For this role, Kate received a Lucille Lortel nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress, an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance, 's Audience Award for Favorite Solo Performance, and won the award for Best Actress at the 29th Carbonell Awards for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn, all in 2003. Mulgrew played Katharine Hepburn in the one-woman play "Tea at Five", debuting in Hartford, Connecticut in 2002 and going on to tour across the U.S. Kate portrayed Janeway for seven seasons, and also appeared briefly in Star Trek: Nemesis as Admiral Kathryn Janeway. Star Trek: Voyager, as the newly-created UPN's flagship network show, had found its captain. The first actress quit within two days of beginning production, leading producers to call Kate back and offer her the role. More notably in 1995, Kate received a call that a part for which she'd auditioned but another actress had been chosen for - Captain Kathryn Janeway, the first female Star Trek captain. They have two sons, Ian Thomas and Alexander James. Shortly after, Kate married theater director Robert H.
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Kate has gone on to do a great deal of voice work for animated series and video games. Kate also guest-starred in three episodes of Batman: The Animated Series as the terrorist Red Claw. Also in 1992, she played a guest-starring role as a soap opera star who kills her husband and tries to cover it up, on Murder, She Wrote, episode #170, titled "Ever After". In 1992, Kate appeared on several episodes of Murphy Brown as Hillary Wheaton, a Toronto-based anchorwoman brought in to replace Murphy Brown during her maternity leave, but who also struggled with alcoholism (just as Brown did at the beginning of the series). In 1987, she appeared in Throw Momma from the Train as Margaret, Billy Crystal's ex-wife. In 1986, Kate appeared in a number of of Cheers episodes as congresswoman Janet Eldridge, a love interest for series lead Sam Malone (Ted Danson). In 1985, she had a notable role in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins as officer Major Fleming. That same year, Kate co-starred with Pierce Brosnan in the six-hour miniseries, The Manions of America, set in 19th century America just before the start of the Civil War. In 1981, Mulgrew co-starred with Richard Burton and Nicholas Clay in Lovespell, a film set in the era of Arthurian legend, as Irish princess Isolt, whose love story with Tristan is a classic tale of doomed love. While critically successful, the series was canceled after two seasons. Columbo, as made famous by actor Peter Falk. Columbo," playing the wife of one of television's most beloved detectives, Lt. At age 23, following her success on Ryan's Hope, Kate was offered the lead role of Kate Columbo in "Mrs. Kate was accepted into the Stella Adler Conservatory (part of New York University's acting program) and studied there for only a year, as she landed the lead role in the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope in 1975, vaulting her to instant stardom.Īt the same time she was filming Ryan's Hope, Kate played the role of Emily in the American Shakespeare Theatre's production of "Our Town" in Stratford, Connecticut. Kate left Iowa for New York City at age 17 to pursue a career in acting. When Kate expressed an interest in acting as a child, her mother, Joan, encouraged her to audition for local theater productions. She grew up in Dubuque, Iowa, the second oldest child (and oldest girl) in a large Irish Catholic family.
Katherine Kiernan Mulgrew, or Kate Mulgrew, was born on April 29, 1955.
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