Kim Cattrall is a popular Canadian actress

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Kim Cattrall (full name - Kim Victoria Cattrall), Canadian film actress, was born in the English city of Liverpool on August 21, 1956. Immediately after the birth of Kim, the family moved to Canada, and 11 years later, all the Cattralls returned to England. Since London became a new place of residence for them, the growing Kim entered the London Academy of Dramatic and Musical Arts, where she studied until 1972. As soon as she turned 16, young Cattrall left for New York and entered the Academy of Theater Arts, but this time in America.

First contract

Immediately after graduating from the academy, Kim Cattrall, whose biography was ready to open creative pages, met with director Otto Preminger, known for his outrageousness and open unwillingness to submit to censorship. The director of the legendary musical "Porgy and Bess" saw in Cattrall an image for his future films and offered the aspiring actress a contract for five years at once. Kim made her film debut in Preminger's Rosebud, where she played a supporting role, Joyce Donovan. The picture was filmed in 1975, on the set of a girlMet Hollywood star Peter O'Toole. Eight years before, Kim had breathlessly watched the movie "How to Steal a Million" with him and Audrey Hepburn, and now she saw the idol of her youth with her own eyes.

Television

A year later, Universal Studios poached Kim Cattrall by buying her contract from Preminger. At that time, the film studio was making countless television films, and Kim participated in almost all productions. In addition, she had to appear on behalf of Universal in various television programs. In 1979, Cattrall played Dr. Gabrielle White in the sci-fi action movie The Incredible Hulk directed by Louis Leterrier, and after the film's release, she decided to give up her work on television for the sake of big cinema.

Roles in big movies

In 1980, the actress starred in the film "Honoring" directed by Bob Clark and starring Jack Lemmon. Kim played Sally Haynes, a supporting role. And the following year, Cattrall played the role of Ruthie in the film directed by Ralph Thomas "Ticket to Heaven". Then the actress starred in the film "Porky", staged in 1982 by the same director Bob Clark. Two years later, Kim took part in the serial film "Police Academy", filmed at the film studio "Warner Brothers" directed by Hugh Wilson. The actress played the female lead, Academy cadet Karen Thompson.

Then, actress Kim Cattrall starred in three films at once: "City Limits"(1984), "Turk 182" and "Robbery" (1985). In the mystical crime thriller "Big Trouble in Little China" directed by John Carpenter, the actress played the female lead, journalist Gracie Lowe.

Highest grossing film

In 1987, a box-office-record-breaking film called Mannequin was released. In the center of the plot is a young unsuccessful artist Jonathan Switcher. He is going through another streak of bad luck. At some point, he helps an elderly woman who finds herself in an uncomfortable situation on the street. A lady - the owner of a large supermarket - takes Switcher to work. Having started his duties, the artist notices a female mannequin in the shop window, which he once made with his own hand. Like the legendary sculptor Pygmalion, who fell in love with the creation of his own hands - Galatea, Jonathan falls in love with a mannequin, which soon comes to life and turns into a beautiful Egyptian.

Special Bride

The next film, where Kim Cattrall, whose height (170 cm) allowed the actress to shoot from any angle, played the main role - the comedy "Crazy Honeymoon" directed by Gene Quintano. Kim's character is a young girl Chris Nelson, a secret agent of the international intelligence service. But when a young man named Sean proposes to her, the girl forgets about her spy duties and becomes an ordinary bride with a veil on her head. Her husband will never know about the dark past of his chosen one.

The main series in the life of an actress

In 1997, a television project was launched on the HBO channel under the loud title "Sex and the City", in which Cattrall got the role of Samantha Jones, one of the four heroines of the series. The 6-year-long script was written based on a book by writer Candace Bushnell. The series has gained unprecedented popularity around the world and has been nominated for many prestigious awards. In total, "Sex and the City" lasted 6 seasons of 94 episodes. The plot revolves around four friends: Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Miranda Hobss (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis). All in their early thirties, similar interests, mostly talking about safe sex, feminism, free love, and the role of women in society.

In 2008, the full-length film "Sex and the City" was filmed as a continuation of the series.

Private life

Kim Cattrall leads a personal life within certain limits, but sometimes it takes it beyond these limits. And then everyone remembers her heroine from the movie "Sex and the City". Perhaps family life has some meaning for the actress, but she, apparently, is not going to give herself completely to the institution of marriage.

Kim married three times, the first husband - Larry Davis, the second - Andre Leeson, whose marriage ended in 1989, and the third husband - Mark Levinson, the actress lived with him until 2004. Once Kim was engaged, her chosen one was actor Daniel Benzali. For a while Cattrallmet with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In 2003, she allowed herself a little adventure with Houston Rockets basketball player Kattino Mobley. Kim then fell in love with Alan Wise, a restaurant chef twenty-one years her junior.

In her free time, the actress wrote prose, it was necessary for her to realize the creative principle laid down by nature, as Kim Cattrall herself said. The books "Find Yourself" and "Dossier on Sexuality" have no artistic value, but they are interesting to read.