Kathy Bates |
Bates in 2006 |
Born |
Kathleen Doyle Bates
(1948-06-28) June 28, 1948 (age 63)
Memphis, Tennessee, United States |
Occupation |
Actress, director |
Years active |
1971–present |
Spouse |
Tony Campisi (m. 1991–1997) «start: (1991)–end+1: (1998)»"Marriage: Tony Campisi to Kathy Bates" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Kathy_Bates) |
Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and film director. After appearing in several minor roles in film and television during the 1970s and the 1980s, 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.[1] 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.
Bates received a Tony Award nomination for her 1983 performance in the Broadway play 'night, Mother. 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 Supporting Actress for About Schmidt (2002). Her television work has resulted in nine Emmy Award nominations. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003, Bates has stated that she has made a full recovery.[2]
Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the youngest of three daughters of Bertye Kathleen (née Talbert; 1907–1997), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates (1900–1989), a mechanical engineer.[3] Her paternal grandfather was lawyer and author Finis L. Bates. Her great-great-grandfather was an immigrant from Ireland to New Orleans and served as President Andrew Jackson's doctor.[4] She graduated from White Station High School, and later attended Southern Methodist University, where she majored in theatre, is 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]
Bates' history of Broadway appearances includes 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. She also replaced Amy Irving in the Off Broadway production of The Road to Mecca in 1988.
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 by Stephen King. Bates 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 1977, Bates made her soap opera debut as Phyllis on NBC's soap opera The Doctors. From 1983 to 1984, she played prison inmate Belle Bodelle on All My Children and from 1984 to 1985, she played Evelyn Maddox on One Life to Live. She also made an appearance on Two and A Half Men as Ghost Charlie.
In 1995, Bates 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 earn more than US$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 novelized his experiences on the Presidential campaign trail in 1991–1992. For this performance, she received her second Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress. In 2002 she received her third nomination, for 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 has been nominated for an Emmy Award[7] eight 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 and received a Supporting Actress nomination for Alice.
Bates appeared on 10 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. She also had a recurring guest role on the American version of The Office as Jo Bennett, the head executive of the company that buys Dunder Mifflin known as Sabre.
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 television movies Dash and Lilly and the self-starring Ambulance Girl.
Bates 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.
Bates stars in David E. Kelley's legal drama Harry's Law, which began airing on NBC on January 17, 2011.[8]
Bates is the Executive Committee Chair of the Actors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors.[9]
Bates was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003, but she did not reveal her illness to the general public until 2009.[2] She stated that she has been "in total remission" for over five and a half years, as of January 2009.[10]
Film and television credits
Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
1971 |
Taking Off |
Audition Singer: "Even the Horses Had Wings" |
as Bobo Bates |
1977 |
Doctors, TheThe Doctors |
Phyllis |
several episodes |
1978 |
Love Boat, TheThe Love Boat |
Sally Allison |
Episodes: "Family Reunion", "Too Hot to Handle" and "Cinderella Story" |
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 |
|
1984 |
All My Children |
Belle Bodelle |
several episodes |
1984–85 |
One Life to Live |
Evelyn Maddox |
several episodes |
1986 |
Johnny Bull |
Katherine Kovacs |
Television film |
1986 |
Cagney & Lacey |
Brenda Harris |
Episode: "Revenge" |
1986 |
Morning After, TheThe Morning After |
Woman on Mateo Street |
|
1986–87 |
St. Elsewhere |
Polly |
Episodes: "Up and Down" and "Visiting Daze" |
1987 |
Murder Ordained |
