Kate Mulgrew
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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
.
, to Thomas James "T.J." Mulgrew II, a contractor, and Joan Virginia Mulgrew (née Kiernan), an artist and painter, both Catholics
of Irish descent
. Kate Mulgrew is the second oldest of eight siblings. She attended Wahlert High School in Dubuque. 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.
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 began playing Kate Columbo in Mrs. Columbo, a series created specifically for her.
In 1986, she appeared on Cheers
as Janet Eldridge.
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 having to sell her house and move into an apartment in Westwood when she was called 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 and also the only television show on UPN to run for seven seasons, making it the network's longest running show, and the only show left over from its first year. 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, her latest roles were of Flemeth in the Dragon Age
video game series.
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 is also one of six Star Trek actors to lend their voice to Star Trek: Captain's Chair, reprising her role as Captain Kathryn Janeway. The other five actors were Jonathan Frakes
, Michael Dorn
, George Takei
, Avery Brooks
and Majel Barrett
.
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. Mulgrew was the runner-up between the two actresses and eventually was assigned to replace Bujold. After taking the part, she requested the name be changed from Elizabeth to Kathryn and the producers agreed. Voyager co-creator and executive producer Jeri Taylor
states that Mulgrew "had an ineffable quality that put her ahead of the pack. She has proven to be a remarkably accurate choice".
About her years on Voyager, Mulgrew said:
, 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 1 season. She also performed the lead role in an Off-Broadway production called Our Leading Lady written by Charles Busch
in which she picked up a nomination from the Drama League due to her performance.
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.
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 3 days and all the crew and cast agreed to defer their salaries so it could be made. Mulgrew plays Colonel Sims. According to The Response website they are currently looking at ways to distribute the film.
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). 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. During that same year, she guest starred on the third season of the series Warehouse 13
. Her character, Jane Lattimer, is part of a four episode story arc.
.
Mulgrew has been married since 1999 to politician Tim Hagan
, a former Ohio
gubernatorial candidate and a former commissioner
of Cuyahoga County, Ohio
. Mulgrew's mother Joan introduced them, and he proposed to Mulgrew on the set of Star Trek: Voyager. From her marriage to Hagan, Mulgrew has two stepdaughters, Marie and Eleanor.
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. According to a Women's Health TV show report in 2002, Kate Mulgrew had raised over $2 million for the Association.
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." More recently Mulgrew has become the voice of MetroHealth
in Cleveland, Ohio
.
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light-years from Earth while...
as Captain Kathryn Janeway
Kathryn Janeway
Kathryn Janeway, played by Kate Mulgrew, is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. As the captain of the Starfleet starship USS Voyager, she was the lead character on the television series Star Trek: Voyager, and later, a Starfleet admiral, as seen in the 2002 feature film Star Trek...
and Ryan's Hope
Ryan's Hope
Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera, revolving around 13 years of trials and tribulations within a large Irish American family in the Riverside district of New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on ABC...
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
Obie Award
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
, a Golden Satellite Award
Satellite Awards
The Satellite Awards are an annual award given by the International Press Academy. The awards were originally known as the Golden Satellite Awards.- Film :*Best Actor – Drama*Best Actor – Musical or Comedy*Best Actress – Drama...
and a Saturn Award
Saturn Award
The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. The Saturn Awards were devised by Dr. Donald A. Reed in 1972, who felt that films within...
. She has also been nominated for a Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...
.
Mulgrew is an active member of the Alzheimer's Association National Advisory Council and the voice of Cleveland's MetroHealth System
MetroHealth
The MetroHealth System is a non-profit, county operated, health care system located in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1837 as City Hospital, The MetroHealth system is the safety net hospital for the residents of the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County...
.
Early life
Mulgrew was born in 1955 in Dubuque, IowaDubuque, Iowa
Dubuque is a city in and the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, located along the Mississippi River. In 2010 its population was 57,637, making it the ninth-largest city in the state and the county's population was 93,653....
, to Thomas James "T.J." Mulgrew II, a contractor, and Joan Virginia Mulgrew (née Kiernan), an artist and painter, both Catholics
Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic is a term used to describe people who are both Roman Catholic and Irish .Note: the term is not used to describe a variant of Catholicism. More particularly, it is not a separate creed or sect in the sense that "Anglo-Catholic", "Old Catholic", "Eastern Orthodox Catholic" might be...
of Irish descent
Irish American
Irish Americans are citizens of the United States who can trace their ancestry to Ireland. A total of 36,278,332 Americans—estimated at 11.9% of the total population—reported Irish ancestry in the 2008 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau...
