Throughout the years, the multifaceted actor has proved herself a force to be reckoned with.
But life has been anything but smooth sailing for the iconic star.
“It’s life,” shetold The List back in 2022.
Then, you go back to actually caring about what’s really happened."
Her mom, Mieke, was a Dutch nurse who moved to Indonesia as a young woman.
For instance, Seymour learned about the importance of altruism from a young age.
What a Lovely War."
“And at the crack of dawn, I’m in there,” she recalled toEntertainment Weekly.
“I get to sing a bit, dance a bit.
Next, next, next.
And the choreographer wasn’t the only one who noted Seymour’s star power.
“Dickie’s agent said, ‘Who’s that girl, three from the left?'”
“And [Attenborough] said, ‘Oh yes, she’s really good.’
And he said, ‘No, she’s going to be a star.
I want to represent her.'”
To be a star, however, the erstwhile Joyce Frankenberg decided that she should adopt a stage name.
Accordingly, she believed a name of the regal variety would prove more marketable.
And thus, a budding star was born.
As for suddenly being branded a Bond girl?
“At the time, coming from obscurity, it was a very nice thing.
It meant I had a job,” she toldThe Guardianin 2022.
Looking back on the role, Seymour acknowledges it was rather misogynistic.
As such, she said the franchise could never get away with such sexist characterizations now.
She is discarded.”
The young actor was sexually harassed by a producer who lured her to his home.
Although the end of the romance devastated Seymour, she remembers Reeve fondly.
“I have to believe that I will one day see him somewhere in time,” she reflected.
As Homer Simpson would say, “A little show called ‘Dr.
Quinn, Medicine Woman.'”
But the role for which Jane Seymour remains most famous emerged out of necessity.
“What did I learn from that?
I learned that absence makes the heart wander.
Not mine, but his.
It wandered a lot.”
“I lost everything.
She reunited with her Bond co-star Roger Moore (also a lifelong charitable ambassador) for her UNICEF missions.
“There were food shortages and battered women who had nowhere to go.”
Having overcome numerous obstacles in her personal and professional life, Seymour was drawn to the self-help genre.
Additionally, Seymour penned a number of children’s books with her former husband James Keach.
Chatting with The Lady, she said that writing is ultimately a therapeutic outlet.
She was cast in Season 4 of"Smallville"as the villainous antagonist Genevieve Teague.
“I didn’t know anything about ‘Smallville,'” she admitted to Entertainment Weekly.
But Seymour insisted that playing Genevieve was hardly out of her comfort zone.
What do they think I was doing, hiding under a rock all these years?'”
“That was all about Owen Wilson’s brilliant acting and his crazy hands.
I was never actually naked.”
“After that, everyone just decided, ‘Oh!
She’s actually funny!'”
She also attributed the decision to her desire to vote and further participate in U.S. politics.
But relocating to the States doesn’t mean that Seymour has relinquished her heritage.
“I tell people I’m an ‘Ameri-Brit,'” she told The Lady.
“I feel very British …
I have a passion for everything British.
The MTV crew also accessed Seymour’s valuables, which she’d attempted to hide away.
Williams later apologized for the fiasco.
As David Flynn did, Keach cheated on Seymour.
Opening up about the divorce toYahoo!
Life, the actor put a positive spin on a painful situation.
That same year, Seymour embarked on a new adventure in the Singaporean theater.
Rather, she viewed the play as a salient parable for our modern, youth-obsessed society.
“Women will do anything to stay young, as will men.
At 67, she featured in a tastefully shot spread, wearing a silky negligee under a fluffy jacket.
“Then, I was like, ‘Oh gosh, I’m supposed to be sexy.’
What is that?!
There’s an enormous freedom in having lived as long as I have.”
And “choice” is the key word for Seymour.
Seymour loves the role, a rare depiction of an effervescent septuagenarian who refuses to acquiesce to retirement.
“It’s 40, actually,” she quipped.
“Clearly, they open up again when you’re 70.
There is a major audience out there for material that includes people who are older.”
