’90s Actress Reveals Secret Romance With Co-Star
CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images Jane Seymour, 75, has revealed that she had a brief romance with her Dr.
Quinn, Medicine Woman , co-star and on-screen love interest, Joe Lando, 64.
The pair played Dr.
Michaela “Mike” Quinn and Byron Sully, respectively, in the Western drama, which ran from 1993 to 1998.
In the show, Michaela is a physician who leaves Boston and heads west to Colorado Springs, where she meets rugged outdoorsman Byron.
Seymour won a Golden Globe Award in 1996 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series—Drama for her role and earned nominations for the same award in 1994, 1995, and 1997.
After the show ended in 1998, Seymour and Lando starred in two subsequent made-for-TV Dr.
Quinn movies.
The actors reunited on October 17 at 90s Con for a panel about the show, moderated by People executive editor Breanne L.
Heldman.
Seymour said she and Lando fell in love in 1992 while filming the pilot episode, leading to a short-lived, secret relationship.
Now, they’re each involved with different partners but remain close friends.
Lando has been married to his wife Kristen since 1997, and Seymour told People in June that she was engaged to emergency room physician John Zambetti.
But that first day on the Dr.
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