39 Facts About Kate Mulgrew

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Katherine Kiernan Maria Mulgrew was born on April 29,1955 and is an American actress and author.

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Kate Mulgrew is best known for her roles as Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager and Red on Orange Is the New Black.

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Kate Mulgrew first came to attention in the role of Mary Ryan on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope.

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Kate Mulgrew is the recipient of a Critics' Choice Award, a Saturn Award, and an Obie Award, and has received Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

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Kate Mulgrew is a member of the Alzheimer's Association National Advisory Council and the voice of Cleveland's MetroHealth System.

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At age 17, Kate Mulgrew was accepted at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting in New York, conjoined with New York University in New York City.

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Kate Mulgrew became a fan favorite and remained associated with the show long after its cancellation.

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Kate Mulgrew remained friends with former co-star Ilene Kristen and presented a special Soap Opera Digest Award to Ryan's Hope creator Claire Labine in 1995.

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Kate Mulgrew played ambitious country singer Garnet McGee in a November 1978 episode of Dallas.

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In 1981, Kate Mulgrew co-starred with Richard Burton and Nicholas Clay in the Arthurian love triangle Lovespell as Irish princess Isolt, who casts a spell on Mark, King of Cornwall, and his surrogate son, Tristan.

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In 1992, Kate Mulgrew appeared on Murphy Brown as Hillary Wheaton, a Toronto-based anchorwoman brought in to replace Murphy Brown during her maternity leave, but who turned out to have the same problem with alcoholism as Brown had previously dealt with at the beginning of the series.

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In 1994, Kate Mulgrew received a call to take the part of Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager.

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Kate Mulgrew had auditioned for the role when producers announced casting.

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Kate Mulgrew initially submitted a video-taped audition, which she made in New York City in August 1994.

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Kate Mulgrew was offered the role, which she accepted, later suggesting "Kathryn" as the character's final first name.

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Kate Mulgrew made history in the Star Trek franchise when she became the first female captain as a series regular in a leading role.

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Kate Mulgrew won the Saturn Award for "Best TV Actress" in 1998 for her performances as Janeway.

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Kate Mulgrew returned to the role of Janeway as a training hologram in the series Star Trek: Prodigy.

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When Voyager came to an end after seven full seasons, Kate Mulgrew returned to theater, and in 2003 starred in a one-woman play called Tea at Five, a monologue reminiscence based on Katharine Hepburn's memoir Me: Stories of My Life.

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Tea at Five was a critical success and Kate Mulgrew received two awards, one from Carbonell and the other from Broadway.

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Kate Mulgrew kept active in doing voice-over work for video games, most notably voicing the mysterious Flemeth in the Dragon Age video game series, a role she described as "delicious".

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Kate Mulgrew performed in The Exonerated at the Riverside Studios in London, England.

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Kate Mulgrew 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.

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Also in that year, Mulgrew played Clytemnestra in New York for Charles L Mee's Iphigenia 2.0.

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In June 2008, Kate Mulgrew appeared in Equus on Broadway, playing Hesther Saloman, a public official who is empathetic toward the play's central character.

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Also in 2008, Kate Mulgrew filmed the 30-minute courtroom drama The Response, which is based on actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay tribunals.

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Kate Mulgrew portrays Colonel Sims and the other cast members, the crew, and she agreed to defer their salaries to cover the production costs.

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In 2009, Kate Mulgrew appeared in the NBC medical series Mercy, playing the recurring role of Jeannie Flanagan.

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In 2011, Kate Mulgrew appeared in the feature-length documentary The Captains.

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In 2014, Kate Mulgrew narrated a documentary film, The Principle, that aims to promote the discredited idea of the geocentric model.

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Kate Mulgrew starred as inmate Galina "Red" Reznikov in the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black, the role for which she was nominated for her first Primetime Emmy Award in 2014.

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Kate Mulgrew became pregnant while acting in the lead role of Mary Ryan on Ryan's Hope.

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Kate Mulgrew placed her daughter for adoption three days after giving birth in 1977, then in later years, searched for her.

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In 1998, Kate Mulgrew received a call from the daughter she had placed for adoption.

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Kate Mulgrew's name is Danielle, and she had started searching for Mulgrew a year earlier.

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In 2019 Kate Mulgrew released a second memoir titled How to Forget.

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Kate Mulgrew married Tim Hagan, a former Ohio gubernatorial candidate and a former commissioner of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in April 1999.

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Kate Mulgrew is Catholic and an opponent of abortion and capital punishment.

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Kate Mulgrew is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Alzheimer's Association.