Kathy Morningside

Kathy Morningside is the main villain of the 2000 comedy, ''Miss Congeniality. ''She was played by Candice Bergen.



When the FBI learns about a bomb threat against the 75th annual Miss United States beauty pageant in San Antonio, TX, they send agent and heroine, Gracie Hart, and other agents to investigate. Morningside, villainess and competition director and ex pageant winner gives Hart a hard time by reminding her it's not a beauty pageant and then later threatening to kill her if she gets in her way. It's also revealed that Morningside along with other beauty pageant officials are getting replaced with younger people. Hart suspects Morningside as well because of her past of winning a pageant contest by cheating, food poisoning the original winner.

Then it's revealed that Morningside is indeed responsible for the bomb threats and the plan of exploding the winner and that Frank Tobin, her assistant and villain, is her son and helping her in her plans, she explains to him she's angry that she's getting replaced and plans revenge. Later she questions Hart about that there's some people like who Hart use to be that see the pageant as outdated and anti-feminist, which Hart answers that even though she use to be one of them she's changed and realizes that they are very intelligent and wonderful women and trying to help the world be bigger and better etc. Hart also gives Morningside a warning if she harms any of them she will take her out and hurt her real bad. Then when Gracie Hart finds out that Frank is Kathy Morningside's son and with the help of other heroes, Victor and Matthews, they stop Kathy from killing the winner.

Later when Kathy is arrested, she says that Hart hasn't won anything and destroyed the dreams of many women of the USA, which Hart replies What? You think their dream is to get blown up? Then Morningside reveals her true colors, calling the women bitching and complains about getting fired and replaced of her beauty pageant job, which Hart corects her saying it's not a beauty pageant it's a scholarship program and when Morningside says yeah yeah is corrected by yes and then Kathy is taken to prison.