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Kathy Bates

English
Filmography

Titanic

1997
as Molly Brown

Bee Movie

2007
as Janet Benson (voice)

The Blind Side

2009
as Miss Sue

P.S. I Love You

2007
as Patricia

The Golden Compass

2007
as Hester (voice)

Misery

1990
as Anne Marie ("Annie") Wilkes

Revolutionary Road

2008
as Mrs. Helen Givings

Failure to Launch

2006
as Sue

Richard Jewell

2019
as Bobi Jewell

The Day the Earth Stood Still

2008
as Regina Jackson

Midnight in Paris

2011
as Gertrude Stein

The Highwaymen

2019
as Ma Ferguson

Valentine's Day

2010
as Susan Milton

Fried Green Tomatoes

1991
as Evelyn Couch

Around the World in 80 Days

2004
as Queen Victoria

Tammy

2014
as Lenore

Charlotte's Web

2006
as Bitsy the Cow (voice)

On the Basis of Sex

2018
as Dorothy Kenyon

The Waterboy

1998
as Mama Boucher

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

2023
as Sylvia

The Boss

2016
as Ida Marquette

Rat Race

2001
as The Squirrel Lady

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

2004
as The Marquesa

The Great Gilly Hopkins

2015
as Maime Trotter

Christmas Is Here Again

2007
as Miss Dowdy

Personal Effects - The Space Between Loss and Love

2009
as Gloria

No Place Like Home

1989
as Bonnie Cooper

North

1994
as Alaskan Mom

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood

2000
as Frances Marion (voice)

Guilty Hearts

2006
as The Judge

Declaration of Independence

2003
as Herself

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

1988
as Mrs. Canby

My Sister's Keeper

2002
as Christine Chapman

Stephen King: Fear, Fame and Fortune

2000
as Dolores Claiborne

The Road to Mecca

1991
as Elsa Barlow

Dick Tracy

1990
as Mrs. Green

Bad Santa 2

2016
as Sunny Soke

Unconditional Love

2002
as Grace Beasley

Krystal

2018
as Vera

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

2004
as Narrator (voice)

Little Black Book

2004
as Kippie Kann

White Palace

1990
as Rosemary

Used People

1992
as Bibby Berman

The Family That Preys

2008
as Charlotte Cartwright

Murder Ordained

1987
as Bobbi Birk

Tupperware!

2004
as Narrator

Primary Colors

1998
as Libby Holden

The War at Home

1996
as Maurine Collier

Swept from the Sea

1998
as Miss Swaffer

Bonneville

2006
as Margene

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

1996
as Herself

The Effects of Magic

1998
as Raphaella, the Magic Bunny

Bruno

2000
as Mother Superior

Taking Off

1971
as Audition Singer

American Outlaws

2001
as Ma James

Relative Strangers

2006
as Agnes Menure

A Little Bit of Heaven

2011
as Beverly Corbett

A Home of Our Own

1993
as Frances Lacey

You May Not Kiss the Bride

2011
as Bryan's Mother

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

2019
as Barbara Haggermaker

About Schmidt

2002
as Roberta Hertzel

Boychoir

2014
as Headmistress

Cheri

2009
as Madame Peloux

The West Side Waltz

1995
as Mr. Goo

Ambulance Girl

2005
as Jane Stern

Men Don't Leave

1990
as Lisa Coleman

Curse of the Starving Class

1994
as Ella Tate

Dragonfly

2002
as Mrs. Belmont

Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

1982
as Stella Mae

Summer Heat

1987
as Ruth

Shadows and Fog

1991
as Prostitute

Annie

1999
as Miss Agatha Hannigan

The Morning After

1986
as Cat-Hating Artist

The Miracle Club

2023
as Eileen Dunne

Straight Time

1978
as Selma Darin

My Best Friend Is a Vampire

1987
as Helen Blake

Dolores Claiborne

1995
as Dolores Claiborne

High Stakes

1989
as Jill

Hostages

1992
as Peggy Say

Cadaver

2012
as Beth

Fred Claus

2007
as Mother Claus

Love Liza

2002
as Mary Ann Bankhead

Prelude to a Kiss

1992
as Leah Blier

Home

2020
as Bernadette

The Late Shift

1996
as Helen Kushnick

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

1991
as Hazel Quarrier

Complete Unknown

2016
as Nina

Diabolique

1996
as Det. Shirley Vogel

Angus

1995
as Meg Bethune

Director

Movie Ambulance Girl 2005
Movie Dash and Lilly 1999