1990
Misery
Bates plays Annie Wilkes and wins an Academy Award.
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From Misery to the decks of Titanic
An Academy Award-winning career across stage and screen.
A career across film and television
Kathy Bates is an American actor whose career spans film, television and theatre. She won the Academy Award for actress in a leading role for Misery at the 1991 ceremony.
Her film credits include Fried Green Tomatoes, Titanic and About Schmidt. On television, Bates received Emmy Awards for Two and a Half Men and American Horror Story: Coven.
In Titanic, Bates plays Molly Brown, a passenger who offers Jack warmth amid the ship’s class divisions. Titanic is connected to her FLM.RED profile; the list below shows films available on this site rather than her complete credits.
Selected performances
1997
Titanic
She plays Molly Brown.
2013
American Horror Story: Coven
Her performance as Madame LaLaurie earns an Emmy.
Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.
Films in FLM.RED
Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.
Sources & image notes
- Academy Awards — 1991 winners
- Television Academy — Kathy Bates
- National Women’s History Museum — biography
- IMDb — credits
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