Margot Kidder

Acting · 2.4 popularity

Age

Movies

119

Born: October 17, 1948 – May 13, 2018
From: Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

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. 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.

Works

119 films

Superman

19787.2

Superman II

19806.8

Superman III

19835.5

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

19874.6

Maverick

19946.9

Halloween II

20095.3

The Amityville Horror

19796.3

Black Christmas

19747.0

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

20067.4

Real Gangsters

20132.8

Sisters

19736.7

Tribulation

20004.6

The Great Waldo Pepper

19756.5

Angel Blade

20023.7

The Neighborhood

20173.2

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

20107.0

Cool Money

20056.2

The Red Maple Leaf

20174.3

Delirious

19915.7

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

Willie & Phil

19804.6

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

20016.9

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

19826.8

Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework

19975.8

Vanishing Act

19867.1

The Glitter Dome

19844.5

Louisiana

19844.7

The Big Fat Stone

20143.2

Beanstalk

19945.2

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

20067.6

Puppy Swap: Love Unleashed

20197.3

WindRunner

19945.6

The Grand Knockout Tournament

19876.8

Gravel In Her Gut and Spit In Her Eye

2005

The Dependables

20143.1

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

19704.9

Redemption: For Robbing the Dead

20114.5

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment

20035.0

Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks

19943.8

3 of a Kind

20124.5

Bus Stop

198210.0

Crime and Punishment

20025.2

The Box Collector

20083.4

The Canadian Conspiracy

19865.5

Trenchcoat

19835.9

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

19755.8

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

20088.5

Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On

19736.3

The Annihilation of Fish

19996.4

Some Kind of Hero

19825.6

GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords

19867.4

The Making of 'Superman II'

19837.6

To Catch a Killer

19926.8

On the Other Hand, Death: A Donald Strachey Mystery

20085.4

HENRi

20137.7

The Making of 'Superman III'

19856.8

The Planet of Junior Brown

19974.5

Honky Tonk

19748.0

92 in the Shade

19755.8

Bloodknot

19955.3

The Clown at Midnight

19994.5

I'll Be Seeing You

20045.2

No Deposit

20153.0

Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly

19995.0

La Florida

19935.8

Shoot the Sun Down

19785.1

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

19875.8

Gaily, Gaily

19694.3

The Hi-Line

20005.5

Something Evil Comes

20096.2

Someone Is Watching

20004.4

Miss Right

19824.3

Common Ground

20005.0

Martinis and Murder

20093.0

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

20017.2

Picking Up the Pieces

19855.0

Little Treasure

19854.4

A Single Woman

20085.5

Robber's Roost

2026

Never Met Picasso

19974.7

The Last Sign

20053.6

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd

20058.1

The Emerald City of Oz

19877.0

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

20017.6

Suddenly Single

19714.5

Society's Child

20026.5

Heartaches

19815.5

One Woman's Courage

19945.5

The 12 Days of Black Christmas

20064.0

Henry & Verlin

19946.0

The Dion Brothers

19745.5

Servitude

20124.7

Chicks with Sticks

20055.1

Keeping Track

19874.9

Body of Evidence

19887.0

Matt's Chance

20133.0

Universal Signs

20086.5

Sarina's Song

20113.0

Calling the Shots

19889.0

The Bounty Man

19726.3

A Quiet Day in Belfast

19746.3

Pygmalion

19838.7

Silent Cradle

19976.8

Mob Story

19895.5

You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman

20066.0

For God's Sake, Get Out!

20056.5

White Room

19905.7

Young Ivanhoe

19958.0

The Marvelous Land of Oz

19877.0

The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar

19697.7

Ozma of Oz

19877.0

Black Christmas Legacy

20158.0

The Pornographer

19949.0

Death 4 Told

20044.0

Nightmare Man

19998.0

The Suicide Club

1973

Speaking Our Peace

198510.0

The Teddy Bears' Scare

1998