Kathy Bates
Birthday: 1948-06-28
Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Biography: 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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Fried Green Tomatoes
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
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Around the World in 80 Days
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Misery
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Dragonfly
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Swept from the Sea
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Prelude to a Kiss
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The Waterboy
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About Schmidt
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Revolutionary Road
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Diabolique
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Fred Claus
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My Sister's Keeper
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The Late Shift
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Bee Movie
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The Blind Side
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P.S. I Love You
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Chéri
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Failure to Launch
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Straight Time
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North
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Dolores Claiborne
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Misery Loves Company
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Primary Colors
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Christmas Is Here Again
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Summer Camp
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Angus
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Valentine's Day
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Arthur 2: On the Rocks
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Annie
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Charlotte's Web
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American Outlaws
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White Palace
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A Civil Action
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Two of a Kind
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Personal Effects
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Little Black Book
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Relative Strangers
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Love Liza
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Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
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Unconditional Love
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A Little Bit of Heaven
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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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Bonneville
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Guilty Hearts
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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
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You May Not Kiss the Bride
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Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
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Men Don't Leave
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The Smack
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A Home of Our Own
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Midnight in Paris
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Bruno
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The War at Home
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Summer Heat
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Thelma
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Curse of the Starving Class
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No Place Like Home
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Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
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Tammy
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High Stakes
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My Best Friend Is a Vampire
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A Family Affair
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Shadows and Fog
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Ambulance Girl
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Titanic: Stories from the Heart
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Boychoir
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The Boss
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Cadaver
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Roe vs. Wade
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Murder Ordained
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Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy
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Complete Unknown
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
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Bad Santa 2
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The Great Lillian Hall
Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious ca...
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The Road to Mecca
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Declaration of Independence
Famous actors and actresses read the Declaration of Independence of the United States....
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Taking Off
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Krystal
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Talking With
Adapted from the group of stage monologues by the pseudononymous "Jane Martin," this is a series of ...
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The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspo...
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The Effects of Magic
A magician, aided by his talking magic bunny, joins forces with his previously estranged magician fa...
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Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
A special celebrating Elizabeth Taylor's 65th birthday featuring never-before-seen footage of her li...
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The West Side Waltz
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The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
A documentary profile of Pasadena society girl turned adventurer and aviator, Florence Lowe "Pancho"...
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The Golden Compass
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence r...
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
From 1915-1939, Frances Marion was one of the most powerful talents in the movie industry. In one of...
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Hostages
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush er...
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On the Basis of Sex
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Dick Tracy
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The Morning After
Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize...
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The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and ho...
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The Highwaymen
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Richard Jewell
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a dom...
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Rumor Has It...
Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club li...
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Hansel and Gretel
The classic story of a woodcutter's two lost children, who find a house in the forest made of sweets...
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Warm Springs
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
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Tupperware!
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Johnny Bull
An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the lat...
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Baby Steps
Baby Steps depicts the encounter of a single gay school teacher with a midwestern adoption agent....
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The Miracle Club
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey ...
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Reflections on Titanic
An enthralling and fast-paced four-part documentary feature that covers the making of one of the las...
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Signs of Life
The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved....
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Titanic
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...
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Titanic: Breaking New Ground
This documentary narrated by Peter Coyote, shows the making of the Oscar-winning movie by James Came...
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Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
An original documentary exploring one of America's most beloved films. Take a journey with director ...
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Rat Race
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon...
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Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
CBS News celebrates the life and legacy of Hollywood legend Rob Reiner, featuring interviews with Ka...
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