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... as Captain Nicole Janeway
Geneviève Bujold (born 1 July 1942; age 81) from Montréal, Québec 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 day and a half 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 Nicole to Kathryn at Mulgrew's advice.
As a young woman in the '60s, 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 Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award.
She would have been the second Montreal native to play a Star Trek captain, after William Shatner.
External links
- Geneviève Bujold at Wikipedia
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- Bujold as Captain Nicole Janeway - Video via Youtube