Kate Mulgrew

Kate Mulgrew is one of those actors who earns your respect without ever asking for it — she just commands the room, or in her most iconic role, the bridge. Growing up in Dubuque, Iowa and training at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, she had serious craft baked in from the start, and it shows in everything she touches. As Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager she became the first woman to lead a Trek series as its central character, and she played it with such unshowy authority that it never felt like a milestone — it just felt right. Then she pivoted completely to play the terrifying, tender Red in Orange Is the New Black and reminded everyone that she could do grit and vulnerability in equal measure. TV, film, stage, voice work — she moves across all of it without breaking a sweat, and that Audie Award for narrating her own memoir is a nice cherry on top.

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Name (English)

Kate Mulgrew

Name (Japanese)

ケイト・マルグルー

Reading

けいと・まるぐるー

Born

April 29, 1955 (age 71)

Origin

Dubuque, Iowa, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / stage actor / voice actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Goat

High school

Wahlert Catholic High School

University

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Awards & achievements

• Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors

• Official sitehttp://www.totallykate.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/thekatemulgrew/
• Xhttps://x.com/thekatemulgrew
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Mulgrew
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230038

Tags

• Iowa
• television actor
• film actor
• stage actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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