Darlene Cates, the actress best known for her role as Bonnie Grape in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, died Sunday morning, her daughter Sheri Cates Morgan announced on Facebook.She was 69. “It is ...

Darlene Cates, who played the morbidly obese, bedridden mother of Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio in 1993's What's Eating Gilbert Grape, has lost nearly 250 pounds, and is hoping to start acting ...

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape helped DiCaprio prove himself as a compelling actor and kicked off an unprecedented cinema career throughout the late '90s, as just a few short years later he achieved ...

What's inside the crumbling shack he's describing is his mother (discovered-on-TV Darlene Cates), a 500-pound eating machine who hasn't left the house–maybe not even the couch–in the seven ...

**This review contains spoilers.** Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Oscar-nominated film “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” directed by Lasse Hallström, who is famous for directing many of ABBA’s ...

LOS ANGELES — Darlene Cates, known for playing the mother in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," has died. She was 69. Cates' daughter, Sheri Cates Morgan, announced in a Facebook post that her ...

Notable deaths in 2017 141 photos. NEW YORK --Darlene Cates, best known for playing the mother of Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio in 1993’s “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” has died at 69 ...

Darlene Cates, the mother in the Oscar-nominated 1993 movie “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” has died. She was 69. Cates was best-known for director Lasse Hallstrom’s drama, which starred ...

Cates played the housebound mother to Johnny Depp's Gilbert Grape in the 1993 film. By Jackie Strause Managing Editor, East Coast Darlene Cates, the actress best known for her role as Bonnie Grape ...