Jeri Ryan

About

Jeri Lynn Ryan (née Zimmermann; born February 22, 1968) is an American actress best known for her role as the former Borg drone Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager (1997–2001) and Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023), for which she won two Saturn Awards, in 2001 and 2024.
She is also known for her role as Veronica “Ronnie” Cooke on Boston Public (2001–2004), and as a regular on the science-fiction series Dark Skies (1997) and the legal drama series Shark (2006–2008). In 2009, she guest-starred on the series Leverage as Tara Cole. From 2011 to 2013, she starred as Dr. Kate Murphy in the ABC drama series Body of Proof, and from 2016 to 2019, she appeared as Veronica Allen on the Amazon Prime series Bosch.

Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmermann on February 22, 1968, in Munich, West Germany to father Gerhard Florian “Jerry” Zimmermann, a U.S. Army master sergeant, and mother Sharon, a social worker. Ryan grew up on Army posts in Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia and Texas. She has an older brother.
When she was 11 years old, her father retired from the Army and the family settled in Paducah, Kentucky. She graduated from Lone Oak High School in 1986 as a National Merit Scholar. She…