K Callan (born Katherine Elizabeth Borman on January 9, 1936) is the actress who portrays Lenore MacKenzie, the mother of U.S. Navy vet Charlie MacKenzie. whom Dr. Samuel Beckett leaps into to get Lenore to accept his new Japanese bride as he returns home to Ohio from Japan in 1953, in the Season 2 episode of Quantum Leap, titled "The Americanization of Machiko".