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Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director. She has been the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, she studied theatre at the Southern Methodist University before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. She landed minor stage roles before being cast in her first on screen role in Taking Off (1971). Her first Off-Broadway stage performance was in the 1976 production of Vanities. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, she continued to perform on screen and on stage, and garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Play in 1983 for her performance in 'night, Mother, and won an Obie Award in 1988 for her performance in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Bates' performance as Annie Wilkes in the tense psychological thriller Misery (1990) marked her Hollywood breakthrough, winning her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Further acclaim came for her starring role in Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Waterboy (1998), and supporting roles in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Titanic (1997). Bates received subsequent Oscar nods in the Best Supporting Actress category for her work in Primary Colors (1998), About Schmidt (2002), and Richard Jewell (2019). Bates' television work has resulted in 14 Emmy Award nominations, including two for her leading role on the NBC series Harry's Law (2011–12). She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her appearance on the ninth season of Two and a Half Men (2012) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her portrayal of Delphine LaLaurie on the third season of American Horror Story (2013). She also received accolades for her portrayal of Miss Hannigan in the 1999 television adaptation of Annie. Her directing credits include several episodes of the HBO television series Six Feet Under (2001–03) and the television film Ambulance Girl (2005).
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for Lois Bowenkamp in American Crime Story: The People of Skidmore Missouri vs. Ken Rex McElroy
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Is a murder ever justified? On July 10, 1981 in Skidmore, Missouri local town resident Ken Rex McElroy was shot to death in his car in front of a crowd of over 30 people. Not one of them has come forward to testify who shot him and the case remains unsolved. Why? McElroy was a local town bully who in his lifetime commited over a dozen crimes ranging from assault, child molestation, statutory rape, arson, hog and cattle rustling, and burglary. He was never convicted of any of these crimes because people would be too scared to testify against them and he knew it. His crimes became more and more brazen until one day he went to far and shot 70 year old town resident Ernest "Bo" Bowenkamp in the neck over a dispute involving McElroy's daughter shoplifting from Bowenkamp's store. Bowenkamp was the town grocer and Methodist minister and was well beloved by the town. Bowenkamp amazing survived and McElroy was charged with attempted murder later bumped down to assault with a deadly weapon. McElroy was for the first time in his life convicted of a crime but was soon released on bail and spent all his time in the town's tavern with his shotgun making graphic threats about what he wanted to do with Bowenkamp. On July 10, 1981 the town had a meeting to decide what to do about McElroy but could not come to a conclusion. According to those in attendance everyone there felt hopeless. They soon got word that McElroy was drinking at the local tavern and so they decided to confront him. A crowd of up to 46 people walked to the bar and saw McElroy who had just finished drinking and was getting into his truck along with his wife Trena McCloud (she became pregnant with McElroy's child when she was 14 and when she tried to escape to her parents house McElroy burned down their house and shot their dog). McElroy saw the crowd approaching and according to witness dared them to do something. He got into the truck and before he could even start his engine shots rang out. McElroy was hit in the head with two bullets and died instantly. No one called an ambulance and no one testified to the identity of the shooter despite the large crowd that saw it happen. The case remains unsolved to this day.
