KATHY BATES
Name: Kathleen Doyle Bates
Born: 28 June 1948 Memphis, Tennessee U.S.
Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an Academy Award-winning American
theatrical, film and television actress, and a stage and television director.
Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Bertye Kathleen (née
Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her
great-great-grandfather was an immigrant from Ireland to New Orleans and served
as President Andrew Jackson's doctor. She has two older sisters, Mary and
Patricia. Bates graduated from White Station High School in Memphis. She
attended Southern Methodist University, majoring in theatre and was a member of
Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and graduated in 1969. She moved to New York City in
1970 to pursue an acting career.
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. Bates
appeared off-Broadway in Terrence McNally's 1987 play Frankie and Johnny in the
Claire de Lune, 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. 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. More recently, she and Terry Bradshaw played the parents of Matthew
McConaughey's character in the 2006 film Failure to Launch
Bates 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 play was later filmed as Frankie and Johnny,
starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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 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.That same year, she re-teamed with her Titanic co-stars
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road, based on Richard Yates's
critically acclaimed novel. It is scheduled for a 2008 release.
Name: Kathleen Doyle Bates
Born: 28 June 1948 Memphis, Tennessee U.S.
Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an Academy Award-winning American
theatrical, film and television actress, and a stage and television director.
Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Bertye Kathleen (née
Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her
great-great-grandfather was an immigrant from Ireland to New Orleans and served
as President Andrew Jackson's doctor. She has two older sisters, Mary and
Patricia. Bates graduated from White Station High School in Memphis. She
attended Southern Methodist University, majoring in theatre and was a member of
Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and graduated in 1969. She moved to New York City in
1970 to pursue an acting career.
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. Bates
appeared off-Broadway in Terrence McNally's 1987 play Frankie and Johnny in the
Claire de Lune, 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. 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. More recently, she and Terry Bradshaw played the parents of Matthew
McConaughey's character in the 2006 film Failure to Launch
Bates 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 play was later filmed as Frankie and Johnny,
starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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 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.That same year, she re-teamed with her Titanic co-stars
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road, based on Richard Yates's
critically acclaimed novel. It is scheduled for a 2008 release.