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Jolene Blalock
Jolene Blalock at FedCon XIV in Bonn, Germany, 2005
Born	March 5, 1975 (1975-03-05) (age 33) San Diego, California, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Michael Rapino (2003 - present)

Jolene Blalock (born March 5, 1975 in San Diego, California) is an American actress best known for playing Sub-Commander (later Commander) T'Pol, a Vulcan in Star Trek: Enterprise. Prior to Enterprise, her highest profile role was playing Medea in a 2000 adaptation of Jason and the Argonauts. In 2004, she was voted "#3 Hottest Scifi Babe" by Scifi WorldNet.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early career 1.2 Star Trek: Enterprise 1.3 Convention involvement 1.4 After Enterprise 2 Notes 3 External links

Biography

Early career

A popular model, Blalock has appeared on the cover of many men's lifestyle magazines and was twice featured in Maxim's "Girls of Maxim" gallery in which she arroused a lot of members of the startrek universe. She posed for a clothed fashion layout in Playboy in April 2002. She was later interviewed by the magazine for its "20Q" section in February 2005. Blalock also appeared in an episode of CSI and in an episode of JAG.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Blalock's 30th birthday on March 5, 2005, coincided with the filming of her final scenes as T'Pol. During the spring of 2005, she was quoted in a Toronto Star interview and at her Pasadena convention appearance as calling the Enterprise finale episode, "These Are the Voyages..." "appalling"¹ although the reasons for this opinion were not initially reported. In a later interview, Blalock expanded upon this by saying that she was upset that the final episode focuses more upon characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation than Enterprise.

Convention involvement

Blalock made a first appearance at a convention in Pasadena, California, in March 2005. Her second appearance was at an autograph signing show in Milton Keynes, England, in late April; this was soon followed by an appearance at a convention in Bonn, Germany, and others. Billed as a guest of the annual Creation Entertainment-organized 2005 Las Vegas Star Trek Convention, Blalock bowed out in the weeks prior, citing "work-related commitments". Scheduled again the following year, Ms. Blalock appeared before fans for a handful of personalized photo ops before being taken ill. According to unofficial comment by Creation officials, she was treated at a local hospital for food poisoning.

A self-confessed "Trekkie" and big fan of Star Trek: The Original Series, she was openly critical of Enterprise during its third and fourth seasons. She has stated that she felt that the show was creatively lacking, and that the show's producers were out of touch with Trek fans, although she called the fourth season a distinct improvement over what came before.

After Enterprise

In March and April 2006, Blalock filmed I Dream of Murder, a made-for-cable film, in the vicinity of Calgary.²

She appeared in the film Slow Burn with LL Cool J and Ray Liotta which was filmed in 2003 between seasons of Enterprise, unveiled at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2005 and finally saw limited theatrical release in 2007. Despite Blalock's numerous provocative modeling pictorials for many men's magazines, "Slow Burn" is notable for her only actual on-camera nude appearance.

She also guest starred in two episodes of Stargate SG-1 as Ishta, leader of a group of female Jaffa. She was scheduled to appear on an episode of Lost during the 2005-2006 season as a former love interest of Sawyer, but the episode was not filmed.

She co-starred in a horror film entitled Shadow Puppets.³

Her most recent film appearance is as Captain Lola Beck in Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, a sequel to the film Starship Troopers, which was released on August 5, 2008.⁴

On October 20, 2008 she appeared as a store owner and fashion designer in Season 7 Episode 5 ("Bombshell") of CSI: Miami.

Notes

External links

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• Jolene Blalock at the Internet Movie Database
• Jolene Blalock at Allmovie
• Jolene Blalock article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
• Jolene Blalock at TV.com
• Jolene Blalock Gallery

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