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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. Mulgrew made history in the Star Trek franchise when she became the first female captain as a series regular in a leading role. Mulgrew was offered the role, which she accepted, later suggesting 'Kathryn' as the character's final first name. That day, film actress Geneviève Bujold was selected to play Janeway (suggesting 'Nicole' as the character's new first name), but she left the role after two days of filming, realizing that the amount of work required for an episodic television show was too demanding for her. Unhappy with this audition, she auditioned in person a few weeks later.

She initially submitted a video-taped audition, which she made in New York City in August 1994. She had auditioned for the role (originally named 'Elizabeth Janeway') when producers announced casting. In 1994, Mulgrew received a call to take the part of Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager. Kate Mulgrew with Voyager actresses Roxann Dawson and Jennifer Lien (1995) Around the same time, she guest-starred in three episodes of Batman: The Animated Series as the terrorist Red Claw. In 1992, Kate 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.Īlso in 1992, she played a guest-starring role as a soap-opera star who kills her bodyguard/lover and tries to cover it up, on Murder, She Wrote, episode number 170, titled 'Ever After'. In 1987, she appeared in Throw Momma from the Train as Margaret, Billy Crystal's character's ex-wife. In 1986, she appeared in a run of Cheers episodes as Janet Eldridge. In 1985, she appeared in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins in the role of Major Fleming. During that same year, she co-starred with Pierce Brosnan in the six-hour miniseries about Irish immigrants in 19th century America called Manions of America. In 1981, 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. Columbo, a spin-off of the detective series Columbo, created specifically for her, which lasted 13 episodes.

In 1979-80, she played Kate Columbo in Mrs. Mulgrew played ambitious country singer Garnet McGee in a November 1978 episode of Dallas. While in Ryan's Hope, she also played the role of Emily Webb in the American Shakespeare Theater production of Our Town in Stratford, Connecticut. 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. She became a fan favorite and remained associated with the show long after its cancellation. Mulgrew's early career included portraying Mary Ryan for two years on the ABC soap Ryan's Hope (1975). During this time, to earn money while in New York, Mulgrew worked as a waitress. Īt age 17, 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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Mulgrew was born with a full set of teeth. She attended Wahlert High School in Dubuque. Mulgrew was born in 1955 in Dubuque, Iowa, to Thomas James 'T.J.' Mulgrew Jr., a contractor, and Joan Virginia Mulgrew (née Kiernan), an artist and painter.

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