Hello, Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg! 11 Fun Facts About Harry Wild Star Jane Seymour, Including Her Birth Name

Author:
Walter Scott
Jul 1, 2022

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Emmy-winning actress Jane Seymour, 71, turns sleuth for her new series, Harry Wild (Acorn). She stars as Harriet “Harry” Wild, a university literature professor who notices a murderer has followed a pattern from an obscure Elizabethan play. Here are some fun facts about the former star of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

One of her first roles was Bond girl Solitaire in Live and Let Die (1973) opposite RogerMoore.
Born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg, her stage name is an homage to the third wife of Henry VIII.
In 2018, at 67, she became the oldest woman to pose for Playboy.
In addition to acting, she has a prolific career as an artist, selling her watercolors through various galleries.
Seymour’s twin sons, Kristopher and John, were “Gerber babies” in a series of baby-food TV commercials in the late 1990s.
Seymour is the designer of the Open Hearts jewelry collection, which inspires people to keep their hearts open to giving and receiving love.
She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of British Empire) in 2000 for her services to drama.
From 1955 to 1965, Seymour spent a substantial amount of time in the Dutch town of Vught, where her grandmother lived, and where she learned to speak Dutch fluently.
Seymour became a United States citizen on February 11, 2005.
She auditioned for the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope but lost out to CarrieFisher.
Seymour is the author of several self-help and inspirational books, including Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living (1986), Two at a Time: Having Twins (2001), Remarkable Changes (2003) and Among Angels (2010).