By the time she was middle-aged, Margot Kidder's career had taken on the contours of a classic Hollywood tragedy. Hailing from Canada's Northwest Territories, she came to Los Angeles as a teen in the late 1960s, spurred by optimism, nerve and a hunger for fame. A slender, long-haired brunette with a distinctively smoky voice, Kidder quickly found work, some measure of exposure and notoriety as a political activist and proponent of drug experimentation and sexual liberation. She achieved stardom portraying Lois Lane, the tough but beautiful reporter love interest of Christopher Reeve's
First screen appearance, played a troubled teen in the Canadian Broadcasting Company TV-movie, "Moose Fever"
While attending the University of British Columbia, wrote to director Norman Jewison in Los Angeles; accepting Jewison's invitation to contact him if ever in town, flew to Los Angeles; persuded Jewison to let her audition
