Margot Kidder
Acting
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.
Born: October 17, 1948
Place of Birth: Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
Known For
Filmography
as Self- Archive
as Delilah Higgins
as Maggie
as Dr. Amanda Walker
as Self (archive footage)
as Margie Ryan
as Jean Dempsey
as Madge
as Stella Kelly
as Dr. Calvin
as Mother Mable
as Mrs. Crank
as Claire
as Marlys Baptiste
as Lois Lane (archive footage)
as Mrs. Worthington
as Claudia
as Barbara Collier
as Storyteller
as Beth
as Rose Callahan
as Lois Lane
as Emily Craft
as Dorothy M. Johnson
as Edith Taymore
as Mrs. Potter (archive footage)
as Endora
as Self
as Peggy Comfort
as Madam Badeau (segment "The Psychic")
as Frances Grolier
as Sandy Ziskin
as Self (archive footage)
as Mrs. Katerina Marmelodov
as Frida
as Joan
as Lois Lane (archive footage)
as Bridgette Crosby
as Laura Johnson
as Sally Beckert
as Mrs. Nelson
as Eileen Canboro
as Grace Mayberry
as Mrs. Muldroone
as Melanie Kelly
as Lillian Hannibal
as Mrs. Jones (voice)
as Ellen Gibby
as Dr. Josephine Mataros
as Miss Peebs
as Helen Sloan
as Cindy Wilson
as Cookie
as Genna Magnus
as Lady Margarite
as Evelyn
as Serena
as Doctor Kate 'Doc' Winston
as Rebecca Madison
as Rita Lasky
as Sally 'Mom' Cima
as Margret Mary (uncredited)
as Stella Jenson
as Irene
as Joy Adams
as Mabel
as Self
as Vivy Lamori
as Rachel Grayson
as Rachel Grayson
as Woman in Washroom (uncredited)
as Gaia (voice)
as Madelaine X
as Dolores
as Cynthia
as Self
as Carol Dwyer
as Lois Lane
as Mickey Tremaine
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Self
as Chris Kenyon
as Solitaire (voice)
as Lynette Harding
as Self
as Margo
as Narrator
as Willie
as Ellen Holden
as Virginia Tregan
as Eliza Doolittle
as Jane Reynolds
as Lois Lane (uncredited)
as Lois Lane
as Mickey Raymond
as Cherie
as Toni Donovan
as Juliette
as Rita Harris
as Lois Lane
as Jeannette Sutherland
as Self
as Kathy Lutz
as Lois Lane
as The Woman from England
as Self - Host
as Andrea Morris
as Miranda
as Marcia Curtis
as Maude
as Self
as Barb
as Margie
as Brigit Slattery / Thelma Slattery
as Self - Guest
as Lucy Cotton
as Danielle Breton / Dominique Blanchion
as Helen
as Gerry
as Lori Wright
as Mae
as Linda Carsini
as Jackie
as Ruth
as Dr. Janet Rhoades (young doctor)
as Sportscar driver
as Adeline
as Claire Allen
as Self - Guest