Kim Victoria Cattrall is a British and Canadian actress.
48 Facts About Kim Cattrall
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Kim Cattrall came to prominence in the 1980s with films such as Ticket to Heaven, Police Academy, City Limits, Big Trouble in Little China, Mannequin, Masquerade, Midnight Crossing, and The Return of the Musketeers.
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Kim Cattrall worked on several occasions with director Bob Clark, appearing in four of his films: Tribute, Porky's, Turk 182, and Baby Geniuses.
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On stage, Kim Cattrall appeared in the 1986 Broadway production of Michael Frayn's Wild Honey.
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From 2014 to 2016, Kim Cattrall starred and served as executive producer on the HBO Canada series Sensitive Skin, for which she received a nomination for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Kim Cattrall later starred on the Paramount+ streaming television series Tell Me a Story, Fox drama Filthy Rich and Peacock drama Queer as Folk.
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Kim Victoria Cattrall was born on 21 August 1956 in the Mossley Hill area of Liverpool, the daughter of secretary Gladys Shane and construction engineer Dennis Cattrall.
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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.
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Kim Cattrall made her film debut in Preminger's action thriller Rosebud.
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Kim Cattrall starred in The Bastard and The Rebels, two television miniseries based on the John Jakes novels of the same names.
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Kim Cattrall starred 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.
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In 1981, Kim Cattrall played PE teacher Miss Honeywell in Porky's, followed three years later by a role in the original Police Academy.
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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.
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Kim Cattrall capitalized on her success by appearing in steamy television commercials promoting Pepsi One.
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Kim Cattrall appeared in the sequel released in May 2010.
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Kim Cattrall won two ensemble Screen Actors Guild Awards, shared with her co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.
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Kim Cattrall was awarded the NBC Universal Canada Award of Distinction at the 2008 Banff World TV Festival.
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Kim Cattrall was honoured that year by Glamour Magazine for the "Woman of the Year Awards" for Theatre Actress.
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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.
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In 2009, 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 in 2010.
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Later in 2009, it was announced that Kim Cattrall would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario.
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On 24 February 2010, Kim Cattrall began a run in the West End of London at the Vaudeville Theatre as leading lady, Amanda, opposite Matthew Macfadyen, in a revival of Noel Coward's play Private Lives.
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Kim Cattrall played Cleopatra in a production of Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Janet Suzman, opposite Jeffery Kissoon as Anthony, in Liverpool at the Playhouse in October 2010, with a subsequent revival at Chichester Festival Theatre in September 2012.
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In 2010, Kim Cattrall was named an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University in recognition of her contributions to the dramatic arts.
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In 2011, Kim Cattrall reprised her role as Amanda in a production of Noel Coward's Private Lives opposite Canadian actor Paul Gross in Toronto and on Broadway.
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That year, Kim Cattrall appeared in Uptown Downstairs Abbey, the Comic Relief parody of the critically acclaimed historical television dramas Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs.
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From June to August 2013, Kim Cattrall was scheduled to star in the Old Vic's production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Olivier Award-winner Marianne Elliott.
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On 17 July 2015, Kim Cattrall was cast in the title role of Linda in a new play by Penelope Skinner, to be directed by Michael Longhurst and produced at London's Royal Court Theatre.
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Kim Cattrall was forced to drop out of that production a few days before the opening, due to "chronic, debilitating insomnia".
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Kim Cattrall returned to New York and started a program of cognitive behaviour therapy to train herself to be able to sleep better.
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Kim Cattrall opened up to the BBC Woman's Hour on her insomnia journey and how she was able to manage it.
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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.
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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.
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In 2016, Kim Cattrall starred in the BBC mini-series The Witness for the Prosecution based on the Agatha Christie short story.
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In 2020, Kim Cattrall returned to TV in 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.
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Kim Cattrall was honoured at the 2020 Atlanta TV festival with the Icon Award for the show.
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In September 2021, Kim Cattrall joined Robert De Niro in comedy film About My Father inspired by the life of stand-up comedian, Sebastian Maniscalco, who stars.
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In November 2021, Kim Cattrall featured prominently in the permanent exhibition Wondrous Place celebrating Liverpool's cultural heritage.
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Kim Cattrall was cast in the pivotal narrator role originated by Bob Saget.
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Kim Cattrall briefly dated former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
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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.
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Kim Cattrall has been dating BBC employee Russell Thomas since 2016.
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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.
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Kim Cattrall was told that Baugh emigrated to Australia in 1961, became a postmaster, retired in 1972, and died in Sydney in 1974.
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In 2018, Kim Cattrall joined Judi Dench as an ambassador for the Royal Botanical Kew Gardens in London, the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world.
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Kim Cattrall has been honored with two honorary degrees; an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University in 2010 and one from the University of British Columbia in 2018.
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On 4 February 2018, Kim Cattrall announced that her brother Christopher had disappeared in Alberta.
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Kim Cattrall asked for public help in finding him, but he was found dead several hours later, having taken his own life.