• Son, with Ryan, Alex [1995]


• Miss Illinois 1989


• Came fourth in the 1990 Miss America Pageant.


• Was a national merit scholar and graduated from Northwestern University.


• Appeared on Jeopardy! Celebrity Invitational on Wednesday, April 29, 1998. Jeri played for St. Jude's Hospital.


• Graduated from Lone Oak High School in Paducah, Kentucky in 1986.


• Was a member of Alpha Phi Sorority while at Northwestern University (Beta Chapter).


• VH-1 Rock across America


• Named after her father.


• Turned down a cameo in 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.


• Parents: Jeri and Sharon Zimmermann


• Sibling: Mark



• 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]


• Winner of the swimsuit competition in the 1990 Miss America Pageant


• Ranked #65 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002)


• Bust size in 1989 - 36D


• In 2005, she and boyfriend, chef Christophe Emé, opened a California restaurant named Ortolan.


• Has appeared in episodes of two different series entitled "The Gift": "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995) and "Dilbert" (1999).


• On Star Trek: Voyager, the holographic Doctor's name played by Robert Picardo was given the moniker "Doc Zimmerman," which is Jeri's real last name.

"He's a good man and good father" - on her ex husband Jack Ryan who is running for US Senator in Illinois

"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."

On her Seven of Nine costume: "Initially, I would stay in the costume much longer than I ended up staying in it, because it takes about twenty minutes to get into. Someone has to dress me and undress me. It's a production break if I have to get out of the costume to use the rest room or something. It grinds to a halt unless they can shoot something without me, which typically they can't, if it's a scene that I'm in. So, in the interest of being a team player, the first season, I would not take rest room breaks, I just didn't drink anything on set, which is not the healthiest thing to do."

"When I started out on Voyager, they had to tell me everything about Star Trek, because I knew nothing about it. I had never seen the original series, I had never seen The Next Generation. I think I'd seen a couple of episodes here and there - of the original series, probably. Never seen Voyager. Didn't know what a Borg was. They gave me a copy of First Contact, the movie, so I could at least see what a Borg was. They also gave me a copy of the Big Star Trek encyclopedia, whatever it is, so that I could bone up on my Star Trek knowledge. Fortunately, it sort of worked for the character that I wouldn't know any of the back stories of the people on Voyager, because she was coming in cold, like I was. That was actually helpful as opposed to detrimental."