52 Facts About Kim Cattrall

Kim Victoria Cattrall is a British and Canadian actress.

Kim Cattrall came to prominence with starring roles in films such as Porky's, Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China, Mannequin, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Kim Cattrall is known for her theatre work including Wild Honey, Miss Julie, Private Lives, Antony and Cleopatra, and Sweet Bird of Youth.

From 2014 to 2016, Kim Cattrall starred on and served as executive producer of HBO Canada's Sensitive Skin, for which she received a nomination for the 2016 Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.

Kim Cattrall went on to star on the Paramount+ series Tell Me a Story, the Fox series Filthy Rich, the Peacock revival series Queer as Folk, and the Netflix series Glamorous.

Kim Victoria Cattrall was born on 21 August 1956 in the Mossley Hill area of Liverpool, Lancashire the daughter of secretary Gladys Shane and construction engineer Dennis Cattrall.

Kim Cattrall has two sisters and she had a brother named Christopher Cattrall.

Kim Cattrall took acting examinations at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, but returned to Canada after one year and moved to New York City at the age of 16 for her first acting role.

Kim Cattrall attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and upon her graduation signed a five-year film deal with director Otto Preminger.

Kim Cattrall made her film debut in Preminger's action thriller Rosebud.

Kim Cattrall appeared in The Bastard and The Rebels, two television miniseries based on the John Jakes novels of the same names.

Kim Cattrall appeared opposite Jack Lemmon in his Oscar-nominated film Tribute, and in Crossbar, the film about a high jumper who loses his leg and still participates in the Olympic trials, with Cattrall's help.

In 1981, Kim Cattrall played PE teacher Miss Honeywell in Porky's, followed three years later by a role in Police Academy.

One of her best-known film roles is that of Lieutenant Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; Kim Cattrall assisted in developing the character by designing her own hairstyle and even helped come up with the name.

Kim Cattrall capitalized on her success by appearing in steamy television commercials promoting Pepsi One.

Kim Cattrall won two ensemble Screen Actors Guild Awards, shared with her co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, although she never got along with them.

Kim Cattrall was awarded the NBC Universal Canada Award of Distinction at the 2008 Banff World TV Festival.

Kim Cattrall appeared to rave reviews in a 2006 West End production of David Mamet's The Cryptogram at the Donmar Warehouse in London.

Kim Cattrall appeared in a number of British television commercials for Tetley Tea from 2005, as well as ads for Bacardi's Island Breeze cocktails.

Kim Cattrall later starred alongside Brendan Gleeson in John Boorman's film The Tiger's Tail, a black comedy that focuses on the impact of the Celtic Tiger economy on Irish people.

Kim Cattrall played Amelia Bly in Roman Polanski's well-received The Ghost Writer and voiced the character Dee in the Canadian adult animated sitcom Producing Parker, the latter, for which she was awarded a Gemini for Best Performance in an Animated Program or Series.

Kim Cattrall has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto.

Kim Cattrall acted opposite Matthew Macfadyen in a 2010 revival of Noel Coward's play Private Lives at the Vaudeville Theatre on London's West End, for which she received a Whats on Stage nomination for Best Actress.

Kim Cattrall played Cleopatra in a 2010 production of Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Janet Suzman, opposite Jeffery Kissoon as Anthony, in Liverpool at the Playhouse, with a subsequent revival at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2012.

In 2010, Kim Cattrall was named an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University in recognition of her contributions to the dramatic arts.

In 2011, Kim Cattrall reprised her role as Amanda in a production of Private Lives opposite Canadian actor Paul Gross in Toronto and on Broadway.

That year, Kim Cattrall appeared in Uptown Downstairs Abbey, the Comic Relief parody of the historical television dramas Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs.

In 2013, Kim Cattrall starred in the Old Vic's production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Olivier Award-winner Marianne Elliott.

Kim Cattrall was originally cast in the title role of Linda in a 2015 play by Penelope Skinner, to be directed by Michael Longhurst and produced at London's Royal Court Theatre.

Kim Cattrall was forced to drop out of that production a few days before the opening, due to "chronic, debilitating insomnia".

Kim Cattrall returned to New York and started a program of cognitive behaviour therapy to train herself to be able to sleep better.

Kim Cattrall opened up to the BBC Woman's Hour on her insomnia journey and how she was able to manage it.

Kim Cattrall later returned that year to guest edit the BBC's Woman's Hour to discuss "Choosing to Be Child Free" and "Being a Parent Without Giving Birth" which raised controversial response and opinions.

Kim Cattrall was seen in 2015 on the SkyArts short Ruby Robinson, a physical comedy where Cattrall starred as Ruby, a woman living with a troupe of unusual acrobat helpers, who is taught a valuable lesson by her nephew.

Kim Cattrall took part in the BBC Arts' I'm with the Banned, the flagship event in Belarus Free Theatre's tenth-anniversary celebrations.

In 2016, Kim Cattrall starred in the BBC mini-series The Witness for the Prosecution based on the Agatha Christie short story.

From 2018 to 2019, Kim Cattrall starred on the Paramount+ series Tell Me a Story.

In 2020, Kim Cattrall starred on the Fox drama Filthy Rich, where she played Margaret Monreaux, the matriarch of a Southern family which has become mega-rich and famous for creating a wildly successful Christian television network.

Kim Cattrall was honoured at the 2020 Atlanta TV festival with the Icon Award for the show.

In 2022, Sarah Jessica Parker spoke on The Hollywood Reporter Award Chatter podcast about why Kim Cattrall wasn't asked to be a part of the revival.

Kim Cattrall stated, "We did not ask her to be part of this because she made it clear that that wasn't something she wanted to pursue, and it no longer felt comfortable for us, and so it didn't occur to us".

In 2021, Kim Cattrall was cast in the How I Met Your Mother spinoff series, How I Met Your Father led by Hilary Duff, in the pivotal narrator role originated by Bob Saget.

Kim Cattrall joined Robert De Niro in the comedy film About My Father inspired by the life of stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, who stars.

Kim Cattrall featured prominently in the permanent exhibition Wondrous Place celebrating Liverpool's cultural heritage.

Kim Cattrall has held dual British and Canadian citizenship for most of her life and became an American citizen in 2020 in order to vote in that year's election.

Kim Cattrall discovered that her grandfather George Baugh disappeared in 1938, having abandoned his family and turned out to have bigamously married his new wife the following year in Tudhoe; he subsequently had another four children.

Kim Cattrall was told that Baugh immigrated to Australia in 1961, became a postmaster, retired in 1972, and died in Sydney in 1974.

On 4 February 2018, Kim Cattrall announced that her brother had disappeared in Alberta.

Kim Cattrall asked for public help in finding him, and he was found dead several hours later, having taken his own life.

Kim Cattrall briefly dated former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Kim Cattrall has been connected to Brazilian-American actor Daniel Benzali, American musician Gerald Casale, French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy, and British-Sudanese actor Alexander Siddig.

Kim Cattrall has been dating BBC employee Russell Thomas since 2016.