Kathryn Kates

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Kathryn Kates
Kates in 2013
Born	(1948-01-29)January 29, 1948 New York City, U.S.
Died	January 22, 2022(2022-01-22) (aged 73) Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1974-2022
Television	Seinfeld

Kathryn Kates^[1] (January 29, 1948 – January 22, 2022)^[2] was an American actress. She had a recurring role on Seinfeld in the episodes "The Rye"^[3] and "The Dinner Party."^[4] She also appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Orange Is the New Black and The Many Saints of Newark.

Early work

Kates began her career in Los Angeles. Kates is one of 25 actors who are founding members of The Colony Theatre,^[5] at The Studio Theatre in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. Kates, along with Barbara Beckley, was co-general manager of The Colony from 1975 to 1981 and together they produced all of the company's plays. She played 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);^[6] and his lover in The Lady's Not For Burning (Colony Theatre, 1979).^[7] Kates also appeared in The Colony's L.A. Drama Critics' Circle award-winning productions such as The Grapes of Wrath^[8] and The Martian Chronicles.

Career

Kathryn Kates

One of Kates's most memorable roles was her recurring appearance on Seinfeld as The Counter Woman in the episodes "The Dinner Party" (1994)^[4] and "The Rye" (1996).^[3] Other recurring roles have been on the Disney series Lizzie McGuire as Mrs. Carrabino ("You're a Good Man, Lizzie McGuire",^{[citation needed]} 2002 and "My Fair Larry", 2003),^{[citation needed]} on Pam Am (2011) as Mrs. Luckovich,^{[citation needed]} as June Starr in Judging Amy^{[citation needed]} (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 had a recurring role in the Orange Is the New Black. 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.

Kates worked in film, for director Daryl Wein in Lola Versus, and for Paul Moshe Mones in Dovid Moyer as Odel, the Orthodox cook. She also worked with Don Siegel (in Jinxed!,^[9]) and Lamont Johnson in the television movie Life of The Party: The Story of Beatrice (1982). She won the Drama Logue Award for best actress for her role as Ruby in Marsha Norman's Getting Out (1982), and in 2010 received a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the MITF in NYC for her work in Gray Matters as the high-powered agent, Miriam Berger (2010).^[10]

Kates with Judd Hirsch in Small Miracles.

After relocating to New York City in 2006, Kates appeared in over twenty Off- and Off-off-Broadway productions, and toured Europe (Bucharest, Sibiu and Stockholm) with Saviana Stanescu's Waxing West,^[11] 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, a week short of turning 74.^[14][15]

Filmography

References

External links

• Kathryn Kates at IMDb
• Official website: www.kathrynkates.com
• Official website: www.colonytheatre.org
• Official Website: Visible Soul: People You Should Know, Kathryn Kates