Kim Cattrall

Kim Victoria Cattrall (/kəˈtræl/; born 21 August 1956) is a British-Canadianactress.[1] She is best known for her role as Samantha Jones on HBO's Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she received five Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the 2002 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010).
Cattrall made her film debut in Rosebud (1975) and went on to appear in various television roles. She came to prominence in the 1980s with films such as “City Limits”(1980)Ticket to Heaven (1981), Police Academy (1984), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Mannequin (1987), Masquerade (1988), Midnight Crossing(1988), and The Return of the Musketeers (1989). She worked on several occasions with director Bob Clark, appearing in four of his films: Tribute (1980), Porky's (1982), Turk 182! (1984), and Baby Geniuses (1999). Her other films include: The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Split Second (1992), Above Suspicion (1995), 15 Minutes (2001), Crossroads (2002), Ice Princess (2005), My Boy Jack (2007), The Ghost Writer(2010), and Meet Monica Velour (2010).
On stage, Cattrall appeared in the 1986 Broadway production of Michael Frayn's Wild Honey. Her other credits include: August Strindberg's Miss Julie (McCarter Theatre Center, 1993), Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (Liverpool Playhouse, 2010), Noël Coward's Private Lives (Broadway, 2011), and Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth (The Old Vic, 2013).
From 2014 to 2016, Cattrall starred and served as executive producer on the HBO Canada series Sensitive Skin, for which she received a nomination for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. She currently stars on the web television series Tell Me a Story (2018–present).
== Early life ==
Cattrall was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool.[2] Her mother, Gladys Shane (née Baugh), was a secretary, and her father, Dennis Cattrall, was a construction engineer.[3] When she was three months old, her family emigrated to Canada, settling in the city of Courtenay on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. At 11, she returned to England when her grandmother became ill. She took a number of acting examinations with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art,[4]before returning to Canada. She returned to Canada after a year, and at age 16 moved to New York for her first acting role.
== Career ==
Cattrall began her career after graduating from Georges P. Vanier Secondary School in 1972, when she left Canada for New York City. There, she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and upon her graduation signed a five-year film deal with director Otto Preminger. She made her film debut in Preminger's Rosebud in 1975. A year later Universal Studios bought out that contract and Cattrall became one of the last participants in the contract player system of Universal (also referenced as MCA/Universal during this period) before the system ended in 1980. The Universal system's representative in New York, Eleanor Kilgallen (sister of Dorothy Kilgallen), cast Cattrall in numerous TV guest-star roles. One of the first jobs Kilgallen got her was in a 1977 episode of Quincy, M.E. starring Jack Klugman, whom Kilgallen also represented.
In 1978, Cattrall played the love interest of a murderous psychologist in an episode of Columbo and also in "Blindfold", an episode of the 1970s TV series Starsky & Hutch, in which Starsky (played by Paul Michael Glaser) is grief-stricken since he accidentally blinded Cattrall's character, young artist Emily Harrison, by a shot of his gun. She starred in The Bastard (1978) and The Rebels(1979), two television miniseries based on the John Jakes novels of the same names. In 1979 she played the role of Dr. Gabrielle White in The Incredible Hulkand would go down in TV Hulk lore as one of the few characters who knew David Banner (alter ego of the title character) was alive and was the creature. Her work in television paid off and she quickly made the transition to cinema. She starred opposite Jack Lemmon in his Oscar-nominated film Tribute in 1980, and in Crossbar, the film about a high jumper who loses his leg and still participates in the Olympic trials, with Cattrall's help. The following year, she appeared in Ticket to Heaven.
