Jane seymour actor biography

Jane Seymour was born as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg in in Middlesex, England, to a sjuksköterska mother and gynaecologist/obstetrician father. She is of Polish Jewish (father) and Dutch (mother) descent. She adopted the acting name of "Jane Seymour" when she entered show business as it was easier for people to remember (and the name of one of King Henry VIII's wives). She attracted the attention of the James Bond film producers when they saw her on British television. She was cast as the main Bond girl, "Solitaire", in Live and Let Die (). The role gained her international recognition but she was in danger of losing it all like the previous Bond girls, so she came to the U.S.

A casting director advised her to lose her English accent and acquire an American accent to land roles on American television. She did and started getting roles, earning five Emmy nominations, resulting in one win for Onassis: The Richest Man in the World () for playing Maria Calla

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Jane Seymour was, and still is, an accomplished and well known Dutch American actress who was born in England. She did most of her acting in the United States, and became an American citizen on February 11, She was born as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg. Her parents were John Frankenberg, a physician of Polish and German origin. Her mother was Mieke Frankenberg, Dutch born and living in England at the time of Jane Seymour’s birth.

Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg took the stage name Jane Seymour at the age of 17, when she clearly already had her eyes set on an acting career. Jane Seymour was also the name of King Henry VIII’s third wife, and presumably that is where Joyce, later known as Jane, got the idea to adopt the Jane Seymour name.

At the time this bio was written, , Jane had already been acting for 40 years. Her first acting role was in , with a role for which she received no credit, in Richard Attenborough’s film version of “Oh! W

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Jane Seymour (actress)

British actress (born )

This article is about the English actress. For the Canadian actress, see Jane Seymour (Canadian actress). For other people, see Jane Seymour (disambiguation).

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Jane SeymourOBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February ) is a British actress. After making her screen debut as an uncredited teenage extra in the 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 (–) and the role