Kim Cattrall

At 68 years old, Kim Cattrall has this physical status:

Career

Cattrall began her career after graduating from Georges P. Vanier Secondary School in 1972, when she left Canada for New York City. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and after her graduation, she signed a five-year film contract with director Otto Preminger. In Preminger's action thriller Rosebud (1975), she made her film debut. Universal Studios bought out the deal and Cattrall became one of the few remaining participants in Universal's contract player system (also known as MCA/Universal during this period) before the 1980 program ended. Eleanor Kilgallen, the Universal system's representative in New York (sister of Dorothy Kilgallen), appeared in numerous television guest stars. Kilgallen got her first job when she was working in a 1977 episode of Quincy, M.E. Kilgallen also appeared, with Jack Klugman.

Cattrall was the love interest of a murderous psychologist in an episode of Columbo and later in "Blindfold," a 1970s action film Starsky & Hutch in which Starsky (played by Paul Michael Glaser) is mourned since he mistakenly blinded Cattrall's character, young artist Emily Harrison, by a shot of his rifle. She appeared in The Bastard (1978) and The Rebels (1979), two television miniseries based on the John Jakes novels of the same name. She appeared on The Incredible Hulk in 1979 and would go down in television Hulk history as one of the few characters to know David Banner (alter ego of the title character) was alive and well. Her work in television paid off, and she pushed quickly to cinema. With Cattrall's assistance, she appeared opposite Jack Lemmon in his Oscar-nominated film Tribute (1980) and in Crossbar, the film about a high jumper who loses his leg and still participates in the Olympic trials. She appeared in Ticket to Heaven the next year.

Cattrall played P.E. in 1981. Miss Honeywell, a teacher at Porky's, was followed three years later by a stint in the original Police Academy. She appeared in three films in 1985, including Turk 182, City Limits and Hold-up, the last with French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. Kurt Russell's brainy flame appeared in the action film Big Trouble in Little China in 1986. Mannequin, her lead role in the cult comedy film, was a huge success with audiences in 1987. Lieutenant Valeris of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is one of her best-known film roles; Cattrall was instrumental in creating the character by designing her own hairstyle and even helped come up with the name.

Cattrall is also a stage actress, with appearances in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and Wild Honey to her credit. In addition, Rupert Brooke's poetry can be heard on the CD Red Rose Music SACD Sampler Volume One.

In 1997, she appeared in Sex and the City, Darren Star's series, which was also shown on HBO. Samantha Jones, Cattrall, became internationally known. She profited from her fame by appearing in a burgeoning television commercial promoting Pepsi One. Sex and the City aired for six seasons before finally ending as a weekly show in spring 2004 with 10.6 million viewers. Samantha Jones appeared in the Sex and the City film, which was released on May 30th, 2008. She appeared in the sequel that was also released in May 2010. She was nominated for five Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, one of which was winning one in 2002. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon were also nominated for two ensemble Screen Actors Guild Awards, as did her co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon. She did, however, admit that she never got along with Sarah Jessica Parker. In 2005, she ranked number eight in the TV Guide's 50 Most Popular Actors of all time list. In 2008, she was named as 'Samantha' on the hit series by the Cosmopolitan UK Ultimate Women Of The Year Awards with the Ultimate Icon Award. At the 2008 Banff World TV Festival, she was also named a NBC Universal Canada Award of Distinction.

In 2005, she appeared in the Disney film Ice Princess, in which she played Tina Harwood, the film's lead character. In the West End drama revival of Whose Lives It Anyway, she portrayed Claire, a paralysed woman who wishes to die. "Woman of the Year Awards" for Theatre Actress were given to her that year by Glamour Magazine. In a West End production of David Mamet's The Cryptogram, she attracted rave reviews in October 2006. She has appeared in a number of Tetley Tea commercials since late 2005. A commercial for Nissan cars starring Cattrall as Samantha Jones in July 2006 was apparently pulled from New Zealand television, presumably due to complaints about its innuendo. Brendan Gleeson appeared in John Boorman's film The Tiger's Tail (2006), a black comedy that focuses on the effects of the Celtic Tiger economy on Irish people. She appeared alongside David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, and Carey Mulligan in My Boy Jack, author Rudyard Kipling's quest for his son who was missing in the First World War.

Cattrall appeared in Roman Polanski's well-received The Ghost Writer in 2009 and portrayed Dee in the Canadian adult animated sitcom Producing Parker, the former actress who was nominated in a Gemini for Best Achievement in an Animated Program or Series in 2010. Cattrall will be a featured on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, later this year. On September 12, 2009, the induction ceremony took place. During Sex and the City 2 in Marrakech, Morocco, she appeared in a seminar entitled "Being directed" with director John Boorman in November 2009 as part of the third edition of the Arts in Marrakech Festival. In a revival of Nol Coward's play Private Lives, Cattrall began a run in London's West End, opposite Matthew Macfadyen. She appeared on stage until 3 May 2010 and received a 2011 Whats On Stage nomination for "Best Actress." In the critically acclaimed Channel 4 version of William Boyd's book Any Human Heart, Cattrall appeared as Gloria Scabius (alongside Macfadyen once more).

