Margot Kidder

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1948-10-17

Deathday 2018-05-13 (69 years old)

Place of Birth Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

Also Known As 瑪歌潔泰, Margaret Ruth Kidder, マーゴット・キダー

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margot Kidder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

Speaking Our Peace

as Narrator

2024
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Puppy Swap: Love Unleashed

as Delilah Higgins

2017
2017
The Red Maple Leaf

as Dr. Amanda Walker

2015
Black Christmas Legacy

as Self (archive footage)

2015
No Deposit

as Margie Ryan

2014
The Dependables

as Jean Dempsey

2014
2013
Real Gangsters

as Stella Kelly

2013
HENRi

as Dr. Calvin

2013
Matt's Chance

as Mother Mable

2012
Servitude

as Mrs. Crank

2012
3 of a Kind

as Claire

2011
2011
Sarina's Song

as Maggie

2010
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

as Lois Lane (archive footage)

2010
2009
2009
Halloween II

as Barbara Collier

2008
A Single Woman

as Storyteller

2008
2008
Universal Signs

as Rose Callahan

2006
Brothers and Sisters

as Emily Craft

2005
2005
Chicks with Sticks

as Edith Taymore

2005
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd

as Mrs. Potter (archive footage)

2005
The Last Sign

as Endora

2005
Cool Money

as Peggy Comfort

2004
Death 4 Told

as Madam Badeau

2004
I'll Be Seeing You

as Frances Grolier

2004
The L Word

as Sandy Ziskin

2002
Crime and Punishment

as Mrs. Katerina Marmelodov

2002
Angel Blade

as Frida

2002
2001
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

as Lois Lane (archive footage)

2001
Smallville

as Bridgette Crosby

2000
The Hi-Line

as Laura Johnson

2000
Someone Is Watching

as Sally Beckert

2000
Common Ground

as Mrs. Nelson

2000
Tribulation

as Eileen Canboro

1999
The Annihilation of Fish

as Mrs. Muldroone

1999
Nightmare Man

as Lillian Hannibal

1999
1998
The Teddy Bears' Scare

as Mrs. Jones (voice)

1998
The Clown at Midnight

as Ellen Gibby

1997
1997
Silent Cradle

as Cindy Wilson

1997
Earth: Final Conflict

as Dr. Josephine Mataros

1997
The Hunger

as Helen Sloan

1996
Never Met Picasso

as Genna Magnus

1996
Boston Common

as Cookie

1995
Young Ivanhoe

as Lady Margarite

1995
Bloodknot

as Evelyn

1995
1994
Beanstalk

as Doctor Kate 'Doc' Winston

1994
1994
WindRunner

as Sally 'Mom' Cima

1994
Maverick

as Margret Mary (uncredited)

1994
One Woman's Courage

as Stella Jenson

1994
1994
1994
Touched by an Angel

as Rita Lasky

1994
Burke's Law

as Joy Adams

1993
La Florida

as Vivy Lamori

1993
1992
To Catch a Killer

as Rachel Grayson

1992
To Catch a Killer

as Rachel Grayson

1991
Delirious

as Woman in Washroom (uncredited)

1990
White Room

as Madelaine X

1989
1988
1988
Body of Evidence

as Carol Dwyer

1987
Keeping Track

as Mickey Tremaine

1987
1987
Ozma of Oz

as Narrator

1987
1986
Vanishing Act

as Chris Kenyon

1986
1985
Picking Up the Pieces

as Lynette Harding

1985
1984
1984
Louisiana

as Virginia Tregan

1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Ellen Holden

1983
Pygmalion

as Eliza Doolittle

1983
Superman III

as Lois Lane

1983
Trenchcoat

as Mickey Raymond

1983
The Hitchhiker

as Jane Reynolds

1982
Bus Stop

as Cherie

1982
Some Kind of Hero

as Toni Donovan

1982
Miss Right

as Juliette

1982
The Making of 'Superman II'

as Lois Lane (uncredited)

1981
Heartaches

as Rita Harris

1980
Superman II

as Lois Lane

1980
Willie and Phil

as Jeannette Sutherland

1979
The Amityville Horror

as Kathy Lutz

1978
Superman

as Lois Lane

1978
Shoot the Sun Down

as The Woman from England

1975
92 in the Shade

as Miranda

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1975
Switch

as Andrea Morris

1974
1974
1974
A Quiet Day in Belfast

as Brigit Slattery / Thelma Slattery

1974
Honky Tonk

as Lucy Cotton

1974
Am laufenden Band

as Self - Guest

1973
Sisters

as Danielle Breton / Dominique Blanchion

1973
1973
Barnaby Jones

as Lori Wright

1972
1971
Suddenly Single

as Jackie

1971
Nichols

as Ruth

1970
Adventures in Rainbow Country

as Sportscar driver

1970
Adventures in Rainbow Country

as Dr. Janet Rhoades (young doctor)

1969
Gaily, Gaily

as Adeline

1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Producer

1983
Pygmalion

as Co-Producer