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Kim Victoria Cattrall (born August 21,
1956 in Walton, Liverpool, England) is an Anglo-Canadian
actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as
Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and
the City. The role earned her an Emmy Award nomination
and the Golden Globe Award.
Childhood: Her mother, Shane Cattrall, was a
housewife; her father, Dennis Cattrall, was a
construction worker. Cattrall has three siblings. When
she was less than a year old, her family emigrated to
Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada. When her
grandmother became ill, she returned to England at the
age of 11. During this time she took lessons at the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
Career: Cattrall began her career at age 16 when
she left home to live alone in New York City. There, she
attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and upon
her graduation signed a five-year movie deal with
director Otto Preminger. A year later, Universal Studios
bought out that contract and Cattrall became one of the
last participants of the Universal Contract Player
System.
During her time with Universal, she
guest starred in numerous television programmes of
varying style and genre. In 1979 she played the role of
Dr Gabrielle White in the Incredible Hulk and would go
down in TV Hulk Lore as one of the few characters that
knew David Banner 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 movie Tribute in 1980. The
following year, she starred in the critically acclaimed
Ticket to Heaven.
In 1982, Cattrall played Miss Honeywell in Porky's,
followed two years later with a role in the original
Police Academy. During 1985, she starred in three
movies: Turk 182, City Limits and Hold-Up. In 1987, her
lead role in Mannequin proved a huge success with
audiences. One of her most well-known film roles is that
of Lieutenant Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered
Country.
Aside from her film work, Cattrall is also a stage and
theatre actress, with performances in Arthur Miller's A
View from the Bridge and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters.
In 1997, she was cast in Sex and the City, Darren Star's
series that was broadcast on HBO. As Samantha Jones,
Cattrall gained international recognition. She
capitalised on her success as Samantha by appearing in
steamy television commercials promoting the Pepsi
product Pepsi One. She also signed a publishing deal to
write a book about sex with her third husband, Mark
Levinson. In addition, she can be heard reading the
poetry of Rupert Brooke on the CD Red Rose Music SACD
Sampler Volume One.
Her film work continued during Sex and the City, when
she starred as Caroline in Britney Spears' first film
venture, Crossroads. Reports claim that Cattrall's high
financial demands and a strained relationship with
co-star Sarah Jessica Parker are responsible for the end
of Sex and the City, but whatever the cause, Cattrall
played Samantha for the last time in Spring 2004. In
2005, she appeared in the Disney picture Ice Princess,
where she played the character of Tina Harwood, the ice
skating coach of the film's lead character.
Unfortunately, Ice Princess was not a financial success.
She also portrayed Claire, a paralysed
woman who wants to die, in the West End drama revival of
Whose Life Is It Anyway. In early 2006, it was rumored
that Cattrall will soon join the cast of Desperate
Housewives, playing Edie's (Nicollette Sheridan) wild
sister. She is currently appearing in a West End
production of The Cryptogram. Since late 2005, she has
appeared in a number of British television commercials
for Tetley Tea.
In July 2006, a commercial for Nissan cars, which
featured Kim in her Samantha character from Sex and the
City, was withdrawn from New Zealand television,
apparently because of complaints about the innuendo. In
2006 she starred alongside Brendan Gleeson in John
Boorman's 2006 film The Tiger's Tail, a black comedy
which focuses on the impact of the Celtic Tiger economy
on Irish people.
Preparations are already underway for a Sex and the City
feature film. HBO is currently in negotiations with
executive producer Michael Patrick King and the cast
from the TV series of the same name, including Cattrall.
Cattrall is very excited to reprise her role of Samantha
Jones for the upcoming Sex and the City movie.
Personal life: Cattrall has been married three
times: to Larry Davis; Andre J. Lyson, whom she divorced
in 1989; and audio designer Mark Levinson, whom she
divorced in 2004. She was previously engaged to actor
Daniel Benzali. At age 25, she briefly dated the former
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. She dated
Houston Rockets star Cuttino Mobley in 2003.
She dated the much-younger Canadian chef
Alan Wyse (over two decades her junior) from the summer
of 2004 to 2005. She is currently involved with her
Whose Life is it Anyway? co-star Alexander Siddig best
known for his role as Dr. Julian Bashir on the
television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Trivia:
- Because of an erroneous entry in the Internet
Movie Database, it is often believed that Cattrall's
birth name was "Clare Woodgate". This is,
in fact, the birth name of British actress Georgina
Cates. In the January 2 edition of The Observer
newspaper, an interview with Cattrall repeated the
"Clare Woodgate" mistruth. The Observer
later published a correction stating that, "Our
interview ... was wrong to repeat a website which
said [Cattrall] was born in Liverpool in 1956 'as
plain Clare Woodgate'. She was born to Shane and
Dennis Cattrall in Liverpool as Kim Victoria
Cattrall. Apologies."
- Rumored not to have gotten along with co-star
Sarah Jessica Parker while shooting Sex and the City
over money and fame issues. However, at Parker's
40th birthday party the
two ended the feud and made up.
- The only lead actress from "Sex and the
City" (1998) to appear in a full-frontal nude
scene on the show.
- Posed for FHM men's magazine at the age of 45 and
was ranked #46 on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2003.
- The character Crow T. Robot, from the show Mystery
Science Theater 3000, has a running gag of having a
crush on Cattrall.
- Is considered an icon in drag queen culture, as
Cattrall's take on femininity is considered
performable by men. Referenced in the episode,
"Old Dogs, New Dicks," of Sex and the
City.
- She surprised viewers of the German television
show TV total in November 2005 by being able to
speak a little German, revealing she even lived in
Frankfurt, Germany, at one point in her life since
her husband at the time was German.
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