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 | Robert H. Egan (1982–1993) Tim Hagan (1999–present) |
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| http://www.totallykate.com | |
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.
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[edit] Early life
Mulgrew was born in 1955 in Dubuque, Iowa, to Thomas James "T.J." Mulgrew II, a contractor, and Joan Virginia Mulgrew (née Kiernan), an artist and painter, both Catholics of Irish descent.[1] Kate Mulgrew is the second oldest of eight siblings, the oldest daughter, and was raised near Dubuque on 50 acres of land.[2] 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.[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]. Patrons noted her resemblance to Katharine Hepburn and quick, witty retorts to flirtatious advances. Mulgrew was ultimately fired from her position after an altercation with a customer whose advances were so aggressively inappropriate that it prompted Mulgrew to dump a plate of pasta in his lap. [5]
[edit] 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 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.
[edit] 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 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] 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:
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]
[edit] 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 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 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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[8] 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.
[edit] 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.[9]
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.
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.[10] According to a Women's Health TV show report in 2002, Kate 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."[11] More recently Mulgrew has become the voice of MetroHealth in Cleveland, Ohio.
[edit] Filmography
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[edit] Theater
| Dates | Title | Role | Company |
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| 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 | Katharine Hepburn | 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[12] |
Equus | Hesther Saloman | Broadhurst Theatre, 235 West 44th Street New York |
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[edit] Awards and honors
| Won / Nominated | For | From | Date |
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| Nominated | Best TV Actress In A Drama – Mrs. Columbo | Golden Globe | 1980 |
| Won | Tracey Humanitarian Award – Received in recognition of Murphy Brown episode On The Rocks | The Tracy Humanitarian Association | 1992 |
| Won | Best Genre TV Actress – Star Trek: Voyager | Saturn Award | 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 | 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 | 2004 |
| Nominated | Distinguished Performance – Our Leading Lady | Drama League Award | 2007 |
| Won | Outstanding Performance – Iphigenia 2.0 | Obie Award | 2008 |
[edit] References
- Notes
- ^ Slosberg, Steven. "Kate Mulgrew's One-Woman Show". Totally Kate (Catholic Digest). http://www.totallykate.com/catholicd/catholicd.html. Retrieved 2010-08-12. "Raised in an Irish-Catholic family ..."
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_2q9gJZ5s&feature=related May 1997 Interview with Kate Mulgrew
- ^ Shatner, William, "The Captains", Le Big Boss Productions.
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=ctYCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=3rd+ave+new+york+friar+tuck's&source=bl&ots=wKGXQjzHoX&sig=zb9igtpSSytR8FSWWmuueVG7dHU&hl=en&ei=1P3gTpHHBaXgiAL21anwDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=3rd%20ave%20new%20york%20friar%20tuck's&f=false August 5, 1968 issue of New York Magazine. Page 33
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNRwq19aLss&feature=related May 1997 Tom Snyder interview with Kate Mulgrew
- ^ Meisler, Andy (1994-09-15). "Real 'Star Trek' Drama: Enlisting New Skipper". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/15/arts/real-star-trek-drama-enlisting-new-skipper.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm. Retrieved May 24, 2011.
- ^ Star Trek Magazine, September/October 2006, issue #1
- ^ ""Exclusive Clips from William Shatner's 'The Captains'". Trekmovie.com. http://trekmovie.com/2011/07/18/exclusive-clips-from-william-shatners-the-captains-how-to-watch-doc-for-free-online/.
- ^ Kate Mulgrew at Memor Alpha
- ^ Joan Mulgrew Remembered Totally Kate! Accessed 3 April 2007.
- ^ WinterTAF00-01.11-17.quark
- ^ Equus Getting Ready for Broadway. Accessed 7 August 2008. Archived August 4, 2008 at the Wayback Machine
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