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Kathy Bates
Born	Kathleen Doyle Bates June 28, 1948 (1948-06-28) (age 61) Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Occupation	Actress, director
Years active	1971–present
Spouse(s)	Tony Campisi (1991-1997)

Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director.

After several small roles in film and television, Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery (1990), for which she won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe. She followed this with major roles in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Dolores Claiborne (1995), before playing a featured role as Margaret "Molly" Brown in Titanic (1997). During this time she began her directing career, primarily in television.

She won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in Primary Colors (1998), for which she also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for About Schmidt (2002). Her television work has resulted in seven Emmy Award nominations.

Contents 1 Health 2 Early life 3 Career 4 Television 5 Personal life 6 Affiliations 7 Ovarian cancer 8 Filmography 8.1 Features 8.2 Short subjects 9 References 10 External links

Health

She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003, but the information did not become public knowledge until 2008 when she stated that after five years in remission she believes she has made a full recovery.¹²

Early life

Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Bertye Kathleen (née Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer.³ Her great-great-grandfather was an immigrant from Ireland to New Orleans and served as President Andrew Jackson's doctor.⁴ She has two older sisters. She attended Southern Methodist University, majoring in theatre and was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and graduated in 1969. She moved to New York City in 1970 to pursue an acting career.⁵

Career

Her Broadway appearances include Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July and the Robert Altman-directed Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean opposite Karen Black and Cher. She received a Tony Award nomination in 1983 for her stage role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'night, Mother opposite Anne Pitoniak. The production of 'night, Mother ran for more than a year. One of her other successful New York stage productions was, Off-Broadway, in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune which ran 533 performances. McNally specifically wrote the play for Bates and F. Murray Abraham, who had to drop out and was replaced by Kenneth Welsh. The play was later filmed as Frankie and Johnny, starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Bates' first feature film was the 1971 Miloš Forman comedy Taking Off (credited as "Bobo Bates"), wherein she sings an original song "Even Horses Had Wings". Bates next feature was the 1978 Dustin Hoffman vehicle Straight Time. (In 1990, she would appear again with Hoffman in Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy as a stenographer.) Bates continued to appear in little-seen films such as Summer Heat and The Morning After while guest-starring in television shows such as L.A. Law before landing the role of obsessed fan Annie Wilkes, who holds her favorite author (played by James Caan) captive, in the 1990 thriller Misery. Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, she received her first Academy Award nomination for that role, winning Best Actress. Soon after, she starred with Jessica Tandy in the acclaimed 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes.

In 1995, she turned in another applauded portrayal as the title character in Dolores Claiborne, a film adaption of another Stephen King novel, although she was not nominated for an Oscar. In 1997, Bates played Margaret "Molly" Brown in James Cameron's Titanic. Based on the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing more than $1.8 billion in box-office receipts worldwide.⁶

Bates also excelled in her role as the acid-tongued "dustbuster" political advisor Libby Holden in the 1998 drama Primary Colors, which was adapted from the book in which political journalist Joe Klein recounted his experiences on the Presidential campaign trail in 1991-1992. For this performance, she received the her second Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, though she did not win. She was nominated again, in 2002, for About Schmidt, and did not win. Bates did her first nude scene at the age of 43 in the 1991 film At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) and again for a scene in About Schmidt. More recently, she and Terry Bradshaw played the parents of Matthew McConaughey's character in the 2006 film Failure to Launch. Bates was also featured in an uncredited cameo in the miniseries of Stephen King's The Stand.

Bates was nominated Emmy Award seven times: Outstanding actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, for her performance as Jay Leno's manager Helen Kushnick in HBO's The Late Shift (1996), and, twice again in the same category; as Miss Hannigan in Disney's remake of Annie (1999) and for the HBO Franklin Roosevelt biopic Warm Springs (2005). She was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Lifetime Television's Ambulance Girl (2006), which she also directed. She appeared in ten episodes of the HBO cable television series Six Feet Under for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, as Bettina, in 2003. She also was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for 3rd Rock from the Sun in 1999, the same year that she was nominated for Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or Movie for the Dashiell Hammett-Lillian Hellman biopic Dash & Lilly.

Starting in the 1990s, Bates forged a formidable career as a director. She has directed episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street, NYPD Blue, Oz, Six Feet Under, and Everwood. Bates has also directed the TV movies Dash and Lilly and the self-starring Ambulance Girl.

She directed and co-starred in Have Mercy (2006) with Melanie Griffith. In 2008, she re-teamed with her Titanic co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road.

Television

In 1977, she made her soap opera debut as Phyllis on NBC's soap opera The Doctors. In 1983/1984, she played prison inmate Belle Bodelle on All My Children.

