Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director. She has been the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, she studied theatre at the Southern Methodist University before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. She landed minor stage roles before being cast in her first on screen role in Taking Off (1971). Her first Off-Broadway stage performance was in the 1976 production of Vanities. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, she continued to perform on screen and on stage, and garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Play in 1983 for her performance in ‘night, Mother, and won an Obie Award in 1988 for her performance in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.
Bates’ performance as Annie Wilkes in the tense psychological thriller Misery (1990) marked her Hollywood breakthrough, winning her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Further acclaim came for her starring role in Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Waterboy (1998), and supporting roles in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Titanic (1997). Bates received subsequent Oscar nods in the Best Supporting Actress category for her work in Primary Colors (1998), About Schmidt (2002), and Richard Jewell (2019).
Bates’ television work has resulted in 14 Emmy Award nominations, including two for her leading role on the NBC series Harry’s Law (2011–12). She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her appearance on the ninth season of Two and a Half Men (2012) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her portrayal of Delphine LaLaurie on the third season of American Horror Story (2013). She also received accolades for her portrayal of Miss Hannigan in the 1999 television adaptation of Annie. Her directing credits include several episodes of the HBO television series Six Feet Under (2001–03) and the television film Ambulance Girl (2005).
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Kathy Bates Biography / Wiki
| Name | Kathy Bates |
| Also Know | КÑти БейтÑ, Kathleen Doyle “Kathy” Bates |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Memphis, Tennessee, USA |
| Date of Birth | June 28, 1948 |
| Age(as in 2023) | 74 |
| Deathday |
Kathy Bates Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | Evelyn Couch | 1991-12-27 | Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and… |
| My Sister’s Keeper | Christine Chapman | 2002-01-27 | Two sisters take a journey of discovery and reconciliation based on the memoirs of Margaret Moorman. Christine has been diagnosed with schizophrenia a… |
| The Late Shift | Helen Kushnick | 1996-02-24 | David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from “The Tonight Show.”… |
| Dolores Claiborne | Dolores Claiborne | 1995-03-24 | Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court’s findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk … |
| The Family That Preys | Charlotte Cartwright | 2008-09-12 | Alice Pratt, a hard working Christian woman, raised her two daughters while managing a simple diner of her own. Her snobbish and arrogant daughter And… |
| Unconditional Love | Grace Beasley | 2002-08-23 | After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she’s adored all her life. There, she meets the l… |
| Bonneville | Margene | 2006-09-11 | Three women take a road trip to Santa Barbara in order to deliver the ashes of one of their dead husbands to his resentful daughter. Faced with the de… |
| Guilty Hearts | The Judge | 2006-01-01 | Over the course of this drama’s six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their … |
| A Home of Our Own | Frances Lacey | 1993-11-05 | The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: … |
| Ambulance Girl | Jane Stern | 2005-09-12 | The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic…. |
| The Road to Mecca | Elsa Barlow | 1991-03-10 | An eldery lady, living in (litterally) the middle if nowhere, and fed up with small minded apartheid ideology starts escaping into her own world of sc… |
| Declaration of Independence | Self | 2003-06-10 | Famous actors and actresses read the declaration of independence of the USA…. |
| The Effects of Magic | 1998-09-28 | … | |
| Hostages | Peggy Say | 1992-09-23 | True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era…. |
| Hansel and Gretel | Narrator (voice) | 2005-01-01 | The classic story of a woodcutter’s two lost children, who find a house in the forest made of sweets and candy that belongs to a hungry witch…. |
| Tupperware! | Narrator | 1994-02-09 | The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught sales-woman who built him… |
| Baby Steps | Mrs. Mellon | 1999-06-26 | Baby Steps depicts the encounter of a single gay school teacher with a midwestern adoption agent…. |
| Misery Loves Company | Self | 2003-01-01 | A documentary presenting the behind the scenes of Rob Reiner’s classic “Misery”, with Reiner himself, Kathy Bates, James Caan, Frances Sternhagen, wri… |
| Thelma | Thelma | Follows John Kennedy Toole’s mother, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole died by suicide before finding a home for his… | |
| Misery | Annie Wilkes | 1990-11-30 | Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the “number one fan” of Paul’s heroine Misery Chastaine. … |
| About Schmidt | Roberta Hertzel | 2002-12-12 | A recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter’s wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected…. |
| The Waterboy | Mama Helen Boucher | 1998-11-06 | Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher’s hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone… |
| Chéri | Madame Peloux | 2009-04-08 | A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes… |
| Angus | Meg Bethune | 1995-09-15 | Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has… |
| Annie | Miss Agatha Hannigan | 1999-11-07 | Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a “hard-knock life” in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-dow… |
| Relative Strangers | Agnes Menure | 2006-05-01 | An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time…. |
