Jennifer Lien Movies and Career Information

Jennifer Ann Lien (born August 24, 1974) is an American actress, best known for playing the alien Kes on the television series Star Trek: Voyager. The youngest of three children, Lien was born in Palos Heights, Illinois. Her mother, Delores Lien, was a college teacher. Lien moved to New York to pursue an acting career at the age of 17. Her first TV appearance was in a bubblegum advertisement playing twins. Her first appearance on a show was playing a music academy student in 1990 in an episode of Brewster Place starring Oprah Winfrey. She provided her voice for the dubbed English version of Baby Blood, a French horror film. Lien landed the role of Hannah Moore on the series Another World in 1991. In 1993 she was cast as Roanne in Phenom, a sitcom starring Judith Light (of Who's the Boss? fame). That year she also participated in the recording of Adam Sandler's comedy album They're All Gonna Laugh At You in which she played the part of the Valedictorian on the track "The Buffoon And The Valedictorian." In 1994, she was cast as Kes on Star Trek: Voyager. When the crew of the Starship Voyager was stranded 75,000 light years from home by a being known as the Caretaker, they met Kes who