Jane Seymour
Personal Profile
Jane Seymour
Family
Jane Seymour
Father:
John FrankenbergMother:
Mieke van TrigtSister:
Sally Frankenberg, AnneSpouse:
James Keach - Present
David Flynn - Divorced
Geoffrey Planer - Divorced
Michael Attenborough - DivorcedSon:
Johnny, Kris, Sean Flynn, Kalen KeachDaughter:
Katherine Flynn, Jennifer Flynn
Career
Jane Seymour
Profession:
Actress, ProducerClaim to Fame:
Live and Let Die - 1973 - MovieDebut:
Oh! What a Lovely War - 1969 - Movie
Awards
Jane Seymour
1996 : Golden Globe Award, Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama for: "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" (1993)
1997 : Bronze Wrangler Award, Fictional Television Drama for: "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" (1993)
Jane Seymour is an English actress. The young Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg changed her name to Jane Seymour when she was 17, because "it scanned nicely and rolled trippingly from the tongue". Her early leanings were towards ballet and, after training at the Arts Educational Trust for dance, she went on to dance with Russia's renowned Kirov Ballet. However, an injury sustained in her first performance put an end to her dancing career before it had even begun.
Jane Seymour's father was Sir John Seymour of Wolf Hall, Savernake, Wiltshire. She became a lady in waiting to Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and then to Anne Boleyn, who married the King in 1533. Henry probably became attracted to Jane in 1535, when he visited her father at Wolf Hall, but, though willing to marry him, she refused to be his mistress. That determination undoubtedly helped bring about Anne Boleyn's downfall and execution (May 19, 1536).
On May 30, 1536, Henry and Jane Seymour were married privately. During the remaining 17 months of her life Jane managed to restore Mary, Henry's daughter by Catherine of Aragon, to the King's favour. Mary was a Roman Catholic, and some scholars have interpreted Jane's intercession to mean that she had little sympathy with the English Reformation. The future Edward VI was born on Oct. 12, 1537, but, to Henry's genuine sorrow, Jane died 12 days later. Jane's family enjoyed Henry's favour until the end of his reign.
On the accession of Edward VI to the throne, Jane's brother, Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford, became regent as lord protector with the title duke of Somerset. Another brother, Thomas Seymour of Sudeley, was lord high admiral from 1547 to 1549. Jane Seymour's film debut was as a chorus girl in Richard Attenborough's ‘Oh, What A Lovely War’ and, after her successful performance in the ‘Onedin Line’, she landed the role of Solitaire in the James Bond movie ‘Live and Let Die’. Seymour returned to the big screen in 2005 playing Kathleen Cleary, wife of fictional U.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Cleary, in the comedy Wedding Crashers. The following year she appeared in the short-lived TV series Modern Men, before taking a guest slot as a law-school professor on an episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. In 2007, she made another guest appearance in the ABC sitcom In Case of Emergency.