Seymour takes US citizenship

Actress Jane Seymour waived a small US flag and cheered after she and about 9,000 other immigrants became US citizens during a naturalisation ceremony in Los Angeles today.

The British-born actress who once lived in a mansion near Bath and is best known for her TV series Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, said she has been in the United States since 1976.

“I’ve realised that I’ve been living here longer than in my home country. America has given me unbelievable opportunities,” she said. “I realised that with the US elections I wanted to vote and I couldn’t. I felt the time had come to participate more fully.”

Seymour, 53, wore a cream-coloured suit to the ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Centre.

She sat among more than a dozen US military personnel who also received citizenship. Her nine-year-old twin sons John and Kristopher, said they were excited to see their mom become a US citizen.

“She’s not an alien anymore,” John said.

The actress has been married four times and has five children.