Birth name
Joelene K. Blalock
Nickname
Leno
Height
5' 6" (1.68 m)

Jolene Blalock was born in San Diego, California. Although she spent most of her childhood living in San Diego, Jolene moved with her family to Oklahoma for a couple of years before returning to San Diego in her teens. She left home at 17 to model in Europe and Asia. Modeling brought her to Los Angeles in 1998 and, after booking a few commercials, she was encouraged to pursue acting.

Making her debut on television's "Veronica's Closet" (1997), she was quickly cast in the made for television movies Jason and the Argonauts (2000) (TV) and On the Edge (2001) (TV). After almost rejecting it, she accepted the role of T'pol on "Enterprise" (2001) for which she is best known, and also appeared in the television miniseries drama "Diamond Hunters" (2001) (mini).

Early career
A popular model, Blalock has appeared on the cover of many men's lifestyle magazines and is twice featured in Maxim's Girls of Maxim gallery. 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.

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" 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 initially expressed reluctance to participate in Star Trek conventions, but 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 which was soon followed by an appearance at a convention in Bonn, Germany and others. 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.
She appears in the upcoming film Slow Burn with LL Cool J and Ray Liotta (filmed in 2003 and unveiled at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2005, and tentatively scheduled for release in 2006), and appeared in a guest starring role in two episodes of Stargate SG-1 as Ishta, leader of a group of female Jaffa. She is also scheduled to appear on an episode of Lost during the 2005-2006 season, and it has been announced that she will co-star in an upcoming horror film entitled Shadow Puppets.

Personal life
Blalock dated Edward Furlong for several months in 2001. She is a passionate dog lover and appeared on the cover of popular British dog publication K9 Magazine.
On April 22, 2003 Blalock, whose hobbies include surfing and art, married Michael Rapino, CEO of Live Nation. In a twist from usual convention, she proposed to him rather than the other way around.


Surf’s tough:
“Surfing is such an amazing concept. You’re taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, ‘I’m gonna ride you!’ And a lot of times Nature says, ‘No you’re not!’ and crashes you to the bottom.”

S-s-s…mokin’:
“I was an acidhead and a pot smoker. There was this one time some friends and I were ditching off campus at lunch. We didn’t make it back in time, and school officials found us smoking weed in a van around the corner. I was so stoned that when they started taking names and I said mine was April June. It didn’t even dawn on me that that was just two months put together.”

She’s a whirlwind:
“I love when I sort of come to and I’m on the other side of the room, sweaty and breathing heavy, with bottles and ashtrays tipped over everywhere. I’m like, ‘What just happened? Oh yeah, I got laid. Gotcha.’”