- Born
- Birth nameKim Victoria Cattrall
- Height5′ 7¾″ (1.72 m)
- Kim Victoria Cattrall was born on August 21, 1956 in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England to Gladys Shane (Baugh), a secretary, and Dennis Cattrall, a construction engineer. At the age of three months, her family immigrated to Canada, where a large number of her films have been made. At age 11, she returned to her native country and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA). She returned to Vancouver and, at age 16, graduated from high school and won a scholarship to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) in New York City. During her final year at the Academy, she won a role in Otto Preminger's action thriller Rosebud (1975). Following her film debut, Kim returned to the theatre, first in Vancouver and then in repertory in Toronto before winning a contract at Universal Pictures in Los Angeles, California.
Kim continued to work steadily through the late 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, including roles in 1980s cult classics such as Police Academy (1984), Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and Mannequin (1987), and as Mr. Spock's protegee Lieutenant Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). However, it was her portrayal of sexually liberated public relations executive Samantha Jones on the HBO sitcom Sex and the City (1998) and its two feature film follow-ups that brought her worldwide attention, and gained her five Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations including winning the 2002 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges
- SpousesMark Levinson(September 4, 1998 - 2004) (divorced)Andre J. Lyson(1982 - 1989) (divorced)Larry Davis(May 31, 1977 - 1979) (annulled)
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsGlasdys Shane BaughDennis Cattrall
- RelativesCherry Kuss(Sibling)Chris Cattrall(Sibling)Lisa Cattrall(Sibling)
- Seductive deep voice
- Often plays sexually aware women
- Often works with director Bob Clark
- Mole below her lips
- She was booked on the Pan Am's Clipper Maid of the Seas Flight 103 from London's Heathrow Airport to JFK Airport in New York City. But at the last minute, she changed her mind as she had forgotten to buy her mother a gift of a teapot from Harrod's department store in London, England. Turns out, Pan Am Flight 103 became the victim of a bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland that had no survivors and killed many on the ground.
- Born in Liverpool, England, she moved with her parents at the age of three months to Canada and was raised in Little River, British Columbia, a small community on the eastern side of Vancouver Island.
- Her Aunt Jean was a babysitter of Ringo Starr.
- Speaks German fluently.
- After appearing as Lt. Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Kim had a secret photo shoot on the bridge of the Enterprise, wearing only her Vulcan ears. When Leonard Nimoy found out about the photo shoot, he had the film destroyed.
- There are so many avenues of performing. I'm not interested in the form of musical theater unless it's something like The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), which is a blast.
- I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level. I like movies I can relate to.
- [on Sex and the City (1998)] The show is celebrating what it's like to be a woman. We do things people think about but don't vocalize. It gives men and women permission to talk in a way that is healthy.
- I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point, I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.
- [on her role in Crossroads (2002), where she plays Britney Spears' mother, who abandons her daughter as a baby and later rejects her as a teen] It was one of the hardest jobs in my life. I had to be mean to Britney Spears. She is such a little Southern sweetie who is only 20. She was so nervous and so well-prepared, and I had to reject her on screen because I'm her horrible mother who has left her.
- Sex and the City 2 (2010) - $10,000,000
- Sex and the City (2008) - $7,000,000
- Sex and the City (1998) - $350,000 an episode (season 6)
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