Luxuriant dark hair, an English rose blush, two different colored eyes and a timeless (and seemingly ageless) beauty have helped to the always-working actress Jane Seymore build a long and flourishing career, first in a series of exotic temptress/heroine roles in genre films, then morphing from sophisticated sexpots of many high-production miniseries to the central figure in dozens of "woman-in-jeopardy"-style in several TV movies, and finally emerging as the matriarchal star of her own popular TV series, "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman."

Born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg, the daughter of