Kate Mulgrew
Kate Mulgrew | |
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Born | Katherine Kiernan Maria Mulgrew April 29, 1955 Dubuque, Iowa, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1974–present |
Spouse(s) | Robert H. Egan (1982–1993) Tim Hagan (1999–present) |
Website | www |
Katherine Kiernan Maria "Kate" Mulgrew (born April 29, 1955) is an American actress, most noted for her roles on Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Kathryn Janeway and Ryan's Hope as Mary Ryan. She has performed in many television shows, theater productions and movies, earning a variety of awards for her acting, including an Obie Award, a Golden Satellite Award and a Saturn Award. She has also been nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Mulgrew is an active member of the Alzheimer's Association National Advisory Council and the voice of Cleveland's MetroHealth System.
Early life
Mulgrew was born in 1955 in Dubuque, Iowa, into an Irish Catholic family,[1] to Thomas James "T.J." Mulgrew II, a contractor, and Joan Virginia Mulgrew (née Kiernan), an artist and painter. She attended Wahlert High School in Dubuque.[2]
Aged 17, she was accepted at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting in conjunction with New York University in New York City. Mulgrew left NYU after one year.[3] During this time, to earn money while in New York, Mulgrew was employed as a waitress at Friar Tuck, a now defunct restaurant previously at 914 Third Avenue.[4]
Career
Her early career included portraying Mary Ryan for two years on the ABC soap Ryan's Hope (1975). She became a fan favorite and is still associated with the show long after its cancellation. Mulgrew remains friends with former co-star Ilene Kristen and presented a special Soap Opera Digest Award to Ryan's Hope creator Claire Labine in 1995. While in Ryan's Hope she also played the role of "Emily" in the American Shakespeare Theatre production of Our Town in Stratford, Connecticut. In 1979, she played Kate Columbo in Mrs. Columbo, a spin-off of the popular detective series, created specifically for her, which lasted 13 episodes.
In 1986, she appeared on Cheers as Janet Eldridge. In 1992, Kate appeared on Murphy Brown as Hillary Wheaton, a Toronto-based anchorwoman brought in to replace Murphy Brown during her pregnancy, but who turned out to have the same problem with alcoholism as Brown had previously dealt with at the beginning of the series.
In 1993, Mulgrew separated from her husband, Robert H. Egan, to whom she had been married for 12 years. In 1995, the divorce became final, and she was on the verge of selling her house and moving into a less-expensive apartment in Westwood when she received a call to take the part of Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager. Mulgrew made history in the Star Trek franchise when she became the first female captain as a series regular in a leading role. Voyager was the first show broadcast on the new UPN channel, the only series renewed after the channel's first programming season, and its only show to run for seven seasons, making it the UPN's longest running. Mulgrew won the Saturn Award for "Best TV Actress" in 1998 for her performances as Janeway. Mulgrew also voiced the character of Janeway in the PS2 and PC game Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force and Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force 2. In recent years, Mulgrew kept active in doing voice-over work for video games, most notably voicing mysterious Flemeth in the Dragon Age video game series, a role she described as "delicious".[5]
During Voyager she also played the role of Titania in the animated series, Gargoyles and Victoria Riddler in Riddler's Moon, a made for TV movie. Mulgrew provided the voice of Janeway for Star Trek: Captain's Chair, a virtual-reality tour of various Star Fleet vessels, for home computers.
