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Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates
Kathy Bates
Born: Jun 28, 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee
Occupation: Actor, Director,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy Drama
Career Highlights: Fried Green Tomatoes, Misery, Primary Colors
First Major Screen Credit: Summer Heat (1987)
Filmography
SUMMER HEAT 1987
MEN DON'T LEAVE 1990
WHITE PALACE 1990
MISERY 1990
FRIED GREEN TOMATOES 1991
HIGH STAKES 1989
SIGNS OF LIFE 1989
HOSTAGES 1993
AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD 1991
USED PEOPLE 1992
HOME OF OUR OWN, A 1993
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS 1994
DOLORES CLAIBORNE 1995
DIABOLIQUE 1996
LATE SHIFT, THE 1995
SWEPT FROM THE SEA 1998
DRESS CODE, THE 1999
RAT RACE 2001
AMERICAN OUTLAWS 2001
SHADOWS AND FOG 1991
DRAGONFLY 2002
ABOUT SCHMIDT 2002
LOVE LIZA 2002
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE 2002
TITANIC 1997
LITTLE BLACK BOOK 2004
NINE LIVES 2005
BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, THE 2005
RUMOR HAS IT 2005
FAILURE TO LAUNCH 2006
CHARLOTTE'S WEB 2006
BEE MOVIE 2007
RELATIVE STRANGERS 2007
FRED CLAUS 2007
BONNEVILLE 2008
DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE 2008
FAMILY THAT PREYS, THE 2008
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD 2008
PERSONAL EFFECTS 2009
CHERI 2009
BLIND SIDE, THE 2009
45 Videos for Kathy Bates
Chéri (2009) About Schmidt (2002) A Home of Our Own (1993)
The Blind Side (2009) Dragonfly (2002) Hostages (1993)
Revolutionary Road (2008) Love Liza (2002) Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) Unconditional Love (2002) Used People (1992)
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (2008) American Outlaws (2001) At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Bee Movie (2007) Dress Code (2000) Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Fred Claus (2007) Primary Colors (1998) Shadows and Fog (1991)
P.S. I Love You (2007) Swept From The Sea (1997) Misery (1990)
The Golden Compass (2007) Titanic (1997) White Palace (1990)
Bonneville (2006) Diabolique (1996) High Stakes (1989)
Charlotte's Web (2006) The Late Shift (1996) Men Don't Leave (1989)
Failure to Launch (2006) Angus (1995) Signs of Life (1989)
Relative Strangers (2006) Dolores Claiborne (1995) Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2005) Curse of the Starving Class (1994) Summer Heat (1987)
Little Black Book (2004) North (1994) The Morning After (1986)
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Biography:

Actress Kathy Bates has been involved in the arts in one way or another since graduating from Southern Methodist University. Among the Memphis native's earliest jobs were a stint as a singing waitress in a Catskill resort and a sojourn as a gift shop cashier in New York's Museum of Modern Art. Bates was type-cast in character roles early on, which assured her a lot more work than the thousands of faceless ingenues in the business.

Her film debut occurred with 1971's Taking Off, and she made her off-Broadway debut five years later in {~Vanities}. For a long while, Bates made her name on the stage, only to see her roles go to other actresses in the plays' subsequent film adaptations. In 1983, she was nominated for a Tony award for her stage appearance as a garrulous would-be suicide in 'Night, Mother, a role played on screen by Sissy Spacek.

She also appeared as Lenny McGrath in Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play {~Crimes of the Heart}, a role played on screen by Diane Keaton. And in 1987, playwright Terrence McNally wrote a part specifically tailored to Bates' talents: the much-abused waitress Frankie in {~Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune}, a role which won her an Obie award, and, following a familiar pattern, was played on screen by Michelle Pfeiffer. Bates finally got to star in a movie herself in 1990.

And what a starring role it was: in Misery, she portrayed the psychotic Number One Fan of romance writer Paul Sheldon (James Caan), a searing performance which earned the actress an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. Appropriately enough, Hollywood screenwriters subsequently began making more room for Bates in their scripts.

She worked steadily throughout the rest of the decade in films of greatly varying quality. Particular highlights included Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), A Prelude to a Kiss (1992), Dolores Claiborne (1995), Titanic (1997), and Primary Colors (1998), the latter of which featured Bates giving an Oscar and Golden Globe nominated performance as a political muckraker.

Following her firey, foul-mouthed performance in that thinly veilied political biopic, Bates added a new credential to her resume, that of director. Initially taking the helm for the made-for-cable feature Dash and Lilly, Bates would subsequently direct episodes of the quirky HBO drama series Six Feet Under, simultaniously taking minor film roles before returning to more substantial roles with the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame entry My Sister's Keeper.

Roles in Love Liza and Dragonfly (both 2002) were soon to follow, and with her turn as an extroverted mother who catches the attention of Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt Bates would recieve her third Oscar nomination. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.