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Kathy Bates

Bio

KATHY BATES (Madame Peloux) has been honored numerous times for her work on stage, screen and television. She won an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of the obsessed fan, Annie Wilkes, in Rob Reiner’s “Misery” (1990). She received Oscar®, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations and won Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Critics’ Choice Awards for her performance in Mike Nichols’ “Primary Colors” (1999). Bates earned her third Oscar® and Golden Globe nominations for Alexander Payne’s “About Schmidt “(2002), for which she also garnered a SAG Award nomination and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. In addition, she received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for her work in “Fried Green Tomatoes”(1991). Kathy is about to start work on John Lee Hancock’s “The Blind Side” with Sandra Bullock. Last fall, she starred in “Personal Effects” with Michelle Pfeiffer and Ashton Kutcher . Some of the additional films Kathy has starred in are: “Revolutionary Road” (2008) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, “The Day The Earth Stood Still” (2008) with Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly, the Academy Award®-winning blockbuster “Titanic” (1997), “Dolores Claiborne” (1995) and “Fried Green Tomatoes” (1991) with Jessica Tandy. She has also provided voices for family films including “Charlotte’s Web” (2006), “The Golden Compass” (2007) and “The Bee Movie” (2007). She has enjoyed a fruitful television career, too, starring in such acclaimed productions as the hit HBO television series “Six Feet Under” as well as the TV Movies “Ambulance Girl,” “Warm Springs,” “Annie” and HBO’s “The Late Shift,” for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in 1997.

Appearing as:

Madame Peloux