Bates, Kathy (1948–)
Bates, Kathy (1948–)
American actress. Born Kathleen Doyle Bates, June 28, 1948, in Memphis, Tennessee; dau. of Langdon Doyle Bates (mechanical engineer); Southern Methodist University, BFA in Theater, 1969; m. Tony Campisi, 1991 (div. 1997).
Appeared on NY stage; as Bobo Bates, made film debut in Taking Off (1971); appeared as Stella Mae in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982); came to prominence and won an Oscar for performance as Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990), followed by Fried Green Tomatoes (1991); on tv, appeared in "Johnny Bull" (1986), "Roe vs. Wade" (1989), "Hostages" (1993), "The Late Shift" (1996) and "Annie" (1999); other films include Arthur 2 (1988), Dick Tracy (1990), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991), Used People (1992), The Road to Mecca (1992), Curse of the Starving Class (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), Diabolique (1996), The War at Home (1996), Titanic (1997), Primary Colors (1998), About Schmidt (2002) and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004).