Bobbi Birk |
Television miniseries |
1987 |
Summer Heat |
Ruth |
|
1987 |
My Best Friend Is a Vampire |
Helen Blake |
as Kathy D. Bates |
1988 |
Arthur 2: On the Rocks |
Mrs. Canby |
|
1989 |
China Beach |
Jan |
Episode: "The World: Part 2" |
1989 |
Signs of Life |
Mary Beth Alder |
|
1989 |
High Stakes |
Jill |
|
1989 |
Roe vs. Wade |
|
Television film |
1989 |
L.A. Law |
Charlotte Haley |
Episode: "One Rat, One Ranger" |
1989 |
No Place Like Home |
|
Television film |
1990 |
Men Don't Leave |
Lisa Coleman |
|
1990 |
Dick Tracy |
Mrs. Green |
|
1990 |
White Palace |
Rosemary |
|
1990 |
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
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress |
1991 |
Shadows and Fog |
Prostitute |
|
1991 |
At Play in the Fields of the Lord |
Hazel Quarrier |
|
1991 |
Fried Green Tomatoes |
Evelyn Couch |
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1992 |
Road to Mecca, TheThe Road to Mecca |
Elsa Barlow |
|
1992 |
Prelude to a Kiss |
Leah Blier |
|
1992 |
Used People |
Bibby Berman |
|
1993 |
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun |
Lunar Mom |
Direct-to-video |
1993 |
Hostages |
Peggy Say |
Television film |
1993 |
Home of Our Own, AA Home of Our Own |
Frances Lacey |
|
1993
2004 |
American Experience, TheThe American Experience |
Narrator |
Episodes:
"Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage"
"Tupperware!" |
1994 |
Stand, TheThe Stand |
Rae Flowers |
Episode: "The Plague"
uncredited |
1994 |
North |
Alaskan mom |
Nominated — Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress |
1994 |
Curse of the Starving Class |
Ella Tate |
|
1995 |
Dolores Claiborne |
Dolores Claiborne |
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress |
1995 |
West Side Waltz, TheThe West Side Waltz |
Mr. Goo |
Television film |
1995 |
Angus |
Meg Bethune |
|
1996 |
Diabolique |
Det. Shirley Vogel |
|
1996 |
War at Home, TheThe War at Home |
Maurine Collier |
|
1996 |
Late Shift, TheThe Late Shift |
Helen Kushnick |
Television film
American Comedy Award for Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special (Leading or Supporting) Network, Cable or Syndication
Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
1997 |
Swept from the Sea |
Miss Swaffer |
|
1997 |
Titanic |
Molly Brown |
Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress – Drama
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
1998 |
Primary Colors |
Libby Holden |
American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress – Drama
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 for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role – Motion Picture
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 |
1998 |
Effects of Magic, TheThe Effects of Magic |
Raphaella, the Magic Bunny |
voice |
1998 |
Waterboy, TheThe Waterboy |
Helen "Mama" Boucher |
Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress – Comedy |
1998 |
Civil Action, AA Civil Action |
Bankruptcy judge |
uncredited |
1999 |
Annie |
Miss Agatha Hannigan |
Television film
American Comedy Award for Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special (Leading or Supporting) Network, Cable or Syndication
Nominated — Primetime 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 |
1999 |
Baby Steps |
Mrs. Mellon |
short film |
1999 |
3rd Rock from the Sun |
Charlotte Everly |
Episode: "Alien Hunter"
Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series |
1999 |
Dash and Lily |
Director |
Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special |
2000 |
Bruno |
Mother Superior |
|
2000 |
MADtv |
Stuart's Grandma |
Season 6 episode 602 |
2001 |
Rat Race |
The Squirrel Lady |
uncredited |
2001 |
American Outlaws |
Ma James |
|
2001 |
King of the Hill |
Police Officer |
Episode: "Lupe's Revenge" |
2002 |
Love Liza |
Mary Ann Bankhead |
|
2002 |
Dragonfly |
Mrs. Belmont |
|
2002 |
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 |
2002 |
Unconditional Love |
Grace Beasley |
|
2002 |
My Sister's Keeper |
Christine Chapman |
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 |
2003 |
Six Feet Under |
Bettina |
10 episodes
Nominated — Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Drama Series (for episode "Twilight")
Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Drama Series |
2004 |
Around the World in 80 Days |
Queen Victoria |
|
2004 |
Little Black Book |
Kippie Kann |
|
2004 |
Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy |
Sea Hag |
voice |
2004 |
Ingrate, TheThe Ingrate |
