Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder

Biography

Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder (October 17, 1948 – May 13, 2018) was a Canadian-American actress, director, and activist whose career spanned over five decades. Her accolades include three Canadian Screen Awards and one Daytime Emmy Award. Though she appeared in an array of films and television, Kidder is most widely known for her performance as Lois Lane in the Superman film series, appearing in the first four films.

Born in Yellowknife to a Canadian mother and an American father, Kidder was raised in the Northwest Territories as well as several other Canadian provinces. She began her acting career in the 1960s appearing in low-budget Canadian films and television series, before landing a lead role in Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970). She then played twins in Brian De Palma's cult thriller Sisters (1973), a sorority student in the slasher film Black Christmas (1974) and the titular character's girlfriend in the drama The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), opposite Robert Redford. In 1977, she was cast as Lois Lane in Richard Donner's Superman (1978), a role which established her as a mainstream actress. Her performance as Kathy Lutz in the blockbuster horror film The Amityville Horror (1979) gained her further mainstream exposure, after which she went on to reprise her role as Lois Lane in Superman II, III, and IV (1980–1987).

The 1990s were marked by significant health problems for Kidder: In 1990, she sustained serious injuries in a car accident that left her temporarily paralyzed, and she later had a highly publicized manic episode and nervous breakdown in 1996 stemming from bipolar disorder. By the 2000s, she maintained steady work in independent films and television, with guest-starring roles on Smallville, Brothers & Sisters and The L Word, and appeared in a 2002 Off-Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance on the children's television series R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour.

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Personal info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1948-10-17

Place of birth

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

Images

Cast

Superman

Superman

1978

7.10

Sisters

Sisters

1973

6.73

Halloween II

Halloween II

2009

5.33

Superman II

Superman II

1980

6.74

Superman III

Superman III

1983

5.51

Maverick

Maverick

1994

6.88

Ozma of Oz

Ozma of Oz

1987

0.00

Angel Blade

Angel Blade

2002

3.00

Trenchcoat

Trenchcoat

1983

5.70

Tribulation

Tribulation

2000

4.00

Pygmalion

Pygmalion

1983

8.50

Gaily, Gaily

Gaily, Gaily

1969

4.00

Louisiana

Louisiana

1984

4.10

Beanstalk

Beanstalk

1994

5.00

HENRi

HENRi

2013

7.70

White Room

White Room

1990

5.30

Cool Money

Cool Money

2005

5.60

La Florida

La Florida

1993

5.10

Miss Right

Miss Right

1982

3.00

WindRunner

WindRunner

1994

5.10

Delirious

Delirious

1991

5.60

3 of a Kind

3 of a Kind

2012

4.30

Bloodknot

Bloodknot

1995

5.40

Heartaches

Heartaches

1981

6.00

No Deposit

No Deposit

2015

2.80

Death 4 Told

Death 4 Told

2004

1.00

The Hi-Line

The Hi-Line

2000

5.20

Mob Story

Mob Story

1989

0.00

Servitude

Servitude

2012

4.50

Bus Stop

Bus Stop

1982

0.00

Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk

1974

0.00