Margot Kidder
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
153
Gender
Female
Birthday
1948-10-17
Day of death
2018-05-13 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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.
Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Smallville
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Saturday Night Live
Murder, She Wrote
Touched by an Angel
The L Word
The Outer Limits
The Dick Cavett Show
Brothers and Sisters
Earth: Final Conflict
Tales from the Crypt
Intimate Portrait
Switch
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Barnaby Jones
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
Burke's Law
Superman
Real Gangsters
The Mod Squad
The Hitchhiker
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Maverick
Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly
The Hunger
Banacek
Sisters
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
Superman II
Black Christmas
The Neighborhood
Heartaches
The Dependables
Nightmare Man
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Universal Signs
Nichols
Angel Blade
On the Other Hand, Death: A Donald Strachey Mystery
The Box Collector
Beanstalk
Henry & Verlin
Common Ground
Suddenly Single
Superman III
Robson Arms
Pygmalion
Delirious
Louisiana
Willie & Phil
La Florida
Halloween II
White Room
Boston Common
Trenchcoat
Little Treasure
Bus Stop
Young Ivanhoe
The Making of 'Superman II'
Tribulation
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
WindRunner
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd
HENRi
Silent Cradle
Keeping Track
The Amityville Horror
Am laufenden Band
Bloodknot
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
The Pornographer
Crime and Punishment
Miss Right
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
To Catch a Killer
Black Christmas Legacy
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
The Annihilation of Fish
GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
Phantom 2040
Amityville: An Origin Story
Cool Money
Shoot the Sun Down
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
The Red Maple Leaf
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
The Grand Knockout Tournament
The Big Fat Stone
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
The Bounty Man
Some Kind of Hero
The Suicide Club
Matt's Chance
Servitude
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
A Quiet Day in Belfast
The Dion Brothers
A Single Woman
Death 4 Told
The Teddy Bears' Scare
92 in the Shade
For God's Sake, Get Out!
The Clown at Midnight
Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework
I'll Be Seeing You
Adventures in Rainbow Country
Adventures in Rainbow Country
Someone Is Watching
Gaily, Gaily
Something Evil Comes
Speaking Our Peace
Body of Evidence
The 12 Days of Black Christmas
Vanishing Act
The Making of 'Superman III'
Chicks with Sticks
The Glitter Dome
Calling the Shots
The Great Waldo Pepper
To Catch a Killer
The Hi-Line
The Planet of Junior Brown
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
One Woman's Courage
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Puppy Swap: Love Unleashed
Ozma of Oz
Never Met Picasso
Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks
3 of a Kind
Honky Tonk
Society's Child
Shell Game
Martinis and Murder
The Canadian Conspiracy
Mob Story
You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman
The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
The Last Sign
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
No Deposit
Robber's Roost
The Emerald City of Oz
Picking Up the Pieces
Sarina's Song
Gravel In Her Gut and Spit In Her Eye
