Russian viewers, actress Jerry Ryan is best known for the science-fiction series Star Trek: Voyager. They say that largely due to the appearance of Jerry - a spectacular blonde in a tight-fitting suit - the project rating was so high.
The actress herself still hopes that not only visual techniques contributed to the project’s popularity, but also the acting talent of the team that participated in the creation of the series.
Biography
The future star of the series in Munich in 1968 was born. Her father, Gerhard Florian Zimmermann, was a military man and served at that time in Germany, and her mother worked in the social service. Therefore, at birth, the girl bore a name - Jerry Lynn Zimmerman.
Like all military men, his father was constantly sent to different bases, and the whole family moved with him, and they lived either in Kansas, then in Maryland, then in Georgia, or in some other state. We can say that they traveled almost the whole country, and these trips ended only with the retirement of Gerhard.
After that, the head of the family decided to settle in Paddyuk, Kentucky. Finally, his daughter could easily go to school and not think that in a year she would have to pack things again. After graduating from high school, the future actress entered Northwestern University, at the theater department.
Jerry always knew that she was attractive, so in 1989 she applied for the Miss Illinois beauty pageant. To the great joy of the girl, she becomes the winner - this is a real success!
However, the ambitious student was not going to stop there: she decided to win the contest "Miss America" next year. And here is the competition - fears, unrest, adrenaline. She won the "Defile in Swimsuit" tour, but in the main competition she took only third place.
For her, it was a failure, because she wanted only victory. However, after a little reflection, she realized that there are also advantages here: at the competition, she met influential people who will help her in her future career. This is what happened after she graduated from university and moved to Los Angeles.
Movie career
In Los Angeles, thanks to acquaintances, Jerry immediately gets a permanent job and begins acting in the project "Who's the boss?" (1984-1992). For eight whole years she has stable employment, but that is not all.
Almost simultaneously, the actress begins acting in the famous TV series "She wrote the murder" (1984-1996), and the project turned out to be even longer, because his ratings were constantly high. Starring Angela Landsbury and William Wind, who shone here, and they had a lot to learn from the young actress. The series was nominated for various awards twenty-three times and received six awards in the nominations "For Best Actress" and as the best series.
Jerry turned out to be a very hardworking girl, and in parallel with the two main series, which starred in these years, played small roles in other projects, thereby gaining more and more acting experience.
In 1996, she received a rather significant role in the project "Dark Skies". Unfortunately, the series did not become popular, and a year later it was closed. This first failure could not affect Jerry's desire to act further, because she already had a positive experience.
Just a year later, in 1997, Ryan was casting for a significant role in the fourth season of the science-fiction series Star Trek: Voyager. She created here the image of a representative of the alien race of the Borg, named the Seventh of nine. According to the plot at the end, the alien became a person Annika Hansen.
Here a different kind of incident occurs: rejection by the acting group. The main role in the project was played by actress Kate Mulgrew, and Jerry was very difficult to work with her - there was no interaction during the filming process, that is, Kate tried not to even look at her partner, although in meaning they had to communicate, communicate.
Mulgrew believed that both the producer and the operator pay too much attention to Ryan because of her bright appearance, and this harms everyone. However, an accident or not, but with the appearance of Jerry in the project, the rating of the series has grown very much.
Ryan was helped by the intercession of project producer Brannon Bragi - they then began a romantic relationship.
Be that as it may, the actress herself made a significant contribution to this project, and this can be seen if only because she was nominated for the Seventh, out of nine four times nominated for the Saturn Award, and in 2011 she received this award in nomination "Best Supporting Actress".
After working in this project, Jerry got her fans, she began to be invited to other rating projects.
There was a situation when such fame played a cruel joke with the actress: she began to be threatened in writing by a fan who was later arrested. However, he managed to write a lot of threats, and Jerry it was very unpleasant.
The other side of fame was also: specifically for her producer David Kelly created the role of a teacher in the series "Boston School". This project was also very popular and won the love of the audience.
Since then, the actress did not have to fear for her career - she became in demand and began acting in several projects at the same time.
Once she was invited to shoot in the magazine "Maxim", and she became known as a magnificent fashion model - the pictures turned out gorgeous.
