Actress jane seymour biography
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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 []
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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She has been a leading contributor to a vibrant new time of equality which is tearing down walls of limitation everywhere. With her customary practice of leading by achieving, she has earned spectacular success in the worlds of art, design and corporate entrepreneurship. With her Open Hearts line of jewelry and her successful enterprises in related design fields, she has taken her Jane Seymour brand to the position of being in the top one hundred of Licensing Global Magazine’s list of the world’s top brands, something no other actor or actress has accomplished. In the process, her love of art and color has led to her great success as a painter in watercolors and oils and as a designer of product from botanicals to furniture.
Seymour has reached success with a star career encompassing international movie stardom with such lasting films as "Somewhere in Time" and "Live and Let Die", Broadway and London stage acclaim including creating the role of Constanza in "Amadeus" and t