Kathy Bates Academy Award and Emmy Award 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 . Bate...
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