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Jeri Lynn Ryan
 Jeri
Lynn Ryan (born February 22, 1968) is an American actress,
primarily for her roles in movies and television. She came to
fame as the ex-Borg Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager. Now she
plays James Woods' legal partner and district attorney, Jessica
Devlin, on CBS's, Shark.
Early life : Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmermann in Munich,
Germany, the daughter of American parents Sharon, a social
worker, and Gerhard Florian "Jerry" Zimmermann, a master
sergeant in the United States Army. She has one older brother,
Mark. As a military brat, Ryan grew up on military bases in
Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia, and Texas. When Ryan was
eleven, the family settled in Paducah, Kentucky. After she
graduated from high school in 1986 (as a National Merit Scholar),
Ryan attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of
the Alpha Phi sorority. In 1989, Ryan became Miss Illinois and
was a preliminary swimsuit winner at the Miss America Pageant.
She finished as the third runner-up to Miss America 1990, Debbye
Turner. Ryan graduated from Northwestern in 1990 with a BA in
Theatre.
Celebrity Big
Brother
Celebrity Big Brother 2007 was the fifth series of the United
Kingdom reality television series Celebrity Big Brother, a spin-off
of Big Brother. The series was broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK
(also on S4C in Wales), and involved a number of celebrities
referred to as 'housemates', who live in the Big Brother House
with no contact with the outside world. In recent series, the
show's producers have offered celebrities money to appear on
Celebrity Big Brother.
Celebrity Big Brother 2007 started on 3 January 2007, and ran
for 26 days. The launch show peaked at 8.2 million viewers,
making it the second most-watched launch in Big Brother history.
It was the first Celebrity Big Brother series to be shown in the
16:9 widescreen format and the final Celebrity series to be held
in the Elstree compound with the regular series later in the
year being the final one overall.
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