In 1982 Cattrall played P.E. teacher Miss Honeywell in Porky's, followed two years later by a role in the original Police Academy. In 1985 she starred in three films: Turk 182, City Limits and Hold-Up, the last with French star Jean-Paul Belmondo. In 1986, she played Kurt Russell's brainy flame in the action film Big Trouble in Little China. In 1987, her lead role in Mannequin proved a huge success with audiences. One of her best-known film roles is that of Lieutenant Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; Cattrall assisted in developing the character by designing her own hairstyle and even helped come up with the name. Near the end of filming, Cattrall had a photographer shoot a roll of film on the Enterprise bridge set, in which she wore nothing but her Vulcan ears. After finding out about the unauthorized photo session, Leonard Nimoy had the film destroyed.[5]
Aside from her film work, Cattrall is also a stage actress, with performances in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and Wild Honey to her credit. In addition, she can be heard reading the poetry of Rupert Brooke on the CD Red Rose Music SACD Sampler Volume One. In 1997, she was cast in Sex and the City, Darren Star's series which was broadcast on HBO. As Samantha Jones, Cattrall gained international recognition. She capitalized on her success by appearing in steamy television commercials promoting Pepsi One. Sex and the City ran for six seasons and ended as a weekly series in spring 2004 with 10.6 million viewers. Cattrall reprised the role of Samantha Jones in the Sex and the City film, released on 30 May 2008. She also appeared in the sequel released in May 2010. For her role in the TV series, she was nominated for five Emmy Awards,[6] and four Golden Globe Awards, winning one in 2002. She also won two ensemble Screen Actors Guild Awards, shared with her co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon. She was ranked number eight in TV Guide's 50 sexiest stars of all-time list in 2005.[7]
In 2005, she appeared in the Disney film Ice Princess, in which she played Tina Harwood, ice skating coach of the film's lead character. She portrayed Claire, a paralysed woman who wants to die, in the West End drama revival of Whose Life Is It Anyway?. In October 2006, she appeared in a West End production of David Mamet's The Cryptogram at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Since late 2005, she has appeared in a number of British television commercials for Tetley Tea.[8]In July 2006, a commercial for Nissan cars, which featured Cattrall as Samantha Jones, was withdrawn from New Zealand television, apparently because of complaints about its innuendo.[9] She later starred alongside Brendan Gleeson in John Boorman's 2006 film The Tiger's Tail, a black comedy that focuses on the impact of the Celtic Tiger economy on Irish people. On ITV, she starred alongside David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe and Carey Mulligan in My Boy Jack, the story of author Rudyard Kipling's search for his son lost in the First World War.
In early 2009, Cattrall played Amelia Bly in Roman Polanski's well received The Ghost Writer, which was released in 2010. On 16 June 2009, it was announced that Cattrall would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario. The induction ceremony was held on 12 September 2009.[10] In November 2009, while filming Sex and the City 2 in Marrakech, Morocco, she took part in a seminar, 'Being directed' with director John Boorman as part of the third edition of the Arts in Marrakech Festival.[11] On 24 February 2010, Cattrall began a run in the West End of London at the Vaudeville Theatre as leading lady, Amanda, opposite Matthew Macfadyen, in a revival of Noël Coward's play Private Lives. She performed until 3 May 2010. In the same year Cattrall starred as Gloria Scabius (alongside Macfadyen once again) in the critically acclaimed Channel 4 adaptation of William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart.
Cattrall played Cleopatra in a production of Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Janet Suzman, opposite Jeffery Kissoon as Anthony, in Liverpool at the Playhouse[12] in October 2010, with a subsequent revival at Chichester Festival Theatre (with Michael Pennington as Anthony) in September 2012.[13] In 2010, Cattrall was named an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University in recognition of her contributions to the dramatic arts.[14] In 2011, Cattrall reprised her role as Amanda in a production of Noël Coward's Private Lives opposite Canadian actor Paul Gross in Toronto and on Broadway.[15] That year, Cattrall also appeared in Uptown Downstairs Abbey, the Comic Relief parody of the critically acclaimed historical television dramas Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs. Playing Lady Grantham, she starred alongside Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Victoria Wood, Harry Enfield, Patrick Barlow, Dale Winton, Olivia Colman, Tim Vine, Simon Callow, Michael Gambon and Harry Hill.
