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Jeri Lynn Ryan (born February 22, 1968)
is an American actress best known for playing the
ex-Borg Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager.
Childhood: Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmerman in
1968 in Munich, Germany, to American parents; she has
one older brother, Mark. Her father was in the United
States Army and as a military brat she grew up on
military bases in Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia, and
Texas. When Ryan was eleven, the family settled in
Paducah, Kentucky. After Ryan graduated from high school
in 1986 (as a National Merit Scholar), she attended
Northwestern University, where she was a member of the
Alpha Phi sorority.
In 1989, Ryan became Miss Illinois and
was a preliminary swimsuit winner at the Miss America
Pageant. Jeri finished as the third runner-up to Miss
America 1990, Debbye Turner. Ryan graduated from
Northwestern in 1990 with a BA in Theatre.
Career: Ryan was hired for a role in Planes,
Trains & Automobiles during the summer prior to her
freshman year at Northwestern, but was cut out of the
final version due to her (in her own words)
"ruining every scene I was in" by laughing.
After college, she pursued acting full-time in Los
Angeles. She made her acting debut in Who's the Boss?
and followed that with guest-starring roles in TV shows
like Melrose Place, Matlock, and The Sentinel as well as
TV movies such as Co-Ed Call Girl.
Her big break came when she won a regular role as an
extraterrestrial investigator named Juliet Stuart on the
TV show Dark Skies. The show was cancelled after one
season, but the role had drawn the attention of the
science-fiction community.
In 1997, Ryan was cast to play Seven of Nine, a Borg
drone freed from the collective on the science fiction
series Star Trek: Voyager. The role drew her instant
fame and her tight-fitting uniform made her a sex symbol
among some science-fiction fans. It also drew criticism
from some fans who felt that character was created to
add sexuality to the show, and who felt that a
disproportionate number of episodes focused on her
character to the exclusion of others.
Co-star Kate Mulgrew, who played Captain
Janeway, reportedly was upset at the addition of a sex
icon and Seven of Nine. However, her appearance also
coincided with higher ratings and more positive critical
reviews of Voyager, which were partly attributed to
better screenwriting and partly due to her character
being both intrinsically interesting and
well-acted.[citation needed] Seven of Nine appeared on
seven TV Guide covers in the USA.
After Voyager ended in 2001, Ryan joined the cast of
Boston Public in the role of Ronnie Cooke, a frustrated
lawyer who quits to become a high school teacher. The
show's producer, David E. Kelley, wrote the role
specifically for her. The show was cancelled in 2004.
Ryan has recently appeared in films, such as Down With
Love. Ryan played Lydia in the independent film Men Cry
Bullets, with a rave review for her performance from
Roger Ebert. Jeri then starred in her first film lead in
the indie comedy "The Last Man", playing the
last woman on Earth, released by Lion's Gate.
She also had a recurring role on The O.C. (as Charlotte
Morgan) in the autumn of 2005 and guest-starred on David
E. Kelley's Boston Legal in 2006. Ryan stars in the new
CBS legal drama Shark; she plays Los Angeles District
Attorney Jessica Devlin, opposite James Woods.
Personal life: In 1990, while dealing blackjack
at a charity event, Jeri Lynn met investment banker and
future political candidate Jack Ryan. The couple married
in 1991 and had a son, Alex, in 1994. Throughout the
marriage, Ryan and her husband took turns commuting
between Los Angeles and Chicago for their careers, but
finally divorced in 1999. Although Ryan mentioned (in an
interview for Star Trek), that the frequent separations
had been difficult for the marriage, the reasons behind
the divorce were kept sealed at their mutual request.
Five years later, when Jack Ryan's Senate campaign
began, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the
local ABC affiliate, sought to have the records
released. Both Jeri and Jack agreed to make their
divorce records public, but not the custody records,
claiming that their release could be harmful to their
son.
On June 22, 2004, the California judge (Los Angeles
Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider) in the case agreed
to release the custody files; the decision generated
much controversy because it went against both parents'
direct request and because it generally reversed the
early decision to seal the papers in the best interest
of the child.
It was revealed that, six years
previously, Jeri had accused Jack Ryan of asking her to
perform sexual acts with him in public, and in adult
clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan
described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips
and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling." Jack
Ryan denied these allegations. Although Jeri Ryan
refused to comment on the matter during the campaign,
the document disclosure led Jack Ryan to withdraw his
Republican candidacy for an open United States Senate
seat in Illinois which was eventually won by Barack
Obama.
During later seasons of Star Trek Voyager she was
romantically linked to the series producer Brannon
Braga.
Jeri Ryan has long admitted to a love of food, and while
starring in Boston Public, she moonlighted on weekends
in the kitchen of the Los Angeles restaurant The House.
In February 2005, she opened - in partnership with her
then boyfriend, Chef Christophe Émé - the restaurant
Ortolan. Located on Third Street in Los Angeles,
California, the restaurant serves French food with a
modern interpretation. Ryan married Émé in the Loire
Valley, France on June 16, 2007. |
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