Age: 78
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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).
Kathy Bates
Claire Livingstone
for Claire Livingstone in The Battle of Comanches
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In a small town of the Wild West, people of many different pasts and ambitions cross paths. Jebediah “Jeb” Henry, a Confederate veteran, tries to live a quiet life on his farm. Mary T. Moore arrives from New York, seeking a new and better life, while Irish immigrant John Coleman fights his way forward as a boxer, hoping to earn enough to start his own business. The town is led by Sheriff Jack Dashwood and deputies Tom Rutherford, Arthur Griswold. British businessman Richard Stringfellow runs saloon, while Claire Livingstone oversees the local brothel and fiercely protects her territory. Edward “Bloody Ed” Littleton, a former outlaw turned butcher, seeks redemption through good deeds and faith. Also Marion Ashford, a former slave working as an assistant to John Thame, the town’s blacksmith, mysterious man with a scar across his eye and a past as a trapper. Thomas Cornelius Pendleton, a Union veteran haunted by War, much like Jeb, that paradoxically binds them together. Jeb finds feelings for Mary. Thomas Orpington, a bounty hunter arrived on a job. Al Sotheby appears, a traveler and only survivor of a brutal Comanche attack. When a group of Comanches is spotted on the hills overlooking the town, Jeb recognizes it as a sign of an impending attack. Sotheby confirms. Sheriff Dashwood order evacuation of women and children by train, but not everyone leaves, Mary, Claire, and others choose to stay. Jeb, Pendleton, Coleman, Orpington, Thame, Bloody Ed, Dashwood and his men prepare town for defense. At dawn battle begins. A massive army of Comanche warriors surges in from all sides. The town is a battlefield. Dozens of civilists join the defense: farmers, laborers, merchants, and even those who never held a gun before. Bullets fly, buildings burn, and the streets fill with dust and blood. Many fall, but the town does not surrender. Its desperate battle of all who chose to stay and face their fate. And though they emerge victorious, the cost of that victory is far too big.