From June to August 2013, Cattrall was scheduled to star in the Old Vic's production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Olivier Award-winner Marianne Elliott. In 2014, she starred as Davina Jackson in HBO Canada's Sensitive Skin. On 17 July 2015, Cattrall was cast in the title role of the play Linda, written by Penelope Skinner, directed by Michael Longhurst, and produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London. She was forced to drop out of that production a few days before the opening, due to "chronic, debilitating insomnia". She then returned to New York, and started a program of cognitive behaviour therapy to train herself to be able to sleep better. The therapy was successful; it included developing certain evening rituals, removing electronic devices from her bedroom, and limiting the use of the bed to two activities, one of which would be sleeping. Her part in Linda was recast and played by Noma Dumezweni, and the play opened in December 2015.[16][17][18]
== Personal life ==
Cattrall has been married three times and does not have any children. Her 1977 to 1979 marriage to Larry Davis was annulled. Her second marriage was from 1982 to 1989 to Andre J. Lyson, with whom she lived in Frankfurt and learned to speak German fluently, but admits she has forgotten a lot over the years.[19][20][21] From 1998 to 2004 she was married to audio designer and jazz bassist Mark Levinson. The two co-wrote the 2002 book Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm.[22]
Cattrall also has been linked with former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau (in a 1981 photo),[23] actor Daniel Benzali, musician Gerald Casale of the new wave group Devo, French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, and her Whose Life Is It Anyway? co-star, Alexander Siddig.[24]
In 2007, Cattrall said that in December 1988 she had been booked on Pan Am Flight 103, which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland, after a terrorist bomb was detonated during the flight. She cancelled her booking on the flight at the last minute to complete some Christmas shopping in London.[25]
She holds British and Canadian citizenship.[26] In 2010 and 2011 Cattrall said that reports that she became a US citizen were incorrect.[27][28]
In August 2009, Cattrall took part in the BBC One documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, where she discovered some facts about her grandfather, George Baugh. Baugh, who disappeared in 1938, having abandoned his family – including Cattrall's then 8-year-old mother and two younger sisters – turned out to have bigamously married his new wife, Isabella Oliver, the following year in Tudhoe, County Durham, and subsequently had another four children. She was told that in 1961 he emigrated to Australia, where he became a postmaster, retiring in 1972 and dying in Sydney in 1974.[29] Cattrall's mother and aunts had known nothing of their father's life after he left until they heard what the Who Do You Think You Are? researchers had discovered, nor had the family previously seen a clear photograph of him. An edited version of the episode was later shown as a part of the U.S. series of the same name.
On 4 February 2018, Cattrall tweeted that her brother, Christopher, had disappeared in Alberta. She asked for public help in finding him.[30] He was found dead several hours later.[30]
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role
1975	Rosebud 	Joyce Donnovan
1977	Deadly Harvest 	Susan Franklin
1979	Crossbar 	Katie Barlow
1980	Tribute 	Sally Haines
1981	Ticket to Heaven 	Ruthie
1982	Porky's 	Miss Lynn "Lassie" Honeywell
1984	Police Academy 	Cadet Karen Thompson
1985	Turk 182 	Danny Boudreau
1985	City Limits 	Wickings
1985	Hold-Up 	Lise
1986	Big Trouble in Little China 	Gracie Law
1987	Mannequin 	Ema "Emmy" Hesire
1988	Masquerade 	Brooke Morrison
1988	Midnight Crossing 	Alexa Schubb
