Jeri Ryan

Videogames. The possibility of an Alice in Chains reunion finally ended on April 5th, 2002, when Layne Staley died in his condominium from an apparent lethal overdose of heroin and cocaine, exactly 8 years after the suicide of another icon of the grunge era, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. Television. Although Jerry Cantrell tried to stay in touch with him, and did want to keep the band together, it eventually seemed clear that Staley would never return, and Cantrell launched a solo career. Movies. Although the band never officially disbanded, Staley spiraled even deeper into a depression from which he would never recover in 1996, when his girlfriend died following a bacterial infection caused by drug use. Rarely leaving his Seattle condo, the frontman became incredibly reclusive. After her marriage ended, Ryan began a relationship with "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Star Trek: Enterprise" executive producer Brannon Braga. Staley was in visibly poor health, but nonetheless the group gave an outstanding performance, including a stunning rendition of "Down in a Hole", and went to great lengths to rework much of their harder material to suit the acoustic nature of the show.

This information led Jack Ryan to withdraw his Republican candidacy for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois. The group made one final appearance, their first in three years, giving a last show in 1996 when they performed on MTV Unplugged. They revealed that she had accused Ryan of attempting to coerce her into sexual acts in public and in adult clubs. Ultimately, this would be the last official album that Alice in Chains produced - though they did write a few new songs after this release, including "Get Born Again", and "Fear the Voices", which can be located on the various compilations. In 2004, details of her divorce proceedings with Jack Ryan were unsealed by a California judge. The group again didn't support the album with a tour, sparking further discussion about Staley's heroin addiction. The reasons behind their divorce were kept sealed. Once again evolving their sound (as all their releases have), and now relying more on melody and textured arrangements than their previous releases (some see the album as the child of Dirt and Jar of Flies), the record debuted at number one on the charts.

Throughout their marriage, Ryan and her husband took turns commuting between Los Angeles and Chicago for their careers, but finally divorced in 1999. In November of 1995, Alice in Chains returned with the release of a self-titled album, Alice in Chains, though most fans have taken to referring to the album as "Tripod", due both to a lack of labeling, and the image of a forlorn three-legged-dog which appears on the cover. She married Jack Ryan and they had a son, Alex in 1994. They later renamed themselves Mad Season, and released a single LP, Above. In 1990, while dealing blackjack at a charity event, Ryan met investment banker and future political candidate Jack Ryan. The band stayed off the road for the remainder of their run, which once again fueled speculation about Staley's addiction. Nonetheless, Staley performed a few shows with Gacy Bunch, a "Grunge-Super-Group" side-project of his formed in 1995, which included Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin. Ryan has recently appeared in movies such as Down With Love. Despite the EP being written and recorded in a single miserable and alcohol-laden week, some critics hailed it as a mini-masterpiece.

The show was cancelled in 2004. Slowly evolving from the alternative, progressive sound of the first track to more traditional ballads, the record seemed to pay respects to Cantrell's musical roots. She played Ronnie Cooke, a frustrated lawyer who quits to become a high-school teacher. In striking contrast with "Dirt" - though still containing similar (but more understated) lyrics of self-blame and isolation - "Jar of Flies" consisted of well-developed acoustic pieces, complete with subtle string arrangements, fused perfectly with exclamation points of Cantrell's signature electric-guitar attack. Kelley, producer of Boston Public, wrote a role specifically for her. 1 on album sales charts, making it the first EP release to ever do so. David E. Released as an EP, but now widely considered to be of album caliber (and indeed, the design and length would indicate it as almost being that), "Jar of Flies" debuted at No.

