Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg, known around the world as Jane Seymour, is an actress, writer, producer, public figure, who gained worldwide fame for her role as a Bond girl, starring in the film Live and Let Die, as well as in the drama series, which gained great popularity, "Dr. Quinn, a female doctor." Nominated for Golden Globe and Emmy awards.
Biography of the actress
Jane Seymour was born on February 15, 1951, in Hayes and Harlington, England to a Dutch-Jewish family.
Father - John Benjamin Frankenberg, a British Jew, a native of Poland, worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist. Mother - Mickey van Trai, a Dutch Protestant, worked as a nurse.
Besides Jane, the parents had two more daughters.
After a short visit to a ballet school, a young girl completes acting classes in London, and works in a drama theater under the stage name Jane Seymour. Then she starts her dizzying career as Jane Seymour - movie actress.
Jane Seymour's film career
The first minor role was played by the future actress in the director's filmF. Zefirelli "Romeo and Juliet". This film has become for the young talent the acquisition of acting experience, as well as skills when working with a producer. Jane Seymour's career as an actress developed gradually. The next inconspicuous acting role was in the film directed by R. Attenborough "This Beautiful War", but the name of the actress was not listed in the credits. These were the roles that Jane played at a young age. She was not even seventeen then.
Jane Seymour gained world fame by playing the role of James Bond's girlfriend in the action movie "Live and Let Die". But this role could not be! After all, initially the heroine of the film was planned to be made black, and Diana Ross could play her.
Since then, Jane Seymour is an actress who has appeared in more than sixty films. The brightest were her roles in the films: Scarlet Pimpernel, Jack the Ripper, New Robinsons. But Jane achieved real fame when she played a role in the TV series "Dr. Quinn: a female doctor." Here Jane Seymour is an actress who shines in the role of a doctor, a woman who opposed her official position to a prosperous life.
And yet, despite the fact that Jane Seymour is an actress, whose filmography is simply huge, she gave preference to acting in television series over roles in feature films, becoming the owner of the title "Queen of TV series".
Jane Seymour - Producer
In addition to roles in feature films and television series, Seymour mastered the "role" called"television producer" In 2004, she directed her first full-length feature film as a producer. Over the next ten years, Jane, as a director, made about two dozen films. The brightest of them:
- "Blind Date";
- "My name is Earl";
- "In case of emergency."
Jane as writer
In the 1980s, Jane Seymour mastered the role of a writer, writing several books both on her own and with her then-husband James Keach.
The most famous were the works: "A Guide to a Romantic Story", "If your heart is open, then it will never be broken", "Twins - two at the same time: a journey through pregnancy and birth."
Actress's personal life
Jane Seymour, being married four times, found family happiness only in her fourth marriage. Jane's first husband, Michael Attenborough, was the son of the famous producer R. Attenborough. Soon their union fell apart. Then the actress marries businessman D. Planer, but this family union turned out to be short-lived. The third husband, manager D. Flynn, gave the actress two children: son Sean and daughter Kathy.
Ten years later, their marriage fell apart. In 1993, Seymour married actor D. Keach for the fourth time. But she divorced him in 2013. In this family union, the actress gave birth in 1995 to twins: sons - Christopher and John. Jane Seymour is an actress whose children were born in her last two marriages.
Awards andactress nominations
Jane Seymour, an actress whose biography did not include laurels and honors, becomes a laureate and nominee of various film festivals.
1981. The actress starred in East of Eden based on D. Steinbeck's novel and received her first Golden Globe playing the role of Cathy Ames.
1990 The actress signs a contract to participate in the famous drama series "Dr. Queen: Doctor Woman". For the role of Michaela Queen, she receives the second "Golden Globe".
1988 For best actress in the series "Onassis: The richest man in the world", the actress receives an Emmy award.
She was also a multiple Best Actress nominee.
1999 The actress receives the title of officer of the "Order of the British Empire" from the hands of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain. And on Hollywood Boulevard, a Jane Seymour star was laid on the Walk of Fame.
Facts of life
Interesting facts from the life and work of the "Queen of the TV series":
- Jane Seymour, an actress who did not have much we alth in her youth, at the zenith of fame acquires a mansion in Somerset. After a certain amount of leasing, it was sold.
- The actress has the opportunity to keep a personal secretary and invite a nanny to babysit.
- Jane is actively involved in social work, does charity work, being the chairman of several charitable foundations.
- Seymour can sew and embroider,has the ability to produce its own line of children's clothing.
- Purchasing antique clothes, the actress sometimes wears them after her own restoration.
- 2005. Jane Seymour becomes a US citizen.
- In 1989, the actress plays the role of Queen Marie Antoinette in a television film that was filmed for the bicentennial anniversary of the famous French Revolution. At the same time, her own children played the role of the children of the Queen of France.
- The actress keeps fit by limiting herself to food and visiting the gym.
- Seymour keeps pets: aquarium fish and cats.
- She has eyes of different colors: green and brown.
- Jane Seymour, the actress whose nude photo was the epicenter of the scandal, starred in the Lassiter film.
- In 2008, Seymour became the face of the British brand Country Caswells.
- The actress contracted dengue fever while filming Swiss Family Robinson.
- Jane brought wooden nesting dolls for children from Russia.
- An injection of penicillin drove the actress into a thirty-second coma.
- She never cuts her hair into bangs.
The unusual and versatility of the fate of the actress was formed thanks not so much to her talent as to her great diligence and patience. Jane, striving for fame and success, was not only an actress, but also a mother who wanted to have many children.
