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Michaela Quinn
Michaela was born on Feb. 15, 1833, in Boston, MA, to Josef and Elizabeth Quinn. There she was raised with her four sisters: Mary (whose name was changed to Rebecca), Marjorie, Claudette, and Maureen. Her father had wanted a son, so when she was born he named her Michaela (nicknamed Mike). Josef Quinn was a doctor; this spawned Michaela's passion for medicine. Michaela received her M.D. from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1860. She practiced medicine alongside her father for seven years until his death. Mike moved to Colorado Springs when she applied for and won the position of town doctor. Upon her arrival, she moved into a boarding house owned by the town midwife, Charlotte Cooper. After a short stay, she rented a homestead from Sully for one dollar a month. Charlotte Cooper died from a snakebite and on her deathbed asked Michaela to take care of her three children: Matthew, Colleen, and Brian. Michaela befriended the enigmatic loner, Sully, and their friendship blossomed into romance. Sully and Michaela married in 1870. Michaela gave birth to their daughter Katie in 1871.
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Jane Seymour
Born in Wimbeldon, England, Jane Seymour made her acting debut at the age of 13 with the London Festival Ballet and enrolled in the Arts Educational Trust to train in dance, music, and theater. After one performance with the Kirov Ballet, she suffered knee injuries and her hopes of continuing as a dancer ended. She made her feature film debut in the Richard Attenborough-directed Oh, What a Lovely War and received Emmy Award nominations for her roles in the mini-series War and Remembrance and the limited series Captains and the Kings. She won an Emmy as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Mini-series for her role as Maria Callas in Onassis: The Richest Man Alive.Among her other feature film credits are Live and Let Die and Battlestar Galactica. She has starred in the motion pictures for television Angel of Death, Matters of the Heart, The Woman He Loved, and Jack the Ripper, all on the CBS Television Network. In 1995, she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress, for her role as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Seymour is married to actor-director James Keach. They live with her two children, Katie and Sean Michael and their twin sons, Kristopher and John, in Malibu CA, and on a 15th-century country estate near Bath, England.
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