. Kate Mulgrew is the second oldest of eight siblings. She attended Wahlert High School in Dubuque. Aged 17, she was accepted at the Stella Adler
Stella Adler
Stella Adler was an American actress and an acclaimed acting teacher, who founded the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City and the The Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles with long-time protege Joanne Linville, who continues to teach and furthers Adler's legacy...
Conservatory of Acting in conjunction with New York University in New York City. Mulgrew left NYU after one year.
Career
Her early career included portraying Mary RyanMary Ryan
Mary Ryan may refer to:* Mary Ryan , Irish Fianna Fáil TD for Tipperary 1944–1961* Mary Ryan , a character from both the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series of computer games...
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
Ilene Kristen
Ilene Kristen is an American actress. She is known for her role as Delia Reid on Ryan's Hope and for her role as Roxy Balsom on One Life to Live .-Career:...
and presented a special Soap Opera Digest Award to Ryan's Hope creator Claire Labine
Claire Labine
-Early career:Although she originally aspired to be an actress, Labine eventually became a critically acclaimed writer. She attended the University of Kentucky where her major was journalism, but later she switched to playwriting major at Columbia University’s School of Dramatic Arts...
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
Stratford, Connecticut
Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Housatonic River. It was founded by Puritans in 1639....
. In 1979, she began playing Kate Columbo in Mrs. Columbo, a series created specifically for her.
In 1986, she appeared on Cheers
Cheers
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
as Janet Eldridge.
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 having to sell her house and move into an apartment in Westwood when she was called to take the part of Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light-years from Earth while...
. 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
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
channel and also the only television show on UPN to run for seven seasons, making it the network's longest running show, and the only show left over from its first year. 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, her latest roles were of Flemeth in the Dragon Age
Dragon Age
Dragon Age: Origins is a single-player role-playing video game developed by BioWare's Edmonton studio and published by Electronic Arts. It is the first game in the Dragon Age franchise...
video game series.
During Voyager she also played the role of Titania in the animated series, Gargoyles
Gargoyles (TV series)
Gargoyles is an American animated series created by Greg Weisman. It was produced by Greg Weisman and Frank Paur and aired from October 24, 1994 to February 15, 1997. Gargoyles is known for its dark tone, complex story arcs and melodrama...
and Victoria Riddler in Riddler's Moon
Riddler's Moon
Riddler's Moon is a made-for-tv movie created for UPN in 1998 for the Nightworld movie series.This film is being released as a double feature dvd with Battle Planet on side 2.- Plot synopsis :...
, a made for TV movie. Mulgrew is also one of six Star Trek actors to lend their voice to Star Trek: Captain's Chair, reprising her role as Captain Kathryn Janeway. The other five actors were Jonathan Frakes
Jonathan Frakes
Jonathan Scott Frakes is an American actor, author and director best known for his role as Commander William T. Riker in the Star Trek franchise, as well as for his tenure as host of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction ....
, Michael Dorn
Michael Dorn
Michael Dorn is an American actor, and voice artist who is best known for his role as the Klingon Worf from the Star Trek franchise.-Early life and career:...
, George Takei
George Takei
George Hosato Takei Altman is an American actor, author, social activist and former civil politician. He is best known for his role in the television series Star Trek and its film spinoffs, in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the...
, Avery Brooks
Avery Brooks
Avery Franklin Brooks is an American actor, television director, jazz musician, opera singer and college professor. Brooks is perhaps best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and in the...
and Majel Barrett
Majel Barrett
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry was an American actress and producer. She is perhaps best known for her role as Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series, Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and for being the voice of most onboard computer interfaces throughout the series...
.
Star Trek: Voyager
Mulgrew originally auditioned for the role of the captain, named Elizabeth Janeway, when Star Trek: Voyager was being cast. She initially sent in 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 BujoldGeneviève Bujold
Geneviève Bujold is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for best actress and was nominated for an Academy Award....
