Jeri Lynn Ryan (born February 22, 1968) is an American actress best known for playing the ex- Borg Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager.Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmerman in 1968 in Munich, Germany, to American parents; she has one older brother, Mark. Her father was in the United States Army and as a military brat she grew up on military bases in Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia, and Texas. When Ryan was eleven, the family settled in Paducah, Kentucky.