| Margaret Ruth Kidder (born October 17, 1948) is a Canadian-American actress, best known for playing Lois Lane in the Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve. Early life Kidder, one of five children, was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, the daughter of Jill (née Wilson), a history teacher, and Kendall Kidder, an explosives expert and mining engineer.[1][2][3] She was born in Yellowknife because of her father's job, which required the family to live in remote locations.[4] She has a sister, Annie, and three brothers, John, Michael and Peter. Kidder's niece, Janet Kidder, is also an actress. Career In the late 1960s, Kidder was based in Toronto, and appeared in a number of TV drama series for the CBC, including guest appearances on Wojeck, Adventures in Rainbow Country, and 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, and had a starring role in a 1972 episode of the George Peppard detective series Banacek. She appeared in a number of low-budget Canadian movies in the late 1960s (The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar being her first feature) and early 1970s before going on to star in the Brian de Palma psychological thriller Sisters (1973) and 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 as a condition of appearing: Kidder said "I don't want someone writing 'Margot Kidder has more curves than the Pacific Coast Highway' under my picture." Superman film series Kidder is best known for her role as Lois Lane in the 1978 film Superman: The Movie and its sequels. She publicly disagreed with the decision of producers Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind to replace Richard Donner as director of 1980's Superman II. As a result, Kidder's role in 1983's Superman III consisted of less than five minutes of footage. Her role in 1987's unsuccessful Superman IV: The Quest for Peace was more substantial. 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). (Many other actors from the Christopher Reeve Superman films have had small roles on Smallville.) Other film and television roles In addition to the Superman movies, Kidder has starred in The Amityville Horror, Willie & Phil, Some Kind of Hero with her Superman III co-star Richard Pryor and The Great Waldo Pepper opposite Robert Redford. She has also made uncredited cameo appearances in Maverick and Delirious. In 1970, Kidder co-starred as Zazel Pierce opposite Gene Wilder as Quackser Fortune in Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx. In 1979, Kidder hosted season 4, episode 15 of Saturday Night Live In 1983, Kidder produced and starred as Eliza Doolittle in a TV version of Pygmalion with Peter O'Toole. In 1990, she appeared in introductions for the Discovery Channel's "Best of the BBC" series of repackaged documentaries, among them Making of a Continent. From 1993 to 1996, she was the voice of the character of Gaia in Captain Planet and the Planeteers. In 1994, Kidder played the bartender at the "Broken Skull" tavern in Under a Killing Moon, an IBM PC adventure game. In 2000, Kidder played Eileen Canboro in Apocalypse III: Tribulation, a Christian film dealing with Christian eschatology and the rapture. Kidder stated afterwards that she did not realize until she was on the set that the movie was serious.[5] In 2001, she played a guest role as the mother of a serial killer in "Pique", an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2001, she also portrayed in the "Family Guy" episode "Mr. Saturday Knight." In a flashback of previous dinner guests, she is shown sitting down eating dinner with Lois and Peter. Lois compliments her on her performance as Lois Lane in the Superman movies. Margot then promptly yells, tears up the house and jumps through the window, which is a reference to her manic episode in 1996. She is also shown twice more in a manic state, on the second occasion coming back because she forgot her purse. In 2004, in addition to her work on Smallville, 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. She also had a cameo in Rich Hall's Election Special on BBC Four. In 2006, Kidder played a guest role as Jenny Schecter's mother Sandy Ziskin on The L Word. In 2007, Kidder started appearing on the television series Brothers and Sisters, playing Emily Craft. Additionally, Kidder played Sally Cima, and was the mother of protagonist Greg Cima, a high school tailback for Kanab High School in Kanab, Utah, in the film Windrunner. Most recently, she took a prominent role as an embattled guidance counselor named Dorothy Fisher in the 2008 gay-themed mystery film On the Other Hand, Death. She has also done extensive stage work, including The Vagina Monologues. Kidder played Barbara Collier, Laurie Strode's therapist, in the sequel to Halloween (2007) titled, Halloween II, released in theatres August 28, 2009.[6] Personal life In the past, Kidder dated former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau and director Brian DePalma. She has been married and divorced three times: to American novelist Thomas McGuane (by whom she had her only child, daughter Maggie, in 1976); to actor John Heard; and to French film director Philippe de Broca. 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. She has two grandchildren, Mazie & Charlie Kirn, from her daughter's marriage to the novelist Walter Kirn. Kidder actively supported Jesse Jackson's bid for the Democratic nomination in 1984. In the early 1990s, during the first Gulf War, Kidder was branded a "Baghdad Betty" by some parts of the media and subjected to abuse for remarks that she had made that questioned the war.[7] As of November, 2009, Kidder was the Montana State Coordinator for Progressive Democrats of America. The organization's website carried an article by her, "Ax Max", in which she detailed her opposition to Montana's moderate Democratic Senator, Max Baucus.[8] Kidder was involved in a serious car crash in 1990, after which she was unable to work for two years, causing her serious financial problems. Kidder has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which led to a widely publicized manic episode in 1996. Kidder was found in undergrowth by Los Angeles police in a distressed state, and placed in psychiatric care.[9] Kidder calls her depression "Her Monsters". Citizenship 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, and at the same time to be free of worries about being deported.[10] References - ^ Who Do You Think You Are? | Stories | Margot Kidder
- ^ Margot Kidder Biography (1948-)
- ^ Superman2 Media
- ^ Hobson, John Allan; Jonathan A. Leonard (2001). Out of Its Mind: Psychiatry in Crisis. Basic Books. p. 161. ISBN 0738202517. http://books.google.com/books?id=3bTz0ifs5cQC&dq=%22MARGOT+KIDDER%22+FATHER.
- ^ Spencer, Scott. "Lights! Camera! Rapture!". The New Yorker. p. 108.
- ^ http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.viewcustom&friendId=28735418&blogId=476892147&swapped=true
- ^ "National Mood; War Heals Wounds at Home, but Not All", N.Y.Times, 1991
- ^ Kidder, Margot (November 26, 2009). "Ax Max". Progressive Democrats of America. http://pdamerica.org/articles/news/2009-11-26-01-08-11-news.php. Retrieved 2009-11-26.
- ^ Reed, J.D. "Starting Over," People, September 23, 1996.
- ^ "Superman actress among 19 who gain U.S. citizenship in Butte". The Montana Standard. 2005-08-18. http://www.montanastandard.com/articles/2005/08/18/newsbutte/hjjejbibjjebif.txt. Retrieved June 21 2006.
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