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. Mulgrew was the runner-up between the two actresses and eventually was assigned to replace Bujold. After taking the part, she requested the name be changed from Elizabeth to Kathryn and the producers agreed. Voyager co-creator and executive producer Jeri Taylor
Jeri Taylor
Jeri Taylor is a television scriptwriter and producer who is known for her contributions to the Star Trek series. She is an alumna of Indiana University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.-Star Trek screenwriting:...
states that Mulgrew "had an ineffable quality that put her ahead of the pack. She has proven to be a remarkably accurate choice".
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 scienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
. 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.
Post-Star Trek
After Voyager came to the end of the full seven seasons, Mulgrew went back to theater and starred in a one-woman play called Tea at FiveTea at Five
Tea at Five is a one-woman play, written by Matthew Lombardo, which tells the story of Katharine Hepburn in a monologue. It is based on Hepburn's book Me: Stories of My Life...
, a monologue reminiscence based on Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...
's memoir Me: Stories of My Life. Tea at Five
Tea at Five
Tea at Five is a one-woman play, written by Matthew Lombardo, which tells the story of Katharine Hepburn in a monologue. It is based on Hepburn's book Me: Stories of My Life...
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
The Black Donnellys
The Black Donnellys is an American television drama that debuted on NBC on February 26, 2007 and last aired on April 2, 2007. Thereafter, NBC began releasing new episodes weekly on until the series was officially canceled. The Black Donnellys was created by Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco...
as Helen Donnelly which lasted for 1 season. She also performed the lead role in an Off-Broadway production called Our Leading Lady written by Charles Busch
Charles Busch
Charles Louis Busch is an American actor, screenwriter, playwright and female impersonator, known for his appearances on stage in his own camp style plays and in film and television. He wrote The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, which was a success on Broadway.-Early life:Busch was born in 1954 and...
in which she picked up a nomination from the Drama League due to her performance.
In 2007, Mulgrew played Clytemnestra in New York for Charles L. Mee's Iphigenia 2.0. She won the Obie Award
Obie Award
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
for outstanding performance. In June 2008, Mulgrew appeared in Equus
Equus (play)
Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses....
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.
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 3 days and all the crew and cast agreed to defer their salaries so it could be made. Mulgrew plays Colonel Sims. According to The Response website they are currently looking at ways to distribute the film.
In 2009, Mulgrew returned to television in the NBC medical series, Mercy
Mercy (TV series)
Mercy is a medical drama which aired on NBC from September 23, 2009 to May 12, 2010. The series initially aired on Wednesday nights at 8/7c, as part of the 2009 fall season, but was pushed back to 9/8c in April....
playing the recurring role of Jeannie Flanagan (the mother of the show's lead, Veronica). 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
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony...
at Hartford Stage
Hartford Stage
Hartford Stage, located in Hartford, Connecticut, is one of the leading resident theatres in the United States, known internationally for entertaining and enlightening audiences with a wide range of the best of world drama, from classics to provocative new plays and musicals and neglected works...
. As of July 2011, she has appeared in the Adult Swim
Adult Swim
Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...
series NTSF:SD:SUV::. Also in 2011, Mulgrew appeared in the feature length documentary The Captains. The film, written and directed by William Shatner
William Shatner
William Alan Shatner is a Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, and author. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T...
, follows Shatner as he interviews each of the other actors who played a Starfleet
Starfleet
In the fictional universe of Star Trek, Starfleet or the Federation Starfleet is the deep-space exploratory, peacekeeping and military service maintained by the United Federation of Planets . It is the principal means by which the Federation conducts its exploration, defense, diplomacy and research...
captain
Starfleet ranks and insignia
Starfleet ranks and insignia are fictional titles and badges that form the hierarchy of Starfleet in the Star Trek television shows and movies.-Overview:...
within the Star Trek
Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
franchise. During that same year, she guest starred on the third season of the series Warehouse 13
Warehouse 13
Warehouse 13 is an American fantasy television series that premiered on July 7, 2009 on the Syfy network.Executive-produced by Jack Kenny and David Simkins, the dramatic comedy from Universal Media Studios has been described as borrowing much from 1980s television series Friday the 13th: The...
. Her character, Jane Lattimer, is part of a four episode story arc.
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 KolbeWinrich Kolbe
Winrich Kolbe is a German-born American television, film director and television producer, best known for his work in various Star Trek television series during which time he dated Star Trek Voyager's Kate Mulgrew...
