Jane Seymour (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg February 15, 1951) is an English-born actress probably best known today as the star of the TV series and film Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman.

Jane Seymour in ‘Live and Let Die’.

She has had a long career in both film and television, beginning in 1969 with an uncredited role in Richard Attenborough’s film version of Oh! What a Lovely War. Her first major film role was as Lillian Stein, a Jewish woman seeking shelter from the Nazis with a Danish Christian family in the 1970 war drama The Only Way.

From 1972 to 1973 she played her first major TV 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 TV mini-series Frankenstein: The True Story and as Winston Churchill’s lover Pamela Plowden in another of her father-in-law’s films, Young Winston. She also drew her first major international attention as Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die.

For the remainder of the 1970s, she played minor TV roles. In 1978 she played Serina in the Battlestar Galactica motion picture, and then in the first two episodes of the series that followed, until she was killed off, with the role being one of her most memorable minor TV roles. In 1980, Seymour returned to the big screen in the comedy Oh Heavenly Dog.

Seymour continued to take numerous roles in TV films and series, most notably as Dr Michaela Quinn in the TV series and film Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993-2001), through which she met her present husband, director James Keach.