{"id":386,"date":"2018-05-15T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/?p=386"},"modified":"2018-05-15T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:36:28","slug":"remembering-original-lois-lane-actress-margot-kidder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2018\/05\/remembering-original-lois-lane-actress-margot-kidder.html","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Original \u2018Lois Lane\u2019 Actress Margot Kidder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Margot_Kidder\"<\/a>The world said goodbye to the actress who played one of the most well-known roles to grace the silver screen. Margot Kidder, who is famous for playing the Man of Steel\u2019s love interest Lois Lane in \u201cSuperman,\u201d died in her Montana home on Sunday, May 13, 2018. The police received an anonymous call reporting that Kidder was not breathing, but the actress was dead by the time police arrived. The cause of her death is still unknown, but foul play is not suspected at this time.<\/p>\n

Kidder found fame when she starred opposite Christopher Reeve in the 1978 movie \u201cSuperman,\u201d and she reprised her role for the three sequels:\u00a0 \u201cSuperman II\u201d in 1980, \u201cSuperman III\u201d in 1983, and \u201cSuperman IV: The Quest for Peace\u201d in 1987. Despite her notoriety for playing the Man of Steel\u2019s leading lady, Kidder had made her professional acting debut nearly a decade earlier with the Canadian film \u201cThe Best Damn Fiddler from Calbogie to Kaladar\u201d and the TV series \u201cWojeck.\u201d<\/p>\n

The role of Lois Lane catapulted Kidder to stardom, but she actually believed that the film would be a failure. \u201cNothing prepares anyone for that sudden thing of being world famous,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was such a shock. It wasn\u2019t something I really liked or something I was very good at. I didn\u2019t realize how good the movie was until I had seen it at the premier in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fame, however, did not stop Kidder from having her own struggles. She battled bipolar disease for years and suffered three failed marriages. For a brief time in 1996, the world famous actress was homeless. Eventually, Kidder pulled herself back up and became a vocal advocate for mental health though she bristled at the words \u201cmental illness.\u201d \u201cThey are a stigma,\u201d Kidder stated, \u201cand [the words] recall times when it was thought those with a disorder were possessed by the Devil. I hope someone can come up with new words.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tributes have poured in for the actress as her death caught many off guard, but Kidder\u2019s friends and family have said that she was acutely aware of her mortality toward the end of her life. \u201cShe was close to Carrie Fisher,\u201d said Kidder\u2019s longtime friend Cara Wilder. \u201cThere was a lot of death in her life lately, and she felt the weight of that. We had a close friend pass away a week ago. I talked to her on Friday, and she said that was hard to process. She said, \u2018I think there\u2019s going to be a lot more death like that happening.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Sadly, the actress was not wrong. At the age of 69, she joined the ranks of the talented actors and actresses that have died in the last few years, among them Carrie Fisher and Alan Rickman. Still, the actress lives on in the minds of innumerable fans, not just as a superhero\u2019s love interest, but as a brave woman who helped speak out about mental health and inspire many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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