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 theatre
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.
source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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