Jeri Ryan

Jeri Ryan

Here is a biography of my favorite actress, Jeri Lynn Ryan:

The actress who gained worldwide stardom as Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager was born Jeri Lynn Zimmermann on February 22, 1968. in Munich, Germany

Jeri Ryan graduated from Lone Oak High School in Paducah, KY in 1986, then attended Northwestern University, where she earned a B.A. in Theater in 1990. While in college, she won the sixth annual Miss Northwestern Alpha Delta Phi Pageant in 1989. She also won the talent contest singing "On My Own" from Les Miserables and co-won the swimsuit contest. Later, Jeri Ryan was Miss Illinois 1990 and competed in the Miss America pageant, where she won the swimsuit competition and placed third runner-up. But if you think she's all looks and no brains, you're wrong; while in school Jeri was also a National Merit Scholar.

Jeri Ryan joined the cast of the NBC series Dark Skies midway through its first and only season, with the episode "The Warren Omission." Looking back on the show, Jeri notes that she liked the people and the premise, but felt that NBC had given up on the series by the time she arrived on the scene. "Dark Skies had a lot of potential," she says. "The show was just finding its footing when it got canceled."

Jeri Ryan also found time to film roles in two independent features. Men Cry Bullets was billed as "a tragic comedy that uses gender reversal to demonstrate the insidiousness of an abusive relationship."
On the other hand, "The Last Man is about the last three people on Earth, and I'm the last woman," says Jeri. "I know it sounds like sci-fi, but it's really not. I hope they get the film released. It's a small, but very good film."

And then, of course, came Star Trek: Voyager. Jeri joined the cast at the beginning of its fourth season, with the episode "Scorpion, Part II."Joining a series in mid-run was something she'd done before, but the similarities to Dark Skies ended there. "I did a complete 180," says Jeri. "I was fighting the collective, the (alien) Hive on Dark Skies. Now I'm part of the collective, the Borg. It's very funny."

Jeri Ryan is currently filming the seventh and final season of Voyager, but that's not her only acting job at the moment. In Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000, Jeri plays, in the words of The Hollywood Reporter, "a New Orleans-based journalist searching for the vampire." Filmed in New Orleans and Toronto, the movie was released on December 22, 2000.

Keep divorce sealed
LOS ANGELES -- The ex-wife of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jack Ryan joined his effort Monday to block the media from reopening sealed records in their 1999 divorce here.

An attorney for Jeri Ryan, a television actress, supported her ex-husband's attorneys in a hearing before a court-appointed referee, who will recommend to a judge in about three weeks whether any portions of the documents should be unsealed.

During the hearing, Jack Ryan's attorney, Larry Ginsberg, told the referee that the documents were sealed in 2000 and 2001 to protect the welfare of the divorced couple's son. He said the media's interest in the divorce existed only because of the political campaign, and "the whims of the people of Illinois will be over in November."

However, "whatever damage that results to this child ... will be done permanently" if the documents are reopened, Ginsberg told retired Superior Court Judge Isabel Cohen, the referee. The hearing was held in a conference room of Ginsberg's law offices.

Cohen then held a 1 1/2-hour closed session with attorneys representing the divorced couple so they could argue why the contents of 44 or so sealed documents should not be made public again. That hearing excluded an attorney representing the Chicago Tribune and WLS-Ch. 7, which are asking the court to unseal the divorce records.

The media's attorney, Susan Seager, was overruled in her objection to the closed, exclusive hearing, but referee Cohen noted that a court reporter would be transcribing the session and added that "you'll get to see every juicy detail" in the transcript if the media prevail.

During Monday's open hearing, Seager said "statements and accusations" made by the couple in the divorce should not be sealed and added the media outlets were not interested in unsealing a report filed by a custody evaluator who had examined the son.

"We're asking the court to unseal a maximum amount as possible," Seager told the referee. "The interest is to protect the child but not to protect Mr. Ryan from embarrassment."

In March Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider indicated he would reverse his decision that had sealed divorce documents and added the court should show "there is no favoritism to the rich and the powerful." But he appointed a referee to examine which records should be opened.

When Jack Ryan first sought to seal parts of the divorce file, Jeri Ryan's attorney fought that request, arguing that Jack Ryan only was thinking of "his potential political career."

Schnider initially denied any sealing, but in the following months, after a man was convicted of stalking Jeri Ryan, starring in "Star Trek: Voyager" at the time, he granted the request. Half of the documents were sealed in June 2000, and the other half in September 2001, and the records had been kept in Jack Ryan's lawyer's office, an unusual practice by the court, according to Seager.

Jack Ryan, a millionaire investment banker who became a teacher at Hales Franciscan High School on Chicago's South Side, became the GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate after winning his party's March primary.

 

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