Margot Kidder
Margot Kidder ( born October 17, 1948 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories; actually Margaret Ruth Kidder ) is a Canadian actress.
Life and achievements
Her parents were called Jill and Kendall Kidder. She is the aunt of actress Janet Kidder. With twelve years Margot Kidder had a total of eleven change of school behind. She was temporarily depressed and thought about suicide at age fourteen. Her parents sent her to a boarding school, where she made her first experiences with acting and played the female lead in Romeo and Juliet.
After graduation she moved to Los Angeles to begin an acting career. A Canadian Agent, she discovered, and so she got a movie role in the comedy Gaily, Gaily has from the year 1969. A year later, she got the first lead role alongside Hollywood legend Gene Wilder in the film Quackser Fortune 'nen cousin in the Bronx.
But the breakthrough came with the film The Sisters of evil directed by Brian De Palma from the year 1973. It was her first role in a horror movie. By 1975, they still played in the films The Big Gravy Train, Jessy - The stairs to his death, and 33 degrees in the shade with.
In 1975, Kidder married actor Thomas McGuane. A year later she got her daughter Maggie and divorced. In 1979 she married the American actor John Heard. That same year also failed this marriage.
Kidder's big comeback into the film business she experienced in 1978 with the film Superman as Lois Lane. She played in this, as well as in the sequels, the female lead role opposite of Christopher Reeve. In 1979, she received a Saturn Award in the category Best Actress for her performance in Superman. Nominations for this award she received in 1980 for Amityville Horror and 1982 for Superman II - Alone against all. In 1982, she won Best Actress Genie Award for The narrow path of happiness.
In the 1980s, followed by other roles in movies trench coat (1983 ), Superman III - The Steel Blitz ( 1983), Dusty Dollars ( 1985), Superman IV - The Quest for Peace (1987 ), etc. In August 1983, she married the French director Philippe de Broca. This marriage lasted only one year.
In 1990, Kidder had a serious car accident and lost in the next two years, her entire fortune. Now she has recovered from the health and financial consequences of an accident and is now working as an actress.