Kathy Bates (1948 - )
Film Deaths[]
- Misery (1990) [Annie Wilkes]: Smashed in the face with a metal pig statue, on top of having been hit twice with a typewriter, during a fight with James Caan (after she non-fatally shoots him).
- Primary Colours (1998) [Libby Holden]: Commits suicide off-screen by shooting herself in the head while sitting in her truck; her body is shown later when Adrian Lester arrives and sees the police investigating.
- American Outlaws (2001) [Ma James]: Mortally wounded in an explosion when Terry O'Quinn's thugs bomb her house; She leaves the building in flames and dies in the arms of her children (Colin Farrell and Gabriel Macht)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004) [The Maruesa]: Falls to her death when the bridge collapses.
- The Family That Prays (2008) [Charlotte Cartwright]: Commits suicide off-screen by taking a deadly combination of pills, the scene cuts when she holds pills in her hands; Alfre Woodard gets a phone call about her death and narrates it.
Television Deaths[]
- The Stand (1994) [Rae Flowers]: Shot to death off-screen by soldiers in her radio studio, while she trying to spread the news about the plague. We only hear the shot on the radio while Molly Ringwald and Ken Jenkins listen to the broadcast.
- Two and a Half Men: Why We Gave Up Women (2012) [Charlie Harper]: Appears as the ghost of Charlie Sheen, manifesting in female form as punishment for his womanizing; she appears to Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones throughout the episode.
- American Horror Story: Coven: Go To Hell (2014) [Delphine LaLaurie]: Stabbed to death by Gabourey Sidibe, after Lance Reddick lifts her and Angela Bassett's mutual immortality; she is later seen in her own personal hell.
- American Horror Story: Freakshow: Blood Bath (2014) [Ethel Darling]: Killed when Jessica Lange throws a knife through her eye socket, following a standoff in which Kathy tries to kill Jessica. Denis O'Hare and Jessica then stage her death as a suicide by tying a chain around her neck and around a tree while her car is set in drive, causing it to decapitate her corpse.
- American Horror Story: Roanoke: Chapter 4 (2016) [Agnes Mary Winstead (as Tomasyn White/The Butcher - Reenactment)]: Throat slit by Lady Gaga as part of a blood sacrifice. (She appears throughout the season as a vengeful spirit.)
- American Horror Story: Roanoke: Chapter 7 (2016) [Agnes Mary Winstead]: Hacked vertically through her head with a meat cleaver by Susan Berger as Lily Rabe and Cuba Gooding Jr. look on in horror.
- American Horror Story: Apocalypse: Traitor (2018) [Miriam Mead (Human)]: Burned alive at the stake (along with Jon Jon Briones and BD Wong) under the orders of Sarah Paulson due to Kathy killing Cheyenne Jackson (She appears in episodes 1-4 and all episodes following Traitor as a robot version of Miriam Mead.) The human Kathy's death is undone in "Apocalypse Then" when Billie Lourd travels back in time and kills Cody Fern in the past so that the apocalypse doesn't happen.
- American Horror Story: Apocalypse: Apocalypse Then (2018) [Miriam Mead]: Made to pieces when Sarah Paulson casts a spell on Kathy and short-circuits her body until her head comes off.
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Notable Connections[]
- Ex-Mrs. Tony Campisi