FrameThrower · Actors · Margot Kidder
Margot Kidder
7 films · 589 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1970–2000
Born 17 October 1948 · Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada · died 13 May 2018
Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder was a Canadian-American actress, director, and activist whose career spanned over five decades. Her accolades include three Canadian Screen Awards and one Daytime Emmy Award. Though she appeared in an array of films and television, Kidder is most widely known for her performance as Lois Lane in the Superman film series, appearing in the first four films.
Born in Yellowknife to a Canadian mother and an American father, Kidder was raised in the Northwest Territories as well as several other Canadian provinces.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 589 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1970–2000
- Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming
- Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
- Saturn Award for Best Actress
How their films are shot
Measured across 589 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Margot takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 43% of their frames are day, 53% natural — the look of the work Margot takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 589 frames from Margot Kidder's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.