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