Jane Seymour spent most of her teens as a dancer in London, until a series of fortunate events led her to Bond, James Bond.

Seymour, who recently recounted her career highlights in a Role Call interview with EW, had come up as a ballerina before making her film debut as a "squeaky-voiced" chorus girl in director Richard Attenborough's 1969 film Oh! What a Lovely War, which led to roles on The Strauss Family and The Onedin Line.

"I was replacing another actress," Seymour says of playing Emma Callon, who inherited a coveted shipping business on Onedin. "I was given one shot at it, one episode. And halfway through the episode, the producer — who was also directing that episode — went to my agent and said, 'We want her for the full series.' That was the series that the James Bond producer saw me in. I never auditioned for James Bond, they just saw me in the first two episodes and called my agents and said, 'We want her to play the lead in Live and Let Die.'