June 28, 1948 Kathleen Doyle Bates was born on June 28, 1948 to Memphis. After graduating at Southern Methodist University, took his first steps in show business as a singer, before discovering an innate talent in acting. He made his debut at the cinema under the leadership of Milos Forman in "Taking off", in 1971, before returning to the big screen seven years later in "straight time", by Ulu Grosbard. Her first major film role, however, comes only in 1982, when recited for Robert Altman in "Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean," where she plays a fan of James Dean: his side there are Karen Black, Cher and Sandy Dennis. In 1983 she took part in the play "a window into the night", which gets a nomination for the Tony Awards, while the cinema is present in "two of us" by John Herzfeld. Follow, in the 1980s, minor films, among which we remember "Arturo 2: on the rocks," by Bud Yorkin, and "the brilliant career of a young vampire," by Jimmy Huston. The film that gives the international dedication, however, comes only in 1990, when Kathy Bates plays the nurse Annie Wilkes in the thriller by Rob Reiner "Misery die" (based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King): the Bates plays the role of a mentally disturbed woman, sweet and friendly in appearance, but sadistic and cruel in reality, which sequesters writer Paul Sheldon (played by James Caan) to prevent that he make his favorite literary character die. The performance of actress of Memphis is appreciated by audiences and critics, and won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for best actress. Later, Kathy Bates appears in "fried green tomatoes at the train stop", by Jon Avnet, which embodies a fragile and delicate woman struggling with a troubled marriage, and seeking solace in friendship with an elderly lady: a performance that's worth a nomination at the Golden Globes for best actress. The film was released in 1991, the year in which the actress married colleague Tony Campisi (the marriage lasted only six years, and the two divorced in 1997). After "at play in the fields of the Lord", by Hector Babenco, the actress is directed by Woody Allen in "shadows and fog" and by Beeban Kidron in "widow". The 1993 dates "A whole House to ourselves," by Tony Bill, while the next year is "Parents wanted", even Rob Reiner. In 1995 plays the role of a maid ambiguous, accused of having killed his mistress, in "the last Eclipse", by Taylor Hackford. In the second half of the 1990s also appears in "family Conflicts", Emilio Estevez, and "Diabolique" by Jeremiah s. Chechik, but especially in James Cameron's blockbuster "Titanic", where--alongside Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio gives his face to Molly Brown, an enriched eccentric to say the least. After working with Beeban Kidron in "swept from the sea," Kathleen receives a new Oscar nomination and the Golden Globes for best supporting actress in 1998 for her role of a lesbian idealist in "the colours of victory", by Mike Nichols. Below, at the end of the Millennium, "Waterboy", by Frank Coraci, and "Baby steps", by Geoffrey Nauffts. The year 2000 opens with two Emmy Awards nominations (best guest actress in a comedy series for "a family of the third kind" and best supporting actress in a tv movie or miniseries for "Annie") and an uncredited cameo in "Rat Race", by Jerry Zucker, which precedes the investments in "American outlaws," Les Mayfield, and "the sign of the Dragonfly-Dragonfly" by Tom Shadyac. It's 2002, the year when the American interpreter reads in the clothes of a lascivious's mother-in-law in "about Schmidt" by Alexander Payne, movie where she's the next to Jack Nicholson and that gives her--in 2003--another double candidacies (at the Golden Globes and the Oscars) for best supporting actress. At the same time, Kathy Bates takes part in a dozen episodes of "Six Feet Under" tv series which also directed five episodes, and learns to be suffering from ovarian cancer: several months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, however, allow her to heal. Back to cinema with Frank Coraci, who runs in "around the world in 80 days" (where she played Queen Victoria), then acting in "all my boyfriend's ex", by Nick Hurran. In 2005 appears in an uncredited cameo in "rumor", Rob Reiner, and the following year starred in "home with her", by Tom Dey, and in the short film "Solace," by Jonah Salander. These were years of great effort, these, for Bates, who also appears in "what remains of my husband," by Christopher n. Rowley. In 2007 the interpreter of Tennessee takes part in the moving and dramatic "P.S. I love you, "by Richard LaGravenese, while the following year starred in" the day the Earth stood still ", by Scott Derrickson. During the same period, she starred in "Revolutionary Road," by Sam Mendes, and in "The family that preys", Tyler Perry. After working with John Lee Hancock in "The blind side" and with Garry Marshall in "appointment with love" between 2010 and 2011 Kathleen starred in eight episodes of "The Office," comedy series. Shortly after appearing at the cinema in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris", and on the small screen in "Harry's Law," legal drama on Nbc that plays the role of Harriet Korn, an attorney who after having lost his job decides to open a law firm in a dodgy neighborhood of Cincinnati: her performance goes for two years in a row a nomination for best actress in a drama series Emmy Awards. In 2012 Kathleen learns she has breast cancer, this time again, that forces her to undergo a double mastectomy. Nevertheless, back to work in television: appears in the ninth season of the sitcom "two and a half men" alongside Ashton Kutcher (her cameo gives her an Emmy Award for best guest actress in a comedy series) and is among the stars of "American Horror Story".
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