famed actress Cathy Bates just announced her retirement in a recent interview with the New York Times sharing this is my last dance Kathy Bates is a legendary actress known for her versatility and captivating performances across film television and theater with a career spanning decade she first rose to fame with her Oscar winning role as the obsessed fan in misery since then Bates has starred in a wide range of projects from the heartwarming Fried Green Tomatoes to the legal drama of the practice and more recently in American Horror Story now the 76-year-old actor is ready to make her final appearance in film and television in a reboot of the show Matlock Matlock is a legal drama which follows an incredibly successful lawyer returning to work as an unassuming older woman and using that to help win cases reflecting on how the role was perfect for her baits opened up everything I've prayed for worked for clawed my way up for I am suddenly able to be asked to use all of it it's exhausting the actress then looked back on what was a successful but apparently very trying career sharing pain pain pain pain pain do I have the right to feel this pain when I was given so much