.
Mulgrew has been married since 1999 to politician Tim Hagan
Tim Hagan
Timothy Hagan , a Democrat, is an American politician in Ohio.-Early life:Hagan was born and grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, as one of fourteen siblings . Hagan's father, Bob, was a Trumbull County Commissioner and, later, a State Representative. After graduating from Ursuline High School...
, a former Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
gubernatorial candidate and a former commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner is in principle the title given to a member of a commission or to an individual who has been given a commission ....
of Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Cuyahoga County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. It is the most populous county in Ohio; as of the 2010 census, the population was 1,280,122. Its county seat is Cleveland. Cuyahoga County is part of Greater Cleveland, a metropolitan area, and Northeast Ohio, a...
. Mulgrew's mother Joan introduced them, and he proposed to Mulgrew on the set of Star Trek: Voyager. From her marriage to Hagan, Mulgrew has two stepdaughters, Marie and Eleanor.
Mulgrew is also a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Alzheimer's Association
Alzheimer's Association
The Alzheimer's Association, incorporated on April 10, 1980 as the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association, Inc., is a non-profit American voluntary health organization which focuses on care, support and research for Alzheimer's disease....
. Mulgrew's mother, Joan Mulgrew, died on July 27, 2006, after a long battle with the disease. According to a Women's Health TV show report in 2002, Kate Mulgrew had raised over $2 million for the Association.
Mulgrew is also an opponent of abortion
Abortion
Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced...
and capital punishment
Capital punishment
Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...
. She received an award from Feminists for Life
Feminists for Life
Feminists for Life of America is a non-profit, pro-life feminist, non-governmental organization . Established in 1972 and now based in Alexandria, Virginia, the organization describes itself as "shaped by the core feminist values of justice, nondiscrimination, and nonviolence." FFL is dedicated...
, 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." More recently Mulgrew has become the voice of MetroHealth
MetroHealth
The MetroHealth System is a non-profit, county operated, health care system located in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1837 as City Hospital, The MetroHealth system is the safety net hospital for the residents of the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County...
in Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
.
Television programs
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | The Six Million Dollar Man The Six Million Dollar Man The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a former astronaut with bionic implants working for the OSI... |
Lt. Kolby |
| 1975–1978, 1983; 1986; 1989 | Ryan's Hope Ryan's Hope Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera, revolving around 13 years of trials and tribulations within a large Irish American family in the Riverside district of New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on ABC... |
Mary Ryan Fenelli |
| 1975 | Wide World Mystery: Alien Lover | Susan |
| 1976 | The American Woman: Portraits of Courage | Deborah Samson |
| 1978 | The Word | Tony Nicholson |
| 1978 | Dallas Dallas (TV series) Dallas is an American serial drama/prime time soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing... |
Garnet McGee |
| 1979 | Jennifer: A Woman's Story | Joan Russell |
| 1979 | Mrs. Columbo: Kate Loves a Mystery | Kate Columbo / Callahan |
| 1980 | A Time for Miracles A Time for Miracles A Time For Miracles is a 1980 made for TV film chronicling the life story of America's first native born saint, Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton. It was produced by ABC Circle Films for the American Broadcasting Company and telecast December 21, 1980 as a Christmas special. The film was created by... |
Elizabeth Ann Seton Elizabeth Ann Seton Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church . She established Catholic communities in Emmitsburg, Maryland.... |
| 1981 | Manions of America Manions of America Manions of America is a 6 hour mini-series for American television made in 1981. The subject of the series were Irish immigrants to the United States during the Great Famine of the mid-19th century. It was the first American role for actor Pierce Brosnan, co-starring Kate Mulgrew, David Soul and... |
Rachel Clement |
