Story Arc L to R: Rob Reiner and Kathy Bates attend the screening of "Misery" during the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 25, 2025 in Hollywood, CA. Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for TCM Kathy Bates, who broke out in Rob Reiner's 1990 adaptation of Stephen King's Misery, as obsessed fan Anna Wilkes, a role which delivered her a Best Actress Oscar, exclaims, "He changed the course of my life." Reiner and his wife Michele were found at their Brentwood home yesterday with several stab wounds.