Kathy Bates is a $20 million dollar actress and director from the United States. Bates has been in over 120 films and television shows, as well as Broadway productions of “Fifth of July” (1980), “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean” (1982), and “‘night. Mother” (1983–1984), for which she got a Tony nomination.
Bates was nominated for Oscars for “Primary Colors,” “About Schmidt,” and “Richard Jewell,” and won an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for “Misery” in 1991. She has had eight Golden Globe nominations, winning Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for “Misery” in 1991 and Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television for “The Late Shift” in 1997.
Kathy has been nominated for 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Guest Actress inside a Comedy Series in 2012 for “Two and a Half Men” as well as Outstanding Supporting Actress in such a Miniseries or a Movie in 2014 for “American Horror Story: Coven.”
Kathy received American Comedy Award nominations for “The Late Shift,” “Primary Colors,” as well as “Annie,” as well as Blockbuster Entertainment Awards nominations for “Titanic,” “Primary Colors,” and “The Waterboy.” Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, Gold Derby Awards, National Board of Review, Online Film & Television Association, Satellite Awards, as well as Screen Actors Guild Awards are among her other honours. She got a François Truffaut Award in 2006 as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 from the Women Film Critics Circle Awards, as well as a star upon that Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016.
Kathy purchased an eight-bedroom house in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park neighbourhood for $2.9 million in 2001. There’s a library, a theatre, a swimming pool, a spa, as well as a 5-car garage inside the house. Bates formerly resided in a Beachwood Canyon estate once owned by “Dracula” legend Bela Lugosi, which she sold to actor Jon Cryer in 1999 for $859,000.