Katherine Kiernan Maria Mulgrew is an American actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager and Red in Orange Is the New Black. She first came to attention in the role of Mary Ryan in the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope.
Mulgrew at the 2022 Phoenix Fan Fusion
Kate Mulgrew with Voyager actresses Roxann Dawson and Jennifer Lien (1995)
Mulgrew (l.) with an early photograph in Prague, 2011
Mulgrew with Patrick Stewart appearing at Destination Star Trek London in 2012.
Kathryn Janeway is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. She was the main character of the television series Star Trek: Voyager, which aired between 1995 and 2001. She served as the captain of the Starfleet starship USS Voyager while it was lost in the Delta Quadrant on the other side of the galaxy. After returning home to the Alpha Quadrant, she is promoted to vice admiral and briefly appears in the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis. She is seen again commanding the USS Dauntless in Star Trek: Prodigy, searching for the missing USS Protostar which was being commanded by Captain Chakotay, her former first officer on Voyager, at the time of its disappearance.
Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti dressed as Captain Janeway, tweeted her line "There's coffee in that nebula".