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

She is best known for her role as Lois Lane in the
1978 movie Superman (movie)|Superman and sequels.
Unlike other incarnations of the character, Kidder
brought much depth to the role, 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|1980's
Superman II, her role in 1983|1983's Superman III
consisted of less than 5 minutes. Her presence was
sorely missed by fans and moviegoers, and her role
in 1987|1987's Superman IV: The Quest For Peace
was much more substantial.

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

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.

She is also known for having 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.

Margot Kidder was referenced in an episode of the
television series The Family Guy titled "Mr.
Saturday Knight". In the episode, she is dining
with the Griffin family when she suddenly has a
psychotic episode.

She has also dated former Canadian prime minister,
the late Pierre Elliot Trudeau. 

When asked to sum her life up, 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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