| 1985 | Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, also released as Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous, is a 1985 American film. The action–adventure-thriller film featured Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley and Kate Mulgrew, as well as many guest roles... |
Major Rayner Fleming |
| 1986 | Cheers Cheers Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles... (three episodes) |
Janet Eldridge |
| 1987 | Hotel Hotel (TV series) Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty.... |
Leslie Chase |
| 1987; 1992; 1994 | Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,... |
Sonny Greer, Joanna Grimsky Rollins, Maude Gillis |
| 1988 | HeartBeat HeartBeat (U.S. TV series) HeartBeat is an American television series in the medical drama genre. The series followed the staff of Women's Medical Arts, a medical center founded by three women who are frustrated with how women's health concerns are addressed in the male-dominated medical field. The fictional WMA was based on... |
Dr. Joanne Springsteen / Halloran |
| 1988 | Roots: The Gift Roots: The Gift Roots: The Gift is a 1988 television film. It is the third installment of the Roots series, which traces the maternal family history of African American author Alex Haley, starting with his fourth great-grandfather Kunta Kinte. The film premiered on ABC on December 11, 1988, with AT&T as the sole... |
Hattie Carraway |
| 1991 | Danielle Steel's Daddy | Sarah Watson |
| 1991 | Man of the People | Mayor Lisbeth Chardin |
| 1991 | Fatal Friendship | Sue Bradley |
| 1992 | Batman: The Animated Series Batman: The Animated Series Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated series based on the DC Comics character Batman. The series featured an ensemble cast of many voice-actors including Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Arleen Sorkin, and Loren Lester. The series won four Emmy Awards and was nominated... |
Red Claw Red Claw Red Claw is a fictional character, an enemy of Batman, making her debut in Batman: The Animated Series and appearing only in three episodes of the show... |
| 1992 | The Pirates of Dark Water The Pirates of Dark Water The Pirates of Dark Water is a fantasy animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1991.-Premise:The alien world of Mer is being devoured by an evil substance known as Dark Water. Only Ren, a young prince, can stop it by finding the lost Thirteen Treasures of Rule... |
Cressa |
| 1992 | Murphy Brown Murphy Brown Murphy Brown is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988, to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes. The program starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI, a fictional CBS television... |
Hillary Wheaton |
| 1993 | For Love and Glory | Antonia Doyle |
| 1995–2001 | Star Trek: Voyager Star Trek: Voyager Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light-years from Earth while... |
Captain Kathryn Janeway Kathryn Janeway Kathryn Janeway, played by Kate Mulgrew, is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. As the captain of the Starfleet starship USS Voyager, she was the lead character on the television series Star Trek: Voyager, and later, a Starfleet admiral, as seen in the 2002 feature film Star Trek... |
| 1996 | Gargoyles Gargoyles (TV series) Gargoyles is an American animated series created by Greg Weisman. It was produced by Greg Weisman and Frank Paur and aired from October 24, 1994 to February 15, 1997. Gargoyles is known for its dark tone, complex story arcs and melodrama... |
Anastasia Reynard / Titania |
| 1998 | Riddler's Moon Riddler's Moon Riddler's Moon is a made-for-tv movie created for UPN in 1998 for the Nightworld movie series.This film is being released as a double feature dvd with Battle Planet on side 2.- Plot synopsis :... |
Victoria Riddler |
| 2006 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced... |
Assistant US Attorney Donna Geysen |
| 2007 | Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier is a 2-hour 2007 television documentary about the 40-year history of Star Trek and an auction of Star Trek props released by Paramount Pictures for an auction by Christie's auction house in New York City... |
Herself |
| 2007 | The Black Donnellys The Black Donnellys The Black Donnellys is an American television drama that debuted on NBC on February 26, 2007 and last aired on April 2, 2007. Thereafter, NBC began releasing new episodes weekly on until the series was officially canceled. The Black Donnellys was created by Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco... |
Helen Donnelly |
| 2009 | Mercy Mercy (TV series) Mercy is a medical drama which aired on NBC from September 23, 2009 to May 12, 2010. The series initially aired on Wednesday nights at 8/7c, as part of the 2009 fall season, but was pushed back to 9/8c in April.... |
