Kathryn Kates

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Kathryn Kates
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Kates in 2013
Born (1948-09-15)September 15, 1948
New York City, U.S.
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Florida, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Television Seinfeld

Kathryn Kates [1] (born September 15, 1948 – January 22, 2022) was an American actress. She had a recurring role on Seinfeld in the episodes "The Rye"[2] and "The Dinner Party."[3] She also appeared in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Orange is the New Black and The Many Saints of Newark.

Early life

Kates was born in New York City, and was the second daughter of Louis Kates and his wife, actress Madlyn Cates.[citation needed]

Early work

Kates began her career in Los Angeles. Kates is one of 25 actors (including fellow member John Larroquette) who are founding members of The Colony Theatre.[4] Kates and her colleagues took up residence at The Studio Theatre in the Silver Lake District of Los Angeles. For the next 25 years she along with her colleagues there produced award-winning stage productions. During the first six years of The Colony's existence (1975 to 1981), Kates, along with Barbara Beckley, was co-general manager of The Colony and together they produced all of the company's plays. She has the distinction of being the only actress to ever play opposite John Larroquette as his mother, lover, and wife: as his mother in Enter Laughing (Cast Theatre, 1974); his wife in A Company of Wayward Saints (Colony Theatre 1978);[5] and his lover in The Lady's Not For Burning (Colony Theatre, 1979).[6] Kates also appeared in many other of The Colony's L.A. Drama Critics’ Circle award-winning productions such as The Grapes Of Wrath[7] and Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (El Rey Theatre with Ed Harris). Over the years, The Colony Theatre has evolved from a small ensemble of actors into a well-established, award-winning, nationally recognized theatre, renowned for high quality productions. It has been listed in the Encyclopædia Britannica Almanac as one of “25 Notable US Theater Companies.”[8]

Career

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Kathryn Kates has an extensive list of credits in film, television and off & off-off Broadway theater productions.

Kates had a recurring role in the Netflix/Lionsgate series Orange Is the New Black, written by Jenji Kohan, playing Jason Biggs' mother. She was a series lead in the CBS/Showtime pilot Gurland on Gurland, playing Myrna Birnbaum. She also appeared in Reggie Rock Bythewood’s pilot for the BET network, Gun Hill, as Bora. One of Kates's most memorable roles is her recurring appearance on Seinfeld as The Counter Woman in the iconic episodes "The Dinner Party" (1994)[3] and "The Rye" (1996).[2] Other recurring roles have been on the Disney series Lizzie McGuire as the zany neighbor, Mrs. Carrabino ("You're a Good Man, Lizzie McGuire",[citation needed] 2002 and "My Fair Larry", 2003),[citation needed] on Pam Am (2011) as the nosy neighbor, Mrs. Luckovich,[citation needed] as June Starr in Judging Amy[citation needed] with Tyne Daly (2003), as Ginny in Caroline in the City, as Mrs. Bowman in Hudson Street (1996), and as Mable Maloney in a two-part Matlock, "The Witness Killings" (1991).

Kates has worked in film, for director Daryl Wein in Lola Versus starring Greta Gerwig, Debra Winger, and Bill Pullman; and for Paul Moshe Mones in Dovid Moyer as Odel, the Orthodox cook. She has also worked with such notable directors as Don Siegel (in Jinxed! opposite Bette Midler, 1982[9]) and Lamont Johnson in the television movie Life of The Party: The Story of Beatrice (1982) with Carol Burnett. She has received acting awards, winning the Drama Logue Award for best actress for her role as Ruby in Marsha Norman's Getting Out (1982), and in 2010 getting a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the MITF in NYC [10] for her work in Gray Matters as the high-powered agent, Miriam Berger (2010).

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Starring with Judd Hirsch as the co-hosts of SMALL MIRACLES a new series by Moshe Mones.

Since relocating to New York City in 2006, she has appeared in over twenty Off and Off Off Broadway productions, has toured Europe (Bucharest, Sibiu and Stockholm) with Saviana Stanescu's Waxing West,[11] and has worked in some of New York's most iconic venues, such as The Public, La Mama Etc., Urban Stages, The Soho Playhouse, The Cherry Lane, and several times on Theatre Row. She was the Palestinian Aunt in the New York Theatre Workshop production of Food and Fadwa, on Theatre Row in Herman Kline's Midlife Crisis,[12] and, more recently starred along with Greg Mullavey and Gaby Hoffmann in The Last Seder. She was a company member of Daniel Talbott's Rising Phoenix Rep.[13]

Death

Kates died of lung cancer on January 22, 2022, at the age of 73.[14][15]

Filmography

Film and television credits
Year Title Role Notes
1982 Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice Diedre TV movie - with Carol Burnett
1982 Jinxed! Miss Nina Film - with Bette Midler
1983 The Taming of the Shrew Player 4 Video
1990 Pastime Ethel Film
1991 Matlock Mabel Maloney Recurring role; 2 episodes
1991 Teenage Exorcist Maid Film
1992 Rachel Gunn, R.N. Episode: "Love Is Here to Stray"
1994 Thunder Alley Nurse #1 Episode: "Never Say Die"
1994–1996 Seinfeld[3] Counter Woman Episodes: "The Dinner Party", "The Rye"
1996 Hudson Street Mrs. Bowman Episode: "Having My Baby"
1997 The Nurse Marsha Harriman Film
1997 Asylum Nurse Taylor Film
1998 Caroline in the City Ginny Episode: "Caroline and the Little White Lies"
2002–2003 Lizzie McGuire Mrs. Carrabino 2 episodes
2003 Judging Amy June Starr Episode: "Into The Fire"
2003 10-8: Officers on Duty Mrs. Berman Episode: "The Wild Bunch"; uncredited
2008 Saveta's Gift Looba Short film
2009 Check-Up: From the Gently Twisted Life of Michael Kleinfeld Susan Kleinfeld Short film
2009 Out of the Fog Ludmilla Bashilevsky Film
2009 Lott Oh Gertrude Short film
2010 Rescue Me Older Woman Episode: "Sanctuary"
2011 Monkey Man Mrs. Howard Film
2011 Pan Am Mrs. Luckovich Episode: "Truth or Dare"
2011 Gun Hill Bora TV movie
2013–2019 Orange Is the New Black Amy Kanter-Bloom 4 episodes
2013 Lola Versus Woman at Restaurant Film
2014 Unforgettable Mary Garroto Episode: "Manhunt"
2016 Feed the Beast Ruth Cline 2 episodes
2016–2017 Shades of Blue Mrs. Saperstein 5 episodes
2017–2020 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Judge Marlene Simons 5 episodes
2019 Friends from College Martha 2 episodes
2019 The Jesus Rolls Older Woman Film
2020 Hunters Hilda Hoffman Episode: "The Mourner's Kaddish"
2020 The Good Fight Amelia Diamond Episode: "The Gang Discovers Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein"
2021 The Many Saints of Newark Angie DeCarlo Film

References

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