Profile of Margot Kidder on Famous Like Me

Margaret Ruth Kidder (born October 17, 1948, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada), better known as Margot Kidder, was a popular and daring film actress of the 1970's and 1980's.

Film and theater

She is best known for her role as Lois Lane in the 1978 movie Superman and its sequels. Kidder brought more depth to the role than previous actresses had done, portraying Lane as a headstrong, yet vulnerable and emotionally lonely woman trying to make it in a man's world. After she publicly expressed her disgust to the producers, Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind, over the firing of Richard Donner from 1980's Superman II, her role in 1983's Superman III consisted of less than 5 minutes of footage. Her presence was sorely missed by fans and moviegoers, and her role in 1987's Superman IV: The Quest For Peace was much more substantial.

Aside from the Superman franchise, Kidder has also starred in The Amityville Horror, Willie and Phil, The Great Waldo Pepper, and Black Christmas. She has made uncredited cameo appearances in Maverick and Delirious. In 1983, Kidder produced and starred (as Eliza Doolittle) in the TV version of Pygmalion with Peter O'Toole. She has also done extensive stage work, including The Vagina Monologues.

Politics and nationality

Kidder raised some hackles in the early 1990s during the U.S. intervention in Kuwait, when she ridiculed the press and the military for not seeing the larger consequences of their actions. Despite the criticism, Kidder became a United States citizen on August 17, 2005, in Butte, Montana; she lives in nearby Livingston). She said the reason for her decision to become an American citizen is to participate in the voting process, to continue her protests against U.S. intervention in Iraq and at the same time to be free of worries about being deported back to Canada. .

Kidder has bipolar disorder which led to a widely publicized breakdown in 1996. She is now an advocate of orthomolecular medicine as a treatment for bipolar disorder. She admitted publicly that she has had an abortion in the past.

Trivia

• An animated Kidder appears in an episode of the FOX Television series Family Guy entitled "Mr. Saturday Knight". In the episode, Kidder is dining with the Griffin family when she suddenly has a psychotic breakdown and keeps returning throughout the episode at random, wreaking more havoc.
• Kidder once dated former Canadian prime minister, the late Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Quotes

When asked to sum up her life, she responded, "I suppose that if you want to be famous and suddenly it happens and you don't like it, it's nobody's fault but your own."

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