Jeannie Flanagan |
| 2011 | NTSF:SD:SUV:: | Kove |
| 2011 | Warehouse 13 Warehouse 13 Warehouse 13 is an American fantasy television series that premiered on July 7, 2009 on the Syfy network.Executive-produced by Jack Kenny and David Simkins, the dramatic comedy from Universal Media Studios has been described as borrowing much from 1980s television series Friday the 13th: The... |
Jane Lattimer (Regent\Guardian) |
Films
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | A Time for Miracles A Time for Miracles A Time For Miracles is a 1980 made for TV film chronicling the life story of America's first native born saint, Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton. It was produced by ABC Circle Films for the American Broadcasting Company and telecast December 21, 1980 as a Christmas special. The film was created by... |
Mother Seton |
| 1981 | Lovespell | Isolt |
| 1982 | A Stranger is Watching A Stranger Is Watching (film) A Stranger is Watching is a 1982 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham. The screenplay was written by Earl Mac Rauch and Victor Miller, based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark.-Plot:... |
Sharon Martin |
| 1985 | Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, also released as Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous, is a 1985 American film. The action–adventure-thriller film featured Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley and Kate Mulgrew, as well as many guest roles... |
Major Rayner Fleming |
| 1987 | Throw Momma from the Train Throw Momma from the Train Throw Momma from the Train is a 1987 American black comedy film. It was inspired by the 1951 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train, which also plays a role in the film... |
Margaret |
| 1987 | Roses Are for the Rich | Kendall Murphy |
| 1992 | Round Numbers | Judith Schweitzer |
| 1994 | Camp Nowhere Camp Nowhere Camp Nowhere is a 1994 film directed by Jonathan Prince, written by Andrew Kurtzman and Eliot Wald, and starring Jonathan Jackson, Christopher Lloyd, Melody Kay, Andrew Keegan, and Marnette Patterson. The film also features Jessica Alba in her first film role... |
Rachel Prescott |
| 1995 | Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys | Mrs. Pescoe |
| 2002 | Star Trek Nemesis | Admiral Kathryn Janeway |
| 2004 | Of Ashes and Atoms | Narrator |
| 2005 | Perception | Dr. Mary Smith |
| 2008 | The Response | Colonel Carol Simms |
| 2010 | The Best and the Brightest | The Player's wife |
| 2011 | The Captains The Captains (film) The Captains is a 2011 feature documentary that follows actor William Shatner through interviews with the other actors who have portrayed the captains in the various installments of the Star Trek franchise... |
Herself / Captain Kathryn Janeway |
Theater
| Dates | Title | Role | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| June – August 1975 | Own Town | Emily | American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut |
| November 1976 | Absurd Person Singular | Eva Jackson | Encore Productions of New York City, performed in South Bend, Indiana; Davenport, Iowa; Roanoke and Norfolk, Virginia; Raleigh, North Carolina; Scranton, Pennsylvania |
| July 26, 1977 | Uncommon Women and Others | Kate | Eugene O'Neill Theater Center; National Playwrights Conference, Waterford, Connecticut |
| February 1–19, 1978 | Othello | Desdemona | Hartman Theater Company, Stamford, Connecticut |
| September 1980 | Chapter Two | Jennie Malone | Coachlight Dinner Theater, Nanuet, New York |
| October 28, 1981 – May 16, 1982 | Another Part of the Forest | Regina | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
| April 12, 1982 – May 16, 1982 | Major Barbara | Major Barbara | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
| October 22 – November 14, 1982 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Margaret | Syracuse Stage, New York |
| October 26 – November 19, 1983 | The Ballad of Soapy Smith | Kitty Strong | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
| December 22, 1983 – January 13, 1984 | The Philadelphia Story | Tracy | Alaska Repertory Theatre |
| February 15 – March 10, 1984 | The Misanthrope | Celimene | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
| June 8 – August 4, 1985 | Measure for Measure | Isabella | Center Theater Group, Los Angeles |
| June 5 – July 13, 1986 | Hedda Gabler | Hedda Gabler | Center Theater Group, Los Angeles |
| June 5 – July 13, 1986 | The Real Thing | Charlotte | Center Theater Group, Los Angeles |
| January 9 – February 22, 1987 | The Film Society | Nan Sinclair | The Los Angeles Theater Center |
| August 4 to September 2, 1989 | Titus Andronicus | Tamora | New York Shakespeare Festival |
| May 20 – July 1, 1990 | Aristocrats | Alice | Center Theater Group, Los Angeles |
