MARGOT KIDDER BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Margot Kidder was born on October 17th, 1948 in Yellowknife, Canada with the middle name Ruth. Her most well known role was portraying, Lois Lane in four "Superman" films between 1978 and 1987.
She was born into a family with four other siblings to Jocelyn and Kendell Kidder. She began her career as an actress in Toronto, Canada appearing on television series such as, "Wojeck" (1968), "Adventures in Rainbow Country" (1969), "McQueen" (1969), "Corwin" (1969), "Mod Squad" (1970).
As her career progressed she continued working on television appearing in, "Nichols" (1971-1972), "Banacek" (1972) and "Barnaby Jones" (1973). Along with her television work she added to her resume a number of Canadian film roles such as, "The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar" (1968), "Gaily, Gaily" (1969), "Sisters" (1973), "The Gravy Train" (1974) and "92 in the Shade" (1975). This same year she posed for a nude spread in Playboy magazine.
Her biggest role came next as Lois Lane in the 1978 film, "Superman" starring Christopher Reeve. She starred in three other "Superman" films and also appeared in 2004 on the television program, "Smallville" portraying Dr. Bridgette Crosby.
Over the course of her career other credits added to her resume have been in the films, "Some Kind of Hero" (1982), "The Glitter Dome" (1984), "Little Treasure" (1985), "Mob Story" (1989), "White Room" (1991) and various television series' such as, "Switch", "Baretta", "Shell Game", "Street Legal", "Murder, She Wrote", "Burke's Law", "Phantom 2040" and "Boston Common" portraying Cookie de Varen in six episodes.
More recently she has been seen on the television series, "The L Word" (2006), "Brothers & Sisters" (2007) and the films, "Universal Signs" (2008), "Love at First Kill" (2008), "A Single Woman" (2008), "Halloween II" (2009), "Servitude" (2011) and currently in production, the short, "Henri 2.0".
Kidder has married a total of three times throughout her lifetime, first to Thomas McGuane in 1976 and they had one child before divorcing just one year later. She then married John Heard in 1979 but by 1980 this marriage also came to an end. Her third husband was Philippe de Broca whom she wed in 1983 and again this marriage only lasted one year.
Margot Kidder has not re-married again and remains now a United States citizen and continues to earn her living as an actress in Hollywood.
Filmography
2011 Henri 2.0
2012 Defining Moment
2013 Matt's Chance
2011 Servitude
2011 Three of a Kind
2011 Sarina's Song
2011 Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
2009 Halloween II
2009 Something Evil Comes
2008 A Single Woman
2008 On the Other Hand, Death
2008 Love at First Kill
2008 Universal Signs
2007 Brothers & Sisters
2006 Superman II
2006 Solace
2006 The L Word
2005 Robson Arms
2005 Cool Money
2005 The Last Sign
2004 Smallville
2004 Death 4 Told
2004 I'll Be Seeing You
2004 Chicks with Sticks
2002 Crime and Punishment
2002 Angel Blade
2002 Someone Is Watching
2002 Society's Child
2001 Earth: Final Conflict
2001 Mentors
2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2000 The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
2000 The Outer Limits
2000 Amazon
2000 Common Ground
2000 Tribulation
1999 The Industry
1999 The Annihilation of Fish
1999 La Femme Nikita
1999 PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
1999 Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly
1999 The Clown at Midnight
1999 Young Ivanhoe
1999 The Hi-Line
1999 Nightmare Man
1998 The Teddy Bears' Scare
1998 Touched by an Angel
1997 Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
1997 The Hunger
1997 The Planet of Junior Brown
1996-1997 Boston Common
1997 Henry & Verlin
1997 Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework
1997 Silent Cradle
1996 Never Met Picasso
1996 Phantom 2040
1993-1995 Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1995 Bloodknot
1995 Burke's Law
1995 Windrunner
1994 Beanstalk
1994 Maverick
1994 One Woman's Courage
1994 Under a Killing Moon
1994 The Pornographer
1993 La Florida
1993 Murder, She Wrote
1992-1993 Street Legal
1992 Tales from the Crypt
1992 To Catch a Killer
1992 Aaron Sent Me
1991 Delirious
1991 White Room
1989 Mob Story
1988 Body of Evidence
1987 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 Keeping Track
1987 Shell Game
1987 The Emerald City of Oz
1987 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1987 Ozma of Oz
1987 The Marvelous Land of Oz
1986 Vanishing Act
1986 GoBots: War of the Rock Lords
1985 Picking Up the Pieces
1985 The Hitchhiker
1985 Little Treasure
1984 The Glitter Dome
1984 Louisiana
1983 Superman III
1983 Trenchcoat
1983 Pygmalion
1982 Bus Stop
1982 Some Kind of Hero
1982 Miss Right
1981 Heartaches
1980 Superman II
1980 Willie & Phil
1979 The Amityville Horror
1978 Superman
1978 Shoot the Sun Down
1976 Switch
1975 92 in the Shade
1975 Wide World Mystery
1975 The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
1975 Baretta
1975 The Great Waldo Pepper
1974 Black Christmas
1974 The Gravy Train
1974 A Quiet Day in Belfast
1974 Honky Tonk
1974 The Suicide Club
1973 Barnaby Jones
1973 Sisters
1973 Harry O
1972 Banacek
1972 The Bounty Man
1971-1972 Nichols
1971 Suddenly Single
1970 Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
1970 Mod Squad
1969 Gaily, Gaily
1969 Corwin
1969 McQueen
1969 Adventures in Rainbow Country
1968 Wojeck
1968 The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar