Superman star Margot Kidder dead at 69
SUPERMAN actress Margot Kidder has passed away at age 69, TMZ reports.
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.
She appeared as Lois Lane in four Superman movies over the years and had most recently appeared in the movies The Neighbourhood and The Red Maple Leaf, reports the New York Post.
Kidder was open about her struggle with bipolar disorder.
The actress was married three times and is survived by her daughter, Maggie McGuane.
A rep for the actress did not immediately return our request for comment.
Kidder's Superman co-star Christopher Reeve died in 2004 after being paralysed and confined to a wheelchair after a horseriding accident in 1995.
