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Kathy Bates Wiki Biography

Kathleen Doyle “Kathy” Bates, an award winning actress and director who rose to fame after her role in “Misery”, was born on 28 June 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee USA, of distant Irish descent. She has played many appearances on television and in films, and is perhaps best known for her prominent roles in films like “Fried Green Tomatoes”, “Doloros Claiborne” and “Titanic”, which have helped her to accumulated a generous net worth.

An actress and film director, how rich is Kathy Bates? Sources estimate that Kathy Bates has a net worth of $32 million, which has been accumulated from her major roles on television shows and in films, during a career spanning more than 40 years. She is reputed to receive a salary of about $175,000 dollars per episode of the current TV series American Horror Story.

Kathy Bates mother was Bertye Kathleen and father Langdon Doyle Bates; she is the youngest of three sisters. Her grandfather Finis L. Bates was an author and lawyer. She attended White Station High School and graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree majoring in Theatre. She was part of Alpha Delta Pi sorority in the university. In 1970 she moved to New York City in order to pursue her dream of becoming an actor. Kathy Bates started her acting career by appearing in “Fifth of July” and “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean”. In 1983 she played a role in the stage show “Night, Mother” for which she won a Tony award and the play won the Pulitzer Prize.

In 1971 she was cast in her first role in the feature film named “Taking Off” – she also sang “Even Horses Had Wings” for the movie. She then appeared in “The Doctors” which was her first soap opera. Later she was to be seen in “All My Children” and “One Life to Live”, also guest starring in “LA Law”, and then in the movies “The Morning After” and “Summer Heat”.

In 1990 Kathy Bates appeared in the film “Misery” which was based on the novel by Stephen King, in this movie she played the role of an obsessed fan named Annie Wilkes who captivates her favorite author, she was nominated for Oscars and won the award for Best Actress. After “Misery” she worked in the comedy film “Fried Green Tomatoes”, then played the role of Molly Brown in “Titanic”. She has been nominated and won many awards including Oscars and Emmy Awards. Later Kathy Bates tried her hands in the field of direction and directed many television shows like “NYPD Blue”, “Oz Six Feet Under” and “Everwood” she also directed and co-starred the 2006 Film “Have Mercy” and hence accumulated a net worth of about $32 million dollars.

In Kathy Bates’ personal life, in 1991 she married Tony Campisi but they divorced in 1997. In recent years Kathy has battled with both Ovarian cancer and breast cancer, including going through a double mastectomy. She also has lymphedema in both of her arms as a side effect from the double mastectomy.

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Kathy Bates Quick Info

Kathy Bates Trademarks

1. Characters who are frequently tough-talking and outspoken
2. Often portrays kind-hearted or cold-hearted characters

Kathy Bates Quotes

• It’s a gift to remember my mother’s voice as she read to me when I was a child. I loved to rest my head against her side and feel her voice resonating through her ribs. It seemed to me like I was putting my ear to an instrument being played.
• [Excerpt from her 1991 Academy Award acceptance speech] I’d like to thank Jimmy Caan, and apologize publicly for the ankles.
• My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.
• I was never an ingénue. I’ve always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.
• [on playing Terry Bradshaw’s movie wife in Failure to Launch (2006)] When I was told Terry Bradshaw would be playing my husband, I was like “The star-quarterback Terry Bradshaw?”.
• [on losing the role of Frankie, which had been written for her by playwright Terrence McNally, to Michelle Pfeiffer in the movie version of “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune”] I thought it was wonderful to see a love story about people over forty, ordinary people who were trying to connect. We haven’t seen it before, and I don’t think we will see it with this movie Frankie and Johnny (1991).
• The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

Kathy Bates Important Facts

• She was awarded the 1988 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune” at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
• She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6927 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 20, 2016.
• She was awarded the 1988 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Lead Performance for “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune” at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
• She was awarded the 1986 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for “night, Mother” at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
• Was the 102nd actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Misery (1990) at The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991) on March 25, 1991.
• Is one of three actresses to have won the Best Actress Academy Award for their portrayal of a character named “Annie”. The others are Anne Bancroft (for The Miracle Worker (1962)) and Diane Keaton (for Annie Hall (1977)).
• Bates was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003, but she did not reveal her illness to the general public until 2009. She stated that she has been “in total remission” for over five and a half years, as of January 2009. In September 2012, Bates announced via Twitter that she has breast cancer and is recovering from a double mastectomy.
• Bates’ grandfather, Memphis attorney Finis Langdon Bates, wrote the book “The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth” in 1907. It is said to be Bates’ non-fiction account of hearing a deathbed confession from a man who claimed to be Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, Booth, who had escaped capture and lived under another name out west (source: pbs.org).
• She was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress in a horror/thriller for her role as Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990).
• Warren Beatty originally offered her a small role in his film Reds (1981), however she was unable to obtain an international visa for her to film her role overseas. He kept contact with her and gave the role of a stenographer to Bates in his follow up Dick Tracy (1990).
• Has said Dolores Claiborne (1995) is her favorite film role.
• With her role in The Family That Preys (2008), she was the first white actress to have a lead role in a Tyler Perry movie.
• Donated $1 million to Hurricane Katrina victims.
• Is close friends with Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Travolta, Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet and Oprah Winfrey.
• In 2005, she and the rest of the chief creative team behind the “American Experience” documentary “Tupperware!” which aired on PBS were awarded the (George Foster) Peabody Award for excellence in electronic (i.e. television and radio) media. It was the 64th presentation of the internationally-renowned prize.
• Is an artist and writer and hopes to someday write and illustrate her own children’s book. Has spoken at award ceremonies for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
• Often mistaken for comedienne Roseanne Barr, who in turn has spoofed Bates’ role as Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990) in a Saturday Night Live (1975) sketch.
• Her performance as Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990) is ranked #77 on Premiere magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
• Auditioned for the role of Janet Wood on Three’s Company (1976), which ultimately went to Joyce DeWitt. Bates says she was relieved she did not get the role because, after auditioning, she felt she really did not want it.
• Member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Actors Branch) [1998-2007].
• Playwright Terrence McNally originally wrote the role of Frankie in “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune” for Bates. Johnny was played by Kenneth Welsh in the 1987 Off-Broadway production that starred Bates.
• Was nominated for Broadway’s 1983 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for “‘night, Mother”.
• Her Oscar-winning role as Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990) was ranked #17 on the American Film Institute’s villains list of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
• Received her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts for Theatre from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas (1969).
• Attended and graduated from White Station High School in Memphis, Tennessee.
• Has two older sisters: Patricia Bates and Mary Bates.
• Lived with ex-husband Tony Campisi for 12 years before marrying him.
• Did her first ever nude scene at age 43 in At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991). She disrobed again for About Schmidt (2002).
• Is the youngest of three daughters of Langdon Doyle and Bertye Kathleen Bates.
• Her two older sisters appeared briefly in Primary Colors (1998).
• Born at 11:12am-CDT.

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