Kate Mulgrew Biography

Fast Facts

• The second oldest in a family of eight children
• Studied acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory while attending NYU
• Made her TV-series debut in 1975 as Mary Ryan in the daytime soap Ryan's Hope
• Debuted on prime-time TV in an episode of Columbo as the Lieutenant's crimefighting wife, Kate; starred in the short-lived spin-off Mrs
• Columbo
• Debuted on Broadway in a 1994 production of Black Comedy
• Was initially rejected for the role of Capt
• Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, but landed the part when Genevieve Bujold backed out after only two days; became the first woman to head a series in the Star Trek franchise
• An active supporter of the Alzheimer's Association; her mother, who died in 2006, endured a long battled with the disease