| The War at Home | Maurine Collier | 1996-11-20 | Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with h… |
| Curse of the Starving Class | Ella Tate | 1994-09-13 | Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950’s-era farm fa… |
| Shadows and Fog | Prostitute | 1991-12-05 | With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer…. |
| The Great Gilly Hopkins | Maime Trotter | 2015-10-05 | Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can r… |
| Bad Santa 2 | Sunny Soke | 2016-11-23 | Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Ev… |
| Home | Bernadette | 2021-07-29 | An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past…. |
| Summer Camp | Nora, Ginny and Mary have been best friends since childhood, spending their summers together inseparably at sleepaway camp. As the years have passed, … | ||
| Revolutionary Road | Mrs. Givings | 2008-12-19 | A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their … |
| Christmas Is Here Again | Miss Dowdy (voice) | 2007-10-20 | When the evil Krad steals Santa’s toy bag, he crushes the holiday spirit- and over time, the world’s children forget all about Christmas. Now, a wide-… |
| White Palace | Rosemary | 1990-10-19 | Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who’s still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who… |
| Little Black Book | Kippie Kann | 2004-08-06 | Determined to learn about her boyfriend’s past relationships, Stacy — who works for a talk show — becomes a bona fide snoop. With her colleague, Bar… |
| Personal Effects | Gloria | 2009-03-05 | Walter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his m… |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | The Marquesa | 2004-01-01 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder’s second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of seve… |
| Tammy | Lenore | 2014-07-02 | For Tammy, a burger-joint employee, a bad day keeps getting worse. She wrecks her car, loses her job and finds that her husband has been unfaithful. I… |
| Cadaver | Beth | 2012-11-26 | A cadaver wakes up to say a last goodbye to his wife, but discovers a truth in death that he didn’t know in life…. |
| Murder Ordained | Bobbi Birk | 1987-05-03 | This is the story of a minister who’s feeling unhappy in his marriage who then has an affair with a church employee, who is also married, and who also… |
| Complete Unknown | Nina | 2016-08-26 | Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a t… |
| Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood | Frances Marion (voice) | 2000-08-03 | This documentary tells of the life and career of screenwriter Frances Marion. By the mid-1920s, she was the most respected and highest paid scriptwrit… |
| The Highwaymen | Ma Ferguson | 2019-03-15 | In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Par… |
| Richard Jewell | Bobi Jewell | 2019-12-13 | Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they… |
| Six Feet Under: In Memoriam | Herself | 2005-10-25 | A eulogy for the groundbreaking HBO series…. |
| Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. | Sylvia Simon | 2023-04-27 | When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence…. |
| The Miracle Club | Eileen Dunne | Four Dublin women come together on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Lourdes in France, where they discover the solidarity in their friendship and unve… | |
| Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy | Siren / Sea Hag (voice) | 2004-09-24 | Popeye, Olive and Bluto head out to find Popeye’s long lost Pappy…. |
| Titanic | Molly Brown | 1997-11-18 | 101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fian… |
| Swept from the Sea | Miss Swaffer | 1998-01-23 | The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. Whe… |
| Prelude to a Kiss | Leah Blier | 1992-07-10 | A couple fall in love despite the girl’s pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happen… |
| Diabolique | Det. Shirley Vogel | 1996-03-22 | The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body… |
| Primary Colors | Libby Holden | 1998-03-20 | In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton’s 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to… |
| Love Liza | Mary Ann Bankhead | 2002-12-30 | Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoid… |
| A Little Bit of Heaven | Beverly Corbett | 2011-02-03 | A guarded woman who finds out she’s dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death…. |
| Bruno | Mother Superior | 2000-04-16 | The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey…. |
| Summer Heat | Ruth | 1987-05-29 | The young wife of a tobacco farmer falls in love with their handsome hired hand…. |
| The Boss | Ida Marquette | 2016-04-07 | A titan of industry is sent to prison after she’s caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America’s latest sweetheart… |
| Johnny Bull | Katherine Kovacs | 1986-05-19 | An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the late 1950’s. She faces the ire of her new mother-in-l… |
| A Family Affair | 2023-11-17 | A surprising romance results in major consequences for a young woman, her mother and her movie star boss…. | |
| Dragonfly | Mrs. Belmont | 2002-02-22 | A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient’s near death experiences…. |
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | Regina Jackson | 2008-12-10 | A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether human… |
| Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Stella Mae | 1982-11-12 | On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fanclub gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion…. |
| Men Don’t Leave | Lisa Coleman | 1990-02-02 | After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt f… |
| No Place Like Home | Bonnie Cooper | 1989-12-03 | A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Da… |
| On the Basis of Sex | Dorothy Kenyon | 2018-12-25 | Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century o… |
| Boychoir | Headmistress | 2014-09-04 | A troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school after the death of his single mother. Completely out of… |
| High Stakes | Jill | 1989-10-06 | A New York hooker tries to keep her daughter out of the clutches of the mobsters she works for…. |
