Biographies: Kathryn Kates - Actor

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An American actress, born on January 29, 1948, in Queens, New York City, USA, to Louis Kates, an electronics engineer, and Sylvia Kates, an actress who worked under the stage name Madelyn Cates. Kathryn attended John L. Miller Great Neck North High School and graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 1971. After moving to Los Angeles in 1974, she began her acting career there. Kates was among the 25 actors who founded The Colony Theatre at The Studio Theatre in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. She is best known for The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Hunters (2020), and Shades of Blue (2016-2017). She died on January 22, 2022, in Lake Worth, Florida, USA, of lung cancer.