Actress Jeri Ryan

I'm watching Star Trek: Picard, and I looked up Jeri Ryan, who plays Seven of Nine. I knew I remembered her from a David E. Kelly series but couldn't remember which one (Boston Public). Anyway, I scrolled down to the 'personal life' section of Wikipedia and read some weird shit.

I'm watching Star Trek: Picard, and I looked up Jeri Ryan, who plays Seven of Nine. I knew I remembered her from a David E. Kelly series but couldn't remember which one (Boston Public).

Anyway, I scrolled down to the 'personal life' section of Wikipedia and read some weird shit.

Jeri was married to former Republican politician Jack Ryan.

And this:

[quote] The decision went against both parents' direct request and reversed the decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the child. It was revealed that six years earlier, Jeri had accused Jack Ryan of asking her to perform sexual acts with him in public and in sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips, and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling." Jack denied these allegations. Although Jeri only made a brief statement, and she refused to comment on the matter during the campaign, the document disclosure led Jack to withdraw his candidacy; his main opponent, Barack Obama, then won the 2004 United States Senate election in Illinois.

So, to sum up: She's a Republican, right?

And: All Republicans are total sex freaks, aren't they?

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by Anonymousreply 67April 22, 2023 11:16 AM

Thank you for reminding us of what we already knew.

Your discoveries tend to be retreads. But thanks!

by Anonymousreply 1February 19, 2023 2:35 PM

[quote] So, to sum up: She's a Republican, right?

Absolutely not. She retweets liberal things constantly.

by Anonymousreply 2February 19, 2023 2:38 PM

Yes OP, more people should know that had it not been for her marital sex scandal, Obama would never have become President!

by Anonymousreply 3February 19, 2023 2:40 PM

Ugh, R2, then how could she marry someone who'd run as a Republican candidate? Are you sure she's not just a Katharine McPhee type who lives as a MAGA creep and publicly panders to progressives?

I don't get pairings like that. Like, despite his political record, I feel like Gavin Newsom can't be trustworthy because he chose to marry Kim Guilfoyle. She couldn't have been *that* different when they were together, so what could they have had in common?

by Anonymousreply 4February 19, 2023 2:41 PM

Those tits are practically pornographic!

by Anonymousreply 5February 19, 2023 2:42 PM

r4 She married a Republican because she was a struggling actress/model at the time. In the pre-Trump era, people who weren't politicians were able to separate these things in their private lives, for better or worse.

by Anonymousreply 6February 19, 2023 2:48 PM

R7 have you recovered from your medical troubles?

by Anonymousreply 8February 19, 2023 2:54 PM

r5 Her uniforms were very carefully designed to optically enlarge them as much as possible, it was gross. But it did work because the viewership increased. Very quickly though, the quality writing and Jeri's surprisingly good acting kicked in, turning her into one of Trek's best characters ever.

Her co-stars are still jaded about the way the showrunners begged her to join to show based on her body alone, and are still making fun of her uniform in their convention appearances.

by Anonymousreply 9February 19, 2023 2:55 PM

We can all see her dirty pillows from outer space!

by Anonymousreply 11February 19, 2023 2:58 PM

From what I recall, it was an abusive relationship.

Frankly, after hearing about her relationship with Brandon Braga, that one also sounds a bit controlling and abusive although it's never been stated or confirmed directly.

Unfortunately, many people get into relationships with jackasses when they're young, have little relationship experience, and don't know better. See: Gavin Newsome.

by Anonymousreply 12February 19, 2023 3:02 PM

She's obviously a lot older on Picard and the first thing I noticed is that she is in a full-coverage leather jacket that doesn't emphasize her figure.

I wonder about the internal logic of the show's costume design...they're hundreds of years ahead of us, and yet their sexist attire has evolved over the same number of decades ours has.

by Anonymousreply 13February 19, 2023 3:04 PM

R4 She was only 23 when she married him. People change.

by Anonymousreply 14February 19, 2023 3:09 PM

I adore her. I hope she gets her own Star Trek spin off.

by Anonymousreply 15February 19, 2023 3:13 PM

I guess so. I'm not trying to skewer her. I always liked her as an actress. She's superficially gorgeous, and then upon a closer look she is a little odd looking, and then she's an interesting actor, and then she's interesting looking. That's the impression she always has made on me onscreen.

