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[04/08/15 - 12:52 PM]
Kathy Bates Joins "American Horror Story: Hotel"
She'll join the previously cast Lady Gaga, Matt Bomer, Cheyenne Jackson, Wes Bentley and Chloë Sevigny.
[via press release from FX]

KATHY BATES JOINS "AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL"

Academy Award(R) and Emmy Award(R) Winner Returns to the Horror Anthology Series After Starring in AHS: Freak Show and AHS: Coven

Bates Joins Previously Announced Lady Gaga, Matt Bomer, Cheyenne Jackson, Wes Bentley and Chloë Sevigny

Production of the 13-Episode Installment Hotel will Begin in Late Summer and air on FX in October

LOS ANGELES, April 8, 2015 - Academy Award(R) and Emmy Award(R) winner Kathy Bates has joined the cast of American Horror Story: Hotel, the highly anticipated fifth installment of Ryan Murphy's hit horror anthology series. AHS: Hotel will represent Bates' third appearance in the series, having previously starred in the recently completed AHS: Freak Show and AHS: Coven, for which she won an Emmy Award.

Bates joins previously announced stars Lady Gaga, Matt Bomer, Cheyenne Jackson, Wes Bentley and Chloë Sevigny.

Bates starred as "Ethel Darling" in AHS: Freak Show, the fourth installment of the series. In the third installment, AHS: Coven, she starred as "Madame Delphine LaLaurie," for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She also won an Emmy Award in 2012 for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Two and a Half Men, and an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 1991 for Misery. Bates is currently in production on Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone's comedy "Michelle Darnell."

Production of the 13-episode Hotel will begin in Los Angeles in late summer, and will air on FX in October. The American Horror Story franchise is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television.

ABOUT FX

FX is the flagship general entertainment basic cable channel of FX Networks, a business unit of 21ST Century Fox. FX Networks is comprised of FX, FXM and FXX. Launched in June of 1994, FX is carried in more than 95 million homes. The diverse schedule features a growing roster of critically-acclaimed and award-winning hit dramas series, including Justified, The Americans, Tyrant, The Strain and the upcoming Taboo; the critically-acclaimed miniseries American Horror Story, Fargo and the upcoming miniseries American Crime Story; acclaimed hit comedy series including the award-winning Louie, Archer, Married and upcoming The Comedians, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll and Baskets. FX is the former home of the critically-acclaimed and award winning hit drama series The Shield, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, Damages and Sons of Anarchy. The network's library of acquired box-office hit movies is unmatched by any ad-supported television network. FX's roster of acquired hit series includes Two and a Half Men, In Living Color and Mike & Molly.

ABOUT TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX TELEVISION

A 21st Century Fox company, Twentieth Century Fox Television is one of the industry's most prolific suppliers of primetime television programming and entertainment content, including this season's smash sensation Empire from Lee Daniels, Danny Strong and Brian Grazer, the five-time Emmy Award winning blockbuster comedy Modern Family, the pop culture phenomenon anthology series American Horror Story, the critically acclaimed Fresh Off The Boat, the new hit The Last Man on Earth starring Will Forte, and the longest running primetime scripted series in the history of television,The Simpsons. The studio's cable production division, Fox 21 Television Studios, is responsible for the Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning Homeland, the critically acclaimed The Americans (with FX Productions) and Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk's upcoming anthology series American Crime Story. Eagerly anticipated new series include Scream Queens from Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. Twentieth Century Fox Television is a division of Fox Television Group, led by Chairmen and CEOs Gary Newman and Dana Walden.





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