1. Kathryn Jane Kates was born in New York City on January 29,1948.
14 Facts About Kathryn Kates
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Kathryn Kates's mother, Sylvia Kates, was an actress who worked under the stage name Madelyn Cates.
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Kathryn Kates graduated from Great Neck North Senior High School in 1967.
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Kathryn Kates graduated from Tisch School of the arts at New York University in 1971.
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Kathryn Kates is one of 25 actors who are founding members of The Colony Theatre, at The Studio Theatre in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.
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Kathryn Kates, was co-general manager with Barbara Beckley of The Colony from 1975 to 1981.
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Kathryn Kates played opposite John Larroquette as his mother, lover, and wife: as his mother in Enter Laughing ; as his wife in A Company of Wayward Saints ; and as his lover in The Lady's Not For Burning.
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Kathryn Kates had a recurring role in the Orange Is the New Black.
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Kathryn Kates appeared in Reggie Rock Bythewood's pilot for the BET network, Gun Hill, as Bora.
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Kathryn Kates worked in film, for director Daryl Wein in Lola Versus, and for Paul Moshe Mones in Dovid Moyer as Odel, the Orthodox cook.
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Kathryn Kates worked with Don Siegel and Lamont Johnson in the television movie Life of The Party: The Story of Beatrice.
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Kathryn Kates won the Drama Logue Award for best actress for her role as Ruby in Marsha Norman's Getting Out, and in 2010 received a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the MITF in NYC for her work in Gray Matters as the high-powered agent, Miriam Berger.
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Kathryn Kates was a company member of Daniel Talbott's Rising Phoenix Rep.
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Kathryn Kates died of lung cancer at her brother's home in Lake Worth, Florida on January 22,2022, a week short of turning 74.