The Judge |
short film |
2004 |
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing |
Narrator |
documentary |
2004 |
Bridge of San Luis Rey, TheThe Bridge of San Luis Rey |
The Marquesa |
|
2005 |
Hansel and Gretel |
Narrator |
direct-to-video |
2005 |
Ambulance Girl |
Jane Stern |
Television film
Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated — Prism Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie or Miniseries |
2005 |
Guilty Hearts |
The Judge |
|
2005 |
Rumor Has It... |
Aunt Mitsy |
uncredited |
2005 |
Warm Springs |
Helena Mahoney |
Television film
Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
2006 |
Failure to Launch |
Sue |
|
2006 |
Have Mercy |
|
|
2006 |
Solace |
Marrow's wife |
|
2006 |
Relative Strangers |
Agnes Menure |
|
2006 |
Bonneville |
Margene |
|
2006 |
Charlotte's Web |
Bitsy the Cow |
voice |
2007 |
Bee Movie |
Janet Benson |
voice |
2007 |
Fred Claus |
Mother Claus |
|
2007 |
Golden Compass, TheThe Golden Compass |
Hester |
voice |
2007 |
P.S. I Love You |
Patricia |
|
2007 |
Christmas Is Here Again |
Miss Dowdy |
voice |
2008 |
Family That Preys, TheThe Family That Preys |
Charlotte Cartwright |
|
2008 |
Day the Earth Stood Still, TheThe Day the Earth Stood Still |
Secretary of Defense, Dr. Regina Jackson |
|
2008 |
Revolutionary Road |
Mrs. Helen Givings |
Palm Springs International Film Festival Ensemble Performance Award
Nominated — Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast |
2009 |
Cheri |
Madame Charlotte Peloux |
|
2009 |
Alice |
Queen of Hearts |
Miniseries
Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
2009 |
Personal Effects |
Gloria |
|
2009 |
Blind Side, TheThe Blind Side |
Miss Sue |
|
2009 |
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club |
Narrator |
Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts & Culture / History Program |
2010 |
Valentine's Day |
Susan Milton |
|
2010–11 |
Office, TheThe Office |
Jo Bennett |
8 episodes |
2011–present |
Harry's Law |
Harriet Korn |
Main cast
Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series |
2011 |
Midnight in Paris |
Gertrude Stein |
|
2011 |
You May Not Kiss the Bride |
Bryan's Mother |
|
2011 |
Little Bit of Heaven, AA Little Bit of Heaven |
Beverly Corbett |
|
2012 |
Two and a Half Men |
Ghost Charlie |
Episode: "Why We Gave Up Women" |
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- ^ a b Celizic, Mike (January 9, 2009). "Kathy Bates reveals her triumph over ovarian cancer". MSN. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/28580263/ns/today-today_people/. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ^ "Film Reference.com biography". FilmReference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/15/Kathy-Bates.html. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ Larson, Scott (July 16, 2006). "Public Interview with Kathy Bates.". ScottsMovies.com. Scott's Movie Comments. http://www.scottsmovies.com/misc06g.html. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ "Kathy Bates' Yahoo biography". movies.Yahoo.com. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800024073/bio. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ "Worldwide Grosses". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/. Retrieved January 20, 2009.
- ^ Kathy Bates Emmy Nominated
- ^ "NBC Adds To New Scripted Lineup With Four New Series – 'The Cape,' 'Outlaw,' 'Harry's Law' And 'Friends With Benefits' – And Renews 'Chuck' For Fourth Season In 2010–11" (Press release). NBC Universal. May 14, 2010. http://www.nbc.com/news/2010/05/14/nbc-adds-to-new-scripted-lineup-with-four-new-series----the-cape-outlaw-harrys-law-and-friends-with/. Retrieved May 16, 2010.
- ^ Published June 27, 2007 by. "June 28th, 2007 – Happy Birthday Kathy Bates!". Theinsider.com. http://www.theinsider.com/news/250917_June_28th_2007_Happy_Birthday_Kathy_Bates. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ "Buzz Briefs: Angelina Jolie, Kathy Bates". Cbsnews.com. January 9, 2008. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/09/entertainment/main4710270.shtml?source=RSSattr=Entertainment_4710270. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
Persondata |
Name |
Bates, Kathy |
Alternative names |
Bates, Kathleen Doyle |
Short description |
Actress, director |
Date of birth |
1948-06-28 |
Place of birth |
Memphis, Tennessee, United States |
Date of death |
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Place of death |
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