Margot Kidder
Acting
Born 1948-10-17
Died 2018-05-13
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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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.
Margot passed away at her home in Livingston, Montana, at the age of 69. Her death was ruled a suicide due to a self-inflicted drug and alcohol overdose.
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Filmography
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Smallville
Saturday Night Live
Murder, She Wrote
The Dick Cavett Show
Touched by an Angel
The Outer Limits
Earth: Final Conflict
Intimate Portrait
Brothers and Sisters
Film '72
Tales from the Crypt
The L Word
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Ciné regards
Superman
Barnaby Jones
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
The Hitchhiker
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Superman II
The Hunger
Switch
The Mod Squad
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
Burke's Law
Banacek
Superman III
Halloween II
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Boston Common
Nichols
Maverick
The Amityville Horror
Phantom 2040
Robson Arms
Black Christmas
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Am laufenden Band
Angel Blade
The Great Waldo Pepper
Adventures in Rainbow Country
Real Gangsters
Amityville: An Origin Story
Willie & Phil
The Neighborhood
Sisters
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Cool Money
Tribulation
Beanstalk
Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
Louisiana
Vanishing Act
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
The Red Maple Leaf
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