Star Trek: Voyager
Mulgrew auditioned for the role of the captain, named Kathryn Janeway, when producers announced casting for Star Trek: Voyager. She initially submitted a videotaped audition, which she made in New York City in August 1994. However she was unhappy with this audition and auditioned in person a few weeks later. That day, film actress Geneviève Bujold was selected to play Janeway, but left the role after only two days of filming, due to the demanding production schedule required for a television show.[6]
About her years on Voyager, Mulgrew said:
I'm proud of it. It was difficult; it was hard work. I'm proud of the work because I think I made some little difference in women in science. I grew to really love Star Trek: Voyager, and out of a cast of nine, I've made three great friends, I managed to raise two children. I think, "It's good. I used myself well." Speaking about the best and worst part about playing a Star Trek captain, she said: "The best thing was simply the privilege and the challenge of being able to take a shot at the first female captain, transcending stereotypes that I was very familiar with. I was able to do that in front of millions of viewers. That was a remarkable experience – and it continues to resonate. The downside of that is also that it continues to resonate, and threatens to eclipse all else in one's long career if one does not up the ante and stay at it, in a way that may not ordinarily be necessary. I have to work at changing and constantly reinventing myself in a way that probably would not have happened had Star Trek not come along. I knew that going in, and I think that all of the perks attached to this journey have been really inexpressively great. So the negatives are small.[7]
Post-Star Trek
After Voyager came to the end of the full seven seasons, Mulgrew returned to theater and starred in a one-woman play called Tea at Five, a monologue reminiscence based on Katharine Hepburn's memoir Me: Stories of My Life. Tea at Five was a critical success and Mulgrew received two awards, one from Carbonell (best actress) and the other from Broadway.com (Audience Award for Favorite Solo Performance). In 2006, Mulgrew performed in The Exonerated at the Riverside Studios located in London, England. In the spring of 2007, she appeared in the NBC television series The Black Donnellys as Helen Donnelly which lasted for one season. She also performed the lead role in an off-Broadway production called Our Leading Lady written by Charles Busch in which she earned a nomination from the Drama League for her performance.[8]
In 2007, Mulgrew played Clytemnestra in New York for Charles L. Mee's Iphigenia 2.0. She won the Obie Award for outstanding performance. In June 2008, Mulgrew appeared in Equus on Broadway, playing Hesther Saloman, a public official who is empathetic toward the play's central character. The play opened on September 5, 2008 for a strictly limited 22-week engagement through February 8, 2009.[9]
Also in 2008, Mulgrew filmed the 30-minute courtroom drama The Response which is based on actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay tribunals. It was researched and fully vetted in conjunction with the University of Maryland School of Law and was shot in three days. Mulgrew portrays Colonel Sims and she, the other cast members and crew agreed to defer their salaries to cover the production costs. The film has been screened at a number of sites and is available on DVD.[10]
In 2009, Mulgrew returned to television in the NBC medical series, Mercy playing the recurring role of Jeannie Flanagan (the mother of the show's lead, Veronica).[11] Due for release in 2010 is the film The Best and the Brightest, a comedy based in the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens. Mulgrew will play The Player's wife. Also in development is the film The Incredible Story of Joyce McKinney and the Manacled Mormon.
In a message to her fans on her official website she said, "I am looking for a play and hope that it will come to me before I become irritated. But I realize, even in this wish, that I have been a little spoiled as an actress and that in the waiting there is a kind of lovely discipline."
In 2010, Kate Mulgrew starred as Cleopatra in William Shakepeare's Antony and Cleopatra at Hartford Stage. As of July 2011, she has appeared in the Adult Swim series NTSF:SD:SUV::. Also in 2011, Mulgrew appeared in the feature length documentary The Captains. The film, written and directed by William Shatner, follows Shatner as he interviews each of the other actors who played a Starfleet captain within the Star Trek franchise.[12] During that same year, she guest starred on the third season of the series Warehouse 13. Her character, Jane Lattimer, is part of a story arc which has continued into the fourth season.
Personal life
From her first marriage, to Robert H. Egan, Mulgrew has two sons, Ian and Alec. For a time, Mulgrew dated Star Trek director Winrich Kolbe.[13]
In April 1999, Mulgrew married politician Tim Hagan, a former Ohio gubernatorial candidate and a former commissioner of Cuyahoga County, Ohio.[14] Mulgrew's mother Joan introduced them, and he proposed to Mulgrew on the set of Star Trek: Voyager.
