Which actress played Annie Wilkes in the 1990 horror film Misery?

Kathy Bates played Annie Wilkes in the 1990 horror film Misery.

Annie Wilkes is a former nurse who rescues injured novelist Paul Sheldon after a car accident. When she discovers that Sheldon has killed off her favorite fictional character, she confines him in her isolated home and demands that he write a new story.

Rob Reiner directed the film, which was adapted from Stephen King’s 1987 novel Misery. Bates’s performance combines apparent warmth with obsessive control and sudden violence, making Annie one of modern horror’s most memorable antagonists.

Bates won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the role, making Misery the only film based on a Stephen King novel to win an acting Oscar. James Caan played Paul Sheldon. The film is sometimes remembered as supernatural horror, but its threat is human and psychological rather than paranormal.