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  Margot Kidder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margot Kidder (born Margaret Ruth Kidder on October 17, 1948) is a Canadian-born film actress who achieved her greatest fame playing Lois Lane in the Superman movies of the 1970s and '80s.
Kidder was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, one of five children of Jill and Kendall Kidder, an explosives expert.
Kidder raised some hackles in the early 1990s during the first Gulf War, when she ridiculed the press and the military for not seeing the larger consequences of their actions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margot_Kidder   (704 words)

  
 Margot_Kidder
Margaret Ruth Kidder (born October 17, 1948, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada), better known as Margot Kidder, is a former popular and daring film actress of the 1970's and 1980's.
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.
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.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/margot_kidder.html   (572 words)

  
 The Terror Trap: Scream Queens: Margot Kidder
Kidder was perfect as the schizophrenic half of siamese twins with a dual personality.
Kidder has a great moment in the movie when she savagely stabs her date who's just brought her a birthday cake.
In 1996, Kidder had an unfortunate series of events which culminated with her being found in a neighbor's yard, apparently suffering from mental illness.
www.terrortrap.com /screamqueens/kidder.htm   (553 words)

  
 EXTRA: Daily News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Three years ago, we were stunned by the news when Margot Kidder, best known for her role in the Superman movies, was found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, delusional and incoherent.
Margot says it began when she was in her teens and growing up in rural Yellowknife in Northwest Canada.
Margot flew to Los Angeles, and by the time she arrived, she was convinced her ex-husband Tom McGuane was trying to kill her and that thirty-seven CIA agents were on her trail.
extratv.warnerbros.com /cmp/spotlight/1999/05_28b.htm   (531 words)

  
 CNN - Actress Margot Kidder found dazed - April 25, 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Kidder was taken to the psychiatric ward at Olive View Medical Center in nearby Sylmar for observation, police said.
Kidder's "Superman" co-star, Christopher Reeve, issued a statement offering to help: "She is a dear friend who has always been there for me, and I would do anything to help her," he said.
Kidder's manager, John Blake, said she had been scheduled to fly to Phoenix on Saturday to teach an acting class, but when she failed to board the flight he reported her missing.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9604/25/margot.kidder   (446 words)

  
 PCW: Working at home: Margot Kidder performs feminist play.
Of course, when Kidder was first approached to do excerpts for the show, she admits that she didn’t realize how funny it was.
Kidder hopes to bring some of that positive fun back to her home in the wake of troubles like the war in Iraq.
The day after September 11,  Kidder performed the monologues, and it was a cathartic experience both for her and for the audience.
www.deonlackey.com /news/margotkidder.htm   (666 words)

  
 Margot Kidder talks about Mental Illness
Margot, known among her friends as Margie (not g as in George but g as in get) is today a happy, healthy Margie who understands her personal biology incredibly well.
Margot Kidder's open sharing of her experiences in institutions, the delusions and voices that lead to the too easily applied labels of schizophrenia and manic depression encourages others to look for valid answers.
Margot Kidder is passionate in her belief that "The time has come to recognize the synergy that exists when people of good will and much talent come together to solve problems that don't have to destroy lives."
www.nhfi.org /NewHope/MargotKidder.htm   (905 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Familiar Kidder returns to world of Superman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Kidder, 55, had a hard time figuring it out herself when she filmed the scene two weeks ago.
Kidder is referring to her much-publicized mental breakdown in 1996, which found her wandering the streets of L.A. homeless, toothless and believing the CIA and an ex-husband were out to harm her.
Kidder has shot another scene for Smallville's Oct. 27 episode and is in talks to return for more — perhaps with Reeve at her side.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2004-09-21-smallville-kidder_x.htm   (553 words)

  
 Kidder, Margot
Kidder, Margot, movie actress (b at Yellowknife, NWT 17 Oct 1948).
Kidder's career has undoubtedly been affected by personal problems and setbacks.
In 1997 Kidder resumed her career with a return to live theatre.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004295   (196 words)

  
 The House of Diabolique vs. Margot Kidder
When Margot did emerge from the bushes the officers saw that her head was nearly shaved and that she was missing her two front teeth.
Margot had last been seen a week prior when a friend dropped her off at Los Angeles airport, purportedly to catch a plane to New York.
Margot was supposed to begin playing Nancy Drew's mother in a television series opposite her daughter, but a week before filming began she was in a brutal car accident which left her paralyzed from the waist down for over a year.
www.houseofdiabolique.com /hall/margot/margot.htm   (469 words)

