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Jeri Ryan Biography And Filmography:

Jeri Ryan played 'Seven of Nine', a human who was assimilated by the Borg as a young girl on Paramount's Network Television's "Star Trek: Voyager" where when pulled to the far side of the Galaxy, and the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home..

Virtually unknown before her role on "Star Trek", regrettably for the world, Jeri Ryan has been taking the world by storm ever since her introduction as the sensual and sexy Seven of Nine.

Ryan, a self-admitted Army brat, grew up on bases in Germany and Hawaii. Jeri was born in Munich, Germany and after relocating to Army bases in Kansas, Maryland, Georgia and Texas, her family finally set down down in Paduch, Kentucky when she was 11.

After graduating from Northwestern University in Chicago as a National Merit Scholar wit a B.S. in theater, she moved again to Los Angeles in hopes of jump-starting an acting or film career. As a former series regular on "Dark Skies" (1996), Ryan was no stranger to the world of science fiction. She played Juliet, a mysterious government agent who helped in a secret battle against hostile extraterrestrials in a story where aliens are among and a government cover-up has prevented the public from knowing about it. As the series progresses, we follow John Loengard and Kim Sayers as they attempt to thwart numerous plans of the alien Hive, most of which are tied to historical events and figures.

Prior to landing the role in Dark Skies, she guest-starred on various television series including "Matlock", "Who's the Boss?", "Murder She Wrote", "Reasonable Doubts" and "Diagnosis Murder", "The Client", "Melrose Place", "The Sentinel", "Two and a Half Men", "Boston Legal"

Ryan turned heads in her role in "Melrose Place", as she played a lesbian soap opera actress who endured a staged marriage to a gay bridegroom. It was the first gay and lesbian role for Jeri Ryan but critics agreed that she pulled it off well. Ryan's television credits also include roles in a variety of made for television movies including "Coed Call Girl", "Nightmare in Columbia County" and NBC's "In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco".

Jeri Ryan got her feature film break in the dramatic comedy "Men Cry Bullets" (1997) about a young man (Steven Nelson) who wants to be a female impersonator, but gets mocked in his very first performance by a fierce older woman. After that, she was hired and cast in the comedy action thriller "The Last Man" (2000), a funny apocalyptic comedy that finds a socially-challenged grad school student (David Arnott) as one of the last two men on Earth with a beautiful woman (Jeri Ryan). However, the other remaining man is his superior in every sense. Ryan then moved into the horror genre with the thriller "Dracula 2000" with Gerard Butler and Jennifer Esposito, where a group of thieves break into a chamber expecting to find paintings, but instead they release the count himself, who travels to New Orleans to find his nemesis' daughter, Mary Van Helsing. 

After two years away from the Hollywood limelight, Ryan returned to movies in the comedy "Down With Love" (2003) starring Renee Zellweger, an homage to the early 1960s sex comedies that starred Rock Hudson and Doris Day. The story follows a best-selling female advice author who has all the answers until a sly journalist playboy starts asking the questions. The following year the actress appeared in the fantasy film "Sudbury" (2004) then was cast in the television movie "The Commuters" (2005) starring David Arquette. Gradually, Jeri came to the realization that she preferred television projects over big-budget motion pictures. She was about to get her dream come true.

Jeri Ryan read the script for the television legal serial titled "Boston Public", about the lives of 10 faculty members at a high school in Boston, Mass. who weave in and out at dealing with trouble-makers, having a personal life, and keeping sanity, and fell in love with the shows concept. She was ultimately cast as faculty member Ronnie Cooke, in a fifty-nine episode deal that made the name Jeri Ryan almost a household word. After "Boston Public" wound down, Jeri signed a seven episode deal on ""The O.C." The show turned out to be a runaway success for the network spawning such young stars as Adam Brody and Mischa Barton. Just when Jeri Ryan thought things were as good as they get - they got better.

In 2006, Ryan was cast in the hit television crime serial "Shark" (2006-2008) about a Los Angeles hot-shot lawyer who leaves his lucrative career as defender. Ryan signed a thurty-eight episode deal and could not be happier.

Ryan's private life was dragged into national headlines in 2004 when her former husband Jack Ryan was running for Senator in Illinois and portions of their divorce documents were made public, including Jeri Ryan's allegations that her spouse attempted to persuade her into joining him at sex clubs in various cities around the globe. Her career endured the scandal. 

• Also Credited As:
  Jeri Lynn Ryan, Jeri Lynn Zimmerman
• Born:
  on 02/22/1968 in Munich, Germany
• Job Titles:
  Actor, Model

Family

• Father: Gerhard Florian Zimmerman.
• Mother: Sharon Zimmerman.
• Son: Alex Ryan. born c. 1994; father is Jack Ryan

Significant Others

• Husband: Christophe Eme. partners in Ortolan, a restaurant where Emé is the chef; became engaged March 2006; married June 16, 2007 in Eme's hometown outside 
• Companion: Brannon Braga. oversaw "Star Trek: Voyager"

Education

• School of Speech, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, theater, BA, 1990

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