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2->''"I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period."''
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4Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress.
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6Born in Memphis, Tennessee, she has appeared on stage, television and film. She tends to play a broad spectrum of characters, but seems to tend toward ApronMatron characters as of late. Can be seen as the modern day equivalent to either Shelley Winters (specifically Winters during later years of her life and acting career) or Creator/LouiseFletcher due to Bates' CelebrityResemblance to them for being each a BigBeautifulWoman, Bates' and Winters' melodramatic acting, [[Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest Fletcher]] and [[{{Film/Misery}} Bates]] [[TheBadGuyWins winning Oscars for their]] [[StarMakingRole breakout roles]] as the BigBad of TheFilmOfTheBook, Fletcher's and Bates' roles mostly consisting of ApronMatron characters in their acting resumes, and all three's respected status as Academy Award winners. Her [[StarMakingRole breakout role]] was Annie Wilkes in Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Film/Misery}}'', for which she won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actress.
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9!!Appearances in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory''
10* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'' as Madame Delphine [=LaLaurie=]
11* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakShow'' as Ethel Darling
12* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel'' as Iris
13* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryRoanoke'' as Agnes Mary Winstead
14* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryApocalypse'' as Ms. Miriam Mead
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16!!Other notable roles:
17* Lenny in ''Theatre/CrimesOfTheHeart'' (stage play, original cast)
18* Jessie in ''Theatre/NightMother'' (stage play, original cast)
19* Annie Wilkes in ''Literature/{{Misery}}'' (her [[StarMakingRole breakout]] and most famous role, winning her the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar for Best Actress]])[[note]]The only Oscar ever awarded to a performance in an adaptation of a Creator/StephenKing novel, and the only Oscar ever won by a Creator/RobReiner film.[[/note]]
20* The prostitute in ''Film/ShadowsAndFog''
21* Evelyn Couch in ''Literature/{{Fried Green Tomatoes|At The Whistle Stop Cafe}}''
22* Leah Blier in ''Film/PreludeToAKiss''
23* Dolores Claiborne in ''Literature/DoloresClaiborne'' (a role written with her in mind by the book's author Creator/StephenKing, who had met her on the set of ''Misery''; her favorite role of her own).
24* The Eskimo mother in ''Film/{{North}}''.
25* Molly Brown in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''
26* Libby Holden in ''Film/PrimaryColors'' (received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her pastiche of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsey_Wright Betsey Wright]])
27* Mama Boucher in ''Film/TheWaterboy''
28* Ma James in ''Film/AmericanOutlaws''
29* Miriam Belmont in ''Film/Dragonfly2002''
30* Roberta Hertzel in ''Film/AboutSchmidt'' (received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, in a role largely remembered for her nude scene)
31* Sue in ''Film/FailureToLaunch''
32* MrsClaus in ''Film/FredClaus''
33* Provided the voice of a cop in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''
34* Harriet Korn in the TV series ''Series/HarrysLaw''
35* Jo Bennett in ''Series/TheOfficeUS''
36* Belle Bodelle in ''Series/AllMyChildren''
37* Regina Jackson in ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill2008''
38* Miss Sue in ''Literature/TheBlindSide''
39* The Queen of Hearts in ''Series/{{Alice 2009}}''
40* Mrs. Fowler in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''
41* Bobi Jewell in ''Film/RichardJewell'' (received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress)
42* Selma Darin in ''Film/StraightTime''.
43* Sylvia Simon in ''Film/AreYouThereGodItsMeMargaret''
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