| July 21 – August 30, 1992 | What the Butler Saw | Mrs. Prentice | La Jolla Playhouse |
| August 11, 1993 – October 3, 1993 | Black Comedy | Clea | Roundabout Theatre Co., Broadway |
| 2003; 2004; 2005 | Tea at Five Tea at Five Tea at Five is a one-woman play, written by Matthew Lombardo, which tells the story of Katharine Hepburn in a monologue. It is based on Hepburn's book Me: Stories of My Life... |
Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies... |
The Hartford Stage, The Cleveland Play House, American Repertory Theatre |
| April 25, 2002 | Dear Liar | Mrs. Patrick Campbell | Youngstown State University |
| March 27 – May 16, 2004 | The Royal Family | Julie Cavendish | Center Theater Group, Los Angeles |
| November 22, 2004 | Mary Stuart | Mary Stuart | Classic Stage Company, New York |
| 18 April 2006 – 30 April 2006 | The Exonerated | Sunny Jacobs | Riverside Studios, London, England |
| Previews: February 22 – March 18, 2007 Opening Night: March 20, 2007 – April 29, 2007 |
Our Leading Lady | Laura Keene | Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center Stage II |
| Previews: February 22 – March 18, 2007 Opening Night: March 20, 2007 – April 29, 2007 |
Iphigenia | Clytemnestra | Signature Theatre Company at Peter Norton Space in New York City |
| 21 April 2008 | Farfetched Fables and The Fascinating Foundling | Anastasia – The Fascinating Foundling | Project Shaw Reading – The Players Club – NYC |
| 22 April 2008 – 3 May 2008 | The American Dream and The Sandbox | Mommy | Cherry Lane Theatre, New York |
| Previews: September 5–24, 2008 Opening Night: September 25, 2008 – February 8, 2009 |
Equus Equus (play) Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.... |
Hesther Saloman | Broadhurst Theatre, 235 West 44th Street New York |
Video games
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Star Trek: Captain's Chair | Captain Kathryn Janeway |
| 2000 | Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force | Captain Kathryn Janeway |
| 2002 | Run Like Hell | Dr. Mek |
| 2003 | Lords of Everquest | Lady Kreya |
| 2003 | Star Trek: Elite Force II | Captain Kathryn Janeway |
| 2006 | Star Trek: Legacy | Admiral Kathryn Janeway |
| 2009 | Dragon Age: Origins | Flemeth |
| 2010 | Alan Wake | The Dark Presence |
| 2011 | Dragon Age 2 | Flemeth |
Awards and honors
| Won / Nominated | For | From | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominated | Best TV Actress In A Drama – Mrs. Columbo | Golden Globe Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign... |
1980 |
| Won | Tracey Humanitarian Award – Received in recognition of Murphy Brown Murphy Brown Murphy Brown is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988, to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes. The program starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI, a fictional CBS television... episode On The Rocks |
The Tracy Humanitarian Association | 1992 |
| Won | Best Genre TV Actress – Star Trek: Voyager | Saturn Award Saturn Award The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. The Saturn Awards were devised by Dr. Donald A. Reed in 1972, who felt that films within... |
1998 |
| Nominated | Best Genre TV Actress – Star Trek: Voyager | Saturn Award | 1999 |
| Nominated | Best Genre TV Actress – Star Trek: Voyager | Saturn Award | 2000 |
| Nominated | Best Genre TV Actress – Star Trek: Voyager | Saturn Award | 2001 |
| Won | Audience Award for Favorite Solo Performance – Tea at Five Tea at Five Tea at Five is a one-woman play, written by Matthew Lombardo, which tells the story of Katharine Hepburn in a monologue. It is based on Hepburn's book Me: Stories of My Life... |
Broadway.com | 2003 |
| Nominated | Outstanding Solo Performance – Tea at Five | Outer Critics Circle | 2003 |
| Nominated | Outstanding Lead Actress – Tea at Five | Lucille Lortel Award | 2003 |
| Won | Best Actress (Touring, Independent Production – Cuillo Centre) – Tea at Five | Carbonell Awards Carbonell Awards The Carbonell Awards recognize excellent theater in the South Florida region of the United States annually. The awards are named after the sculptor Manuel Carbonell, who designed the bronze and marble award that is given to the winners. Voting is conducted by three panels of ten members each... |
2004 |
| Nominated | Distinguished Performance – Our Leading Lady | Drama League Award Drama League Award The Drama League Awards, created in 1935, honor distinguished productions and performances both on Broadway and Off-Broadway, in addition to recognizing exemplary career achievements in theatre, musical theatre, and directing... |
2007 |
| Won | Outstanding Performance – Iphigenia 2.0 | Obie Award Obie Award The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City... |
2008 |