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Kathy Bates Joins American Horror Story, Ron Livingston Joins Boardwalk Empire
Originally posted 02/27/2013 01:45PM
Two familiar stars will join the casts of American Horror Story and Boardwalk Empire for the shows' new seasons.
Kathy Bates, who won an Oscar for her frightening role as Annie in the horror film Misery, will join season 3 of FX's American Horror Story alongside fellow Oscar-winner Jessica Lange, EW reports.
Bates, 64, won an Emmy Award in 2012 for her guest turn on Two and a Half Men. She also appeared on Harry's Law and The Office. Bates announced last September that she had undergone a double-mastectomy for breast cancer after surviving ovarian cancer nine years earlier.
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Kathy Bates Undergoes Double Mastectomy
Originally posted 09/12/2012 12:00PM
Kathy Bates has battled cancer for the second time.
The actress, 64, who opened up in March about surviving ovarian cancer nine years ago, was diagnosed with breast cancer several weeks ago, she tells PEOPLE exclusively.
"After much consideration, I underwent a double mastectomy," the Academy Award-winning actress reveals. "Luckily, I don't have to undergo radiation or chemo. My family call me Kat because I always land on my feet and thankfully this is no exception."
Kathy Bates Loves a Designer Doggy Bag
Originally posted 03/20/2012 04:30PM
Kathy Bates's dogs can't always visit the actress on set, but when they do, they do it in style.
"Stelly Bell used to go with me everywhere; she and my old dog Griffin, who passed away, had their own little Louis Vuitton bags with their names on them," the Harry's Law star tells PEOPLE. "We used to always say, 'Go Louis' and then, they would go jump in their Louis bags."
Following Griffin's death, Bates has become a mom to a furball family of three – Yorkie Stelly Bell, whose full name is Stella, Chihuahua Vladimir, and a second Yorkie named Harley. But her dearly departed pet retains a strong hold on her heart, and a spot in cinema history.
Kathy Bates Explains Why She Kept Her Cancer Private
Originally posted 03/20/2012 04:00PM
While many celebrities have made their cancer battle public, one star says she faced the disease completely in private.
Oscar-winning actress Kathy Bates has revealed that she battled ovarian cancer in secret – and her work was part of the reason why.
"I was advised to [do so]," Bates, 63, told Anderson Cooper on his show Anderson (airing Thursday). "I was contracted to go into a movie at that time, Little Black Book with Brittany Murphy, who I miss very much. My doctors at the time, they had to get insurance approval and all of that so I was very quiet about it and had to go back to work right away."
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George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Kathy Bates to Present at SAG Awards
Originally posted 01/26/2012 08:25AM
Multiple nominee Kathy Bates and lead actors (and former PEOPLE Sexiest Men Alive) George Clooney and Brad Pitt head up the group of presenters just announced for this Sunday's 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Other newly announced presenters include Owen Wilson, Melissa McCarthy, Zoe Saldana, Kristen Wiig and Sir Ben Kingsley, producers announced Wednesday.
Bates, 63, notably received nominations in film and TV categories this year for her roles as Gertrude Stein in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and Harriet Korn in Harry's Law.
Bates Gets Mean
Originally posted 03/12/1999 12:00AM
Oscar-winner Kathy Bates (who played Molly Brown in "Titanic") has signed on to play the shrewish orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in a TV adaptation of the Broadway musical "Annie." The show is being produced for the 1999-2000 season of ABC's "Wonderful World of Disney" by the same company that made "Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella." Miss Hannigan was originated by Tony-winner Dorothy Loudon. Carol Burnett played the part in the 1982 movie.
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