After Voyager ended in 2001, Ryan already had a new series. After seeing them perform at Lollapalooza in 1993, the alternative music scene braced itself for another hard, angry, loud release from the Seattle quartet, but when Jar of Flies hit shelves in January, 1994, it stunned fans and critics alike with its wholly uncharacteristic sound. The role drew her instant fame and her wardrobe made her a sex symbol among science-fiction fans. We now know, beyond reasonable doubt, that for the most part these rumors were true. In 1997, Ryan was cast to play Seven of Nine, a Borg drone freed from the collective on the science fiction series Star Trek: Voyager. However, the lyrical content of the impenetrably dark record - which dealt mostly with isolation and addiction - stirred speculation that Layne Staley had fallen far into the depths of a serious heroin addiction. Her big break came when she won a regular role as an extraterrestrial investigator named Juliet Stuart on the TV show Dark Skies. The show was cancelled after one season, but the role drew the attention of the science-fiction community for her beauty. Dirt, packed with the group's patented heavy, distortion-drenched sound, was released in the fall of 1992, and was both a critical and a commercial success, going platinum by the end of the year.

She continued to act in commercials and eventually TV shows like Melrose Place, Matlock, and The Sentinel as well as TV movies like Co-Ed Call Girl. This helped build anticipation for Alice's next LP. She moved there and made her first acting debut as an extra in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, but was cut out of the final version. After releasing a small, unexpected collection of purely acoustic compositions in the form of the Sap EP (including the sole appearance of Alice Mudgarden), the group received more exposure in 1992 when one of their new songs, "Would?", made an appearance on the soundtrack for Singles, a motion picture by filmmaker Cameron Crowe which revolved around the lives of a number of Seattle singles. Her husband encouraged her and even gave her a plane ticket to Los Angeles. Supported by a tour that saw the band opening for Van Halen and Iggy Pop, "Facelift" would go on to achieve gold status by the close of the year. After college, Ryan decided to pursue her dream of an acting career. The album spawned an unexpected hit with the crunchy and infectious "Man in the Box", the video for which went into regular rotation on MTV.

Ryan graduated college in 1990. The title track became a moderate hit on metal-oriented radio, setting the stage for the release of the group's first full LP later that year, Facelift. In 1989, Ryan became Miss Illinois and won the Miss America swimsuit competition, while coming in fourth for the Miss America title in 1990. The group signed with Columbia Records in 1989, and in July of 1990 they issued the We Die Young EP. After Ryan graduated high school in 1986 as a National Merit Scholar, she attended Northwestern University and enrolled in beauty pageants and swimsuit competitions to pay for college. Staley met and was joined by guitarist and song-writer Jerry Cantrell in 1987, renaming the band Alice in Chains, and, along with two of Cantrell's friends, bassist Mike Starr and drummer Sean Kinney, they began writing original material and playing local Seattle clubs. Her father was in the United States Army and raised the family on military bases all over the country until they finally settled in Paducah, Kentucky when Ryan was 11. Unlike many of their peers, Alice in Chains' sound owed more to heavy metal than punk or 60s rock; what linked them to the grunge movement was their Seattle roots and introspective (and often somewhat morbid) lyrical concerns.

She has one younger brother, Mark. Alice in Chains, initially formed by lead singer Layne Staley (1967-2002) in the mid 1980s as Alice N Chains, was, along with Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, one of the most commercially successful bands to break out of the Seattle, Washington grunge scene. Ryan was born in Munich, Germany to American parents. Download sample of "Rooster" from Dirt. Jeri Lynn Ryan (born Jeri Lynn Zimmerman on February 22, 1968 in Munich, Germany) is an American actress known for playing the shapely Borg Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager and for her relationship with Jack Ryan. Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force (2000).

Nightmare in Columbia County (1991) (TV). Just Deserts (1992) TV. In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993). Matlock: The Fatal Seduction (1993).

Co-ed Call Girl (1996). Pier 66 (1996). Dark Skies (1996). Star Trek: Voyager (1997-2001).

Boston Public (2000 - 2004). Men Cry Bullets (1999). Disney's The Kid (2000). Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 (2000).

The Last Man (2002). Down With Love (2003).