  
 Margot Kidder 'meanders' at Pullen's hearing on mental illness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The star of the event was movie actress and former mental patient Margot Kidder, who delivered a long, rambling monologue about the benefits of natural medicine and the perils of psychotropic medications for treating mental illness.
Kidder, 51, who lives in Livingston, Mont., said she has been diagnosed in the past with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress syndrome -- all labels she rejects.
Kidder said she was released after "fooling" a judge by pretending to be sane, and has made herself well with amino acids, vitamins and other natural medicines.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/ment26.shtml   (666 words)

  
 Dragon*Con Biography: [Margot Kidder]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Born Margret Ruth Kidder to Kendall Kidder, a mining engineer in Yellowknife, Canada, on October 17 1948, Margot was a delightful child who took pride in everything she did.
Margot and Jennifer Salt both had the leads in the film, and the film was a huge critical success.
Margot continues to work screen magic and life wonders with her mental wellness campaign.
www.dragoncon.org /people/kidderm.html   (374 words)

  
 COMICON.com: MARGOT KIDDER FROM SUPERMAN to SMALLVILLE
Kidder said it was a case of ask and ye shall receive for her to take on the role of Bridgette Crosby on Smallville.
Kidder's character was recently killed in the series, but she still considers the experience really enjoyable.
Kidder said after the first movie came out she was a bit surprised by how well it did in the theaters.
www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=003702   (2329 words)

  
 NETWORKWOMEN.COM: COVER STORY, JANUARY, 2000
So, it was surprising to hear movie and television actress Margot Kidder demure when asked if she was going to take the story of her spectacular recovery from mental illness to Washington so that she could lobby for her theories.
Kidder on October 15 when Clubhouse of Suffolk hosted the Seventh Annual Mental Illness Awareness Day at the Huntington Hilton in Melville where she was the keynote speaker.
Kidder in her home in Montana where she is frequently on the phone with anxious people suffering from depression who have heard of her work in the mental health field.
www.networkwomen.com /archives/coverstory01_00.html   (1619 words)

  
 The Cast: Margot Kidder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
MARGOT KIDDER is best known for her role as Lois Lane in the "Superman" movies, starring with Christopher Reeves.
Kidder has also been an active director of both films and documentaries, an ardent peace activist and has recently adopted the role of author.
Kidder is currently at work on a book about her experiences in the film world.
www.annihilationoffish.com /pages/cast/kidder.html   (523 words)

  
 Margot Kidder becomes U.S. citizen - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Kidder, 56, has lived in the United States for 34 years and has a home in Livingston, Mont., the CBC said.
The actress was born in Yellowknife in 1948 and raised in Vancouver.
Kidder reportedly said her only motivation in becoming a citizen of the United States was to be able to protest the war in Iraq without getting kicked out of the country, the CBC said.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_365368.html   (150 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Intimate Portrait: Margot Kidder (1999) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
What Margot Kidder calls "the most public flip-out in human history" is fully documented through an in-depth interview with the actress, whose speech seems to show signs of a nervous breakdown.
Margot's career (and life, for that matter) is one of the most interesting ever to emerge from Hollywood.
Margot, along with costars, friends and family, discusses the incredible high and low points she's endured over the past few decades with humor, honesty and warmth.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003ETRG?v=glance   (799 words)

  
 Margot Kidder Web Site www.margotkidder.com
Letter to AandE from Margot Kidder on the AandE biography of her life.
On June 27, 2001 Margot Kidder was horrified by the sensationalistic and wildly unbalanced portrait of her life as shown on AandE's Biography, and, by extension, those saddled with the stigmatizing labels slapped on individuals who have struggled with so-called mental illnesses.
Kidder is unable to personally respond to individual letters.
www.margotkidder.com   (192 words)

  
 Comics Continuum
Kidder, who played Lois Lane in the four Christopher Reeve Superman films, and Durance, who plays Lois in The WB's Smallville, were the subject of a panel at the Canadian National Comic Book Expo on Sunday.
Kidder: He was the skinniest dork I ever laid eyes on.
Kidder: Well, quite a bit was actually me because it was before the days where they got really, really nervous with insurance companies and not letting actors do stuff.
www.comicscontinuum.com /stories/0508/29/lois.htm   (2178 words)

