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Kathy Bates: Stephen King
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Having spent years in regional theatre, Kathy Bates eventually broke through on the New York stage, only to have more glamorous actresses take her roles when her hit plays were adapted for the Big Screen. Thankfully, she persisted and, at 42, scored a huge hit and won an Oscar as psycho nurse Annie Wilkes in Stephen King's terrifying Misery. Deserved reward after a long, hard journey, as the following list reveals.
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Misery, the extremely acclaimed Kathy Bates movie was based on a Stephen King novel of the same name. Which is the other Stephen King adaptation in which she played the main role?
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Always maintaining her friends in theatre, Kathy now reprised on screen her Elsa Barlow in The Road To Mecca, then joined Colin Firth in Hostages, the true-life story of Terry Waite, John McCarthy and Brian Keenan, long-term captives in the Lebanon. There'd ... be brief reunions with her Misery buddies with a bit-part in Stephen King's epic The Stand, and another in Rob Reiner's North. Here young Elijah Wood leaves his inconsiderate parents Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and undergoes a hugely sentimental journey in search of better ones - Kathy appearing as a prospective Eskimo mother.
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