Heart health is very personal for Jane Seymour .

Coronary disease runs in her family. Seymour’s mother suffered a stroke and her father underwent valve replacement and quadruple heart bypass surgery. The actress even played a heart transplant recipient in the 2002 TV movie “Heart of a Stranger.” “I’ve watched four open-heart surgeries,” she says about preparing for that role. “It is quite extraordinary when you actually watch the surgery, and you see this miracle. You see the the actual arteries attached to the machine that manages it whilst they repair it. It’s like macrame. It is unbelievable what they do.”

Seymour, best known for her starring role in the CBS series “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” has now been named an American Heart Association DRTV (direct response television) ambassa

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