Margot Kidder

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Margot Kidder

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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.

Films Featuring Margot Kidder

Superman

19787.2

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

19874.6

Sisters

19736.7

The Amityville Horror

19796.3

Halloween II

20095.3

Superman II

19806.8

Superman III

19835.5

Maverick

19946.9

On the Other Hand, Death: A Donald Strachey Mystery

20085.4

Some Kind of Hero

19825.6

92 in the Shade

19755.8

The Box Collector

20083.4

Black Christmas

19747.0

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

20037.1

Mr. Mike's Mondo Video

19795.3

Ozma of Oz

19877.0

The Last Sign

20053.6

To Catch a Killer

19926.8

Common Ground

20005.0

The Great Waldo Pepper

19756.5

The Pornographer

19949.0

Angel Blade

20023.7

Trenchcoat

19835.9

Black Christmas Legacy

20158.0

Tribulation

20004.6

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

19705.1

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

19755.8

Martinis and Murder

20093.0

For God's Sake, Get Out!

20056.5

Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks

19943.8

Crime and Punishment

20025.2

Someone Is Watching

20004.4

Pygmalion

19838.7

Chicks with Sticks

20055.1

Gaily, Gaily

19694.3

I'll Be Seeing You

20045.2

The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar

19697.7

Louisiana

19844.7

Beanstalk

19945.2

Matt's Chance

20133.0

HENRi

20137.7

Shoot the Sun Down

19785.1

The Marvelous Land of Oz

19877.0

The Emerald City of Oz

19877.0

Young Ivanhoe

19958.0

White Room

19905.7

Henry & Verlin

19946.0

Keeping Track

19874.9

Suddenly Single

19714.5

Little Treasure

19854.4

Cool Money

20056.2

Vanishing Act

19867.1

Silent Cradle

19976.8

La Florida

19935.8

The Dependables

20143.1

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

19875.8

Miss Right

19824.2

WindRunner

19945.6

The Clown at Midnight

19994.5

Delirious

19915.7

The Planet of Junior Brown

19974.5

Willie & Phil

19804.6

Real Gangsters

20132.8

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd

20058.1

Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly

19995.0

The Annihilation of Fish

19996.4

Speaking Our Peace

198510.0

The Making of 'Superman III'

19856.8

3 of a Kind

20124.5

Something Evil Comes

20096.2

Picking Up the Pieces

19855.0

The Glitter Dome

19844.5

Bloodknot

19955.3

The Grand Knockout Tournament

19876.8

Heartaches

19815.6

Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On

19736.3

Sarina's Song

20113.0

The Big Fat Stone

20143.2

No Deposit

20153.0

Death 4 Told

20044.0

One Woman's Courage

19945.5

The Teddy Bears' Scare

1998

The Hi-Line

20005.5

Mob Story

19895.5

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

20088.5

The Canadian Conspiracy

19865.5

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

20017.6

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

19826.8

The Making of 'Superman II'

19837.6

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

20017.2

The Neighborhood

20173.2

The Dion Brothers

19745.5

Society's Child

20026.5

Never Met Picasso

19974.7

The Bounty Man

19726.4

A Quiet Day in Belfast

19746.3

A Single Woman

20085.5

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

20067.6

Universal Signs

20086.5

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

20016.9

The Suicide Club

1973

GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords

19867.4

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

20067.4

Servitude

20124.7

Body of Evidence

19887.0

Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework

19975.8

The Red Maple Leaf

20174.3

Bus Stop

198210.0

Puppy Swap: Love Unleashed

20197.3

Redemption: For Robbing the Dead

20114.5

Calling the Shots

19889.0

Honky Tonk

19748.0

Gravel In Her Gut and Spit In Her Eye

2005

The 12 Days of Black Christmas

20064.0

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

20107.0

Nightmare Man

19998.0

You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman

20066.0

Robber's Roost

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment

20035.0

Collectormania 6

2004