![]() Bates more recently earned her third Oscar nomination for her role in Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt, for which she also garnered Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations and won a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1999, she received Oscar®, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations and won a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award® and a Critics Choice Award for her performance in Mike Nichols’ Primary Colors. īates won an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe® for her portrayal of obsessed fan “Annie Wilkes” in Rob Reiner’s 1990 hit Misery, based on Stephen King’s novel. She will also portray attorney and activist Dorothy Kenyon in the upcoming Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic On the Basis of Sex. The film follows an American movie star who finds his correspondence with an 11-year-old actor exposed, prompting assumptions that begin to destroy his life and career. Upcoming in film, Bates will appear alongside Jessica Chastain and Susan Sarandon in the Xavier Dolan drama The Death and Life of John F. Previously Bates was nominated seven times for Emmy® Awards before winning her first Emmy® Award in 2003 playing “Ghost of Charlie Harper” in Two and a Half Men. Kelly’s hit NBC television show Harry’s Law garnering her two Emmy® nominations for Lead Actress in a drama series. Prior to that, she starred in two seasons as “Harriet ‘Harry’ Korn,” a curmudgeonly ex-patent lawyer in David E. Bates won rave reviews and her second Emmy® Award as the deliciously evil “Madame LaLaurie” in the third installment of the series Coven. Her role in the 5 th installment of the series AHS: Hotel lead to her receiving her 14 th Emmy nomination. Bates was also seen in the sixth installment of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Roanoke on FX. The series was written, and executive produced by Chuck Lorre and David Javerbaum. On television, Bates recently starred in Netflix’s pot-themed workplace comedy series, Disjointed. Bates received her star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame on Septemfor her achievements film and television.īates just wrapped filming the John Lee Hancock drama THE HIGHWAY MEN opposite Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson and is set to star in THE LAUREATE, a drama about British poet and novelist Robert Graves from writer-director William Nunez. Horrible things were done.Honored numerous times for her work, Kathy is an undeniable force on stage, screen and television. To think these kind of things actually went on, I mean people were tortured in those days. "I know there was one particular scene that I can’t divulge that really made me weep. ![]() "I’ve done some pretty heinous things so far," she says of portraying LaLaurie's cruelty. ![]() Having been a fan of the first and second seasons of AHS, Bates met with series creator Ryan Murphy to discuss her participation and was immediately taken with the show's fascinating treatment of the character. The character even makes a brief cameo a few seasons later in Apocalypse. After committing dozens of heinous crimes, horrendously mistreating her daughters, and mutilating the enslaved people in her home, LaLaurie, as portrayed in American Horror Story, is doomed to live eternally in servitude. Kathy Bates's unforgettable first role in American Horror Story was truly disturbing and won her an "Outstanding Supporting Actress" Emmy Award. Portraying the wealthy sadist Madame Delphine LaLaurie, Bates breathed new and terrifying life into the historical figure who lives in infamy for atrocities she perpetrated in early 19th century New Orleans.
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