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Kathy Bates Set For Publicists Guild’s TV Showperson Of The Year Award
The ICG Publicists Guild has set 'Matlock' star and Oscar winner Kathy Bates for its 2025 Television Showperson of the Year Award, to be presented February 28.
Bates had done plenty of guest shots on TV and appeared in smaller film roles when she got her signature role in Misery, playing a novelist’s (James Caan) uber-fan who rescues him from a car wreck then makes life hell for the poor guy as he recovers. Bates went on to earn three Supporting Actress Oscar noms for Primary Colors(1998), About Schmidt(2003) and Richard Jewell(2020). Along the way she has amassed 14 Primetime Emmy nominations, winning for a guest role on Two and a Half Men in 2012, and currently stars in CBS’ hit Matlock reboot.
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