I've never known anything about her. It's one thing to marry a Republican, but to marry a Republican *politician* is a whole other thing. Ick.

by Anonymousreply 16February 19, 2023 3:13 PM

I never thought much about her one way or another, but then she was cast in a 5-6 episode arc in [italic]Leverage[/italic] (subbing for a pregnant Gina Bellman), and I fell in love with her.

Gorgeous, can act, doesn't seem to take herself too seriously...what's not to love?

by Anonymousreply 17February 19, 2023 3:22 PM

I'd want a series that is a bit more of an ensemble cast that included Seven as one of the main characters. I'm actually liking the rotating cast that Picard has used each season with someone with bigger role one season, then moving to the background, then leaving to make room for new ones. The only issue is that they should get a solid character arc and send-off - Elnore got a bit screwed on that. However, if they go on to do another show, they could bring Elnore back which would be cool.

They definitely screwed up by leaving Santiago Cabrera in the past at the end of season 2. They should have left him in command of the Stargazer. Even if Picard didn't go to him to take them to Beverly, he could have been in the background and not starred this season, but available for future shows and seasons - I liked Santiago Cabrera. His different holo iterations showed that he could play different roles.

The cat suit, like Deanna's jumpsuits, was a ridiculous choice. Ryan looked great in the standard Starfleet uniform on VOY during the time travel episode where she's sent to stop Voyager from being destroyed.

by Anonymousreply 18February 19, 2023 3:26 PM

r16, she didn't marry a Republican politician. She married an investment banker, which is what he was when they married. Ten years later (which is also after they divorced), he left investment banking to teach high school for a few years. After that--five years after their divorce--he ran for the Senate.

So no, he was not a politician when they were married. People change.

by Anonymousreply 19February 19, 2023 3:30 PM

Before 'incel' was a word...there were trekkies jerking off to Uhura, Troi and Seven of Nine shrinkwrapped in their Spandex spaceporn outfits.

Jonathan Frakes said recently that Gene Roddenberry always forced writers to avoid conflict, which is the basis of story, because she wanted to show a utopian future society. I presume they made up in part for the lack of conflict and the expository dialogue by having intellectual spacebabes run around with their big boobs and asses out.

by Anonymousreply 20February 19, 2023 3:30 PM

I guess becoming jaded is a real thing. A club with whips and cages and — gasp — sex! doesn’t sound remotely scandalous to me. We had one in Seattle, ffs. But then, in fairness, I did think I was really on the cutting age of hipness when I went there.

by Anonymousreply 21February 19, 2023 3:33 PM

The point is that she didn't want to do it.

by Anonymousreply 22February 19, 2023 3:44 PM

Well, good. Thanks, guys. Glad to know I can enjoy her performance without resenting her for being a Nazi. 😂

by Anonymousreply 23February 19, 2023 3:48 PM

She met him when she was the reigning Miss Illinois at a charity event. They were a gorgeous looking couple.

by Anonymousreply 24February 19, 2023 3:57 PM

He took her to a sex club in Paris on their *honeymoon*! How did he manage to keep that side of himself hidden from a future wife? Oh, yeah. He's a politician. And he kept at it.

by Anonymousreply 25February 19, 2023 4:01 PM

Welllllllllll sorry to make assumptions, but if she was a beauty queen/model who married an attractive, rich financial-sector executive, is it wrong to think she was probably riding his handsome dick for superficial reasons and may not have really put a lot of thought into who he was?

by Anonymousreply 26February 19, 2023 4:05 PM

You're describing an awful lot of gay men, r26.

by Anonymousreply 27February 19, 2023 4:19 PM

R27 I'm describing young, attractive opportunists who know they can skip a couple decades of hard work by marrying money and who prioritize that over other life choices.

I was stunned when I got a new job at 30 and a woman said to me, 'Can I ask you a question? Do you believe in marrying for love or for money?'

