Margot Kidder
Acting
🎂 1948-10-17
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.
Cast credits(152)
Self
1962
Grace Mayberry
1999
Dr. Josephine Mataros
1997
Mrs. Worthington
2010
1996
Bridgette Crosby
2001
Rita Lasky
1994
Self - Guest
1968
Gaia (voice)
1990
Self
1975
Sandy Ziskin
2004
Ellen Holden
1984
Lori Wright
1973
Cynthia
1989
Claire Allen
1968
Emily Craft
2006
Self - Host
1975
Self
1993
Andrea Morris
1975
Serena
1995
Joy Adams
1994
Ruth
1971
Self - Guest
1974
Helen Sloan
1997
Sportscar driver
1970
Dr. Janet Rhoades (young doctor)
1970
Cookie
1996
2005
Lois Lane
1978
Jane Reynolds
1983
Rachel Grayson
1992
1987
1994
Lois Lane
1980
Stella Kelly
2013
Lois Lane
1987
Self (archive footage)
2024
Lois Lane
1983
Margret Mary (uncredited)
1994
Kathy Lutz
1979
Barbara Collier
2009
Lois Lane
2006
Barb
1974
Danielle Breton / Dominique Blanchion
1973
Woman in Washroom (uncredited)
1991
Lois Lane (archive footage)
2001
Self
2006
Maude
1975
Beth
2008
Self
2006
Dorothy
2008
Mrs. Katerina Marmelodov
2002
Sally Beckert
2000
Dr. Amanda Walker
2017
Self (archive footage)
2014
Eileen Canboro
2000
Rebecca Madison
1994
Adeline
1969
Jeannette Sutherland
1980
Toni Donovan
1982
Self
1979
Jean Dempsey
2014
Rachel Grayson
1992
Margie Ryan
2015
Self
2008
Self
2003
Maggie
2017
Self
1987
Marcia Curtis
1975
1986
Solitaire (voice)
1986
Ellen Gibby
1998
Margo
1985
Mrs. Potter (archive footage)
2005
Zazel
1970
Mother Mable
2013
Peggy Comfort
2005
Mrs. Nelson
2000
Mrs. Crank
2012
Willie
1984
Claudia
2009
Frida
2002
Endora
2005
Cindy Wilson
1997
Virginia Tregan
1984
Lois Lane (archive footage)
2010
Self
1982
Miranda
1975
Sol
1997
Mae
1972
Self
1985
Doctor Kate 'Doc' Winston
1994
Evelyn
1995
Vivy Lamori
1993
Madelaine X
1990
Frances Grolier
2004
Lucy Cotton
1974
Narrator
1987
Mrs. Muldroone
1999
1989
Mickey Raymond
1983
Chris Kenyon
1986
Genna Magnus
1996
Juliette
1982
Dr. Calvin
2013
Melanie Kelly
1999
Madam Badeau
2004
The Woman from England
1978
Rose Callahan
2008
Rita Harris
1981
Irene
1994
Delilah Higgins
2019
Marlys Baptiste
2011
Jackie
1971
Sally 'Mom' Cima
1994
Helen
1973
Lois Lane (uncredited)
1983
Storyteller
2008
Cherie
1982
Claire
2012
Rosie
1969
Lillian Hannibal
1999
Self
2001
Self
1988
Mabel
1994
Lynette Harding
1985
Mickey Tremaine
1987
Margie
1974
Carol Dwyer
1988
Self
2006
Self
2001
Edith Taymore
2005
Narrator
1987
Eliza Doolittle
1983
Stella Jenson
1994
Lady Margarite
1995
Miss Peebs
1997
Laura Johnson
2000
Joan
2002
Madge
2014
Maggie
2011
Brigit Slattery / Thelma Slattery
1974
Gerry
1973
Mrs. Jones (voice)
1998
Narrator
1987
Narrator
1985
Self (archive footage)
2015
Dorothy M. Johnson
2005
Self
2005
Narrator
1987
2009