Jennifer Lien

Jennifer Anne Lien (born August 24, 1974)[1] is an American former actress known for playing the alien Kes on the television series Star Trek: Voyager.

Lien was born August 24, 1974,[2] in Illinois, the youngest of three children, and joined the Illinois Theatre Center at the age of 13.[1]

In a 1992 interview, Lien said: “My childhood was wild because I was very uncomfortable living where I lived (the South Side of Chicago). It was very industrial – if you didn’t fit in you got your ass kicked. I was just my own person, and I adopted this really tough skin because I had to if I wanted to survive. A lot of my friends were into drugs, and I saw a lot of them die