
Margot Kidder
Born October 17, 1948 · Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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.
Movies

Superman

Superman II

Halloween II

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Superman III

Maverick

Black Christmas

The Amityville Horror

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

The Great Waldo Pepper

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

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

Sisters

To Catch a Killer

Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework

Delirious

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

Some Kind of Hero

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

Angel Blade

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

Cool Money

Tribulation

GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords

Real Gangsters

You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman

Shoot the Sun Down
TV Shows

The Outer Limits

Murder, She Wrote

Touched by an Angel

The Dick Cavett Show

Brothers and Sisters

Intimate Portrait

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Earth: Final Conflict

Barnaby Jones

Tales from the Crypt

La Femme Nikita

R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour

Switch

The L Word

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

The Hitchhiker

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

The Mod Squad

The Hunger

Burke's Law

Nichols

Robson Arms

Banacek

Ciné regards

Boston Common

Am laufenden Band

Phantom 2040

Amityville: An Origin Story

Adventures in Rainbow Country

To Catch a Killer
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The Making of 'Superman II'

Mr. Mike's Mondo Video

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment

The Red Maple Leaf

The Planet of Junior Brown

On the Other Hand, Death: A Donald Strachey Mystery

92 in the Shade

Redemption: For Robbing the Dead

I'll Be Seeing You

The Grand Knockout Tournament

Puppy Swap: Love Unleashed

Vanishing Act

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Big Fat Stone

Louisiana

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd

Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks

The Neighborhood

WindRunner

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

Picking Up the Pieces

The Clown at Midnight

Beanstalk

The Annihilation of Fish

Willie & Phil

The Emerald City of Oz

The Marvelous Land of Oz

The Box Collector

Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On

No Deposit

Trenchcoat

The Last Sign

Bloodknot

Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly

The Making of 'Superman III'

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

The Glitter Dome

Crime and Punishment

Suddenly Single

3 of a Kind

The Dependables

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

Common Ground

Little Treasure

A Single Woman

Calling the Shots

Collectormania 6

Honky Tonk

Servitude

The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar

The Canadian Conspiracy

Gaily, Gaily

One Woman's Courage

Bus Stop

The Hi-Line

HENRi

The Dion Brothers

Someone Is Watching

Matt's Chance

The Bounty Man

Society's Child

La Florida

Miss Right

Heartaches

Mob Story

Never Met Picasso

Silent Cradle

The 12 Days of Black Christmas

A Quiet Day in Belfast

Keeping Track

Body of Evidence

Universal Signs

Chicks with Sticks

Nightmare Man

Black Christmas Legacy

For God's Sake, Get Out!

Henry & Verlin

The Pornographer

Pygmalion

The Teddy Bears' Scare

Young Ivanhoe

White Room

Something Evil Comes

Ozma of Oz

Martinis and Murder

The Suicide Club

Gravel In Her Gut and Spit In Her Eye

Death 4 Told




