Kathryn Kates Biography, Age, Family, Education, Career, Net Worth

Who is Kathryn Kates?

Kathryn Kates was an American professional actress. She had a recurring role on Seinfeld in the episodes ”The Rye” and ”The Dinner Party.” Kates additionally appeared in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, The Many Saints of Newark, and Orange Is the New Black.

Kathryn Kates

Kathryn Kates early work

Kates started her career in Los Angeles and is one of 25 actors, including fellow member John Larroquette, who are founding members of The Colony Theatre. Together with her colleagues took up residence at The Studio Theatre in the Silver Lake District of Los Angeles. For the following 25 years, she alongside her colleagues there produced award-winning stage productions. During the initial six years of The Colony’s existence (1975 to 1981), Kates and Barbara Beckley were co-general managers of The Colony, and together they produced all of the company’s plays.

Kates has the distinction of being the only actress to ever play alongside John Larroquette as his mother, lover, and wife. She played as his mother in Enter Laughing (Cast Theatre, 1974); his wife in A Company of Wayward Saints (Colony Theatre, 1978); and his lover in The Lady’s Not For Burning (Colony Theatre, 1979). She also appeared in many other of The Colony’s L.A. Drama Critics’ Circle award-winning productions. They included The Grapes Of Wrath and Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (El Rey Theatre with Ed Harris). Over the years, The Colony Theatre has transformed from a small ensemble of actors into a well-established, award-winning, nationally known theatre, recognized for high-quality productions. It has also been listed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac as among ”25 Notable US Theater Companies.”

How old is Kathryn Kates?

Kathryn Kates was born on September 15, 1948, in New York City, U.S. She died aged 73, of lung cancer, on January 22, 2022, in Florida, U.S. Kates shares her birthday with famous people including Sommer Ray, Jenna Marbles, Prince Harry, Felix Lee, Tom HardyTommy Lee Jones, Amy Davidson, Dave Annable, Heidi Montag, Josh Charles, among others.

Kathryn Kates Family

Who are Kathryn Kates’s parents?

Kathryn Kates was born in New York City, to Louis Kates and Madlyn Cates, an actress. Not much is known about her parents or her ancestry roots and origins.

Does Kathryn Kates have siblings?

Kates was born to her parents in a family of three children as the second daughter. She has two older siblings, one brother, Joshua Kates, and a sister, Mallory Kates.

Kathryn Kates Education

Kates’ educational background information is not available to the media, as she did not share it.

Kathryn Kates Husband

Kathryn Kates

It is unclear if Kates was married throughout her life, as she did not share her personal life with the media.

Kathryn Kates Kids

Kates did not share any information about her children and it is unclear if she had any throughout her life.

Kathryn Kates Height

With her sleek and sexy body, Kates had an impressive height of 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) and weighed around 55 kg (121 lbs).

Kathryn Kates Career

Kates got a recurring role in the Netflix/Lionsgate series Orange Is the New Black, portraying Jason Biggs’ mother, written by Jenji Kohan. She was a series lead in the CBS/Showtime pilot Gurland on Gurland, portraying Myrna Birnbaum. Kates also appeared in Reggie Rock Bythewood’s pilot for the BET network, Gun Hill, playing Bora. One of her most memorable roles is he recurring appearance on Seinfeld as The Counter Woman in the iconic episodes ”The Dinner Party” (1994) and ”The Rye” (1996). Her other recurring roles have been on the Disney series Lizzie McGuire as the zany neighbor, Mrs. Carrabino (”You’re a Good Man, Lizzie McGuire”, 2002 and ”My Fair Larry”, (2003). As well as on Pam Am (2011), as Ginny in nosy neighbor, Mrs. Luckovich, as June Starr in Judging Amy alongside 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 movies, for director Daryl Wein in Lola Versus starring Greta Gerwig, Bill Pullman, and Debra Winger. also for Paul Moshe Mones in Dovid Moyer as Odel, the Orthodox cook. Additionally, she has served with major directors such as Don Siegel (in Jinxed! alongside Bette Midler, 1982) and Lamont Johnson in the television film Life of The Party: The Story of Beatrice (1982) with Carol Burnett. Kates has won acting awards, winning the Drama Logue Award for best actress for her role as Ruby in Marsha Morman’s Getting Out (1982). As well as in 2010 getting a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the MITF in NYC for her performance in Gray Matters as the high-powered agent, Mirriam Berger (2010).

Kathryn Kates

2006 to 2022

Since she relocated to New York City in 2006, Kates has appeared in more than twenty Off and Off-Off-Broadway productions. She has also toured Europe (Sibiu, Bucharest, and Stockholm) with Saviana Stanescu’s Waxing West. Additionally, she has worked in some of New York’s most iconic venues, including The Public, La Mama Etc., Urban Stages, The Cherry Lane, The Soho Playhouse, and various times on Theatre Row. Kates was the Palestinian Aunt in the New York Theatre Workshop production of Food and Fadwa, on Theatre Row in Herman Kline’s Midlife Crisis. Most recently, she starred together with Greg Mullavey and Gaby Hoffman in The Last Seder. Kates was a company member of Daniel Talbott’s Rising Phoenix Rep.

Kathryn Kates Net Worth

Legendary American actress, Kates has been in the acting industry for many decades, and has appeared in numerous films, and plays. She had gathered a great fortune throughout her career and by the time of her demise had an estimated net worth of $5 million as of 2022.

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