Kathy Bates

Highest Rated:
100% Straight Time (1978)
Lowest Rated:
0% You May Not Kiss the Bride (2012)
Birthday:
Jun 28, 1948
Birthplace:
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Bio:
Actress Kathy Bates has been involved in the arts in one way or another since graduating from Southern Methodist University. Among the Memphis native's earliest jobs were a stint as a singing waitress in a Catskill resort and a sojourn as a gift shop cashier in New York's Museum of Modern Art. Bates…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%
Number of Movies: 78
Box Office Since 2001: $1309.5M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2014 Tammy
  • Actor
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2012 Earthbound
  • Beverly Corbett
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2012 0% You May Not Kiss the Bride
  • Actor
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2012 4% A Little Bit Of Heaven
  • Beverly Corbett
$10.0k
2011 Guilty Hearts
  • Actor
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2011 93% Midnight in Paris
  • Gert
$56.8M
2010 18% Valentine's Day
  • Susan
$110.0M
2009 22% Alice
  • Queen of Hearts
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2009 66% The Blind Side
  • Miss Sue
$255.5M
2009 The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
  • Voice of Pancho Barnes
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2009 51% Chéri
  • Madame Peloux
$2.6M
2008 68% Revolutionary Road
  • Helen Givings
$22.9M
2008 21% The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • Regina Jackson
$79.1M
2008 Personal Effects
  • Gloria
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2008 40% Bonneville
  • Margene Cunningham
$0.3M
2008 51% The Family That Preys
  • Charlotte Cartwright
$37.0M
2007 James Marshall's Cinderella: And More Beloved Fairy Tales
  • Actor
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2007 42% The Golden Compass
  • Hester
$70.1M
2007 23% P.S. I Love You
  • Patricia
$53.5M
2007 Christmas Is Here Again
  • Actor
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2007 21% Fred Claus
  • Mother Claus
$72.0M
2007 51% Bee Movie
  • Janet Benson
  • Director
$126.6M
2006 24% Failure to Launch
  • Sue
$88.7M
2006 71% The Morning After
  • Woman on Mateo Street
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2006 78% Charlotte's Web
  • Bitsy the Cow
$82.5M
2006 Relative Strangers
  • Agnes Manure
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2005 20% Rumor Has It
  • Actor
$42.7M
2005 4% The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • Dona Maria
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2005 Ambulance Girl
  • Director
  • Jane Stern
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2005 Warm Springs
  • Helena Mahoney
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2004 31% Around the World in 80 Days
  • Queen Victoria
$23.9M
2004 The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
  • Narrator
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2004 21% Little Black Book
  • Kippie Kann
$20.4M
2003 14% Unconditional Love
  • Grace Beasley
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2002 53% Love Liza
  • Mary Ann Bankhead
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2002 7% Dragonfly
  • Actor
$30.1M
2002 My Sister's Keeper
  • Christine
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2002 85% About Schmidt
  • Roberta Hertzel
$65.0M
2001 14% American Outlaws
  • Ma James
$11.9M
2001 Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
  • Narrator (Frances Marion)
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2000 The Dress Code (Bruno)
  • Mother Superior
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1999 Annie
  • Miss Hannigan
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1999 Dash and Lilly
  • Director
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1998 60% A Civil Action
  • Judge (uncredited)
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1998 32% The Waterboy
  • Mama Boucher
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1998 80% Primary Colors
  • Libby Holden
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1998 28% Swept From The Sea
  • Miss Swaffer
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1997 88% Titanic
  • Molly Brown
$57.9M
1996 The Late Shift
  • Helen Kushnick
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1996 60% The War at Home
  • Maurine Collier
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1996 12% Diabolique
  • Det. Shirley Vogel
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1995 82% Dolores Claiborne
  • Dolores Claiborne
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1995 40% Angus
  • Meg
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1995 The West Side Waltz
  • Mr. Goo
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1994 Curse Of The Starving Class
  • Ella Tate
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1994 Curse of the Starving Class
  • Actor
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1994 16% North
  • Alaskan Mom
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1993 45% A Home of Our Own
  • Frances Lacey
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1993 Hostages
  • Peggy Say
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1992 61% A Prelude to a Kiss
  • Leah Blier
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1992 38% Used People
  • Bibby
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1992 Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
  • Actor
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1991 50% At Play in the Fields of the Lord
  • Hazel Quarrier
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1991 52% Shadows and Fog
  • Prostitute
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1991 83% Fried Green Tomatoes
  • Evelyn Couch
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1990 90% Misery
  • Annie Wilkes
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1990 60% White Palace
  • Rosemary Powers
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1990 64% Dick Tracy
  • Mrs. Green
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1989 Roe Vs. Wade
  • Actor
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1989 81% Men Don't Leave
  • Lisa Coleman
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1989 High Stakes
  • Jill
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1989 Signs Of Life
  • Mary Beth
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1988 13% Arthur 2 - On the Rocks
  • Mrs. Canby
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1987 Murder Ordained
  • Bobbi Burk
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1987 Summer Heat
  • Ruth Stanton
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1983 20% Two of a Kind
  • Furniture Man's Wife
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1982 Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
  • Stella May
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1978 100% Straight Time
  • Selma Darin
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Quotes from Kathy Bates's Characters

    1. Evelyn Couch: Did you hear that?
    2. Ed Couch: What?
    3. Evelyn Couch: The train.
    4. Ed Couch: No, I didn't hear no train.
    5. Evelyn Couch: Ah, nothin'. I guess.
    From Fried Green Tomatoes. Submitted by Alyssa B (24 days ago)
    1. Bobby Boucher: Mama, when did Ben Franklin invent electricity?
    2. Mama Boucher: That's nonsense, I invented electricity. Ben Franklin is the Devil!
    From The Waterboy. Submitted by Kelly E (4 months ago)
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