1988	Palais Royale 	Odessa Muldoon
1989	The Return of the Musketeers 	Justine de Winter
1989	La famiglia Buonanotte 	Aunt Eva
1989	Honeymoon Academy 	Chris
1990	The Bonfire of the Vanities 	Judy McCoy
1991	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	Lieutenant Valeris
1992	Split Second 	Michelle McLaine
1992	Running Delilah 	Christina/Delilah
1994	Breaking Point 	Allison Meadows
1995	Above Suspicion 	Gail Cain
1995	Live Nude Girls 	Jamie
1996	Unforgettable 	Kelly
1996	Where Truth Lies 	Racquel Chambers
1997	Exception to the Rule 	Carla Rainer
1998	Modern Vampires 	Ulrike
1999	Baby Geniuses 	Robin
2001	15 Minutes 	Cassandra
2002	Crossroads 	Caroline Wagner
2003	Shortcut to Happiness 	Constance Hurry
2005	Ice Princess 	Tina Harwood
2006	The Tiger's Tail 	Jane O'Leary
2008	Sex and the City 	Samantha Jones
2010	The Ghost Writer 	Amelia Bly
2010	Meet Monica Velour 	Monica Velour
2010	Sex and the City 2 	Samantha Jones
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1976 	Dead on Target 	Secretary 	Uncredited; television film
1977 	Good Against Evil 	Linday Isley 	Television film
1977 	Quincy, M.E. 	Joy DeReatis 	Episode: "Let Me Light the Way"
1977 	Logan's Run 	Rama II 	Episode: "Half Life"
1977 	Switch 	Captain Judith Pierce 	Episode: "Dancer"
1977 	What Really Happened to the Class of '65?	Cynthia 	Episode: "The Girl Nobody Knew"
1978 	The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries 	Marie Claire 	2 episodes
1978 	Columbo 	Joanne Nicholls 	Episode: "How to Dial a Murder"
1978 	The Bastard 	Anne Ware 	Miniseries
1978 	Starsky & Hutch 	Emily Harrison 	Episode: "Blindfold"
1978 	The Paper Chase 	Karen Clayton 	Episode: "Da Da"
1978 	Family 	Susan Madison 	Episode: "Just Friends"
1979 	The Incredible Hulk 	Dr. Gabrielle White 	Episode: "Kindred Spirits"
1979 	How the West Was Won 	Dolores 	Episode: "The Slavers"
1979 	Vegas 	Princess Zara 	Episode: "The Visitor"
1979 	The Night Rider 	Regina Kenton 	Television film
1979 	The Rebels 	Anne Kent 	Miniseries
1979 	Crossbar 	Katie Barlow 	Television film
1979 	Charlie's Angels 	Sharon Kellerman 	Episode: "Angels at the Altar"
1979 	Trapper John, M.D. 	Princess Allya 	Episode: "The Surrogate"
1980 	Scruples 	Melanie Adams 	Miniseries; 3 episodes
1980 	The Gossip Columnist 	Dina Moran 	Television film
1980 	Hagen 	Carol Sawyer 	Episode: "Nightmare"
1982 	Trapper John, M.D. 	Amy West 	Episode: "You Pays Your Money"
1983 	Tales of the Gold Monkey 	Whitney Bunting 	Episode: "Naka Jima Kill"
1984 	Sins of the Past 	Paula Bennett 	Television film
1991 	Miracle in the Wilderness 	Dora Adams 	Television film
1992 	Double Vision 	Caroline/Lisa 	Television film
1993 	Running Delilah 	Christina/Delilah 	Television film
1993 	Wild Palms 	Paige Katz 	Miniseries; 5 episodes
1993 	Angel Falls 	Genna Harrison 	Main role; 6 episodes
1994 	Dream On 	Jeannie 	Episode: "The Homecoming Queen"
1994 	Screen One 	Sydnie 	Episode: "Two Golden Balls"
1995 	Tom Clancy's Op Center 	Jane Hood 	Miniseries; 2 episodes
1995 	The Heidi Chronicles 	Susan 	Television film
1996 	Every Woman's Dream 	Liz Wells 	Television film
1997 	The Outer Limits 	Rebecca Highfield 	Episode: "Re-generation"
1997 	Invasion 	Dr. Sheila Moran 	Miniseries; 2 episodes
1997 	Rugrats 	Melinda Finster (voice) 	Episode: "Mother's Day"
1997 	Duckman 	Tami Margulies (voice) 	Episode: "The Tami Show"
1998 	Creature 	Dr. Amanda Mayson 	Miniseries; 2 episodes
1998–2004	Sex and the City 	Samantha Jones 	Main role; 94 episodes
1999 	36 Hours to Die 	Kim Stone 	Television film
2004 	The Simpsons 	Chloe Talbot (voice) 	Episode: "She Used to Be My Girl"
2005 	Kim Cattrall: Sexual Intelligence 	Herself 	Television documentary film; also executive producer
2007 	My Boy Jack 	Caroline Kipling 	Television film
2007 	The Sunday Night Project 	Herself 	Guest host; series 5, episode 13
2009–2011	Producing Parker 	Dee (voice) 	26 episodes
2009 	Who Do You Think You Are? (UK) 	Herself 	Episode: "Kim Cattrall"
