Kathy Bates played a major role in a movie.
Dolores Claiborne is a 1995 American psychological thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Kathy Bates , Jennifer Jason Leigh , and David Strathairn . Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 comedy-drama film based on the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg . Kathy Bates . She rose to prominence with her performance in Misery ( 1990 ) , for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress . She followed this with major roles in Fried Green Tomatoes ( 1991 ) and Dolores Claiborne ( 1995 ) , before playing a featured role as Molly Brown in Titanic ( 1997 ) , which was at the time the highest grossing film of all time .