Kathy Bates

Also Credited As:

Bobo Bates, Kathleen Doyle Bates
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Biography

To the general moviegoer, Kathy Bates seemed to materialize from nowhere, giving an Academy Award-winning performance as a psychotic literary fan-turned-kidnapper in the screen adaptation of Stephen King's "Misery" in 1990. Unbeknownst to those outside theater circles, Bates had already enjoyed an over 20-year career as a Tony Award-winning actress on Broadway. Even more impressive, she was over 40 when she first made a dent in Hollywood; a …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Music

Born

Kathleen Doyle Bates on June 28, 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA

LATEST CREDITS

Christmas is Here Again

Voice

A Home of Our Own

Frances Lacey

Intimate Portrait: Jessica Tandy

Interviewee

Talking With

Big Eight

Stephen King: Master of Macabre

Interviewee

Together For Our Children -- M.U.S.I.C.

Actor

My Sister's Keeper

Christine

Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne

Ambulance Girl

Jane Stern

Fried Green Tomatoes

Evelyn Couch

The Late Shift

Helen Kushnick

The 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

Actor

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1 - The Moab Story

Actor

Valentine's Day

Susan

Bonneville

Margene Cunningham

Shadows and Fog

Prostitute

Curse of the Starving Class

Ella Tate

Misery

Annie Wilkes

The War At Home

Maurine Collier

Chéri

Madame Peloux

AFI's 100 Years..100 Heroes and Villains

Interviewee

Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun

Lunar Mom

The 64th Annual Academy Awards

Presenter

The Road to Mecca

Elsa Barlow

The Waterboy

Mama Boucher