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Born Joyce Frankenburg in Wimbledon, England, Jane Seymour made her professional acting debut at the age of 13 with the London Festival Ballet and enrolled in the Arts Educational Trust to train in dance, music, and theater. After one performance with the Kirov Ballet, she suffered knee injuries and her hopes of continuing as a dancer ended. She made her feature film debut in the Richard Attenborough-directed Oh, What a Lovely War and received Emmy Award nominations for her roles in the mini-series War and Remembrance and the limited series Captains and the Kings. She won an Emmy as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Mini-series for her role as Maria Callas in Onassis: The Richest Man Alive.Among her other feature film credits are Live and Let Die and Battlestar Galactica. She has starred in the motion pictures for television Angel of Death, Matters of the Heart, The Woman He Loved, and Jack the Ripper, all on the CBS Television Network. In 1995, she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress, for her role as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Seymour is married to actor-director James Keach. They live with her two children, Katie and Sean Michael and their twin sons, Kristopher and John, in Malibu CA, and on a 15th-century country estate near Bath, England.
Jane Seymour plays the role of Dr. Michaela Quinn.
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