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Jane Seymour ( actress ) Jane Seymour OBE ( born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg ; 15 February 1951 ) is a British-American actress . She is best known for her performances in Live and Let Die ( 1973 ) , Somewhere in Time ( 1980 ) , East of Eden ( 1981 ) , The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1982 film ) , ( 1988 ) , War and Remembrance ( 1988 ) , La Révolution française ( 1989 ) , Rendezvous Eltham ( Series of films ) ( 1989 ) Wedding Crashers ( 2005 ) and the 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 . In 2000 , she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire . Early life . Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg was born on 15 February 1951 in Uxbridge , Middlesex ( now part of Greater London ) , England , to Mieke ( van Tricht ; 1914–2007 ) , a nurse and Benjamin John Frankenberg FRCOG ( 19141990 ) , 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 stated she learned Dutch from her mother and her fellow survivors from the Japanese concentration camp , who frequently spent holidays together in the Netherlands when she was a child . Encouraged by her parents ( who sent her to live with family friends in Geneva to practise her languages ) , she also learned to speak fluent French . Seymours paternal grandfather Lee Grahame had come to live in the East End of London after escaping the Czarist pogroms when he was 14 . He is listed in the 1911 census as living in Bethnal Green working as a hairdresser and eventually went on to establish his own company . Seymours father Benjamin qualified at the UCL Medical School in 1938 , and joined the medical branch of the RAFVR after the outbreak of war , serving in England , Belgium , Italy and South Africa . Ending his service as a squadron leader with a mention in despatches . After the war , Frankenberg continued his career at various London hospitals , including St Leonards Hospital , Hackney , the East End Maternity Hospital , the City of London Maternity Hospital and finally Hillingdon Hospital , for which he designed the maternity unit . A close associate of Patrick Steptoe , he assisted in pioneering discussions on in-vitro fertilisation and also published papers on adolescent and teenage sexual behaviours . Seymour was educated at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire . She chose the screen name Jane Seymour , after the English queen Jane Seymour , because it seemed more saleable . One of Seymours notable features is heterochromia , making her right eye brown and her left eye green . Acting career . In 1969 , Seymour appeared uncredited in her first film , Richard Attenboroughs Oh ! What a Lovely War . In 1970 , Seymour appeared in her first major film role in the war drama The Only Way . She played Lillian Stein , a Jewish woman seeking shelter from Nazi persecution . In 1973 , she gained her first major television role as Emma Callon in the successful 1970s series The Onedin Line . During this time , she appeared as female lead Prima in the two part television miniseries Frankenstein : The True Story . She also appeared as Winston Churchills girlfriend Pamela Plowden in Young Winston , produced by her father-in-law Richard Attenborough . In 1973 , Seymour achieved international fame in her role as Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die . IGN ranked her as 10th in a Top 10 Bond Babes list . In 1975 , Seymour was cast as Princess Farah in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger , the third part of Ray Harryhausens Sinbad trilogy . The film was not released until its stop motion animation sequences had been completed in 1977 . In 1978 , she appeared as Serina in the Battlestar Galactica film and in the first five episodes of the television series . Seymour returned to the big screen in the comedy Oh Heavenly Dog opposite Chevy Chase . In 1980 , Seymour played the role on stage of Constanze in Peter Shaffers play Amadeus , opposite Ian McKellen as Salieri and Tim Curry as Mozart . The play premiered on Broadway in 1980 , ran for 1,181 performances and was nominated for seven Tony Awards , of which it won five . Also in 1980 , Seymour was given the role of young theatre actress Elise McKenna in the period romance Somewhere in Time . Though the film was made with a markedly limited budget , the role enticed Seymour with a character she felt she knew . The effort was a decided break from her earlier work , and marked the start of her friendship with co-star Christopher Reeve . In 1981 , she appeared in the television film East of Eden , based on the novel by John Steinbeck . Her portrayal of main antagonist Cathy Ames won her a Golden Globe . In 1982 , she appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews and her Amadeus costar Ian McKellen . In 1984 , Seymour appeared nude in the film Lassiter , co-starring Tom Selleck , but the film was a box office flop . In 1987 , Seymour was the subject of a pictorial in Playboy magazine , although she did not pose nude . In 1988 , Seymour got the female lead in the twelve part television miniseries War and Remembrance , the continued story from the miniseries The Winds of War . She played Natalie Henry , an American Jewish woman trapped in Europe during World War II . That same year , she won an Emmy Award for playing Maria Callas in the television movie . In 1989 , on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution , Seymour appeared in the television film La