Margaret Ruth Kidder, known professionally as Margot Kidder, was a Canadian-American actress whose career spanned five decades.
59 Facts About Margot Kidder
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Margot Kidder's accolades include three Canadian Screen Awards and one Daytime Emmy Award.
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Margot Kidder 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.
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Margot Kidder then played twins in Brian De Palma's cult thriller Sisters, a sorority student in the slasher film Black Christmas and the titular character's girlfriend in the drama The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford.
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Margot Kidder was an outspoken political, environmental and anti-war activist, and continued to participate in political and activist causes until her death.
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Margot Kidder died on May 13,2018, at her home in Livingston, Montana, aged 69, in what was later ruled a suicide by alcohol and drug overdose.
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Margaret Ruth Margot Kidder, one of five children, was born on October 17,1948, in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, the daughter of Jocelyn Mary "Jill", a history teacher from British Columbia, and Kendall Margot Kidder, an American explosives expert and engineer originally from New Mexico.
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Margot Kidder was born in Yellowknife because of her father's employment, which required the family to live in remote locations.
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Margot Kidder had one sister, Annie, who is an actress and executive director of the People for Education charity, and three brothers: John, Michael and Peter.
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Margot Kidder became interested in politics from a young age, which she credited to debates her parents would have over the dinner table; her mother had socialist leanings, while her father was a conservative Republican.
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Margot Kidder had mental health issues from a young age, which stemmed from undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
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Margot Kidder returned to Toronto, where she found work as a model.
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Margot Kidder made her film debut in a 49-minute film titled The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar, a drama set in a Canadian logging community, which was produced by the Challenge for Change.
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Margot Kidder subsequently 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, and as a panelist on Mantrap which featured discussions centered on a feminist perspective.
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Margot Kidder subsequently appeared in "Such Dust As Dreams Are Made On", the first pilot for Harry O which aired in March 1973.
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Margot Kidder was a guest star in a 1972 episode of the George Peppard detective series Banacek.
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Margot Kidder had been in a relationship with De Palma at the time, and had been roommates with co-star Jennifer Salt in Los Angeles.
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Margot Kidder received another Canadian Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in the war drama A Quiet Day in Belfast.
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Also in 1974, Margot Kidder made her directorial debut with a 50-minute short film produced for the American Film Institute, titled Again.
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Margot Kidder subsequently co-starred with Peter Fonda in 92 in the Shade, a drama directed by novelist Thomas McGuane, based on his own book.
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Margot Kidder subsequently became pregnant, and gave birth to their only child, daughter Maggie McGuane, on October 28,1975.
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Margot Kidder was photographed by Douglas Kirkland for the March 1975 issue of Playboy, accompanied by an article written by Kidder herself.
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Eager to return to acting, Margot Kidder read for the character of Lois Lane in the 1978 superhero film Superman: The Movie, in the spring of 1977, only one month before principal photography was scheduled to begin.
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Margot Kidder won a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her performance, which was deemed "most charming" by Vincent Canby in The New York Times.
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Margot Kidder reprised her role as Lois Lane in Superman II, though she publicly disagreed with the decision of producers Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind to replace Richard Donner as director.
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Margot Kidder was complicated, very smart, really smart, and he knew he'd done something meaningful.
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Margot Kidder was very aware of that and very happy with that role.
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Margot Kidder starred in the Canadian comedic road movie Heartaches, portraying a free-spirited woman who helps an acquaintance raise her child.
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Margot Kidder subsequently produced and starred in the French-Canadian period television film Louisiana as a plantation owner in the American South who returns from Paris to find her estate and holdings have been lost.
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Margot Kidder began dating the film's director, Philippe de Broca, and the two married in France in 1983.
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Margot Kidder subsequently reprised her Lois Lane role in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, which she filmed in 1986.
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Body of Evidence, a CBS Movie of the Week, cast Margot Kidder as a nurse who is suspicious that her medical pathologist second husband is a serial killer.
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Margot Kidder was unable to work for two years, causing her financial difficulties, resulting in debts of over $800,000.
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Margot Kidder attempted to sue the Canadian producer, Nelvana, for $1 million in damages but did not receive a settlement, and her launching of the suit rendered her ineligible for Canadian workers' compensation.
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Margot Kidder returned to the screen with an uncredited cameo appearance in the comedy film Delirious, appearing as a woman in a washroom.
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Margot Kidder had several small roles in 1994, including in the Disney Channel film Windrunner, as well as another uncredited appearance in Maverick.
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Margot Kidder played a bartender at the Broken Skull Tavern in Under a Killing Moon, a PC FMV adventure game.
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At the time, Margot Kidder had been working on an autobiography when her laptop computer became infected with a virus, which caused it to crash and her to lose three years' worth of drafts.
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Margot Kidder flew to California to have the computer examined by a data retrieval company, who ultimately was unable to retrieve the files.
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Margot Kidder entered a manic state and disappeared for four days.
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Margot Kidder returned to film with a lead role in the independent comedy-drama Never Met Picasso, portraying an actress living with her gay adult son who is attempting to sort his life out.
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Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Arquette and Margot Kidder [were] given the chance to come across as quite appealing" in their roles.
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Margot Kidder next appeared in the slasher film The Clown at Midnight, opposite Christopher Plummer, and alongside Lynn Redgrave and James Earl Jones in the comedy The Annihilation of Fish, playing the landlady of an interracial couple.
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In 2000, Margot Kidder played Eileen Canboro in Apocalypse III: Tribulation, a Christian film dealing with Christian eschatology and the rapture.
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Margot Kidder stated afterwards that she did not realize until she was on the set that the movie was serious.
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Margot Kidder appeared off-Broadway in The Vagina Monologues in December 2002, and toured with the show for two years.
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Margot Kidder played a quirky neighbor of the main cast members.
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Margot Kidder had a cameo in Rich Hall's Election Special on BBC Four.
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In 2007, Margot Kidder began appearing on the television series Brothers and Sisters, playing Emily Craft.
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In 2004, Margot Kidder briefly returned to the Superman franchise in two episodes of the television series Smallville, as Bridgette Crosby, an emissary of Dr Swann.
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Margot Kidder became a United States citizen on August 17,2005, in Butte, Montana, and settled in Livingston.
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Margot Kidder said that she decided to become an American citizen to participate in the voting process, to continue her protests against US intervention in Iraq, and to be free of worries about being deported.
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Margot Kidder was a longtime supporter of the US Democratic party and voiced her support for liberal causes throughout her career.
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Margot Kidder actively supported Jesse Jackson's bid for the Democratic nomination in the 1984 United States presidential election.
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In 2008, Margot Kidder was a volunteer at the Barack Obama campaign headquarters in Livingston, Montana.
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Margot Kidder contributed articles to CounterPunch, a left-wing magazine, beginning in 2009.
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Margot Kidder died on May 13,2018, at her home in Livingston, Montana, at the age of 69.
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Margot Kidder had been scheduled to appear at the Motor City Comic Con event in Novi, Michigan later that week.
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Margot Kidder lived at the foot of Canyon Mountain, right outside of Livingston.