Margot Kidder
Acting
🎂 1948-10-17
Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder 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.
Cast credits(153)
Grace Mayberry
1999
Bridgette Crosby
2001
Ellen Holden
1984
Self
1962
Self - Host
1975
Dr. Josephine Mataros
1997
Lois Lane
1978
Emily Craft
2006
Sandy Ziskin
2004
Self
1975
Mrs. Worthington
2010
Serena
1995
Cynthia
1989
Rita Lasky
1994
Lori Wright
1973
Andrea Morris
1975
Self
1993
Lois Lane
1980
Gaia (voice)
1990
Jane Reynolds
1983
Self - Guest
1968
Helen Sloan
1997
Self (archive footage)
2003
1996
Joy Adams
1994
Claire Allen
1968
Lois Lane
1983
Margret Mary (uncredited)
1994
Lois Lane
1987
Stella Kelly
2013
Barbara Collier
2009
Lois Lane
2006
Ruth
1971
Kathy Lutz
1979
Jeannette Sutherland
1980
2005
Cookie
1996
1994
Self
2006
Narrator
1987
Lucy Cotton
1974
Lois Lane (archive footage)
2001
Self - Guest
1974
Narrator
1987
Narrator
1987
Barb
1974
Self
2006
Beth
2008
Rachel Grayson
1992
Self- Archive
2023
Lynette Harding
1985
Rebecca Madison
1994
Delilah Higgins
2019
Toni Donovan
1982
Frida
2002
Marlys Baptiste
2011
Narrator
1987
Melanie Kelly
1999
Marcia Curtis
1975
Sol
1997
Zazel
1970
Self
1986
Maude
1975
Self (archive footage)
2014
Danielle Breton / Dominique Blanchion
1973
Helen
1973
Doctor Kate 'Doc' Winston
1994
Woman in Washroom (uncredited)
1991
Dr. Amanda Walker
2017
Mrs. Katerina Marmelodov
2002
Miss Peebs
1997
Ellen Gibby
1998
Self
2003
Willie
1984
Frances Grolier
2004
Adeline
1969
Edith Taymore
2005
Jean Dempsey
2014
Dorothy
2008
Self
1987
Cherie
1982
Lois Lane (archive footage)
2010
Mrs. Potter (archive footage)
2005
Mrs. Crank
2012
Mrs. Nelson
2000
Mae
1972
Evelyn
1995
Margie
1974
Irene
1994
Eileen Canboro
2000
Margo
1985
Sally Beckert
2000
Juliette
1982
Self
2008
Dolores
1989
Solitaire (voice)
1986
Joan
2002
Gerry
1973
Storyteller
2008
Lillian Hannibal
1999
Jackie
1971
Chris Kenyon
1986
Eliza Doolittle
1983
Sally 'Mom' Cima
1994
Peggy Comfort
2005
Maggie
2011
Mrs. Jones (voice)
1998
Mabel
1994
Madge
2014
Self (archive footage)
2015
2009
Self
2001
Rosie
1969
Mickey Raymond
1983
Rachel Grayson
1992
Genna Magnus
1996
Self
1982
Laura Johnson
2000
Maggie
2017
Endora
2005
Self
2001
Sportscar driver
1970
Dr. Janet Rhoades (young doctor)
1970
Carol Dwyer
1988
Self
1988
Brigit Slattery / Thelma Slattery
1974
Cindy Wilson
1997
Lois Lane (uncredited)
1983
Lady Margarite
1995
Madam Badeau (segment "The Psychic")
2004
Self
1979
Vivy Lamori
1993
Virginia Tregan
1984
Rita Harris
1981
Claudia
2009
Miranda
1975
1987
Stella Jenson
1994
Self
2006
Mickey Tremaine
1987
Dorothy M. Johnson
2005
Self
1985
The Woman from England
1978
Madelaine X
1990
Rose Callahan
2008
Margie Ryan
2015
Mrs. Muldroone
1999
Claire
2012
Dr. Calvin
2013
Mother Mable
2013
Self
2005
Narrator
1985