Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates in Sony Pictures Classics' Love Liza - 2002

Biography

Born 06/28/1948

To the general moviegoing audience, Kathy Bates seemed to materialize from nowhere, giving an Academy Award- winning performance as a psychotic literary fan-turned-kidnapper in the screen adaptation of Stephen King's "Misery" in 1990. Unbeknownst to those outside theater circles, Bates had already...
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Awards

  • In 2002, received National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress
  • In 1999, received Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
  • In 1999, received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Highlights

  • In 2009, Co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in Stephen Frears' "Cheri"
  • In 2008, Re-teamed with "Titanic" co-stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet for "Revolutionary Road"
  • In 2008, Cast as the Secretary of Defense in the remake of the 1951 science fiction movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

Family & Companions

  • Bernard Hill: appeared together in "Titanic"
  • Langdon Doyle Bates: father (Deceased)
  • Bertye Kathleen Bates: mother (Died Feb. 15, 1997 at age 91)

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