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What Happened To The Actress Who Played Seven Of Nine After Star Trek: Voyager?
What Happened To The Actress Who Played Seven Of Nine After Star Trek: Voyager?
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Seven of Nine got a happy ending on Star
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Trek Voyager, and actor Jeri Ryan got
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right back to work.
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Well before she ever booked the role of
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everyone's favorite reformed Borg on
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Voyager, Ryan spent much of the '90s
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picking up small roles on various TV
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shows. She'd even done some modeling.
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So, by the time Voyager came to an end
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in 2001, she'd already had plenty of
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opportunity to show her range, and it
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didn't take her long to pivot to a
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completely different gig. By the fall of
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that year, Ryan had already landed the
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role of Ronnie Cook on legendary
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writer-producer David E. Kelley's soapy
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drama Boston Public. She hadn't even
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planned on doing another TV series for a
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while due to how demanding Voyager's
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shooting schedule was, but Kelley's name
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convinced her to hop on. Ryan took on
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the role of an attorney turned teacher
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for the series, joining a large cast of
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students, admins, and educators
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navigating life in a Boston school.
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Funny enough, she told Entertainment
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Weekly she didn't even know who she'd be
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playing until Kelley filled her in just
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a few days ahead of shooting.
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>> We are not protecting our students by
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withholding information.
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>> Well, she's clearly a fast learner
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because she managed to hold her own on
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the show for three seasons. [music]
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Even better, she told startrek.com the
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drastic shift allowed her to break out
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of the Seven of Nine mold immediately,
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helping her avoid getting typecast like
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so many Trek actors before her.
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Boston Public ended in 2004, and Ryan
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quickly picked up a few guest spots on
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shows like Two and a Half Men before
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landing a regular role on the third
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season of Fox's The O.C. There, Ryan
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starred as con artist Charlotte Morgan,
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who plans to pull one over on Kelly
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Rowan's Kirsten, only to get found out
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and stopped by another character before
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she can complete her plan.
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>> I think it's time you left, don't you?
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This town's only really big enough for
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one manipulative
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>> Ryan was far from the only Star Trek
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alum to be involved with The O.C. Her
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fellow Voyager stars Robert Duncan
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McNeill and Roxann Dawson, each directed
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episodes of the show. Similarly,
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Rosalind Chao, who starred as Keiko
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O'Brien in Deep Space Nine in The Next
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Generation, also appeared in a few
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episodes of the hit teen drama.
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In 2006, Ryan booked another long-term
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role on the CBS legal drama Shark and
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spent much of her time on the show
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acting across from James Woods. Woods
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played the titular Sebastian Stark, an
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off-the-rails Los Angeles lawyer, while
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Ryan played his supervisor. Speaking
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with TV Guide, Ryan expressed that
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working with Woods was a great
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experience, but that she wasn't thrilled
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with how much screen time her character
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was getting. She noted, "They keep
2:36
telling me to be patient. I am happy to
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be there, but I'm hoping we're going to
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see more of the character. I want to see
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how she develops beyond her scolding
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Stark." Unfortunately, she never got
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much of a chance to develop her
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character. When it was airing, Shark had
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the same time slot as ER, a show that
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had already been on the air for over a
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decade, and it proved to be some pretty
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stiff competition. On top of that, the
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legal drama's run coincided with the
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Writers Guild of America's 2007 strike,
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which probably didn't help, either.
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[music] Shark was ultimately canceled
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after two seasons, but it wouldn't take
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long for Ryan to throw on another
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pantsuit and get back to work.
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Apparently, casting directors just love
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how Ryan plays lawyers because she wound
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up playing yet another one on Law &
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Order: Special Victims Unit a couple of
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times in the years after Shark went off
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the air. Ryan first showed up on the
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series in 2009, and would ultimately
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reprise her role as defense attorney
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Patrice LaRue in three episodes total.
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Given SVU's premise, Ryan's character
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defended some pretty awful people in her
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brief stint on the series. So, all that
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time playing a cyborg on Voyager was
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probably a big help when it came time to
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get into the mind of such a cold-hearted
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character.
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>> Are you objecting to pattern testimony?
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Absolutely not, your honor. One man may
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have done it, but it wasn't my client.
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>> Evidently, the folks behind the series
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liked her, as Ryan ultimately returned
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to the Law & Order universe in 2011 as
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Naomi Halloran, the leader of a
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cybersecurity company for an episode of
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Criminal Intent.
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Around the same time she appeared on
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SVU, [music]
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Ryan also got the chance to ditch the
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courtroom jargon and play another
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grifter in season 2 of Leverage. Her
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character, Tara Cole, was largely a
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fill-in for Gina Bellman's character
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while Bellman went on maternity leave.
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Tara is a seductive, witty character
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with a very particular set of skills.
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And jumping into the role gave Ryan a
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chance to really break out of the
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buttoned-up mold many of the other roles
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she was taking on at the time fell into.
