Kate Mulgrew

At 69 years old, Kate Mulgrew has this physical status:

Katherine Kiernan Mulgrew (born April 29, 1955) is an American actress.

She is best known for the roles played by Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager and Galina "Red" Reznikov on Orange Is the New Black.

She first came to prominence as Mary Ryan on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope.

Mulgrew has been named recipient of a Critics' Choice Award, a Saturn Award, an Obie Award, and three Screen Actor Guild Awards, as well as three Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

She is an active member of the Alzheimer's Association National Advisory Council and the spokesperson for Cleveland's MetroHealth System.

Early life

Mulgrew was born in 1955 in Dubuque, Iowa, to Thomas James "T.J. Mulgrew Jr., a builder, and Joan Virginia Mulgrew (née Kiernan), an artist and painter. She was the second of eight children in the family's lineage. She attended Wahlert High School in Dubuque. Mulgrew was born with a complete set of teeth.

Mulgrew was accepted at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting in New York City at the age of 17. After a year, Mulgrew left NYU. Mulgrew worked as a waitress in New York during this time and earned money.

Personal life

Mulgrew became pregnant while playing in Mary Ryan's Hope's lead role. "I was single, alone, and flooded with fear." Mulgrew said, "I knew I'd have the baby." She placed her daughter for adoption three days after giving birth to her first child in 1977, and then began looking for her daughter in later years. "I was the first man who wanted to try this with me," Mulgrew said. "Menefe, who later became my husband," Mulgrew's daughter contacted her in 1998 when she had been awaiting an adoption. Danielle is a girl who had been looking for Mulgrew a year before. Mulgrew's memoir Born with Teeth (which refers to Mulgrew's birth with a complete set of neonatal teeth), Mulgrew tells of her daughter's reunion in 2001. How to Forget was Mulgrew's second memoir, released in 2019.

In 1982, Mulgrew married Robert Egan. They have two children. In 1993, the couple married. In 1995, the couple's divorce was declared null.

In April 1999, Mulgrew married Tim Hagan, a former Ohio governor and a former commissioner of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Mulgrew revealed that she and Hagan were divorced in 2014 in an interview on April 15, 2015.

Mulgrew is a Catholic and an opponent of abortion and capital punishment. "Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary," she said at Feminist For Life, an anti-abortion feminist group, and "Abortion does not comply with my philosophy." Mulgrew issued a tweet saying that while the Supreme Court's decision on Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organisation was a "for myself," abortion was not a choice. Every human being has the right to choose, particularly women and people who are able to give birth."

Mulgrew is a rape survivor.

Mulgrew is a member of the Alzheimer's Association's National Advisory Committee. Joan Mulgrew, her mother, died on July 27, 2006, after a long battle with the disease.

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Career

Mulgrew's early career included portraying Mary Ryan for two years on ABC's Hope (1975). She became a fan favorite and remained involved with the show long after it was cancelled. Mulgrew remained friends with former co-star Ilene Kristen and was given a special Soap Opera Digest Award in 1995 to Ryan's Hope creator Claire Labine. Emily Webb appeared in Hope in Ryan's Hope as Emily Webb in the American Shakespeare Theater production of Our Town in Stratford, Connecticut, as well as Emily Webb. In a Dallas episode in November 1978, Mulgrew played empathetic country singer Garnet McGee. Kate Columbo, a spin-off of the detective series Columbo, appeared in 1979-80, which lasted 13 episodes.

Mulgrew co-starred Richard Burton and Nicholas Clay in the Arthurian love triangle Lovespell as Irish princess Isolt, as well as his surrogate son, Tristan, in 1981. She co-starred with Pierce Brosnan in the six-hour miniseries about Irish immigrants in nineteenth-century America called Manions of America. In 1985, she appeared in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins in the role of Major Fleming. Janet Eldridge appeared in a series of Cheers episodes in 1986. Margaret, Billy Crystal's ex-wife, appeared in Throw Momma from the Train in 1987.

Kate Brown appeared on Murphy Brown as Hillary Wheaton, a Toronto-based anchorwoman, brought in Murphy Brown to replace Murphy Brown during her maternity leave, but the same problem of alcoholism appeared as Brown had at the start of the series. She Wrote, episode number 170, also in 1992, she appeared as a guest-starring role as a soap opera actress who murders her bodyguard/lover and pretends to conceal it up. She appeared in three episodes of Batman: The Animated Series as the villain Red Claw at the same time.

