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Lynnanne Zager (born 19 September 1954; age 70) is a voice-over actress who provided the Jellyfish computer voice in Star Trek. She has been doing voice-overs since 1981, typically during the process of Additional Dialogue Recording (or ADR).

Zager holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She began her career in the entertainment industry with a typing job at Hanna-Barbera Studios, and within three months, she became a talent coordinator at the company. In this position, she helped to cast and record the voices for 29 animated shows, including The Flintstones, Popeye, and The Smurfs. She also lent her own voice to some of these programs.

In the early 1980s, voice actress Russi Taylor (wife of the late Wayne Allwine) recommended that Zager begin a career in ADR. Shortly thereafter, Zager left Hanna-Barbera to pursue her own voice-over career. Over the next twenty-seven years, Zager has lent her voice to such films as Airplane II: The Sequel (which starred William Shatner), Beverly Hills Cop (1984, starring Eddie Murphy), The Goonies, Top Gun, Lethal Weapon, Pet Sematary (1989, starring Denise Crosby), True Lies (1994), Nixon (1995, featuring Robert Beltran), Jerry Maguire (1996), Eraser (1996), Titanic (1997), Erin Brockovich (2000), The Patriot (2000, featuring René Auberjonois, Jason Isaacs and Leon Rippy), Shrek, Minority Report (2002), The Ring (2002), I, Robot (2004), The Bourne Supremacy (2004, featuring Karl Urban), Fantastic Four (2005), and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Her television credits include The Simpsons, ER, seaquest DSV, The West Wing, Six Feet Under, and House.

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