'There's also incredible art on every wall. Brilliantly colored oil paintings and dreamy watercolors capture the flowers and ocean outside Seymour's windows. And she painted them all. For the past several years, Seymour's reputation as an artist has been growing: one of her canvases recently fetched $65,000 at an exhibition. Her entrepreneurial creativity began in her 20s, when, after abandoning her early dreams of ballet, she took up embroidery to supplement her income as a fledgling actress. Though well received, her artistic efforts went on the back burner when her acting career took off with a role in the James Bond film Live and Let Die. By the late 1970s, Seymour was in Los Angeles with a burgeoning film career and two early marriages already behind her.

During that dark time, the seeds of Seymour's new life took root. "I called my agent and said, `I need to work. Yesterday.' " Serendipitously, the very first offer that came in was for a family-oriented historical drama, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. "I felt my father's presence," Seymour shares. "He was a doctor whose passion was the history of medicine. As his eldest daughter, he raised me to learn everything about his work. So I did Dr. Quinn."

The show ran for six years and won Seymour legions of fans and a Golden Globe. She also fell in love again and married James Keach (actor Stacy Keach's brother). And she started painting. In her 2003 memoir, Remarkable Changes, Seymour wrote that it was painting that "lifted me out of negative feelings."

Today, even as she acts and works on a third line with Saks, painting seems closest to her heart. "I'm painting or thinking about painting all day long," she says.

It's hard to imagine how she fits it all in. "We shot The Wedding Crashers in St. Michaels, Maryland, and it was so beautiful, I painted a lot there," Seymour explains. "James spent four or five days with me on the set. He had a mini- office under a big tree overlooking the Chesapeake, where we were shooting. I dashed back and forth, doing my scenes and hanging out with him. It was cool."

And how did her husband feel about her getting naked with Owen Wilson? "Owen and Vince play guys who crash my daughter's wedding," she says, "and I go to Owen and in­sist that he inspect my new breasts. James read it and just said, `You know, you'll be hysterical in this:

Keach is currently producing a movie about the life of Johnny and June Cash, who were both Keach and Seymour's friends. The couples met when the music legends guest­starred on Dr. Quinn. "James directed them on the show, and we all got close. We spent a lot of time with them in Nashville. They trusted us to tell their story, so we got the rights. Unfortunately, they never got to see the movie but they knew that Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon were playing them. They were so loving, beautiful, and talented."