| Kathy Bates  AKA Kathleen Doyle Bates
Born: 28-Jun-1948
Birthplace: Memphis, TN
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Misery Kathy Bates is a film and stage actress best known for Misery, Dolores Claiborne, and The Waterboy. As a young woman, Bates got a degree in theater at Southern Methodist University, then worked as a waitress and sold trinkets in the souvenir shop at the New York Museum of Modern Art. She started landing bit parts and became a noted stage presence, starring in several hit plays that were subsequently adapted as motion pictures without her. The play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, for example, featured Bates playing a plain-looking waitress, but when the movie was made the role went to dumpy Michelle Pfeiffer.
Bates' film appearances were generally limited to small, "character" roles until Misery, where she poured years of bottled-up acting energy into an otherwise underwritten role as Stephen King's "number one fan." It won her an Oscar as Best Actress. Bates played the unsinkable Molly Brown in Titanic, a brass-balled political consultant in Primary Colors, and Jay Leno's bitchy agent in The Late Shift. She's overweight and post-menopausal, but that didn't stop Bates from appearing nude in a hot tub in About Schmidt.
Father: Langdon Doyle Bates (mechanical engineer)
Mother: Bertye Kathleen Talbot (b. 1906, d. 15-Feb-1997)
Sister: Mary Bates
Sister: Patricia Bates
Husband: Anthony Campisi (actor, m. 1991, div. 1997)
Boyfriend: Bernard Hill (actor, b. 17-Dec-1944, dating since 1993)
High School: White Station High School, Memphis, TN (1966)
University: BFA Theater, Southern Methodist University (1969)
Oscar for Best Actress 1991 for Misery
Golden Globe 1991 for Misery
Golden Globe 1997 for The Late Shift (television)
Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It" List Movie Improver
Endorsement of DirecTV 2008
Risk Factors: Obesity
TELEVISION
Six Feet Under Bettina
All My Children Belle Bodelle (1984)
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Dash and Lilly (31-May-1999)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
P.S. I Love You (20-Dec-2007)
The Golden Compass (27-Nov-2007) [VOICE]
Fred Claus (3-Nov-2007)
Bee Movie (28-Oct-2007) [VOICE]
Charlotte's Web (7-Dec-2006) [VOICE]
Bonneville (11-Sep-2006)
Failure to Launch (10-Mar-2006)
Relative Strangers (2006)
Warm Springs (4-Apr-2005)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (22-Dec-2004)
Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy (9-Nov-2004) [VOICE]
Little Black Book (06-Aug-2004)
Around the World in 80 Days (13-Jun-2004)
Unconditional Love (23-Aug-2002)
About Schmidt (22-May-2002)
Dragonfly (18-Feb-2002)
Love Liza (14-Jan-2002)
American Outlaws (14-Aug-2001)
Bruno (16-Apr-2000)
Annie (07-Nov-1999)
The Waterboy (6-Nov-1998)
Primary Colors (20-Mar-1998)
Titanic (1-Nov-1997)
Swept from the Sea (9-Sep-1997)
The War at Home (06-Sep-1996)
Diabolique (22-Mar-1996)
The Late Shift (24-Feb-1996)
Angus (15-Sep-1995)
Dolores Claiborne (24-Mar-1995)
Curse of the Starving Class (13-Sep-1994)
North (22-Jul-1994)
A Home of Our Own (05-Nov-1993)
Hostages (20-Feb-1993)
Used People (16-Dec-1992)
Prelude to a Kiss (10-Jul-1992)
Shadows and Fog (30-Mar-1992)
Fried Green Tomatoes (27-Dec-1991)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (6-Dec-1991)
Misery (30-Nov-1990)
White Palace (19-Oct-1990)
Dick Tracy (15-Jun-1990)
Men Don't Leave (2-Feb-1990)
Signs of Life (1989)
Arthur 2: On the Rocks (8-Jul-1988)
My Best Friend Is a Vampire (May-1988)
The Morning After (25-Dec-1986)
Two of a Kind (16-Dec-1983)
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
Straight Time (18-Mar-1978)
Taking Off (28-Mar-1971)
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