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Kathy Bates Bio
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Kathy BatesActor and director Kathy Bates was born on June 28, 1948, in Memphis, Tennessee. After graduating from White Station High School in Memphis, Kathy enrolled in Southern Methodist University graduating in 1969 with a major in theater. After graduating from university, some of Kathy’s early jobs included a singing waitress in a Catskill resort and a gift shop cashier in New York's Museum of Modern Art.
In 1971, Bates starred in her first film (credited as BoBo Bates) in Taking Off. She then turned to theater, making her off-Broadway debut five years later in Vanities. In 1983, she received a Tony award nomination for her stage appearance in ‘Night, Mother, a role which was later played on-screen by Sissy Spacek. Kathy then appeared as Lenny McGrath in Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Crimes of the Heart, a role which later went to Diane Keaton in the on-screen version. In 1987, playwright Terrence E. McNally wrote a part specifically with Bates in mind – Frankie in Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune. For her portrayal as an abused waitress in the play, Bates received an Obie award. However, Kathy saw yet another one of her stage roles go to a Hollywood actress when Michelle Pfeiffer landed the on-screen role of Frankie.
In 1990, Bates finally got her chance to shine in her first starring role, playing the demented number one fan of a writer, played by Paul Newman, who fatefully finds himself stranded in her care in Misery. For her haunting performance, Bates was recognized with an Academy Award and Golden Globe. However, she was disappointed when a scene from Misery (which was adapted from a Stephen King novel) was cut because Director Rob Reiner was afraid it would elicit laughs. The scene included Kathy’s character killing a police officer by plowing him down with a lawnmower.
After her breakthrough performance in Misery, Bates worked consistently throughout the rest of the decade, starring in films such as Fried Green Tomatoes in 1991, with Jessica Tandy; Prelude to a Kiss in 1992, with Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan; and Dolores Claiborne in 1995, which marked her second film adapted from a Stephen King novel. Kathy also starred in the James Cameron blockbuster Titanic in 1997, with Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio; and Primary Colors in 1998, which also briefly features her two older sisters, Mary and Patricia.
In 2002, Bates starred in Love Liza and Dragonfly, as well as About Schmidt, alongside Jack Nicholson, for which she received her third Oscar nomination. Bates did a nude scene for the film, but it was not her first – in 1991, at the age of forty-three, she disrobed for the film At Play in the Fields of the Lord.
In 1991, Bates married her live-in boyfriend of twelve years, actor Tony Campisi. The couple called it quits in 1997.
Kathy made her directorial debut in the made-for-TV movie Dash and Lilly. She has also directed the HBO drama series Six Feet Under, as well as episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street, NYPD Blue, Oz, Six Feet Under, and Everwood.
Bates serves as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors, and is currently directing and starring in Have Mercy, opposite Melanie Griffith, slated for release in 2007. YUDDY |
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Kathy Bates - Appeared with Frances Fisher in Titanic |
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Kathy Bates - Appeared with Gloria Stuart in Titanic |
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Kathy Bates - Appeared with Bill Paxton in Titanic |
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Kathy Bates - Appeared with Bernard Hill in Titanic |
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Kathy Bates - Appeared with David Warner in Titanic |
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Kathy Bates - Appeared with Victor Garber in Titanic |
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Kathy Bates - Appeared with Fairuza Balk in The Waterboy |
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Kathy Bates - Appeared with Henry Winkler in The Waterboy |
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Kathy Bates - Appeared with Jerry Reed in The Waterboy |
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Kathy Bates - Appeared with Larry Gilliard Jr. in The Waterboy |
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