Jeri Ryan Pictures

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Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmerman in 1968 in Munich , Germany. She has one older brother, Mark and her father was in the United States Army and as a military child she grew up on military bases in all over the world including Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia and Texas.

After Ryan graduated from high school in 1986 (as a National Merit Scholar ), she attended North western University , where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority . In 1989 , Jeri 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 . Jeri graduated from Northwestern in 1990 with a BA in Theatre.

In 1997 , she was cast to play Seven of Nine , a Borg drone freed from the collective on the US science fiction series Star Trek Voyager. The role gave her almost instant fame and her tight-fitting uniform made her a sex symbol among some science-fiction fans. However It also drew criticism from some fans who felt that character was created to add sexuality to the show, and who felt that a large number of episodes focused on her character to the exclusion of others well known characters.

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