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Kate Mulgrew is an United States|American
actor|actress, most famous for her role in Star
Trek: Voyager. She was born in Dubuque, Iowa on 
April 29, 1955 and is the second oldest of 8
siblings.

At the age of 17, Mulgrew left home and traveled
to New York City to study acting.  While at New
York University, Mulgrew was accepted into Stella
Adler's Conservatory. At the end of her junior
year, she left the university to commit herself
full time to her craft.

Kate Mulgrew has performed in 23 plays, 9 movies,
30 television shows, 6 audio books, and 1
television documentary. One of her first roles on
television was of older daughter Mary Ryan on the
soap opera Ryan's Hope. She would become a fan
favorite and would be associated with the show
long after it was canceled. To this day she
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.

Among her television guest roles was as Hillary
Wheaton, a Canadian anchorwoman wrestling with
alcoholism, on an episode of Murphy Brown.

She is also well-remembered for starring in the
short-lived 1970s series Mrs. Columbo (also known
as Kate Loves a Mystery among other titles).

She played Captain Kathryn Janeway on the science
fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager from
1995 to 2001, earning her greatest popular success
to date.

Something of a Katharine Hepburn lookalike, she
continues to star in a one-woman play called Tea
at Five, a monologue reminiscence based on
Hepburn's memoir Me: Stories of My Life. Tea at
Five is also available as an audio recording.

Kate Mulgrew won the Saturn Award for "Best TV
Actress" in 1998 and the Golden Satellite Award
for "Best Actress in a TV series drama" in 1998.
She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for
"Best Dramatic Actress" in 1979.

Mulgrew's husband, Tim Hagan, was the United
States Democratic Party|Democratic party's nominee
for the office of governor of Ohio in the 2002
gubernatorial election. Hagan lost to incumbent
Bob Taft|Robert A. Taft II.

Mulgrew recently did a radio commercial for the
Trappist monks of New Melleray Abbey on their line
of http://www.trappistcaskets.com Trappist
Caskets. She has also narrated commercials for the
MetroHealth System of Cleveland, Ohio.

Kate Mulgrew also said that life is sacred to her
"on all levels."  and is strongly opposed to
abortion and capital punishment.

==External links==
* http://www.totallykate.com/ Totally Kate
(Official Website)
* http://www.amazingkate.com/ Amazing Kate
(unofficial fansite)
* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000550/ IMDb entry