| Kathy Bates  AKA Kathleen Doyle Bates
Born: 28-Jun-1948
Birthplace: Memphis, TN
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Misery Kathy Bates is a film and stage actress best known for Misery, Dolores Claiborne, and The Waterboy. As a young woman, Bates got a degree in theater at Southern Methodist University, then worked as a waitress and sold trinkets in the souvenir shop at the New York Museum of Modern Art. She started landing bit parts and became a noted stage presence, starring in several hit plays that were subsequently adapted as motion pictures without her. The play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, for example, featured Bates playing a plain-looking waitress, but when the movie was made the role went to dumpy Michelle Pfeiffer.
Bates' film appearances were generally limited to small, "character" roles until Misery, where she poured years of bottled-up acting energy into an otherwise underwritten role as Stephen King's "number one fan." It won her an Oscar as Best Actress. Bates played the unsinkable Molly Brown in Titanic, a brass-balled political consultant in Primary Colors, and Jay Leno's bitchy agent in The Late Shift. She's overweight and post-menopausal, but that didn't stop Bates from appearing nude in a hot tub in About Schmidt.
Father: Langdon Doyle Bates (mechanical engineer)
Mother: Bertye Kathleen Talbot (b. 1906, d. 15-Feb-1997)
Sister: Mary Bates
Sister: Patricia Bates
Husband: Anthony Campisi (actor, m. 1991, div. 1997)
Boyfriend: Bernard Hill (actor, b. 17-Dec-1944, dating since 1993)
High School: White Station High School, Memphis, TN (1966)
University: BFA Theater, Southern Methodist University (1969)
Oscar for Best Actress 1991 for Misery
Golden Globe 1991 for Misery
Golden Globe 1997 for The Late Shift (television)
(list:ew-2003-it) Movie Improver
Mastectomy double (2012)
Endorsement of DirecTV 2008
Risk Factors: Obesity, Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer
TELEVISION
American Horror Story (2013-)
Harry's Law Harriet Korn (2011-12)
The Office Jo Bennett (2010-11)
Six Feet Under Bettina (2003-05)
All My Children Belle Bodelle (1984)
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Ambulance Girl (12-Sep-2005)
Dash and Lilly (31-May-1999)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Highwaymen (10-Mar-2019)
On the Basis of Sex (8-Nov-2018)
Bad Santa 2 (23-Nov-2016)
The Boss (21-Mar-2016)
Complete Unknown (25-Jan-2016)
When Marnie Was There (19-Jul-2014) [VOICE]
Tammy (2-Jul-2014)
Midnight in Paris (11-May-2011) · Gertrude Stein
A Little Bit of Heaven (4-Feb-2011) · Beverly Corbett
Valentine's Day (10-Feb-2010) · Susan
Alice (6-Dec-2009)
The Blind Side (17-Nov-2009) · Miss Sue
Personal Effects (5-Mar-2009)
Chéri (10-Feb-2009) · Mme. Peloux
Revolutionary Road (15-Dec-2008)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (10-Dec-2008)
The Family That Preys (12-Sep-2008)
P.S. I Love You (20-Dec-2007)
The Golden Compass (27-Nov-2007) [VOICE]
Fred Claus (3-Nov-2007)
Bee Movie (28-Oct-2007) [VOICE]
Charlotte's Web (7-Dec-2006) · Bitsy the Cow [VOICE]
Bonneville (11-Sep-2006) · Margene Cunningham
Failure to Launch (10-Mar-2006)
Relative Strangers (2006) · Agnes Menure
Ambulance Girl (12-Sep-2005)
Warm Springs (4-Apr-2005)
Guilty Hearts (2005)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (22-Dec-2004)
Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy (9-Nov-2004) [VOICE]
Little Black Book (6-Aug-2004) · Kippie Kann
Around the World in 80 Days (13-Jun-2004)
Unconditional Love (23-Aug-2002)
About Schmidt (22-May-2002) · Roberta Hertzel
Dragonfly (18-Feb-2002)
Love Liza (14-Jan-2002) · Mary Ann Bankhead
American Outlaws (14-Aug-2001)
The Dress Code (16-Apr-2000) · Mother Superior
Annie (7-Nov-1999)
The Waterboy (6-Nov-1998)
Primary Colors (20-Mar-1998) · Libby Holden
Titanic (1-Nov-1997) · Molly Brown
Swept from the Sea (9-Sep-1997)
The War at Home (6-Sep-1996)
Diabolique (22-Mar-1996)
The Late Shift (24-Feb-1996)
The West Side Waltz (23-Nov-1995)
Angus (15-Sep-1995) · Meg
Dolores Claiborne (24-Mar-1995) · Dolores Claiborne
Curse of the Starving Class (13-Sep-1994) · Ella Tate
North (22-Jul-1994) · Alaskan Mom
A Home of Our Own (5-Nov-1993)
Hostages (20-Feb-1993)
Used People (16-Dec-1992)
Prelude to a Kiss (10-Jul-1992) · Leah Blier
Shadows and Fog (30-Mar-1992) · Prostitute
Fried Green Tomatoes (27-Dec-1991) · Evelyn Couch
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (6-Dec-1991)
Misery (30-Nov-1990) · Annie Wilkes
White Palace (19-Oct-1990)
Dick Tracy (15-Jun-1990) · Mrs. Green
Men Don't Leave (2-Feb-1990)
High Stakes (17-Nov-1989)
Roe vs. Wade (15-May-1989)
Signs of Life (1989) · Mary Beth Alder
Arthur 2: On the Rocks (8-Jul-1988) · Mrs. Canby
My Best Friend Is a Vampire (May-1988)
Summer Heat (29-May-1987)
Murder Ordained (3-May-1987)
The Morning After (25-Dec-1986) · Woman on Mateo Street
Two of a Kind (16-Dec-1983)
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (12-Nov-1982)
Straight Time (18-Mar-1978) · Selma Darin
Taking Off (28-Mar-1971)
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