| Used People | Bibby Berman | 1992-12-16 | At her husband’s funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice ye… |
| The Smack | Rowan Petty, a down-on-his-luck con man who gets an opportunity to make a real score. He teams up with Jade, a woman looking to escape her life just l… | ||
| Fred Claus | Mother Claus | 2007-11-03 | Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes over… |
| North | Alaskan Mom | 1994-07-22 | Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don’t give North the attention he needs, so he files a … |
| American Outlaws | Ma James | 2001-08-17 | When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers… |
| At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Hazel Quarrier | 1991-12-06 | Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission… |
| You May Not Kiss the Bride | Bryan’s Mother | 2011-04-03 | Bryan, an unassuming pet photographer has action and adventure thrust upon him when he is forced to wed Masha, a Croatian crime lord’s daughter, and s… |
| Reflections on Titanic | Self | 2012-09-10 | An enthralling and fast-paced four-part documentary feature that covers the making of one of the last major Hollywood epics; Titanic. Cast and crew sp… |
| Bee Movie | Janet Benson (voice) | 2007-11-02 | Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hi… |
| P.S. I Love You | Patricia | 2007-11-15 | A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life…. |
| Straight Time | Selma Darin | 1978-03-18 | After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at … |
| Failure to Launch | Sue | 2006-03-10 | Tripp, an attractive man in his thirties, is still living with his parents Al and Sue. Tripp’s best friends Demo and Ace are also still living in thei… |
| Arthur 2: On the Rocks | Mrs. Canby | 1988-07-08 | Arthur, that irrepressible drunk, tries to sober up and get a job. Meanwhile, Ralph Marolla is conniving to trick the hapless boozer into marrying his… |
| Charlotte’s Web | Bitsy the Cow (voice) | 2006-12-07 | Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Ch… |
| Signs of Life | Mary Beth Alder | 1989-01-01 | The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved…. |
| Roe vs. Wade | Jessie | 1989-05-15 | Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, … |
| The Blind Side | Miss Sue | 2009-11-20 | The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a… |
| Krystal | Vera | 2018-04-13 | A young man living a sheltered life develops a crush on a stripper and joins her Alcoholics Anonymous group just so he can be in the same room with he… |
| The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing | Narrator (voice) | 2004-10-12 | Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles…. |
| Warm Springs | Helena Mahoney | 2005-04-30 | Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia…. |
| The Death & Life of John F. Donovan | Barbara Haggermaker | 2019-03-13 | A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as … |
| The Morning After | Woman on Mateo Street | 1986-12-25 | Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening — and w… |
| Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony | Self (archive footage) | 2022-11-27 | Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put him … |
| The West Side Waltz | Mr. Goo | 1995-11-23 | Margaret keeps her neighbours at a distance and avoids contact except with Cara. She enjoys her company just for making music since Cara plays the vio… |
| The Golden Compass | Hester (voice) | 2007-12-04 | After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherwor… |
| The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful | Self | 1996-03-17 | A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons…. |
| My Best Friend Is a Vampire | Helen Blake | 1987-10-01 | After an encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire…. |
| Valentine’s Day | Susan Milton | 2010-02-10 | More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine’s Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputt… |
| Rat Race | The Squirrel Lady (uncredited) | 2001-08-17 | In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers — a group… |
| Around the World in 80 Days | Queen Victoria | 2004-06-16 | A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days…. |
| Midnight in Paris | Gertrude Stein | 2011-05-11 | A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusi… |
| Taking Off | Audition Singer | 1971-05-17 | Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose chil… |
| Two of a Kind | Furniture Man’s Wife | 1983-01-01 | God has had just about enough of the human’s attitude so he will destroy the planet very soon. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, bo… |
| Dick Tracy | Mrs. Green | 1990-04-05 | The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Ca… |
| And the Oscar Goes To… | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 | The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry’s most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO… traces the history of the Academy … |
| Rumor Has It… | Aunt Mitsy (uncredited) | 2005-12-22 | Sarah Huttinger’s return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn’t for her – and that m… |
| A Civil Action | Bankruptcy Judge (uncredited) | 1998-12-25 | Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to ‘get rid of’ a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obses… |
Kathy Bates Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Dash and Lilly | Director | 1999-05-31 | Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50’s Hollywood. Refusing to marry,… |
| Ambulance Girl | Director | 2005-09-12 | The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic…. |
| Director | A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business. When death is your business, what is your life? For the … | ||
| Director | After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. … | ||
| Director | The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups – Muslims, Latinos, Italians, … | ||
| Director | An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department’s Homicide Unit…. | ||
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