Because many of the producers went on holiday following the audition, Mulgrew only learnt a few days later that she was chosen for the role, with Rick Berman speaking on her answering machine "Welcome aboard, Captain" and asking her to come back to Paramount Studios the following Monday. She delivered a scene with Tuvok and a monologue inspiring Voyager's crew that she would bring them home one day. As opposed to her first audition, Mulgrew was by then interested in the role and realized its potential. The audition took place in September 1994 at Paramount Studios, in front of several network executives and the producers of Star Trek: Voyager. Mulgrew was invited to another audition, together with three other women. ( Born with Teeth, chapter "The Audition") Bujold left the role after only two days of filming, primarily due to her unfamiliarity with the rapid production schedule necessary in a television series. Genevieve Bujold was selected to play Janeway over Mulgrew, with the character's given name changed to Nicole. Mulgrew felt that her first audition was "devoid of meaning" and actually apologized at the end of her performance, explaining that she had fallen in love with a man and was to meet him that day (her future-husband Tim Hagan).
She sent in a videotaped audition, which was recorded in New York City in August 1994. At the time, Mulgrew was only vaguely familiar with the Star Trek franchise and did not grasp the importance of the role. Mulgrew was approached to audition for the role of Captain Elizabeth Janeway when Voyager was being cast. Mulgrew's original audition (likely with a mislabeled year) Her last name is pronounced "Mul-GREW", with emphasis on the second syllable. She is also a longtime friend of John de Lancie, the actor best known for playing Q on various Star Trek episodes, including three episodes of Star Trek: Voyager. Kennedy, Jr., and attended his funeral with her husband, Tim. Mulgrew was friends with the late John F. Her mother, Joan, suffered from the debilitating illness prior to her death on 27 July 2006. Mulgrew is an active member of the Alzheimer's Association National Advisory Council. Mulgrew recalls this reunion, which was initiated while she was working on the set of Star Trek: Voyager, as well as much of her early life in her 2015 memoir Born with Teeth. In 2001, Mulgrew was reuinted with her daughter Danielle, whom she had placed for adoption during the filming of Ryan's Hope. ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine issue 6, p. 39) She married Ohio politician Timothy Hagan in 1999, whom she met in 1994 through her mother. In November 1995, Mulgrew dated Star Trek: Voyager director Winrich Kolbe. The marriage produced two sons: Ian Thomas and Alexander James.
She was accepted into Stella Adler's Conservatory while attending New York University, but left at the end of her junior year to pursue a full-time acting career, beginning within her breakthrough role as Mary Ryan on the hit soap opera Ryan's Hope.įrom 1982 to 1995, she was married to Robert Egan. At the age of 17, she left home and traveled to New York City to study acting. Mulgrew gained an interest in acting at the age of 12, which her mother helped to flourish by giving her biographies of legendary actresses and sending her to summer acting schools. Both of her parents have since passed away. Katherine Kiernan Mulgrew was born in Dubuque, Iowa, to Joan and Thomas James Mulgrew, the oldest girl in an Irish Catholic family of eight.
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