Mulgrew is also a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Alzheimer's Association. Mulgrew's mother, Joan Mulgrew, died on July 27, 2006, after a long battle with the disease.[15] According to a Women's Health TV show report in 2002, Mulgrew had raised over $2 million for the Association. [citation needed]
Mulgrew is also an opponent of abortion and capital punishment. She received an award from Feminists for Life, a pro-life feminist group. She is quoted as saying "Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary", "Life is sacred to me on all levels" and "Abortion does not compute with my philosophy."[16] Mulgrew has become a spokesperson for MetroHealth in Cleveland, Ohio.[citation needed]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1981 | Lovespell | Isolt | |
1982 | A Stranger Is Watching | Sharon Martin | |
1985 | Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins | Maj. Rayner Fleming | |
1987 | Throw Momma from the Train | Margaret | |
1992 | Round Numbers | Judith Schweitzer | |
1994 | Camp Nowhere | Rachel Prescott | |
1995 | Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys | Mrs. Pescoe | |
2001 | Judgment | Extra | |
2002 | Star Trek: Nemesis | Admiral Janeway | |
2004 | Star Trek: The Experience - Borg Invasion 4D | Adm. Kathryn Janeway | |
2005 | Perception | Mary | |
2008 | The Response | Colonel Simms | Short film |
2010 | The Best and the Brightest | The Player's Wife | |
2012 | Flatland 2: Sphereland | Over-Sphere | |
2013 | Drawing Home | Edith Morse Robb | Post-production |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1975 | The Wide World of Mystery | Susan | Episode: "Alien Lover" |
1975-1978 | Ryan's Hope | Mary Ryan Fenelli | Main role (407 episodes) |
1976 | The American Woman: Portraits of Courage | Deborah Sampson | TV film |
1978 | Dallas | Garnet McGee | Episode: "Triangle" |
1978 | The Word | Tony Nicholson | TV miniseries |
1979 | Jennifer: A Woman's Story | Joan Russell | TV film |
1979-1980 | Mrs. Columbo | Kate Columbo | Main role (13 episodes) |
1980 | A Time for Miracles | Mother Elizabeth Bayley Seton | TV film |
1981 | The Manions of America | Rachel Clement | TV miniseries |
1984 | Jessie | Maureen McLaughlin | Episode: "McLaughlin's Flame" |
1986 | Carly Mills | Carly Mills | TV film |
1986 | St. Elsewhere | Helen O'Casey | Episodes: "Time Heals: Parts 1 & 2" |
1986 | Cheers | Janet Eldridge | Episodes: "Strange Bedfellows: Parts 1, 2 & 3" |
1986 | My Town | Laura Adams | TV film |
1987 | Roses Are for the Rich | Kendall Murphy | TV film |
1987 | Hotel | Leslie Chase | Episode: "Reservations" |
1987 | Murder, She Wrote | Sonny Greer | Episode: "The Corpse Flew First Class" |
1988 | Roots: The Gift | Hattie Carraway | TV film |
1988-1989 | Heartbeat | Dr. Joanne Springsteen | Main role (18 episodes) |
1989 | Ryan's Hope | Mary Ryan Fenelli | Episode: "1.3515" |
1991 | Daddy | Sarah Watson | TV film |
1991 | Fatal Friendship | Sue Bradley | TV film |
1991-1992 | Man of the People | Mayor Lisbeth Chardin | Regular role (10 episodes) |
1992 | Murphy Brown | Hillary Wheaton | Episode: "On the Rocks" |
1992 | Murder, She Wrote | Joanna Rollins | Episode: "Ever After" |
1992 | Batman: The Animated Series | Red Claw (voice) | Episodes: "The Cat and the Claw: Parts 1 & 2" |
1992 | The Pirates of Dark Water | Cressa (voice) | Episodes: "The Dark Disciples", "The Ghost Pirates", "The Dagron Master", "The Game Players of Undaar" |
1993 | For Love and Glory | Antonia Doyle | TV film |
1994 | Murder, She Wrote | Maude Gillis | Episode: "The Dying Game" |
1994 | Mighty Max | Isis (voice) | Episode: "The Mommy's Hand" |
1994 | Aladdin | Queen Hippsodeth (voice) | Episode: "A Sultan Worth His Salt" |
1995 | Aladdin | Queen Hippsodeth (voice) | Episode: "From Hippsodeth, with Love" |
1995 | Batman: The Animated Series | Red Claw (voice) | Episode: "The Lion and the Unicorn" |
1995-2001 | Star Trek: Voyager | Kathryn Janeway | Main role (170 episodes) |
1996 | Gargoyles | Titania / Anastasia Renard (voice) | Episodes: "Walkabout", "Ill Met by Moonlight", "The Gathering: Parts 1 & 2" |
1996 | Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles | Titania (voice) | Episode: "For It May Come True" |
2006 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Donna Geysen | Episode: "Web" |
2007 | The Black Donnellys | Helen Donnelly | Main role (9 episodes) |
2009-2010 | Mercy | Mrs. Jeannie Flanagan | Recurring role (10 episodes) |
2011-2013 | Warehouse 13 | Jane Lattimer | Recurring role (6 episodes) |
2011–Present | NTSF:SD:SUV:: | Kove | Main role (23 episodes) |
2013 | Orange Is the New Black | Galina 'Red' Reznikov | Main role (13 episodes) |
Theatre
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1975 | Our Town | Emily | American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut |
1976 | Absurd Person Singular | Eva Jackson | |
1977 | Uncommon Women and Others | Kate | Eugene O'Neill Theater Center |
1978 | Othello | Desdemona | Hartman Theater Company |
1980 | Chapter Two | Jennie Malone | Coachlight Dinner Theater |
1981-1982 | Another Part of the Forest | Regina | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
1982 | Major Barbara | Major Barbara | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
1982 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Margaret | Syracuse Stage, New York |
1983 | The Ballad of Soapy Smith | Kitty Strong | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
