Kate Mulgrew
Kate Mulgrew is an American actor working across film, television, stage, and voice performance, born on April 29, 1955, in Dubuque.
Mulgrew grew up in Dubuque before pursuing a formal education in the performing arts. She attended Wahlert Catholic High School before going on to study at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, both of which provided her with a foundation in the craft that would carry her across multiple performance disciplines.
Her career has encompassed work in film, on stage, and extensively in television, reflecting a range that few actors sustain over a long professional life. In addition to her on-screen and stage appearances, Mulgrew has worked as a voice actor, a discipline that brought her distinct recognition when she received an Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors, an honor given in the audiobook industry for work performed by the author of the text being recorded.
Among her television roles, she is associated with the character Red in the series Orange Is the New Black, a part that has drawn sustained attention throughout her career. Her work across these varied formats — stage, film, television, and voice — reflects a professional practice rooted in the English language and shaped by training in two of New York's most noted acting institutions.
Quotes by Kate Mulgrew
I wanted to teach them that rejection, and the sadness that attended it, were an integral part of loving something passionately and therefore nothing to be ashamed of.
I laughed, disarmed. “Shopping isn’t really my thing. Not when there are bookstores to be plundered and tombs to be explored.
They loved her because she was an independent spirit, unafraid to speak her mind, passionate, impetuous, and brave. Seldom lauded for her beauty, Mary Ryan had something else to offer, something women could grab ahold of and understand. She had a powerful sense of self, and this proved more magnetic and more relatable than any other single quality.
Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I’ve visited plenty of prisons and I know what they’re like.
Janeway enters from her office, which on the USS Voyager was called the captain’s ready room, and walks slowly through the bridge, greeting each officer in turn.
It was curious to me then, as now, the power of the performer over an audience when, in fact, the gift itself springs from the writer’s pen.
It’s not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
The “banker’s way” meant that you were not fit for acting, not able to channel passion, not sensitive to the subtleties of human nature. In other words, you were a creature of the material world and therefore neither welcomed nor suited to this life, where money was regarded with disdain and personal sacrifice was the order of the day.
Picasso wasn’t in conflict, you can bet your bottom dollar on that. He said, Scram! I need to work, and his mistresses and their spawn ran for the hills. Dickens wasn’t in conflict. He had ten children and wrote as many novels in almost as many years, because it was both understood and appreciated that he was gifted, famous, and rich. The male artist has always been respected.
I don’t know Kitten,” she said, zipping up her money belt, “but I’ll tell you one thing – if it were a book, I wouldn’t be able to put it down.