I was so thrown. I was naive and didn't realize some people actually weigh those options.

by Anonymousreply 28February 19, 2023 4:24 PM

It wasn't my tits that got me noticed...

by Anonymousreply 29February 19, 2023 4:32 PM

They may have hired her tits, but they got one hell of an actress attached to them.

by Anonymousreply 30February 19, 2023 4:34 PM

well, I'm glad she stood her ground and objected when the producers originally wanted her character to be Nine of Nine with a more daring costume.

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by Anonymousreply 31February 19, 2023 4:48 PM

She was in that really awful gerard butler dracula movie too, played one of his wives.

by Anonymousreply 32February 19, 2023 4:55 PM

You think this kind of behavior is exclusive to Republicans? Most of those at places like Folsom - that place where people fuck in public - are Dems.

by Anonymousreply 33February 19, 2023 4:57 PM

I know I’m gay as hell because I’m way more invested in figuring if she reminds me more or Juliet Prowse or Dorothy Lyman in the face (I see both!) than her poitrine.

by Anonymousreply 34February 19, 2023 5:04 PM

Along comes R33 and makes me sad I used my 24 hours worth of F&Fs yesterday.

by Anonymousreply 36February 19, 2023 5:14 PM

R24 is correct.

I dated a few Rethugs when I was in my 20s.

Also? Republicans back then weren’t the trash we see in the news now. It was a different time, and they were also different.

by Anonymousreply 37February 19, 2023 5:21 PM

I just found out that Jeri Ryan is 55 years old - she looks damn great. I hope and pray she doesn't destroy her face with bad plastic surgery.

by Anonymousreply 38February 19, 2023 5:22 PM

That uniform was one of the grossest things Star Trek ever did, I sometimes swear the sexism of the 90’s was just as bad or worse than the 60’s. I didn’t like Voyager much, really mediocre writing, but Jeri Ryan was great in the role and one of the highlights now of the hit and miss Picard series (and thankfully they actually dress her).

by Anonymousreply 39February 19, 2023 5:22 PM

R36, I gave one F F on your behalf.

You’re welcome! 😉

by Anonymousreply 40February 19, 2023 5:23 PM

Omg, she didn't just wear a Spandex catsuit but also high heels! As a military officer on a ship! What the fuck?

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by Anonymousreply 41February 19, 2023 5:42 PM

lol I just read the explanation...her outfit was supposed to have been a metallic 'exoskin' from the borg that they weren't able to remove and replace until they had a technology to regenerate her skin.

Why she couldn't just put an outfit on top of it? Who knows.

by Anonymousreply 42February 19, 2023 5:45 PM

Because she has stellar boobs and a bangin’ body, R42.

by Anonymousreply 43February 19, 2023 6:12 PM

R43 I just read that the outfit included huge pads for her boobs to make them gargantuan. That was the costume.

by Anonymousreply 44February 19, 2023 6:17 PM

Jeri Ryan as 7 of 9 was brought on Voyage in season 4 to replace the dismal Kes character [italic]and[/italic] as the resident babe (un?)dressed to appeal to the boys that show-runners Berman and Piller thought weren't watching because Janeway wasn't young and voluptuous enough. It actually caused problems as Kate Mulgrew didn't particularly cotton to the idea that she wasn't sufficient, so much so that Garret Wang (Harry Kim) was said to become so upset at the strife between the cast that he cried on a ST panel at a comicon.

As it turns out, Ryan is an outspoken liberal (in good company with Tim Russ and Robert Picardo) while Robert Beltran has lost his mind and become a belligerent conservative crank. While I was thrilled to see her in the first episode of [italic]Picard [/italic] season 3, I too was hoping they put together a spinoff series with Ryan as the (lesbian!) lead of the vigilante Rangers.

by Anonymousreply 45February 19, 2023 6:52 PM

Jeri was 3rd runner up to miss America 1990 Debbye turner. She was studying theater at northwestern when she was encouraged to enter the pageant and won it on her first try. One of her first big acting jobs was playing another miss America runner up, dawn smith who was miss south Carolina 1986 and 2nd runner up to miss America 1987. Dawn has been stalked by and obsessed fan who kidnapped and murdered her sister and continued to taunt and harass her and her family after her sister’s death. He was finally caught after murdering a little girl and his calls were traced to a home of a family that used him as a handyman.