  
 Search for Sanity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Margot Kidder made headlines as Lois Lane in the 1979 movie "Superman." In 1996, she hit the news again -- when she was discovered ragged and hungry in the backyard of a stranger's Glendale, Calif., home.
Convinced her former husband, writer Thomas McGuane, and the CIA were out to kill her, Kidder roamed the streets of Los Angeles for 1-1/2 weeks, eventually sharing food and a cardboard shack with a homeless man named Charlie.
Currently in her fourth year of good mental health, Kidder has a role in the new TV series "Amazon." She often speaks for mental health organizations to spread the word of how she found natural ways to treat her disorder.
www.karendustman.com /Magazine_Clips/Search_for_Sanity/search_for_sanity.html   (2222 words)

  
 Arrow In The Head's movie review of Sisters: Margot Kidder/Danielle, Jennifer Salt/Grace, Charles Durning/Larch
Margot Kidder (Danielle) is great as the Quebec born nut.
Margot Kidder (April 24, 1996) was found by the Police in a distressed state, hiding in someone's garden claiming she'd been stalked and attacked.
She narrowly escaped being raped, and wandered about the streets of Los Angeles (barely recognizable after cutting her hair off and removing some of her dental work) before hiding underneath a family's porch which was located near the studio where "Superman" was filmed.
www.joblo.com /arrow/reviews.php?id=769   (846 words)

  
 Margot Kidder becomes naturalized citizen in Butte, MT [to protest war in Iraq]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
BUTTE -- Actress Margot Kidder became a citizen of the U.S. Wednesday to avoid possible deportation to her native Canada when she begins protesting the war in Iraq, she said.
Kidder, best known for playing Lois Lane in the motion picture "Superman," was among 19 people who became citizens during a naturalization ceremony in federal court here.
Kidder said in an interview after the ceremony that her sole motivation was to protest the war in Iraq.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1466404/posts   (4250 words)

  
 Margot Kidder promotes alternative mental health
Actress Margot Kidder of Superman fame decided this week to lead the campaign to introduce a new voice for mental health care.
Kidder has recently included an article on amino acids, a natural substance research has shown to have powerful benefits without non-optimum side effects.
The simple fact, says Kidder, is that an extraordinary number of people dislike the effects that psychiatric medication has on them.
www.ect.org /news/kidder.html   (906 words)

  
 MindFreedom Online: SCI News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Safe Harbor, an L.A.-based nonprofit alternative mental health agency, has announced the establishment of the Margot Kidder Award, in recognition of the humanitarian achievements of the actress known to the world as Lois Lane of the Superman movies.
The recipient of the first annual Margot Kidder Award will be Kidder herself at an event in Hollywood in September.
Kidder's acting career has spanned more than three decades, with appearances in 55 featurefilms and over 100 television programs.
www.mindfreedom.org /mindfreedom/kidder.shtml   (458 words)

  
 Zap2it - TV news - Margot Kidder Talks About Her Visit to 'Smallville'
She has all these strange explanations about the qualities of fl kryptonite -- there's lots of colors of kryptonite -- and the symbols burned into the field, meaning there was to be a battle between Kal-El and Clark...
Unfortunately, Kidder only worked with one cast regular, and it was someone she already knew.
When and if she is written back into the show, Kidder is happy to show up.
tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|90777|1|,00.html   (538 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | No kidding
As Kathy Lutz and, for at least one generation, the seminal Lois Lane, Margot Kidder could be forgiven for thinking that landing the two biggest female roles of her era was akin to treading on a fl cat under 13 ladders.
At 56, Margot's own story trumps any movie mythology for drama, and it's a relief to hear that despite her 1990s hell, it resolves itself with our leading lady as "a grandmother with my dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains.
Kidder was married to actor John Heard for just six days in 1979; her third marriage, mid-1980s, lasted a year.
film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1455369,00.html   (1450 words)

  
 Margot Kidder
One of Brian De Palma's earliest (and most effective) creepers was 1973's Sisters (which starred Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, and Charles Durning), a flick which now seems primed for the remake pump.
The original "Black Christmas" starred Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, and John Saxon, and is considered by many to be one of the great-granddaddys of the slasher sub-genre.
The original film, released in 1979 and starring James Brolin (“Westworld”) and Margot Kidder (“Superman”), was based on an alleged true story.
www.rottentomatoes.com /p/margot_kidder/news.php   (901 words)

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