Facts
Kim Cattrall won attention as the
sex-starved coach in the surprise hit teen comedy, Porky's (1981)
and was excellent as a bitchy socialite opposite Rob Lowe
in Bob Swaim's stylish thriller, Masquerade (1988),
although she may be probably best remembered as the animated alter ego of the titular clotheshorse in the 1987 romantic comedy Mannequin. With a long list of credits in better forgotten low-budget features, Cattrall
did more impressive work on the small screen with
roles as the mysterious former lover of James Belushi
in the
Oliver Stone-produced, Twin Peaks-style
miniseries, Wild Palms (ABC, 1993),
a former beauty queen, wife and mother
having an affair with the stable boy
in the short-lived Angel Falls (CBS, 1993)
and a fortyish femme fatale PR agent living the
high life in NYC on the hit HBO series
Sex and the City (1998-2004).
Born in Liverpool, England, but raised in Canada, Cattrall
did some acting as an 11-year in a
Liverpool theater during a visit back home.
She dropped out of high school at age 16
to move to NYC and try her hand at acting.
She became possibly the youngest graduate
ever of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts,
and made her professional stage debut in a
production of The Rocky Picture Horror Show.
She has since appeared infrequently on stage:
she was Masha in a 1985 production of Three Sisters
and co-starred with Ian McKellen in the
unsuccessful Chekhov adaptation Wild Honey
(1986). Other credits include The Misanthrope
in 1989 at Chicago's famed Goodman Theatre
and the title role of Miss Julie
(1992) at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.
A lovely brunette who also made a
convincing blonde intermittently throughout her career,
Cattrall made her feature film
acting debut for producer-director Otto Preminger
in Rosebud (1975), but it was not until 1980
that she had a truly showy part, that of the young woman
hand-picked by Jack Lemmon
to bring his stuffy son Robby Benson
alive in Tribute. She followed with a
memorable scene amidst smelly gym
socks in Porky's, was among the ensemble
in the first Police Academy
(1984) and starred opposite Kurt Russell
as a sharp lawyer in John Carpenter's
Big Trouble in Little China (1986). Her spate
of unremarkable film work has been
punctuated by such memorable work
as her turn as the villainous Justine DeWinter
in the otherwise uninspired reunion film
The Return of the Musketeers (1989), Mr. Spock's
protege Valeris in Star Trek IV: The
Undiscovered Country (1991) and the high school
friend about to embark on
third marriage in Live Nude Girls (1995).
On the small screen, Cattrall won notice as
Melanie Adams in the CBS
miniseries Scruples (1980) and played
an aspiring political columnist who ends up
writing something else entirely in The Gossip Columnist
(syndicated, 1980). She kept busy with turns
in such forgettable fare as 1984's Sins of the Past
(ABC) and 1991's Miracle in the Wilderness
(TNT), but returned with a spark to the role
of Susan, the title character's
best friend, in The Heidi Chronicles (TNT, 1995).
Work in the miniseries thrillers Robin Cook's
'Invasion' (NBC, 1997) and Peter Benchley's
'Creature' (ABC, 1998) kept the alluring actress in the public eye.
Cattrall finally landed a role that
made the most of her youthful good looks and onscreen poise and charisma and earned her popularity and critical acclaim: public relations maven
Samantha Jones on the racy HBO sitcom
Sex and the City (1998-2004). The most
carnally adventurous of a group of successful
NYC professionals, Samantha
would have to be played by an exceptionally
self-assured performer and Cattrall's
strikingly unreserved but polished and skilled
portrayal of the straight-talking socialite
earned the actress five Emmy nominations for
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
(Cattrall never landed the trophy,
however, but did take home a 2003 Golden Globe).
Easily the show's most outrageous, if sometimes
cartoonish, character, Samantha
was integral to the show's comedic success, and when Cattrall
balked at the big-screen version of the
series--officially due to scheduling issues, but reportedly
due to friction with Sarah Jessica Parker
and her other co-stars and producers--the project was scuttled.
Off the success of the show, Cattrall
also landed roles in the features Baby Geniuses
(1999), which reunited her with Porky's
director Bob Clark; 15 Minutes
(2001) opposite
Robert DeNiro;
The Devil and Daniel Webster (2001);
and, as Britney Spears' neglectful mother,
in Crossroads (2002). Playing off of her
character's seductive reputation, Cattrall
also co-wrote the 2002 sex-tip tome
Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm
with her then-husband Mark Levinson--ironically,
the couple split shortly after the book's publication.
She took a role in the Disney film
Ice Princesss (2005) as a hard-driving
ice skating coach with big
plans for her daughter--the family-oriented film
was the project Cattrall took
instead of the Sex and the City
feature (though Cattrall said
she would definitely consider returning to the
character should a big screen effort finally come to fruition).
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