Academy Award-winning actress and director Kathy Bates visits Memphis to reflect on her career and her own battle with cancer at the 8th Annual Methodist Foundation Cancer Center Luncheon on Friday, November 20, 11:45 a.m., at the Peabody Hotel. The Cancer Center Luncheon will kick off with an appearance by American Idol's Alexis Grace who will sing a couple of songs.

Register Online for this year's luncheon or call 901.516.0500 for ticket and table reservations.

A native Memphian, Kathy Bates has been honored numerous times for her work on stage, screen and television, including a 1991 Academy Award® for Best Actress and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of obsessed fan, Annie Wilkes, in Rob Reiner’s Misery.

Her long list of film credits includes Revolutionary Road, The Day The Earth Stood Still, P.S. I Love You, Fred Claus, Charlotte’s Web, Failure to Launch, About Schmidt, Primary Colors, Titanic, The Waterboy, Dolores Claiborne, Fried Green Tomatoes, Prelude to a Kiss, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Dick Tracy and Men Don’t Leave. She also lent her voice to the Jerry Seinfeld animated comedy Bee Movie, as well as The Golden Compass.

Bates’ television honors include multiple Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations and a SAG Award and Golden Globe win for the HBO film The Late Shift. Her credits as a director include the CBS pilot Fargo and episodes of such series as Oz, Six Feet Under, NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the Street. She also received multiple Emmy nominations for her directorial work on the A&E telefilm Dash and Lilly. Bates has been honored for her stage work winning an Obie Award for her performance as Frankie in the original off-Broadway production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, and a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the original Broadway production of Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘night Mother.

Proceeds benefit Methodist Hospice Residence. Individual tickets are $100.