Personal life

Bates married Tony Campisi in 1991; they divorced in 1997. She resides in Hancock Park, Los Angeles.

Affiliations

Bates is the Executive Committee Chair of the Actors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors.

Ovarian cancer

Bates was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003, and after five years in remission has stated her belief that she is now free of the disease. She shared her story with the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance in September 2008 in a PSA and interview.

Filmography

Features

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	Taking Off	Audition Singer: "Even the Horses Had Wings"	as Bobo Bates
1978	Straight Time	Selma Darin
1982	Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean	Stella Mae
1983	Two of a Kind	Furniture man's wife
1986	The Morning After	Woman on Mateo Street
1987	Summer Heat	Ruth
1988	My Best Friend Is a Vampire	Helen Blake	as Kathy D. Bates
	Arthur 2: On the Rocks	Mrs. Canby
1989	Signs of Life	Mary Beth Alder
	High Stakes	Jill
1990	Men Don't Leave	Lisa Coleman
	Dick Tracy	Mrs. Green
	White Palace	Rosemary
	Misery	Annie Wilkes	Academy Award for Best Actress Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1991	At Play in the Fields of the Lord	Hazel Quarrier
	Fried Green Tomatoes	Evelyn Couch	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1992	The Road to Mecca	Elsa Barlow
	Shadows and Fog	Prostitute
	Prelude to a Kiss	Leah Blier
	Used People	Bibby Berman
1993	A Home of Our Own	Frances Lacey
1994	North	Alaskan mom
	Curse of the Starving Class	Ella Tate
	The Stand	Rae Flowers	Uncredited
1995	Dolores Claiborne	Dolores Claiborne	Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress
	Angus	Meg Bethune
1996	Diabolique	Det. Shirley Vogel
	The War at Home	Maurine Collier
	The Late Shift	Helen Kushnick	Golden Globe Award Screen Actors Gulid Award Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
1997	Swept from the Sea	Miss Swaffer
	Titanic	Molly Brown	Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1998	Primary Colors	Libby Holden	Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Screen Actors Guild Award Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
	The Effects of Magic	Raphaella, the Magic Bunny	voice
	The Waterboy	Helen 'Mama' Boucher	Blockbuster Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Role
	A Civil Action	Bankruptcy judge	uncredited
1999	Annie	Miss Agatha Hannigan	Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
	3rd Rock From the Sun	Charlotte Everly	Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series
	Dash and Lily	Director	Nominated - Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special
2001	Rat Race	The Squirrel Lady	uncredited
	American Outlaws	Ma James
2002	Love Liza	Mary Ann Bankhead
	Dragonfly	Mrs. Belmont
	About Schmidt	Roberta Hertzel	Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
	Unconditional Love	Grace Beasley
	My Sister's Keeper	Christine Chapman	Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
2003	Six Feet Under	Bettina	Nominated — Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Drama Series (for episode "Twilight") Nominated - Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Drama Series
2004	Around the World in 80 Days	Queen Victoria
	Little Black Book	Kippie Kann
	The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing	Narrator	documentary
	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	The Marquesa
2005	Rumour Has It	Aunt Mitsy	uncredited
	3 & 3	The Judge
	Warm Springs	Helena Mahoney	Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
2006	Failure to Launch	Sue
	Have Mercy
	Solace	Marrow's wife
	Ambulance Girl	Jane Stern	Nominated - Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
	Relative Strangers	Agnes Menure
	Bonneville	Margene
	Charlotte's Web	Bitsy the Cow	voice
2007	Bee Movie	Janet Benson	voice
	Fred Claus	Mother Claus
	The Golden Compass	Hester	voice
	PS, I Love You	Patricia
	Christmas Is Here Again	Miss Dowdy	voice
2008	The Family That Preys	Charlotte Cartwright
	The Day the Earth Stood Still	Secretary of Defense, Dr. Regina Jackson
	Revolutionary Road	Mrs. Helen Givings	Palm Springs International Film Festival Ensemble Performance Award
2009	Cheri	Madame Charlotte Peloux
	Personal Effects	Gloria
	The Blind Side	Miss Sue

Short subjects

Year	Film	Role
1999	Baby Steps	Mrs. Mellon
2004	The Ingrate	The Judge

References

External links

• Kathy Bates at the Internet Movie Database
• Kathy Bates at Allmovie
• Kathy Bates at Yahoo! Movies
• Kathy Bates at the Internet Broadway Database
• Kathy Bates at the Internet off-Broadway Database

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Persondata
NAME	Bates, Kathy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bates, Kathleen Doyle
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress, director
DATE OF BIRTH	June 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Memphis, Tennessee, USA
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH