Kate grew up in Dubuque, Iowa, born into an Irish Catholic family of 6 (she's the eldest girl). When 12 yrs. old Kate expressed an interest in acting, her mother supported her from the beginning by bringing home biographies of great actresses home for her to read, and sent Kate to summer schools to study acting.
At the age of 17, she left home and traveled to New York to study acting more seriously. At New York University, she 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.
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If you ask me, Kate Mulgrew shines in every way on screen, and on stage. She was absolutely incredible in Star Trek - Voyager as the first female captain. She showed more compassion and care than all captains combined.
In The Black Donnellys, Kate is remarkable as mother, Helen. This show wasn't really given a chance to succeed, and was really well done.
As an actress Kate Mulgrew shows excellence & poise. Her performance on stage in "Tea at Five" as Katharine Hepburn is one in a million. If you ask me, Kate is absolutely wonderful and let's not forget her charming personality at conventions. She answers fan questions & tells stories like your neighbour.
She's beautiful, she's amazing & she's talented. She's Katherine (Kate) Kiernan Mulgrew.
I best know Kate Mulgrew from her time on Star Trek Voyager as Captain Katherine Janeway. I thought the way she portrayed her character was great and she was a decent leader. The thing is that even while she was a good actress, she couldn't save a show in which there was no buzz. Compared to other actresses, I consider her old school in many ways. She seems to bring an old fashioned look to many of her roles and has mannerisms much like the old actors and actresses of distant year's past. Overall, she is a very good actress and was good on Star Trek. Thank you.
A truely talented actress with an inspiration voice. The main problem is that she doesn't do enough different things. Totally underused and underappreciated...
I have to say that she is also one of the most versatile actresses, with a lot of skill. Although many people have said that she was the worst captain of any star trek series I have to say that I disagree. She was the first female captain to head a tv show and she did it brilliantly. If only they would giver a a movie to be in, more than she was in Nemesis. I loved her and will continue to love her.
She is surprisingly good. I was really scared to see a woman captain in Star Trek, but I think she did a wonderful job. She was able to give us the best of her character during all the time.
A good actress given a terible show (Voyager)with bad scripts ,plots and most importantly a cast that had no chemistry.
I do ,ike her other work and recomend her stage performances.
She just needs to pick her tv show more carefully
and insure she does not pick 3rd rate sci fi with very bored executive producers who want to do something else.
god bless her
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