Margot Kidder

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Margot Kidder (2013)

Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder (born October 17, 1948 in Yellowknife , Canada ; † May 13, 2018 in Livingston , Montana ) was an American actress . Her most famous role was that of Lois Lane in the Superman films .

Life and accomplishments

She was born in 1948 in the Northwest Territories of Canada to Jill and Kendall Kidder. Her niece is the actress Janet Kidder . At the age of twelve, Margot Kidder had already changed schools eleven times. She was depressed at times and thought of suicide when she was fourteen . Her parents sent her to boarding school , where she got her first acting experience and played the leading female role in Romeo and Juliet .

After graduating from high school, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. A Canadian agent discovered her, and she got a film role in the 1969 comedy Gaily, Gaily . A year later she got the first leading role at the side of Gene Wilder in the movie Quackser Fortune has a cousin in the Bronx .

Her breakthrough came with the 1973 film The Sisters of Evil by director Brian De Palma. It was her first role in a horror film . Until 1975 she still played in the films The Big Friction , Jessy - The stairs to death and 33 degrees in the shade , before the roles temporarily waned.

Kidder made a big comeback in the film business in 1978 with the film Superman in the role of Lois Lane . She played here, as in the sequels, the female lead alongside Christopher Reeve . In 1979 she received a Saturn Award in the Best Actress category for her performance in Superman . She received nominations for this award in 1980 for Amityville Horror and in 1982 for Superman II - Alone Against All . In 1982 she won a Genie Award for Best Actress for The Narrow Path of Happiness .

In the 1980s, further roles in the films Trenchcoat (1983) and Dusty Dollars (1985) followed, and she played Lois Lane again in Superman III - The Steel Lightning (1983) and Superman IV - The World on the Abyss (1987). In 1990 Kidder was in a serious car accident and lost all of her fortune over the next two years. She later recovered from the health and financial consequences of the accident and returned to work as an actress.

In 1975, Kidder married actor Thomas McGuane. A year later she had a daughter and divorced. In 1979 she married the American actor John Heard . That marriage failed that same year. In August 1983 she married the French director Philippe de Broca . This marriage only lasted a year. Born in Canada, Kidder became a US citizen in 2005.

Kidder died on May 13, 2018 at her Livingston, Montana home, aged 69. She was found passed out by a friend. The cause of death was initially not released; her agent said that "she died peacefully in her sleep," while her friend Jeffrey St. Clair wrote in the days after her death, "I had the picture of Margie helplessly on the floor in her house in front of my eyes all week." On August 8, 2018, it was reported that Kidders death from an overdose was considered suicide. The Park County, Montana coroner said her death was "a result of a self-inflicted drug and alcohol overdose."

Political commitment

In 1991, Kidder took action against the second Gulf War , which began under American leadership , which put her career at risk. In 2011 she was arrested while sitting in front of the White House against the construction of the Keystone Pipeline .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Margot Kidder  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heidi Parker: Superman star Margot Kidder dies at age 69 after bipolar struggle that left her homeless. In: MailOnline . May 14, 2018, accessed May 15, 2018 .
  2. ^ "Superman" star Margot Kidder has died. In: Österreichischer Rundfunk . May 14, 2018, accessed May 15, 2018 .
  3. ^ Lisa Respers France: Margot Kidder, 'Superman' actress, dead at 69. In: CNN . May 15, 2018, accessed May 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Howard Zinn : A History of the American People . From the American English by Sonja Bonin. Nikol, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86820-192-5 , p. 611
  5. ^ Margot Kidder arrested at White House oil protest. In: CBC News . August 23, 2011, accessed May 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kidder, Margot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kidder, Margaret Ruth (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Yellowknife , Canada
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2018
Place of death Livingston , Montana , USA