Margot Kidder

Known for ActingBorn 1948-10-17Died 2018-05-13Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Speaking Our Peace

Bus Stop

The Pornographer

Calling the Shots

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Pygmalion

R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour

Smallville

Black Christmas Legacy

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd

Banacek

Nightmare Man

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Young Ivanhoe

Tales from the Crypt

HENRi

Honky Tonk

The L Word

Amityville: An Origin Story

Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman

The Outer Limits

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

Puppy Swap: Love Unleashed

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

The Making of 'Superman II'

The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar

La Femme Nikita

Murder, She Wrote

GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

Brothers and Sisters

Touched by an Angel

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

To Catch a Killer

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

Vanishing Act

Superman

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

Body of Evidence

Ozma of Oz

The Marvelous Land of Oz

The Emerald City of Oz

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

Boston Common

Maverick

Captain Planet and the Planeteers