SUPERMAN actress Margot Kidder has passed away at age 69, TMZ reports.
Her manager confirmed the death to CNN.
The actress, who played Lois Lane alongside Christopher Reeve in 1978’s Superman, reportedly passed away at home on Sunday, according to a spokesman at Franzen-Davis funeral home in Livingston, Montana.
According to TMZ, the cause of death is unknown at this point.
Kidder was a Canadian actress who began acting in 1968 and got her big break on the 1973 film Sisters.
But it was the role of Lois Lane that made her a global star. It was a superhero blockbuster two decades before comic book movies became the norm at the top of the box office.
She and Reeve would star in four Superman films together.
Both Kidder and Reeve were relative unknowns when they got their leading parts, and neither saw many major roles afterward.
She had most recently appeared in the movies The Neighbourhood and The Red Maple Leaf.
She also played the abusive mother of a serial killer in Law & Order: SVU.
Kidder also appeared on Broadway in The Vagina Monologues in 2002, and toured with the show for two years.
In 2004, she returned to the Superman franchise in two episodes of the television series Smallville, opposite her old friend, Reeve.
In 2015 Kidder won an Emmy award for Outstanding Performer in Children’s Programming for her performance in R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour.
Off screen, Kidder was open about her struggle with bipolar disorder.
Her illness became so debilitating she was left homeless for a period of time in 2006.
She later spoke out about the illness and became an advocate for sufferers.
The actress was married three times and is survived by her daughter, Maggie McGuane.
Kidder’s Superman co-star Christopher Reeve died in 2004 after being paralysed and confined to a wheelchair after a horseriding accident in 1995.
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