Mulgrew was given a call to appear in Star Trek: Voyager in 1994. When producers announced casting, she had auditioned for the role (originally named "Elizabeth Janeway"). She appeared in a video-taped audition, which she did in New York City in August 1994. She auditioned in person a few weeks later, which was unsatisfie with this audition. Geneviève Bujold, the film actress, was chosen to star Janeway (suggesting "Nicole" as the character's new first name), but she realised that the amount of work required for an episodic television show was too demanding for her. Mulgrew was offered the role, but she later suggested "Kathryn" as the character's final first name.

Mulgrew made history by becoming the first female captain to serve as a series regular in a leading role in the Star Trek franchise. Voyager was the first show to be broadcast on the new UPN channel, the only series revived after the channel's first programming season, and the channel's first series was not renewed, and its only program was to run for seven seasons. In 1998, Mulgrew received the Saturn Award for Best TV Actress" for her appearances as Janeway.

For various Star Trek video games, Mulgrew portrayed Janeway; Star Trek: Captain's Chair, a virtual-reality tour of various Star Trek home computers; Star Trek: Voyager – Legacy, which included all of the captains up to that time (2006); and Star Trek Online.

Mulgrew talked to her about her Voyager days:

She spoke about the best and worst parts of being a Star Trek captain.

Mulgrew appeared in the animated film Titania alongside fellow Star Trek actors Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes) and Victoria Riddler in Riddler's Moon, a made-for-TV film, during Voyager.

Mulgrew has appeared at numerous Star Trek conventions and exhibitions around the world after Voyager and her subsequent Star Trek appearances concluded.

In the series Star Trek: Prosecutors, Mulgrew reprised his role as Janeway as a training hologram.

Mulgrew returned to theater after seven full seasons, and in 2003, she appeared in Tea at Five, a monologue reminiscence based on Katharine Hepburn's memoir Me: Stories of My Life. Mulgrew received two awards, one from Carbonell (Best Actress) and the other from Broadway.com (Audience Award for Favorite Solo Performance). Mulgrew continued to work on computer games, most notable voicing the enigmatic Flemeth in the Dragon Age video game series, which she characterized as "delicious."

Mulgrew returned to television in 2006, appearing in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Mulgrew appeared in The Exonerated at the Riverside Studios in London, England.

Helen Donnelly appeared in the NBC television series The Black Donnellys in early 2007, which lasted for one season. She appeared in Our Leading Lady, a Bush-Broadway play in which she was also recognized by the Drama League for her role. Mulgrew performed Clytemnestra in New York for Charles L. Mee's Iphigenia 2.0 earlier this year. She was rewarded with the Obie Award for her outstanding achievement.

Mulgrew appeared in Equus on Broadway in June 2008, portraying Hesther Saloman, a public official who is sympathetic toward the play's central character. The play opened on September 5, 2008, for a limited 22-week run until February 8, 2009. Mulgrew filmed the 30-minute courtroom drama The Response, which is based on real transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay trials, also in 2008. It was thoroughly researched and tested in collaboration with the University of Maryland School of Law, and it was fired in three days. Mulgrew portrays Colonel Sims and the other cast members of the crew, and she has promised to postpone their paychecks to defer their wages in order to defer their salaries to cover the production costs. The film has been shown on several websites and is also available on DVD.

Mulgrew appeared in NBC medical drama Mercy in 2009, playing Jeannie Flanagan (the show's lead, Veronica). Mulgrew was played by the Player's wife in the film The Best and Brightest, a comedy based in the world of New York City's top private kindergartens, debuted in 2010.

In William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra at Hartford Stage in 2010, she appeared as Cleopatra.

Mulgrew appeared in the film The Captains in 2011. Shatner's film, written and directed by William Shatner, follows him as he interviews each of the actors who replaced him as a lead actor in the Star Trek franchise. She began a recurring guest-starring role on the third season of the series Warehouse 13, as the mother of one of the main characters.

Mulgrew appeared on Adult Swim's Main Cast Member from July 2011 to December 2013 as Kove, the head of the titular terrorism-fighting unit and ex-wife of series lead Paul Scheer's character.

Mulgrew narrated The Principle, a documentary film that aims to popularize the discredited model of the geocentric model in 2014. Mulgrew said she was misinformed as to the point of the film, and that "I am not a geocentrist, nor am I a proponent of geocentrism." I don't subscribe to anything Robert Sungenis has written about science and history, and I would have probably avoided this series if I had known of his participation.

In the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black, Mulgrew played inmate Galina "Red" Reznikov, the role for which she was nominated for her first Primetime Emmy Award in 2014. The recognizable character appeared on television from season two to seven. Taylor Schilling, a co-star on the series, was reunited with her Mercy co-star Taylor Schilling.

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