"This is not an intellectual
debate. Our responsibility
is clear, and the risks are
not imaginary."

Kate Mulgrew

Kate Mulgrew plays the role of Colonel Carol Simms in "The Response."

“My manager sent me the screenplay and the instant I read it I wanted to do it,” she said. "I get sent so much . . .  but this just stood out." With a nod to her past role on Star Trek she added, “I’m always in uniform you know.”

The character of Simms is smart, powerful, and persuasive, going head to head with Jefferson over the detainee’s fate. “She’s a fine woman and she’s been very careful to develop her own character according to her own philosophy,” she adds. “So I think that when I’m speaking my own point of view it’s not only passionately felt but I would probably give my life for it, which made this whole debate between Jefferson and myself so fascinating.”

“What’s really going on in that room that makes the film so compelling is that Jefferson and I are selling to Captain Miller,” says Mulgrew. “The debate is all about proving to Miller that my point of view is the right one. So I thought it just got deeper and deeper and more complicated.”

Kate Mulgrew: Film, TV, and Stage Credits

Internationally recognized as 'Captain Janeway' from the long-running Star Trek: Voyager (Golden Satellite and Saturn Awards), Mulgrew’s career spans film, television, and the stage. idically trained, she received a Golden Globe nomination at the age of 23 when she portrayed ‘Mrs. Columbo,’ the wife of the famous detective. Other notable television appearances include Kate Loves A Mystery, Cheers, Murphy Brown, St. Elsewhere and The Black Donnellys. Film roles include Throw Momma from the Train (opposite Billy Crystal and Danny Devito), Star Trek: Nemesis, A Stranger is Watching and Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. Mulgrew has toured throughout the United States as Katherine Hepburn in her stage play, Tea at Five, for which she was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel awards. Other theater credits include The American Dream, The Sandbox, Iphigenia 2.0 (for which she won an Obie), Our Leading Lady, Black Comedy, and Titus Andronicus, all in New York. She performed in The Exonerated in London and regionally in The Royal Family, The Film Society, What the Butler Saw, Hedda Gabler, Measure for Measure, The Real Thing, Another Part of the Forest and Major Barbara.

Additional Resources about Kate Mulgrew

Kate Mulgrew on Wikipedia

Official Kate Mulgrew website