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Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder
Margot Kidder
Born: Oct 17, 1948 in Yellowknife, NW Territories, Canada
Occupation: Actor
Active: '70s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: 92º in the Shade, Superman II, Superman: The Movie
First Major Screen Credit: Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970)
25 Videos for Margot Kidder
Halloween II (2009) Maverick (1994) The Hitchhiker [TV Series] (1983)
Confessions of a Superhero (2007) Windrunner (1994) Superman II (1980)
Hockey Mom (2005) To Catch a Killer (1992) The Amityville Horror (1979)
Mary Higgins Clark's I'll Be Seeing You (2004) Mob Story (1990) Superman: The Movie (1978)
Tribulation (2000) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1987) Superman: The Movie (1978)
The Hi-Line (1999) Keeping Track (1986) 92º in the Shade (1975)
The Clown at Midnight (1998) Little Treasure (1985) A Quiet Day in Belfast (1974)
Junior's Groove (1997) Superman III (1983) Black Christmas (1974)
Never Met Picasso (1996)
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Biography:

The daughter of a mining engineer, Canadian actress Margot Kidder spent her first two-and-a-half years living in a caboose. While attending the University of British Columbia, Kidder was talked into appearing in a college stage production of {~Take Me Along}; she was hooked, though she later learned there was more to acting than crying on cue and partying.

In her first professional years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation headquarters in Vancouver, Kidder played everything from simpering ingenues to an unhinged murderess. She made her first film in 1969, an American production titled Gaily Gaily, then worked with Gene Wilder in the British-made Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970).

Kidder disliked the seamier side of the movie business and retreated to Canada in hopes of learning how to become a film editor, but was brought back to the U.S. in 1971 for a continuing role in the James Garner TV series Nichols. She liked Garner but not the hassles of making a weekly series, and for the next decade concentrated on film work, plunging headfirst into a kinky Brian DePalma chiller titled Sisters (1972).

Kidder's best-known work in the '70s and '80s was as Lois Lane in the Superman films starring Christopher Reeve. Other movie roles and a stint on 1987 TV series Shell Game followed; although her acting has been limited by injuries she suffered in an on-set accident in the late 1980s, she has nonetheless sustained her career with such voice-only assignments as the character of Gaia on the TV cartoon series Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

Kidder married and divorced writer Tom McGuane and actor John Heard (their union lasted six days!) and remains a vocal activist for political and ecological causes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.