It is Watch Sex Paradise Onlineno small legacy for an actor to become so entwined with a character in the popular imagination that no one can ever replace them. Such was the fate of Margot Kidder, who passed away in Montana on Monday at the still-too-young age of 69.
Many brilliant actors have taken on the role of Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane, whom Kidder portrayed in Superman I, IIand III. Teri Hatcher played her for years in Lois and Clark; Amy Adams is the current Lois of record in DC movies.
Neither could hold a candle to Kidder, who became the essential, irreplaceable Lois just as her co-star Christopher Reeve became the archetypal Clark Kent/Superman.
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Her Lois was effortlessly empowered and brooked no nonsense in or out of the newsroom. She fizzed and crackled with intelligence and energy; she was devoted to getting the story even in the midst of a date with an alien superbeing.
It's no exaggeration to say that she inspired a generation of women and men to enter journalism as much as her real-world counterparts Woodward and Bernstein.
Margot Kidder at the 1983 Academy Awards. Credit: Michael Montfort/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Even as Kidder portrayed a strong feminist icon in an otherwise male franchise, she struggled with the pressure cooker of Hollywood – and with her own demons. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and spoke out about it in an effort to remove the stigma of the disease.
"We are all ... a breath away from mental illness, homelessness, all these things we tend to look down on," she told a Toronto convention in 2006. (She was looking back on a well-publicized manic episode in 1996: triggered by the loss of three years' work on an autobiography, which was destroyed by a virus on her laptop, she went missing for four days in Los Angeles.)
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Kidder came to embrace her fandom, becoming a regular on the con circuit. After the nervous breakdown, she "soft-retired" to the town of Livingston, Montana -- but emerged regularly to find catharsis with the fans who loved her.
Of course, Kidder played more than one role. Born in the Northwest Territories of Canada, she debuted in a short film about a logging town -- and lit up the screen so much that by the age of 27, before Superman, she had acted in movies opposite Robert Redford, Peter Fonda and Gene Wilder. She adored Christopher Reeve, of course, but by that point she was hardly intimidated by him.
Margot Kidder and Christopher Reeve filming 'Superman' at the New York Daily News in 1976. Credit: NY Daily News via Getty Images She was beloved by horror fans for her roles in The Amityville Horror, as well as the cult flicks Sistersand Black Christmas. She was awarded an Emmy for a part in R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour. Battling her own very real demons evidently gave her unique insight into things that go bump in the dark.
Kidder was also fearlessly outspoken as a pro-environment, anti-war activist. She was arrested in Washington D.C. during a protest against the Keystone XL pipeline. Protesting the first Gulf War in 1991 led to her being called "Baghdad Betty", but she embraced the name in an open letter to her mother.
It's hard to know what Kidder might have become in a more meritocratic version of Hollywood -- one that would better appreciate her talents, providing her with more roles, more security, and less stress.
Nevertheless, she remains forever an icon to actors, journalists and superhero fans everywhere. Whenever Lois fights her own superpower-free battle for truth and justice in Metropolis, every time she scoops Clark or brings down a crime lord with a headline, there we will hear echoes of Margot Kidder.
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