Kim Cattrall Profile
Kim Cattrall is a British and Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones on HBO’s Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she received five Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the 2002 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010).
Kim Cattrall Age
Cattrall is 66 years old as of 2023. She was born on 21st August 1956 in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, United Kingdom. Furthermore, she celebrates her birthday on the 21st of August every year.
Kim Cattrall Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Kim Cattrall Family
She is the daughter of secretary Gladys Shane and construction engineer Dennis Cattrall. She had a brother named Christopher who died in 2018. When she was three months old, her family immigrated to Canada and settled in Courtenay, British Columbia. At age 11, she returned to Liverpool when her grandmother became sick.
She took acting examinations at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, but returned to Canada after one year and moved to New York City at the age of 16 for her first acting role. On 4 February 2018, Cattrall announced that her brother Christopher had disappeared in Alberta. She asked for public help in finding him, but he was found dead several hours later, having taken his own life.
Kim Cattrall Husband
Cattrall has been married three times. Her first marriage, from 1977 to 1979, was to Larry Davis but was annulled. Her second marriage, from 1982 to 1989, was to Andre J. Lyson; the couple lived in Frankfurt, where she learned to speak German fluently, but she admits she has forgotten a lot over the years. Her third marriage, from 1998 to 2004, was to American audio equipment designer Mark Levinson; the couple co-wrote the book Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm (2002).
Cattrall briefly dated former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (and 60 Minutes misidentified her in 2016, from a 1981 photo, as Margaret, the mother of his son Justin). She also has connections to Brazilian-American actor Daniel Benzali, American musician Gerald Casale, French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, and British-Sudanese actor Alexander Siddig. She has been dating BBC employee Russell Thomas since 2016.
Kim Cattrall Education
She graduated from Georges P. Vanier Secondary School in 1972 when she left Canada for New York City. There, she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and upon her graduation signed a five-year film deal with director Otto Preminger.
Kim Cattrall Career
She made her film debut in Preminger’s action thriller Rosebud (1975). A year later, Universal Studios bought out that contract and Cattrall became one of the last participants in the contract player system of Universal (also referenced as MCA/Universal during this period) before the system ended in 1980.
The Universal system’s representative in New York, Eleanor Kilgallen (sister of Dorothy Kilgallen), cast Cattrall in numerous television guest-star roles. One of the first jobs Kilgallen got was in a 1977 episode of Quincy, M.E. starring Jack Klugman, whom Kilgallen also represented.
In 1978, Cattrall played the love interest of a murderous psychologist in an episode of Columbo and also in “Blindfold”, an episode of the 1970s action series Starsky & Hutch, in which Starsky (played by Paul Michael Glaser) is grief-stricken since he accidentally blinded Cattrall’s character, young artist Emily Harrison, by a shot of his gun. She starred in The Bastard (1978) and The Rebels (1979), two television miniseries based on the John Jakes novels of the same name.
Kim Cattrall Net Worth
As per Celebrity Net Worth, Kim Cattrall is estimated to have a net worth of approximately $40 million. It’s worth noting that celebrity net worth figures are typically estimations and may not always be completely accurate.
Kim Cattrall The Incredible Hulk
In 1979, she played the role of Dr. Gabrielle White on The Incredible Hulk and would go down in television Hulk lore as one of the few characters who knew David Banner (alter ego of the title character) 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 film Tribute (1980), and in Crossbar, the film about a high jumper who loses his leg and still participates in the Olympic trials, with Cattrall’s help. The following year, she appeared in Ticket to Heaven.
Kim Cattrall Filthy Rich
In 2020, Cattrall returned to TV in the Fox Drama Filthy Rich, where she played Margaret Montreaux, the matriarch of a Southern family that had become mega-rich and famous for creating a wildly successful Christian television network.
Following her husband’s death in a plane crash, Margaret and her family receive a stunning revelation: he fathered three illegitimate children. These children are all included in his will, and this inclusion threatens their family name and fortune.
Cattrall also served as a producer on the series. Cattrall was honored at the 2020 Atlanta TV Festival with the Icon Award for the show. In September 2021, Cattrall joined Robert De Niro in the comedy film About My Father. Inspired by the life of stand-up comedian, Sebastian Maniscalco, who also stars.
Moreover, in November 2021, Cattrall featured prominently in the permanent exhibition Wondrous Place celebrating Liverpool’s cultural heritage. Cattrall did not appear in the 2021 Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That… due to disagreements with the storyline
Kim Cattrall How I Met Your Father
In May 2021, Catrall joined the cast of the How I Met Your Mother spinoff series, How I Met Your Father, led by Hilary Duff. She was cast in the pivotal narrator role originated by Bob Saget. Then, in November 2021, Duff and the cast confirmed via social media accounts that the series would premiere on January 18, 2022. Subsequently, on February 15, 2022, Hulu renewed the series for a 20-episode second season.
Kim Cattrall Movies and TV Shows
Movies
- Sex and the City 2 (2010)
- The Perfect You (2005)
- Where Truth Lies (2005)
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
- Ticket to Heaven (1981)
- Rosebud (1975)
TV Shows
- Cattrall has appeared in numerous TV shows throughout her career, including recurring roles in Columbo (1978) and The Simpsons (2002, 2010).
- Her most iconic role is undoubtedly Samantha Jones on HBO’s Sex and the City (1998-2004), for which she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the 2002 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
- More recently, she starred in HBO Canada’s Sensitive Skin (2014-2016), Paramount+’s Tell Me a Story (2018-2019), Fox’s Filthy Rich (2020), Peacock’s Queer as Folk (2022), and Netflix’s Glamorous (2023) .
- She also played “future” Sophie on the Hulu sitcom How I Met Your Father (2022-2023).
Kim Cattrall Social Media Platforms
Cattrall is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 277.9K followers on Twitter, 1.1 Million followers on Instagram, and 1.6k followers on Facebook.