>Then the woman who had started the conversation asked if she’d come around the bar and talk to them.“She said, ‘This is my friend Kate.’
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>When I looked over, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh!’”
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>The friend was Kate Mulgrew, the award-winning actress who played Red in Orange is the New Black, Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager, and loads of other memorable roles stretching back to Mary Ryan in the old soap opera Ryan’s Hope.
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>Burke is a huge fan; “if Beyoncé was next to me, I would have been less shocked to see her.”
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>She said the companion told her Mulgrew was in Philadelphia, working on learning the accent.
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>Variety has reported that Mulgrew has been cast in the upcoming Apple TV series Sinking Spring, a drug-and-crime drama based on the book Dope Thief by Philly-area author Dennis Tafoya.