Jeanne Bates: Jeanne Bates. Actress: Mulholland Drive. Jeanne Bates began her acting career while a student at San Mateo Junior College, appearing on radio soap operas in San Francisco. She played the lead in an airwave mystery series, Lew X. Lansworth's "Whodunit" (Bates' scream was the show's "signature"), which became so successful that it (and Bates) moved to Hollywood in 1941. Bates and Lansworth married in 1943. By the time the two...
Known For: Mulholland Drive (Irene), Eraserhead (Mrs. X), Die Hard 2 (Older Woman (Northeast Plane)), The Mask of Diijon (Victoria)