révolution française , filmed in both French and English . Seymour appeared as the doomed French queen , Marie Antoinette ; the actresss two children , Katherine and Sean , appeared as the queens children . In the 1990s , Seymour earned popular and critical praise for her role as Dr . Michaela Mike Quinn in the television series Dr . Quinn , Medicine Woman and its television sequels ( 1993–2001 ) . Her work on the series earned her a second Golden Globe Award . While working on the series Dr . Quinn , Medicine Woman , she met her fourth husband , actor director James Keach . In the 2000s , Seymour continued to work primarily in television . In 2004 and 2005 , she made six guest appearances in the The WB series , Smallville , playing Genevieve Teague , the wealthy , scheming mother of Jason Teague ( Jensen Ackles ) . In 2005 , Seymour returned to the big screen in the comedy Wedding Crashers , playing Kathleen Cleary , wife of fictional United States Secretary of the Treasury William Cleary , played by Christopher Walken . In spring 2006 , she appeared in the short lived The WB series Modern Men . Later that year , Seymour guest-starred as a law-school-professor on an episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother and as a wealthy client on the Fox legal drama , Justice . In 2007 , she guest-starred in the ABC sitcom , In Case of Emergency , which starred Lori Loughlin and Jonathan Silverman . She also appeared in ITVs Marple : Ordeal By Innocence , based on the Agatha Christie novel . She was a contestant on season five of the US reality show , Dancing with the Stars ; she finished in sixth place , along with her partner , Tony Dovolani . In One Life to Lose Seymour guest starred in a soap opera-themed storyline of the ABC crime-dramedy Castle . Seymour appeared in the Hallmark Channel film Dear Prudence ( 2008 ) with Jamey Sheridan and Ryan Cartwright ; the romantic comedy Love , Wedding , Marriage ( 2011 ) with Mandy Moore ; and the Hallmark Movie Channel film Lake Effects ( 2012 ) with Scottie Thompson and Madeline Zima . In April 2016 , she starred as Florence Lancaster in Noël Cowards play The Vortex , presented in Singapore by the British Theatre Playhouse . 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 Attenboroughs 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 Jamess 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 nonprofit organisation dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect . In 2007 , she sponsored a childrens 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 . Writing and fashion careers . In the 1980s , Seymour began a parallel career as a writer of self-help and inspirational books , including Jane Seymours Guide to Romantic Living ( 1986 ) , Two at a Time : Having Twins ( 2002 ) , Remarkable Changes ( 2003 ) and Among Angels ( 2010 ) . She also co-wrote several childrens books , with her then husband James Keach , for the This One N That One series . In 1985 , Seymour appeared at Fashion Aid , a one time fashion show fundraiser held at the Royal Albert Hall in London . An event organised by Bob Geldof to raise funds for the ongoing Ethiopian famine , the finale of the show saw her partake in a fake marriage with Freddie Mercury . Seymour wore a white lace wedding dress that was designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel – who had previously created Princess Dianas wedding gown . In 2008 , Seymour replaced Selina Scott as the new face of fashion label CC ( formerly known as Country Casuals ) under the Austin Reed banner of retailers . Likewise in 2008 , Seymour teamed up with and designed the Open Heart Collection for Kay Jewelers , which promoted it with the advice , Keep your heart open and love will always find its way in . Beginning that year , she saw to it that she would always be wearing one of the collections necklaces whenever seen in public while not in character for any of her acting performances . In the same year , Seymour also wrote and published the books Open Hearts : If Your Heart Is Open , love Will Always Find Its Way In and Open Hearts Family . A 2.08-carat cushion-cut fancy vivid blue diamond in an 18-karat rose-gold-plated platinum setting was named The Jane Seymour in her honour by World of Diamonds Group , which had mined it in Russia , cut and set it . The ring was presented to Seymour in April 2016 in Singapore while she was there to star in The Vortex . Bibliography . - Jane Seymours Guide to Romantic Living . Macmillan Publishers , 1986 . ASIN : B003JFVAKC . - Gus Loved His Happy Home . With Seymour Fleishman . Linnet Books , 1989 . - Yum! : A Tale of Two Cookies . This One N That One series . With James Keach . Angel Gate , 1998 . - Boing! : No Bouncing on the Bed . This One N That One series . With James Keach . Putnam Juvenile , 1999 . - Splat! : The Tale of a Colorful Cat . This One N That One series . With James Keach . Turtleback Books , 2001 . - Two at a Time : Having Twins : The Journey Through Pregnancy and Birth . With Pamela Patrick Novotny . Atria Books , 2002 . - Remarkable Changes : Turning Lifes Challenges into Opportunities . New York : HarperEntertainment , 2003 . - Making Yourself at Home : Finding Your Style and Putting It All Together . DK Adult , 2007 . - Open Hearts : If Your Heart Is Open , Love Will Always Find Its Way In . Running Press , 2008 . - Among Angels . Guideposts , 2010 . 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 - 2010 Ellis Island Medal of Honor External links . - Jane Seymour at Emmys.com