in Wimbledon, England, at age 17, she decided to change her name to Jane Seymour because "it scanned nicely and rolled trippingly from the tongue." Frankenberg, on the other hand sounded too close to Frankenstein. From her early childhood in Wimbledon, England, Seymour (daughter of a British obstetrician and his Dutch wife) dreamed of becoming not an actress, but a ballerina. She began training in dance at an early age, and was just thirteen when she made her professional debut with the London Festival Ballet. That same year, she entered the Arts Educational Trust for dance, music and theater training. After attending a prestigious ballet school, she was lucky enough to dance with Russia's renowned Kirov Ballet at just 17 years old. Unfortunately, an injury sustained during her first performance with the Kirov put an end to Seymour's dancing career. Her film debut was as a chorus girl in Richard Attenborough's "Oh, What A Lovely War," which resulted in her being discovered by the top agent in the United Kingdom. She played roles in a range of classical plays and performed in radio dramas, such as the BBC's six-hour version of "Far From the Maddening Crowd." But it was as Winston Churchill's first love, Pamela Powden, in the Carl Foreman motion picture, "Young Winston," that Jane attracted the attention of top producers. Her first (and only other) television series was the BBC-TV project, "The Onedin Line," and this led to her casting in the starring role of Solitaire in one of the most popular James Bond films, "Live and Let Die." 

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Jane Seymour Photo Galleries	# of Pictures
Candid	20
Glamour	3
Glamour	12
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	8
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	25
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	25
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	25
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	7
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	25
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	8
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	8