Cattrall appeared in Cleopatra's production of Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Janet Suzman, opposite Jeffery Kissoon as Anthony, and the subsequent revival of Chichester Festival Theatre in September 2012 (with Michael Pennington as Anthony) in Liverpool. Cattrall was named an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University in 2010 for her contributions to the dramatic arts. In 2011, Cattrall reprised her role as Amanda in a No.l Coward's Private Lives production starring Canadian actor Paul Gross in Toronto and Broadway. The theater critic in New York raving about Cattrall's debut, which was given a Drama League Award nomination. Cattrall appeared in Uptown Downstairs Abbey, the Comic Relief parody of the critically acclaimed historical television dramas Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, Downstairs, downstairs. She appeared in Lady Grantham, Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Victoria Wood, Harry Enfield, Patrick Barlow, Dale Winton, Olivia Colman, Tim Vine, Simon Callow, Michael Gambon, and Harry Hill.

Cattrall was scheduled to appear in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Olivier Award-winning Marianne Elliott from June to August 2013. Sensitive Skin and a Adaptation of the BBC Canada's Sensitive Skin and Adaptation of the 2005 British series. In 2015, the show was nominated for an International Emmy Award. Cattrall was nominated for numerous Canadian Screen Awards, with Davina Jackson in the series being nominated in 2017. On Netflix, the show is now available for streaming.

Cattrall appeared in the title role of Linda in a new Penelope Skinner play directed by Michael Longhurst and produced at London's Royal Court Theatre on July 17th. Due to "chronic, debilitating insomnia," she was forced to leave the factory a few days before the opening. She returned to New York and started a cognitive behavior training program to help herself sleep better. The therapy was fruitful; it included the creation of specific evening rituals, removing electronic equipment from her bedroom, and limiting the usage of the bed to two activities, one of which would be sleeping. In contrast, actress Noma Dumezweni took over the role for the scheduled opening of Skinner's play in December 2015, earning much praise and notice. Cattrall spoke at the BBC Women's Hour about her insomnia and how she was able to cope. Cattrall returned to the BBC's Woman's Hour to address "Choosing to Be Child Free" and "Being a Parent Without Giving Birth" which provoked mixed reactions and opinions. She appeared on the SkyArts short Ruby Robinson, a physical comedy in which Cattrall appeared as Ruby, a woman employed by a troupe of odd acrobat helpers who is taught a valuable lesson by her nephew.

Catrall appeared in the BBC Arts' I'm with the Banned, the premier performance in Belarus Free Theatre's (BFT) tenth-anniversary celebrations. The concert, which was sponsored by The Space, took place at KOKOKOKO in London and was broadcast around the world. BFT, a radical underground group, brought together a diverse group of musicians and performers to protest cultural identity and injustice.

Cattrall appeared in the BBC mini-series Witness for the Prosecution, based on Agatha Christie's short story in 2016. The celebrated two-part mini-series was nominated for a 2017 BAFTA award for "Best Mini-Series." Cattrall appeared on the cast of the hit Swedish television show Modus in 2017, portraying the President of the United States. Modus first appeared in Sweden in 2015 and was later broadcast by BBC Four in the United Kingdom. FremantleMedia International is also broadcasting in Canada, Australia, France, and Japan.

Cattrall, the matriarch of a Southern family, who has been rich and well-known for establishing a highly successful Christian television network, is back on television in 2020. Margaret and her family are stunned to learn that he fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will, endangering their family's name and fortune after her husband's death in a plane crash. On the show, Cattrall appeared as a producer. The Icon Award for the show was given to Cattrall at the 2020 Atlanta TV Festival.

Cattrall joined Robert De Niro in a comedy film About My Father, inspired by the life of stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, who also stars. Cattrall featured prominently in the permanent exhibition Wondrous Place, which honors Liverpool's cultural heritage, in November 2021. Cattrall did not appear in the 2021 Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That... owing to plothole inconsistencies.

Catrall appeared in How I Met Your Mother spinoff series, How I Met Your Father, directed by Hilary Duff, in May 2021. She was cast in Bob Saget's pivotal narrator role. The series will premiere in November 2021, according to Duff and the cast's social media pages. On January 18, 2022, the film was first published. Hulu's second season, which took place on February 15, 2022, was the first season of the series.

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