R ob Reiner's Misery is a great movie with a number of fantastic behind-the-scenes tales – including the fact that a ...

Kathy Bates and Billy Bob Thornton reveal during Variety's 'Actors on Actors' that they nearly starred in 'Misery' together.

Billy Bob Thornton and Kathy Bates almost crossed paths earlier in their careers — but it wasn't meant to be. "There was a ...

Matlock' star Kathy Bates on her desert island shows, how 'Dolores Claiborne' changed a stranger's life and the movie that ...

Kathy Bates gave a career-defining performance in Misery — and won an Oscar for it. But both Bates and her director, Rob Reiner, were never sure that would be the outcome. In the film ...

"I didn't agree with that at all," Bates said of a change to the script Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years. Her work has previously ...

The Matlock star talks candidly about longevity, mental health, and the decades she spent feeling like she didn’t belong.

Kathy Bates, IndieWire Honors Vanguard Award winner, unpacked the art of acting for CBS's hit legal show as she looked back ...

Bates wanted to star in 1991's 'Frankie and Johnny,' based on Terrence McNally's stage play, where she originated the role of ...

Kathy Bates has claimed that the late American director Garry Marshall declined to cast her in Frankie and Johnny because of her appearance.

Though the actor has given us countless moments of joy and occasional jolts of terror, she told Variety on Tuesday that the ...