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There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.

Kathy Bates

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Kathy Bates
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 28
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Kathleen Doyle Bates
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