Jane Seymour's New Passions
By Laura Brounstein

She's not just a successful actress with a sexy movie due out next year. She's also a talented designer and artist

If your current mental picture of Jane Seymour has her in the pioneer garb she wore for her signature role, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, today's uber-modern, multi-career, chic Californian with an afternoon
tea British accent may surprise you. Especially when she talks about her racy Mrs. Robinsonesque role in Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn's upcoming comedy, The Wedding Crashers. "I was half-naked with Owen! I had to be very brave," she confides, settling into the cream and sea green living room of her Malibu beachfront mansion.

The sprawling house's casually classic look is the inspiration for Coral Canyon, one of the two home collections she has designed for Saks department stores. The original collection is based on the Gothic opulence of her other home, a 10th-century manor house in her native England. While the two lines have a different aesthetic, the linens, furniture and decorative objects all evoke Seymour's own timeless elegance. She still wears her hair long, and at 53, she has the lithe body and grace of the ballerina she was in her teens in London. But these are real homes, evident by her spikyhaired 8-year-old twins, John and Kristopher, who run by a visitor straight to the kitchen.

Throughout the house, photos abound of her other children, Katie, 22, and Scan, 19 (from her marriage to David Flynn). and her stepchildren Jenni (Flynn's daughter) and Kalen, whose father is her current husband of 10 years, actor and director ,James Keach.
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