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Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948 in
Memphis, Tennessee to Langdon Doyle Bates and Bertye Kathleen Talbot) is
an Academy Award-winning American theatrical, film, and television
actress, and a stage and television director. She is perhaps best known
for her Oscar-winning performance in the 1990 thriller Misery, her role
in Adam Sandler's cult classic The Waterboy and as Molly Brown in James
Cameron's mega blockbuster Titanic.
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Date of birth: June 28, 1948
Birth location: Memphis, Tennessee USA
Notable role(s): Annie Wilkes - Misery
Helen Boucher - The Waterboy
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Life and career
Bates graduated from White Station High
School in Memphis. She attended the Southern Methodist University,
majoring in theatre and a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and
graduated in 1969.
She performed in little-seen films such as
Summer Heat and The Morning After, and guest-starred 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, which was 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,
although she was surprisingly not nominated for an Oscar. She also
excelled in her role as the acid-tongued "dustbuster" political advisor
Libby Holden in the 1998 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 her second Academy Award nomination, for Best supporting
actress, though she did not win. She was nominated again, in 2002, for
About Schmidt, though again, she was denied the award.
She was nominated for the Emmy Award seven
times: Outstanding Supporting Actress 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.
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 over 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 film version, with the title shortened to Frankie and Johnny starred
Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer despite the fact that the play was the
romance of "ordinary" looking people. In addition, numerous other parts
were added, whereas the stage version was basically a two-performer
play.
In 1991, she married actor Tony Campisi,
with whom she had lived for 12 years previously. They divorced in 1997.
Trivia
Bates is also the secretary of the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governers.
Bates' nickname is Bobo.
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.
Starting in the 1990's, 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. In 2007, Bates will direct and also star in Have Mercy
opposite Melanie Griffith.
She was often mistaken for comedian
Roseanne, who in turn spoofed Bates' role in Misery in a Saturday Night
Live sketch.
One of her first films was the Dustin
Hoffman film Straight Time. In 1990, she would appear again with Hoffman
in Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy as a stenographer who couldn't understand
the mumbling of Hoffman's character, Mumbles.
Academy Awards
1990 - Best Actress - Misery (Won)
1998 - Best Supporting Actress - Primary
Colors (Nominated)
2003 - Best Supporting Actress - About
Schmidt (Nominated)
Preceded by:
Jessica Tandy
for Driving Miss Daisy Academy Award for
Best Actress
1990
for Misery Succeeded by:
Jodie Foster
for The Silence of the Lambs
Filmography
Taking Off (1971)
Straight Time (1978)
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean,
Jimmy Dean (1982)
Two of a Kind (1983)
The Morning After (1986)
Summer Heat (1987)
My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1988)
Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988)
Signs of Life (1989)
High Stakes (1989)
Men Don't Leave (1990)
Dick Tracy (1990)
White Palace (1990)
Misery (1990)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
The Road to Mecca (1992)
Shadows and Fog (1992)
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Used People (1992)
A Home of Our Own (1993)
North (1994)
Curse of the Starving Class (1994)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Angus (1995)
Diabolique (1996)
The War at Home (1996)
Swept from the Sea (1997)
Titanic (1997)
Primary Colors (1998)
The Effects of Magic (1998)
The Waterboy (1998)
A Civil Action (1998)
Annie (1999)
Baby Steps (1999)
Bruno (2000)
Rat Race (2001)
American Outlaws (2001)
Love Liza (2002)
Dragonfly (2002)
About Schmidt (2002)
Unconditional Love (2002)
The Ingrate (2004) (short subject)
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Little Black Book (2004)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
3 & 3 (2005)
Rumor Has It (2005)
Failure to Launch (2006)
Relative Strangers (2006)
Upcoming:
Charlotte's Web (2006) (voice)
Who Stole Santa's Sack? (2006) (voice)
Bonneville (2006)
Bee Movie (2007) (voice)
Have Mercy (2007)
Inkheart as Elinor Loredan
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