PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) -- Until this week, Jane Seymour hadn't seen the inspiration for the setting of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman."

The British-born actress had never visited Pueblo before and laughed as she said the trip brought her the closest she'd ever been to Dr. Quinn's fictional home in Colorado.

Seymour said she tried to assess whether the TV set matched the real thing as she arrived in southern Colorado on Wednesday.

"I was trying to figure out if we pulled it off," she said. "I think we did!"

Seymour gave the keynote address at the YWCA's third annual Tribute to Women awards dinner. The 53-year-old won a Golden Globe for the show, which ran from 1993-98, but she downplays such awards in favor of her work with humanitarian organizations.

"I think probably what I've realized is the privilege that I have in having a voice," said the actress, who speaks against hate around the world. The issue is personal for Seymour, whose mother survived a concentration camp.

"My great desire is that there would be no more religious wars," she said. "How wonderful it would be if we could teach our children that we have to find a way to live with one another."

As the mother of six children from several marriages, Seymour chuckled at the suggestion she might have started those lessons at home.

"Yes, our family definitely is a success story in terms of balance and tolerance," she said.

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