Kathleen Doyle “Kathy” Bates, an award winning actress and director who rose to fame after her role in “Misery”, was born on 28 June 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee USA, of distant Irish descent. She has played many appearances on television and in films, and is perhaps best known for her prominent roles in films like “Fried Green Tomatoes”, “Doloros Claiborne” and “Titanic”, which have helped her to accumulated a generous net worth.
An actress and film director, how rich is Kathy Bates? Sources estimate that Kathy Bates has a net worth of $32 million, which has been accumulated from her major roles on television shows and in films, during a career spanning more than 40 years. She is reputed to receive a salary of about $175,000 dollars per episode of the current TV series American Horror Story.
Kathy Bates Net Worth $32 Million
Kathy Bates mother was Bertye Kathleen and father Langdon Doyle Bates; she is the youngest of three sisters. Her grandfather Finis L. Bates was an author and lawyer. She attended White Station High School and graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree majoring in Theatre. She was part of Alpha Delta Pi sorority in the university. In 1970 she moved to New York City in order to pursue her dream of becoming an actor. Kathy Bates started her acting career by appearing in “Fifth of July” and “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean”. In 1983 she played a role in the stage show “Night, Mother” for which she won a Tony award and the play won the Pulitzer Prize.
In 1971 she was cast in her first role in the feature film named “Taking Off” – she also sang “Even Horses Had Wings” for the movie. She then appeared in “The Doctors” which was her first soap opera. Later she was to be seen in “All My Children” and “One Life to Live”, also guest starring in “LA Law”, and then in the movies “The Morning After” and “Summer Heat”.
In 1990 Kathy Bates appeared in the film “Misery” which was based on the novel by Stephen King, in this movie she played the role of an obsessed fan named Annie Wilkes who captivates her favorite author, she was nominated for Oscars and won the award for Best Actress. After “Misery” she worked in the comedy film “Fried Green Tomatoes”, then played the role of Molly Brown in “Titanic”. She has been nominated and won many awards including Oscars and Emmy Awards. Later Kathy Bates tried her hands in the field of direction and directed many television shows like “NYPD Blue”, “Oz Six Feet Under” and “Everwood” she also directed and co-starred the 2006 Film “Have Mercy” and hence accumulated a net worth of about $32 million dollars.
In Kathy Bates’ personal life, in 1991 she married Tony Campisi but they divorced in 1997. In recent years Kathy has battled with both Ovarian cancer and breast cancer, including going through a double mastectomy. She also has lymphedema in both of her arms as a side effect from the double mastectomy.
