
Things started moving quickly up the ladder after giving a tour-de-force performance alongside Christopher Walken at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theatre in Lanford Wilson's world premiere of "Lemon Sky" in 1970, but she also had a foreshadowing of the heartbreak to come after the successful show relocated to New York's off-Broadway Playhouse Theatre without her and Walken wound up winning a Drama Desk award. Home (TBA) ‘Home’ is an upcoming drama movie, directed by Franka Potente based on her own story.
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With her mind firmly set, she moved to New York City in 1970 and paid her dues by working everything from a cash register to taking lunch orders. Kathy Bates List of Movies and TV Shows - TV Guide Kathy Bates Birth Name: Kathleen Doyle Bates Birth Place: Memphis, Tennessee, United States Profession Actor, director Guest 24. Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery, for which she won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe. Kathy has English, as well as Irish, Scottish, and German, ancestry, and one of her ancestors, an Irish emigrant to New Orleans, once served as President Andrew Jackson's doctor.Kathy discovered acting appearing in high school plays and studied drama at Southern Methodist University, graduating in 1969. The youngest of three girls, her father was Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer, and her mother, Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker.

Multi-talented Kathleen Doyle Bates was born on June 28, 1948, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee.
