Trivia
- Jeri gave birth to daughter Gisele on March 2, 2008.
- Jeri and Christophe Eme were married in France on June 16, 2007.
- Jeri has one brother who is a year older.
- Part of the Boston Legal episode, "Spring Fever" (in which Jeri Ryan played a celebrity) was shot in Ryan's own Los Angeles restaurant Ortolan.
- She was Miss Illinois in 1989.
- The Seven Of Nine voice in Star Trek Voyager : Elite force was performed by Joan Buddenhagen,
prior to the Expansion Pack (Jeri reprised her role later on). - Jeri narrated the 3-part TV special UFOs & Aliens: Search for the Truth, for TLC (The Learning Channel) which originally aired March 5th-7th of 2000.
- Jeri was in the film Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) however, her part was cut from the final release because she couldn't stop laughing during production.
- Jeri hosted UPN's Star Trek Voyager (1995) 2-hour episode special "Year of Hell" on November 5, 1997.
- Jeri hosted "America's Greatest Pets: Amazing But True" on April 27, 1998.
- Jeri has appeared in episodes of two different series entitled "The Gift": "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995) and "Dilbert" (1999).
- In 2005, she and fiance, chef Christophe Emé, opened a California restaurant named Ortolan.
- Her ex-husband, Jack Ryan, was running for Senator in Illinois, but dropped out of the race when allegations in their divorce proceedings were made public. [2004]
- Jeri is the daughter of Jerry and Sharon Zimmermann.
- Jeri turned down a cameo in the film Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) because of her busy schedule on Boston Public (2000). The cameo was subsequently given to her Star Trek: Voyager (1995) castmate, Kate Mulgrew.
- Jeri graduated from Lone Oak High School in Paducah, Kentucky in 1986.
- Jeri dated Star Trek writer and producer Brannon Braga in 2000.
- Spouse:
Jack Ryan (June 15, 1991 - August 27, 1999) (divorced)
Christophe Eme (June, 16 2007 - present) - Jeri came in fourth place in the 1990 Miss America Pageant.
- Jeri admits that the most common question she's been asked by fans as of late, is whether or not her new character on "The O.C." is going to sleep with one of the teens in the show.
- Jeri appeared on Jeopardy! Celebrity Invitational playing for St. Jude's Hospital.
- Jeri was a National Merit Scholar and a member of Alpha Phi Sorority while at Northwestern University (Beta Chapter).
- Ryan was ranked 65th on the "102 Sexiest Women In The World" list according to Stuff Magazine in 2002.
Quotes
- Jeri: We're planning a June wedding. It will be very French: simple and intimate.
- Jeri: There are three things pageant women do. There's the Vaseline thing, which I didn't do. There's duct-taping your boobs, which I never did because I'm not into pain. The third thing is using athletic spray adhesive on your butt to keep your swimsuit in place. I did do that. So one out of three ain't bad.