2009 	The Simpsons 	Fourth Simpsons child (voice)	Episode: "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
2010 	Any Human Heart 	Gloria Scabius 	Miniseries; 2 episodes
2011 	Who Do You Think You Are? (US) 	Herself 	Episode: "Kim Cattrall"
2011 	Upstairs Downstairs Abbey 	Countess of Grantham 	Red Nose Day 2011 telethon sketch
2013–2016	Sensitive Skin 	Davina Jackson 	Main role; 12 episodes
2016 	The Witness for the Prosecution 	Emily French 	Miniseries; 2 episodes
2017 	Modus 	US President Helen Tyler 	Season 2
2018 	Tell Me a Story 	Colleen 	Lead role[31]
== Awards and nominations ==
Year	Award 	Category 	Work 	Result
1982	Genie Award 	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role 	Ticket to Heaven 	Nominated
1991	Golden Raspberry Award 	Worst Supporting Actress 	The Bonfire of the Vanities 	Nominated
1999	Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Award	Lucy Award (shared with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, andCynthia Nixon)[32] 	Sex and the City 	Won
2000	Golden Globe Award 	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2000	Primetime Emmy Award 	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2001	Golden Globe Award 	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2001	Screen Actors Guild Award 	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series(shared with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon) 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2001	Primetime Emmy Award 	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2002	Screen Actors Guild Award 	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2002	Screen Actors Guild Award 	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (shared with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon)	Sex and the City 	Won
2002	Primetime Emmy Award 	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2003	Golden Globe Award 	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film 	Sex and the City 	Won
2003	Screen Actors Guild Award 	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2003	Screen Actors Guild Award 	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (shared with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon)	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2003	Primetime Emmy Award 	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2004	Golden Satellite Award 	Best Supporting Actress – Television Series 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2004	Golden Globe Award 	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2004	Screen Actors Guild Award 	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (shared with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon)	Sex and the City 	Won
2004	Primetime Emmy Award 	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2005	Screen Actors Guild Award 	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (shared with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon)	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2006	Gemini Award 	Best Host or Interviewer in a General/Human Interest or Talk Program or Series 	Kim Cattrall: Sexual Intelligence	Nominated
2009	People's Choice Award 	Favorite Cast (shared with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, and Chris Noth) 	Sex and the City 	Nominated
2011	Golden Raspberry Award 	Worst Actress (shared with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon)[33] 	Sex and the City 2 	Won
2011	Golden Raspberry Award 	Worst Ensemble (shared with the entire Crew)[33] 	Sex and the City 2 	Won
2011	GLAAD Media Award 	Golden Gate Award 	 	Won
2013	Canadian Screen Award 	Best Performance in an Animated Program or Series 	Producing Parker 	Nominated
2015	International Emmy Award 	Best Comedy Series 	Sensitive Skin 	Nominated
2017	Canadian Screen Award 	Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Comedic Role 	Sensitive Skin 	Nominated