1984 | The Philadelphia Story | Tracy | Alaska Repertory Theatre |
1984 | The Misanthrope | Celimene | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
1985 | Measure for Measure | Isabella | Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles |
1986 | Hedda Gabler | Hedda Gabler | Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles |
1986 | The Real Thing | Charlotte | Center Theater Group, Los Angeles |
1987 | The Film Society | Nan Sinclair | The Los Angeles Theater Center |
1989 | Titus Andronicus | Tamora | New York Shakespeare Festival |
1990 | Aristocrats | Alice | Center Theater Group, Los Angeles |
1992 | What the Butler Saw | Mrs. Prentice | La Jolla Playhouse |
1993 | Black Comedy | Clea | Roundabout Theatre Company, New York |
2002 | Dear Liar | Mrs. Patrick Campbell | Youngstown State University |
2003 | Tea at Five | Katharine Hepburn | |
2004 | Tea at Five | Katharine Hepburn | |
2004 | Mary Stuart | Mary Stuart | Classic Stage Company, New York |
2005 | Tea at Five | Katharine Hepburn | |
2006 | The Exonerated | Sunny Jacobs | Riverside Studios, London, England |
2007 | Our Leading Lady | Laura Keene | Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center |
2007 | Iphigenia | Clytemnestra | Signature Theatre Company |
2008 | Farfetched Fables and The Fascinating Foundling | Anastasia | Project Shaw Reading - The Players Club - New York |
2008 | The American Dream and The Sandbox | Mommy | Cherry Lane Theatre, New York |
2008-2009 | Equus | Hesther Saloman | Broadhurst Theatre, New York |
Video games
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1997 | Star Trek: Captain's Chair | Capt. Kathryn Janeway | |
2000 | Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force | Capt. Kathryn Janeway | |
2002 | Run Like Hell | Dr. Mek | |
2003 | Lords of EverQuest | Lady Kreya | |
2003 | Star Trek: Elite Force II | Capt. Kathryn Janeway | |
2006 | Star Trek: Legacy | Admiral Kathryn Janeway | |
2009 | Dragon Age: Origins | Flemeth | |
2010 | Alan Wake | The Dark Presence | |
2011 | Dragon Age II | Flemeth |
Awards and honors
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
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1980 | Golden Globe | Best TV Actress - Drama | Mrs. Columbo | Nominated |
1992 | Tracey Humanitarian Award | Murphy Brown ("On the Rocks") | Won | |
1998 | Satellite Award | Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama | Star Trek: Voyager | Won |
1998 | Saturn Award | Best Genre TV Actress | Star Trek: Voyager | Won |
1999 | Saturn Award | Best Genre TV Actress | Star Trek: Voyager | Nominated |
2000 | Saturn Award | Best Genre TV Actress | Star Trek: Voyager | Nominated |
2001 | Saturn Award | Best Actress on Television | Star Trek: Voyager | Nominated |
2003 | Broadway.com | Audience Award for Favorite Solo Performance | Tea at Five | Nominated |
2003 | Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Solo Performance | Tea at Five | Nominated |
2003 | Lucille Lortel Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress | Tea at Five | Nominated |
2004 | Carbonell Awards | Best Actress (Touring, Independent Production - Cuillo Centre) | Tea at Five | Won |
2007 | Drama League Award | Distinguished Performance | Our Leading Lady | Nominated |
2008 | Obie Award | Outstanding Performance | Iphigenia 2.0 | Won |
References
Notes
- ^ Slosberg, Steven (2003-08-). "Kate Mulgrew's One-Woman Show". Totally Kate. Catholic Digest. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
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(help) - ^ "Kate Mulgrew". TotallyKate.com. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ William Shatner, Writer, Director (July 22, 2011). The Captains (Television production). Le Big Boss Productions.
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- ^ http://www.gamespot.com/news/kate-mulgrew-talks-dragon-age-origins-6229033
- ^ Andy Meisler (September 15, 1994). "Real 'Star Trek' Drama: Enlisting New Skipper". The New York Times. NYTimes.com. Retrieved May 24, 2011.
- ^ "Deep Space Five!". Star Trek Magazine. September/October 2006, issue #1.
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(help) - ^ Brian Scott Lipton (May 11, 2007). "2007 Drama League Award Winners Announced". Theatre Mania. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
- ^ Andrew Gans (June 25, 2008). "Mulgrew Will Join Radcliffe and Griffiths for Broadway's "Equus"". Playbill. Playbill.com. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
- ^ "See the Film". Look at the Moon Productions. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
- ^ Adam Hetrick (August 31, 2009). "Mulgrew Set for New NBC Hospital Series "Mercy"". Playbill. Playbill.com.
- ^ Anthony Pascale (July 18, 2011). "Exclusive Clips from William Shatner's 'The Captains'". Trekmovie.com.
- ^ Kate Mulgrew at Memory Alpha
- ^ Sweeney, Shari M. (February 2000). "Two to Tango". Cleveland Magazine. totallykate.com. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
- ^ Joan Mulgrew Remembered Totally Kate! Accessed April 3, 2007.
- ^ "Entertainment: Kate Mulgrew, Actor" (PDF). The American Feminist. Feminists for Life. Vol 7, No 4; Winter 2000-2001. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
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