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Speaking to Rated, Ryan said she was
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particularly drawn to the character as
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soon as she heard the pitch. And it
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seems she had no trouble falling back
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into the charismatic con artist rhythm.
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She also got to flex some of her comedic
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appeal in the role, which was surely a
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refreshing change from the stone-faced
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lawyers she spent much of the 2000s
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playing. She'd even get to reprise the
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role over a decade later in a 2025
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episode of Leverage: Redemption.
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In 2010, Ryan took on the role of iconic
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video game character Sonya Blade in
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Kevin Tancharoen's short film Mortal
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Kombat: Rebirth. The low-budget,
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fan-made film was largely created to
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catch the eye of Warner Brothers. The
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company had gotten the rights to Mortal
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Kombat the year before, and Tancharoen
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had a vision for what he thought a
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modern Mortal Kombat adaptation should
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look like. He set out to make something
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grittier than the two Mortal Kombat
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films of the '90s and managed to secure
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both Ryan and Michael Jai White for some
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of the leading roles. Ryan revealed to
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Nerd Reactor that she did the film for
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free as a favor to a friend and didn't
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know much about Tancharoen. But when she
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saw the final product, she couldn't have
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been happier. While it would take more
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than another decade for any
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feature-length Mortal Kombat movie to
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come to life, Rebirth did go viral
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online and Tancharoen was able to expand
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on his vision with the web series Mortal
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Kombat: Legacy. [music] Ryan even came
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back to play Sonya again in the first
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two episodes of season 1. Before long
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though, other projects came calling, so
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she didn't show up in season 2.
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After her Sonya Blade stint, it didn't
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take Ryan long to return to the world of
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network television. [music] In 2011, she
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appeared in an episode of the sci-fi
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series Warehouse 13, a role she'd
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reprise a few years later, and also
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debuted as Dr. Kate Murphy in the ABC
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dramedy Body of Proof. Set in a
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Philadelphia medical examiner's office,
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the series follows a group of medical
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examiners as they use their expertise to
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help police solve crimes. Ryan's
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character was the chief medical
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examiner, which meant she had to buckle
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down and learn a whole lot of jargon to
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make her performance believable.
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>> Well, if you want to get technical about
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it, yeah, the path of the bullet missed
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the vertebral arteries. It was the bone
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fragments that lacerated them during the
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fall.
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>> Speaking with TrekMovie though, Ryan
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made it clear that her time playing
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Seven of Nine had left her well prepared
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to drop the occasional big word or two
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on set.
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>> They're lined with biothermal
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insulation. Your infant's feet will be
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protected even if the external
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temperature drops below minus 40° C.
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>> The role ended up becoming one of the
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meatiest of Ryan's career. She stuck
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around for all three seasons the series
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was on the air and had plenty of chances
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to flex her skills as a dramatic actor.
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And while some of the show's darker
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moments were surely a challenge to
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shoot, Ryan told Assignment X that she's
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a big drama fan. So, getting to step
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into that world was a great experience.
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After Body of Proof ended, Ryan picked
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up a few more guest roles. She played
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yet another lawyer on The Closer
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spin-off Major Crimes and also took gigs
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on the sci-fi series Helix and the CW's
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Arrow. Her next steady job would come
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along in 2016 when she debuted on the
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Amazon detective drama Bosch. Starting
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in season 2, she played Veronica Allen,
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a textbook femme fatale. Veronica is a
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former [music] escort and the wealthy
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widow of a prolific criminal. In an
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interview with Fox 411, Ryan remarked
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that she really enjoyed Veronica's
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complexity and expressed how grateful
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she is that she's managed to avoid the
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textbook dumb blonde trope throughout
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pretty much her entire career [music] in
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favor of roles like these. As an added
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bonus, Ryan's husband is a fan of the
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books Bosch is based on, which surely
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got her some points back at home.
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Though Ryan has landed a few other roles
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throughout the 2020s, we feel it's only
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natural to cap this particular round up
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right where we started. Nearly two
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decades after the end of Voyager, she
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donned her Borg prosthetics once again
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and returned to the role of Seven of
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Nine in Star Trek: Picard. She first
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makes a surprise appearance at the end
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of episode four, and fans everywhere
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rejoiced.
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>> You will meet ship Picard.
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>> We find out that in the decades since
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Voyager returned to Earth, Seven has
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embraced her human side more than ever
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and is actually working as a freedom
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fighter with a vigilante group, the
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Fenris Rangers. While Seven makes a lot
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of progress throughout her evolution on
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Voyager, the woman we meet in Picard is
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even more self-assured and independent
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than ever, and that's saying something.
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For Ryan's part, she told Cinema Blend
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that she was absolutely thrilled to get
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to play an even more dynamic version of
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the iconic ex-cyborg for the spin-off
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series. Evidently, the showrunners were
8:56
happy with her work because they kept
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her around for the entire rest of
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Picard's run.
