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Genevieve Bujold as Captain Nicole Janeway.
Geneviève Bujold (born in Montréal, Quebec, 1 July, 1942) is a French-Canadian actress. She was the first choice of the producers of Star Trek: Voyager to play Captain Nicole Janeway. She quit after a few days of shooting, with the public reason being she was unaccustomed to the hectic pace of television filming. Other rumored reasons included dissatisfaction with her performance on the part of the producers and dissatisfaction with the character on the part of Bujold. As Rick Berman politely put it in the October 8-14, 1994 issue of TV Guide: "It was immediately obvious it was not a good fit." The producers subsequently hired TV veteran Kate Mulgrew, and changed the captain's first name from Elizabeth to Kathryn at Mulgrew's advice.
As a young woman in the 1960s, Bujold starred in international "art" films such as Le Roi de Coeur (King of Hearts) and Anne of the Thousand Days (in which she played Anne Boleyn opposite Richard Burton as Henry VIII; for that role, she was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe Award).
She would have been the second Montreal native to play a Star Trek captain, after William Shatner.
External link
- Geneviève Bujold at Wikipedia
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