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| Birth Name(s) : Kathleen Doyle Bates |
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Tony Campisi (1991-1997) |
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Full Kathy Bates Biography
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 to 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 in order to pursue an acting career.
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.
In 1991, Bates married actor Tony Campisi, with whom she had lived for 12 years previously. They divorced in 1997.
Bates is the Executive Committee Chair of the Actors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors.
Her nickname is Bobo. She was often mistaken for comedian Roseanne Barr, who in turn spoofed Bates' role in Misery in a Saturday Night Live sketch.
Features:
- 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) (voice)
- The Waterboy (1998)
- A Civil Action (1998)
- Annie (1999)
- The Dress Code (2000)
- Rat Race (2001)
- American Outlaws (2001)
- Love Liza (2002)
- Dragonfly (2002)
- About Schmidt (2002)
- Unconditional Love (2002)
- Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
- Little Black Book (2004)
- The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004) (documentary) (narrator)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
- Rumour Has It (2005)
- Failure to Launch (2006)
- Relative Strangers (2006) |
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