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Jane Seymour (actress)

American-English actress (born 1951)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 22, 2026
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Jane Seymour OBE is an English and American actress and author. After making her screen debut as an uncredited teenage extra in the 1969 musical comedy Oh! What a Lovely War, Seymour moved to roles in film and television, including a leading role in the television series The Onedin Line (1972–1973), the role of psychic Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973) and as Serina in the original 1978 series of Battlestar Galactica.

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The public source identifies “Jane Seymour (actress)” as american-English actress (born 1951). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jane, Seymour and actress.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1972, 1973, 1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jane, Seymour and actress providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1972, 1973 and 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jane Seymour (actress)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.