Although an accomplished actress, Ryan considers her greatest role to be that of mother to Alex. "As a mom, I'm more patient and fell more complete," she says. "Nobody could have convinced me while I was pregnant of how magical it would be to be a mother." In her spare time, she enjoys show skiing as well as cookingand baking. "I make some mean pies!" Ryan states proudly.
Jeri is naturally 5' 8" and at 6' in her Borg-heels, she is more than statuesque. TV Guide referred to her "whiplash-inducing presence." Syndicated columnist Ron Miller said, "One gets the impression she's going to shiver the timbers of the Voyager males."
Her character's name is Seven of Nine which is short for Seven of Nine Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One, or something like that." says Ryan. "We've streamlined it to Seven, which isn't so bad."
Voyager executive producer Rick Berman describerd Seven as "a sensual creature neither fully Borg nor fully human." She's dressed to look like and extraterrestrial version of Catwoman, encased in an ultralight catsuit, bearing a few remaining Borg markings on her face and hands.
Co-Star Ethan Phillips says those tight costumes make working with Ryan a little "complicated." Ryan says, "For the first costume, if I would do anything other than have my head straight ahead, it cut off my carotid artery. It was so tight that I blacked out four times," says Ryan, interviewed on the Voyager set in a new costume that she says is looser but still takes and hour to climb into.
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