“It was the right time for me to retire. I could never emulate the success I had with Arsenal - it was unbelievable for me.”
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Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour is a British actress. After making her screen debut as an uncredited teenage extra in the 1969 musical comedy Oh! What a Lovely War, Seymour moved to roles in film and television, including a leading role in the television series The Onedin Line (1972–1973) the role of psychic Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973) and as Serina in the original 1978 series…
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business · British actress (born 1951) · television actor · actor · film actor · film producer · entrepreneur · stage actor · also Jane Seymour, Jane Seymour (actress), Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg, Jane Seymour OBE, Seymour
Born 15 February 1951 · Q123849
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2026· 3 entries
Public attention spiked: 13,090 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 3,376, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 13,415 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4× the usual 3,376, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Began hosting an Acorn TV/BBC America series called Relative Secrets
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2022· 1 entry
Began playing the title role on the Irish Acorn TV series Harry Wild
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2020· 1 entry
Starred in Ruby's Choice, an Australian comedy/drama produced and directed by Michael Budd, which follows her title role Ruby as a woman with early dementia, and its impact on her and her family, when she is no longe
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2008· 2 entries
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
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Replaced Selina Scott as the new face of fashion label CC (formerly known as Country Casuals) under the Austin Reed banner of retailers
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2007· 3 entries
Guest-starred in the ABC sitcom In Case of Emergency
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In 2007, she sponsored a children's Art Pillow contest as part of the Jane Seymour Collection, with the proceeds going to Childhelp.
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Sponsored a children's Art Pillow contest as part of the Jane Seymour Collection, with the proceeds going to Childhelp
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2005· 1 entry
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
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2004· 1 entry
And 2005, she made six guest appearances in The WB series Smallville, playing Genevieve Teague, the wealthy, scheming mother of Jason Teague (Jensen Ackles)
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2000· 1 entry
Was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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1996· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1996).
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1991· 4 entries
“Over the years, I’ve learnt that out of challenge comes opportunity and I know if I hadn’t been tested, I wouldn’t have pushed myself or been able to discover my abilities.”
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“I was always left out when I was a little girl. I was different from everyone…People were jealous but I didn’t realise. I had a reunion with some school friends recently and they said, 'We were mean to you because you got special attention because you were so beautiful.’ I said, 'I wasn’t beautiful. I was gawky.’ I never ever imagined myself to look nice.”
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“She always taught me, ‘Open your heart when times get tough, accept what happens, live in the moment and reach out to help others as there’s always someone worse off than you’. She believed, rightly, that gives you purpose and helps you heal. So I always do my best to forgive and move forward.”
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“When you get older, as a leading lady it gets harder…You try not to have someone else upstage or take the shine. When I play character roles I am usually playing people who are slightly over the top, so that goes fine.”
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1989· 1 entry
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, she appeared in the television film La révolution française, filmed in both French and English
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1988· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988).
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Won the female lead in the twelve-part television miniseries War and Remembrance, the continued story from the miniseries The Winds of War, playing Natalie Henry, an American Jewish woman trapped in Europe during Wor
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During the filming of Onassis: The Richest Man in the World, Seymour nearly died when, after developing pneumonia, an antibiotic injection was accidentally placed into her vein instead of muscle, causing her to go into a
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1987· 1 entry
Was the subject of a pictorial in Playboy magazine, although she did not pose nude
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1986· 1 entry
She had earlier referred to the incident in her 1986 book Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living.
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1985· 1 entry
Appeared at Fashion Aid, a one-time fashion show fundraiser held at the Royal Albert Hall in London and organised by Bob Geldof to raise funds for the ongoing Ethiopian famine caused by the policies of dictator Mengi
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1984· 1 entry
Appeared nude in the film Lassiter, co-starring Tom Selleck
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1982· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for East of Eden (1982).
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Seymour won her first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for her role in the miniseries East of Eden (1981)
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Appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews, and her Amadeus costar Ian McKellen
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1981· 1 entry
Appeared in the television film East of Eden, based on the novel by John Steinbeck
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1980· 2 entries
Played the role on stage of Constanze in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus, opposite Ian McKellen as Salieri with Tim Curry as Mozart
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Was given the role of young theatre actress Elise McKenna in the period romance Somewhere in Time
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1978· 1 entry
Appeared as Serina in the Battlestar Galactica film, and in the first five episodes of the television series
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1975· 2 entries
It was not released until its stop motion animation sequences had been completed in 1977
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Was cast as Princess Farah in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, the third part of Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad trilogy
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1973· 2 entries
Achieved international fame in her role as Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die
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Gained her first major television role as Emma Callon, in the successful 1970s series The Onedin Line
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1970· 1 entry
Appeared in her first major film role in the war drama The Only Way
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1969· 1 entry
Seymour appeared uncredited in her first film, Richard Attenborough's Oh
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1951· 1 entry
Born 1951-02-15.
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