Here is Jeri Ryan as “Lynn Zimmerman” at the 1989 Miss Illinois pageant. By the time she got to miss America her hair was blonde and she was going by her full name.

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by Anonymousreply 46February 20, 2023 4:44 AM

It just goes to show that no matter how gorgeous and perfect a woman is, there's always a straight man ready and willing to treat her like shit.

See also: Farrah Fawcett.

by Anonymousreply 47February 20, 2023 5:12 AM

Speaking of Farrah Fawcett, I am watching season two of Picard now. They've just been through hell and landed in 2024, and I just noticed all the women look like they just stepped out of the hair salon. The perfect heads of spiraling beauty pageant curls are a little ridiculous.

by Anonymousreply 48March 16, 2023 12:47 PM

Kate Mulgrew was really pissed when Jeri Ryan was brought on, and storylines began being centered around Seven of Nine. Mulgrew has since admitted she was too hard on Jeri and they've since reconciled and are on good terms now.

by Anonymousreply 51March 16, 2023 7:25 PM

Mulgrew was also resentful because she perceived those magical scenes of the two of them together just hashing out philosophical differences as a mother-daughter thing (making Mulgrew feel ancient and sexless in the process), when in fact they were a mentor-mentee interactions that transcend gender and age. Those remain some of the best scenes in all of Trek.

Glad most of them have moved on by now, nothing is gained from holding onto and rehashing old grievances.

by Anonymousreply 52March 16, 2023 7:37 PM

I’ll say one thing about Jeri Ryan-

She was a far stronger and far more interesting character than the one she replaced on Voyager

Jess- so uninteresting and so milquetoast - I know I spelled the word wrong 😑

by Anonymousreply 53March 16, 2023 7:53 PM

I meant to write Kess not Jess.

by Anonymousreply 54March 16, 2023 7:54 PM

The Voyager set was a difficult one. They were always sniping and fighting with each other.

by Anonymousreply 55March 16, 2023 8:02 PM

She is beautiful and a good Actress too.

by Anonymousreply 56March 16, 2023 8:09 PM

There she is..Miss America runner-up

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by Anonymousreply 58March 29, 2023 10:47 AM

If you're going to be Seven's wacky, gay sidekick, you'd be 8 of 9 because the lower number is the higher ranked in Borg nomenclature.

by Anonymousreply 59March 30, 2023 5:45 PM

DLers live in a black and white world. Grow up. People are complex.

by Anonymousreply 60March 30, 2023 5:50 PM

R20 Who’s the “she” in your post?

“Jonathan Frakes said recently that Gene Roddenberry always forced writers to avoid conflict, which is the basis of story, because she wanted to show a utopian future society.”

by Anonymousreply 62April 22, 2023 4:19 AM

[quote]Before 'incel' was a word...there were trekkies jerking off to Uhura, Troi and Seven of Nine shrinkwrapped in their Spandex spaceporn outfits.

Oh, Captain Janeway!

Lace... the final brassiere!

by Anonymousreply 63April 22, 2023 5:13 AM

Obama is a republican compared to pre-1980s democrats and also current international standards.

by Anonymousreply 64April 22, 2023 5:40 AM

[quote] That uniform was one of the grossest things Star Trek ever did,

It was worth it, though, just for the parody of it on "the Simpsons" (as it was worn by closeted trannie Lenny Leonard).

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by Anonymousreply 65April 22, 2023 5:47 AM

R55- You mean Kate Mulgrew made a pass at Jeri Ryan and Ryan spurned her advances.

by Anonymousreply 66April 22, 2023 7:03 AM

Jeri Ryan made several (?) appearances on the show Major Crimes a number of years ago. Man, she was fun to watch.

For me, there was something very cool and enticing about her character, Linda Rothman. She was smart, sexy (the costumer dressed her beautifully) and had an awareness of the situation that gave her an air of bemusement.

by Anonymousreply 67April 22, 2023 11:16 AM

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