Trivia

Her daughter, Katherine Flynn, was Miss Golden Globe 2001. Her twin sons were named Johnny and Kristopher after family friends Johnny Cash (who is Johnny's godfather) and Christopher Reeve (who is Kris's godfather). Ex-stepmother of Kalen Keach and Jennifer Flynn.

Has one green eye and one brown eye; a condition known as heterochromia.

She and James Keach's longtime friendship with June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash led to the Cashes guest-starring on Seymour's television program Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) and to Keach producing the Cash biopic Walk the Line (2005).

Had recently married her first husband, Michael Attenborough when she filmed Live and Let Die (1973). While filming it, she visited a psychic who predicted that she would be married three more times. Though the thought was a shock to her at the time, it proved to be eerily accurate.

Became a naturalized citizen of the United States on February 11, 2005; wore a cream-colored suit to ceremony at the downtown Los Angeles Convention Center. She sat between more than a dozen United States military personnel who also received their citizenship.

She never succumbed to the "Curse of the Bond Girl" (e.g. when an unknown girl acts in a James Bond film, she gets a great buildup but then quickly disappears from acting and becomes a forgotten actress, such as Daniela Bianchi, Mie Hama, etc). She was an unknown twenty-two year old actress when she got her big break in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973) but escaped the curse by following the advice of casting director Renée Valente who told her to lose her English accent and acquire an American accent. Once she did that, she was able to work consistently on American television and winning the prestigious Emmy Award in 1988. She continues to act well into her sixties. She said that people still approach her every day and ask her about her performance in the James Bond film, even though it was more than 40 years ago.

The eldest daughter of Mieke Gysbertha Johanna Adriana (Van Tricht; 1914-2007) and John Benjamin Frankenberg (1914-1990), Seymour has two younger sisters, named Sally and Anne Gould. She is the daughter of a Polish Jewish obstetrician (the first member in his family to be born in England) and his Dutch Protestant wife. Mieke Van Tricht was interned in a Japanese concentration camp during World War II for three and a half years. Mieke Frankenberg died on October 2, 2007 in England due to complications from a stroke at age 92. Seymour speaks Dutch well, which she demonstrated in an interview with Dutch television.

Seymour selected her own stage name -- for the third wife of Henry the VIII, the only one of his six wives able to give Henry the male heir he sought; she died in childbirth.

Auditioned for the role of Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), but Carrie Fisher was cast instead.

Seymour and her twin sons, John and Christopher, were featured as the Gerber babies in a series of baby food television commercials from 1996-97.

She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of British Empire) in the 1999 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to drama.

Along with her then-husband James Keach, Seymour hosted a private wake for David Carradine at their home, which was attended by Steve Railsback, Sally Kirkland, James Cromwell, Vicki Roberts, Rob Schneider, Daryl Hannah and other luminaries.

Became fluent in French after studying it at school, she was sent to Geneva by her parents who had friends there.

Was one of two actresses to audition for the role of Meggie Cleary in the epic miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983). The other actress was Rachel Ward, who ended up winning the role because producers thought Jane was not "vulnerable" enough.

Official celebrity spokesperson for UNICEF.

Has four children: daughter Katherine Flynn (Katherine Jane Flynn; b. January 7, 1982) and son Sean M. Flynn (Sean Michael Flynn; b. July 31, 1986) with ex-husband David Flynn; twin sons, John Keach (John Stacy Keach) and Kris Keach (Kristopher Steven Keach; b. November 30, 1995) with ex-husband James Keach.

An autographed portrait of her from Somewhere in Time (1980) hangs in a restaurant/bar called Valley Inn located at 4557 Sherman Oaks Avenue in Sherman Oaks, California.

She turned down the role of Natalie Jastrow Henry in the miniseries War and Remembrance (1988) three times before finally accepting the role.

Spent a substantial part of her youth in the Dutch town of Vught, where her grandmother resided. In those years (1955-1965), she learned to speak Dutch fluently.

She appeared in two films directed by her former father-in-law Richard Attenborough: Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) and Young Winston (1972).

Seymour (and then-husband James Keach) owned a 14th-century manor house outside Bath, England called St. Catherine's Court. Cunard Lines offers a four-night stay at St. Catherine's as an add-on to their QE2 cruises. The house was used for recording the album "OK Computer" by the rock band Radiohead. In December 2007, the property was sold. In October 2013, she filed for legal separation from Keach and the divorce was finalized two years later, in December 2015.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 20, 1999.

An accomplished portrait artist, one of Seymour's paintings was auctioned off at a high school benefit in Illinois.

Worked with actor and friend Joe Lando on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie (1999), Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within (2001), Perfectly Prudence (2011), and Dr. Quinn, Morphine Woman with Jane Seymour (2014).

Her house was used for recording the album "Wild Mood Swings" (1996) by the British rock band The Cure.

International Ambassador for Childhelp USA.

Starred opposite Hart Bochner in three miniseries: as his mother in East of Eden (1981), his would-be paramour in The Sun Also Rises (1984), and as his wife in War and Remembrance (1988).

Competed on ABC's Dancing with the Stars (2005), coming in at sixth place. (October 2007)

She appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song "Voices That Care".

Came out with her "Open Hearts" jewelry collection. (December 2008)

Honorary Chairperson for City Hearts.

Inducted into the Hair Fan's Hall of Fame (2005).

Seymour loaned her name to a line of home furnishings from the AICO Furniture Group called "Hollywood Swank". The line features bedroom and dining room groups made of white leather, gray "alligator print", mirrored and jewel-lined furniture.

She lives in a manor house near Bath.

Her father was Dr John Frankenberg who was a consultant gynocologist at Hillingdon Hospital.

Following her performance in 'The Onedin Line', she landed her role as the tarot-reading Solitaire in the James Bond movie 'Live and Let Die'.

Published a book, The Guide to Romantic Living, in October 1986.

After training at the Arts Educational Trust for dance, she went on to dance with Russia's renowned Kirov Ballet. An injury sustained in her first performance, however, put an end to her aspirations of becoming a dancer.

Wrote book Jane Seymours Romance.

Fluent in Dutch, her mother's first language, Jane was educated at The Arts Educational School in Piccadilly, London, England. Aged 17, she adopted her stage name "Jane Seymour", which was also the name of King Henry VIII's third wife..

Made TV commercials for the perfume' Le Jardin de Max Factor' in 1986.