Jane Seymour talks about getting older, her career renaissance and stripping off for her latest role

Jane, 54 and film director James, 57, met on the set of Sunstroke 14 years ago and their relationship is rock solid. The secret, she says, is that they are "true partners", who share everything, whether it's raising their twin sons (above) or working together on the forthcoming film Blind Guy.

For someone who's sleep deprived and jetlagged, Jane Seymour is looking pretty good. In the past week she's flown across the Atlantic and back - from her home in Malibu to Spain for an exhibition of her art work, on to Florida to make a speech, and finally to London for the premiere of her latest film, the romantic comedy Wedding Crashers. Here, she partied with her co-stars until the early hours after the premiere. But the perennially youthful British actress is buzzing.

"I think I got lucky," she smiles. "I got one of the most fun roles for an actress my age this year."

And the most risqué. In the film, Jane, 54, unveils more than just her comedic talent. She plays the alcoholic, neglected wife of a Washington politician who, in a desperate attempt to seduce a man young enough to be her son (played by Owen Wilson), strips off her bra and reveals all.


Best known as the squeaky-clean Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman in the eponymous American TV series. it's not the sort of thing we've come to expect from Jane Sevmour. Even her off-screen image is one of perfection- the woman who has everything. Since first springing to fame at 20 as Bond girl Solitaire opposite Roger Moore in Live and Let Die, she's sustained a busy acting career as well as developing her talent for painting.

She's happily married to her fourth husband, American producer James Keach, 57, and has four children, including nine-year old twin boys, and two step-children to whom she is very close. She lives in magnificent houses -a stone mansion overlooking the ocean in Malibu, California, and a 16th centurey manor house in Bath. And she looks fabulous, with a figure many women half her age would envy and skin that glows healthily. Polished, gracious and professional. if you're looking for any cracks, you won't find any.