Margot Kidder, Actress, - Biography
Actress,
Height 5' 6½" (1.69 M)
Born
on October 17, 1948, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada,
Margaret
Ruth Kidder, or Margot Kidder is a Canadian-American film actress who achieved
fame playing Lois Lane in the Superman movies of the 1970s & 1980s. She was
born in one of five children of Jill & Kendall Kidder, an explosives expert.
She has a sister, Annie, & three brothers, John, Michael & Peter. Kidder's
niece, Janet Kidder, is also an actress. In the late 1960s, Kidder was based in
Toronto, & appeared in a number of TV drama series for the CBC, including
a guest appearance on Wojeck, & a semi-regular role as a young reporter on
McQueen. Later, she made an appearance as a barmaid in Nichols, a short-lived
James Garner vehicle made for American television. She also appeared in a number
of low-budget Canadian movies in the early 1970s before going on to star in the
Brian de Palma psychological thriller Sisters (1973) & the horror film Black
Christmas (1974). A nude pictorial of Kidder, photographed by Douglas Kirkland,
was published in the March 1975 issue of Playboy. The accompanying article was
written by her.
Kidder is best known for her role as Lois Lane in the 1978 movie Superman & its sequels. Kidder brought more depth to the role than previous actresses, portraying Lane as an ambitious & headstrong, yet vulnerable & emotionally lonely woman trying to make it in a man's world. After she publicly expressed her disgust to the producers, Alexander Salkind & Ilya Salkind, over the firing of Richard Donner from 1980's Superman II, her role in 1983's Superman III consisted of less than 5 minutes of footage. Her role in 1987's Superman IV: The Quest For Peace was more substantial. In addition to the Superman movies, Kidder has starred in The Amityville Horror, Willie & Phil, & The Great Waldo Pepper opposite Robert Redford. She has also made uncredited cameo appearances in Maverick & Delirious.
In 1983, Kidder produced & starred as Eliza Doolittle in a TV version of Pygmalion with Peter O'Toole. She has also done extensive stage work, including The Vagina Monologues.
In 1994, Kidder played the bartender at the "Broken Skull" tavern in Under a Killing Moon, an IBM PC adventure game.
In 2004, Kidder briefly returned to the Superman franchise in two episodes of the television program Smallville, as Dr. Bridgette Crosby, an emissary of Dr. Swann (played by her Superman co-star, Christopher Reeve).
Also that year Kidder made an appearance on a Canadian sitcom, Robson Arms, set in an apartment block in Vancouver's west end. She played a quirky neighbor of the main cast members.
In the past Kidder dated former Canadian prime minister
Pierre Trudeau. She has been married & divorced three times: to American playwright
Thomas McGuane (by whom she had her only child, daughter Maggie [now Maggie Kirn],
in 1976); to actor John Heard; & to French film director Philippe de Broca
(she suffered a miscarriage during that marriage). None of the marriages lasted
longer than a year. Since her divorce from De Broca, she has said that she prefers
the companionship of her dogs.
Kidder became a United States citizen on August 17, 2005, in Butte, Montana; she lives in nearby Livingston. She said the reason for her decision to become an American citizen is to participate in the voting process, to continue her protests against U.S. intervention in Iraq, & at the same time to be free of worries about being deported.
Kidder has bipolar disorder which led to a widely publicized manic breakdown in 1996. She is an advocate of orthomolecular medicine as a treatment for the disorder.
In
an episode of Family Guy, "Mr. Saturday Knight", she was mocked for
her manic breakdown in which she screams & trashes the Griffin household &
jumps out a window during dinner. She returns twice more.
In the mc chris
song Wiid, from dungeon master of ceremonies he claims to "have a one-hitter
called Margot Kidder."
In the Eminem song Lown Down Dirty he states "hid
in the bush like Margot Kidder." This is a reference to circumstances referenced
in the media surrounding Kidder's breakdown.
In an episode of Gilmore Girls
(season 1), Rory tells her mother: "No, my insane mother Margot Kidder Gilmore
woke me up!"
The band Million Dead released a song entitled "Margot
Kidder" on their 2005 album Harmony No Harmony
Written in April 2007
Pictures of Margot Kidder, her name is not splet, Margo Kidder, Margot Kiddor, or Marggot Kidder, or Margot, Kider, & not usually Margaret Kidder, even though that last one could be said to be right.
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