You might all recognize her as Samantha Jones, but the truth is that Kim Cattrall is a lot more than the character she played in the popular tv and movie series, Sex and the City. Now, Kim Cattrall is making a little comeback and hopefully a big splash in Hollywood as well as the world of American sitcoms and we can’t wait to tell you all about it.
Gone are the days when you can only associate Kim Cattrall with Sex and the City because we are here to tell you about the rest of her career trajectory which you might have never paid attention to.
She is a talented and beautiful actress who deserves all the recognition. So, keep reading this article to learn everything you need to know about Kim Cattrall, from her net worth to her biography and her dating history!
Kim Cattrall’s Net Worth
Kim Cattrall’s net worth is estimated to be $40 million. At the height of Sex and the City’s success, she earned $350,000 per episode, despite Sarah Jessica Parker’s earning $1 million per episode. She earned $7 million for the first movie and $10 million for the sequel.
During her time on Sex and the City, she earned even more by appearing in television ads for companies like Pepsi. In 2006, she even appeared in a commercial for Nissan cars in character as Samantha Jones. She also has appeared in commercials for the British brand Tetley Tea.
Kim Cattrall’s Biography
Kim Victoria Cattrall was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, on August 21, 1956. Her family immigrated to Courtenay, British Columbia, when she was three months old, but returned to Liverpool when she was 11 years old when her grandmother fell ill. She studied acting for a year at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
She returned to Canada to complete her schooling at Georges P. Vanier Secondary School and moved to New York City to begin her acting career when she was sixteen years old.
While living in New York City, Cattrall attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. When she graduated, she signed a five-year film deal with Otto Preminger, a director. Preminger’s 1975 film Rosebud marked her debut. Her contract with Preminger was then bought out by Universal Studios.
She appeared in several guest-star roles on television shows, such as Quincy, M.E., Columbo, and Starsky & Hutch. Subsequently, she starred in two television miniseries based on novels by John Jakes: The Bastard in 1978, and The Rebels in 1979. She also was featured on the television series The Incredible Hulk in 1979. The following year, she starred in Tribute alongside Jack Lemmon and Crossbar.
Kim Cattrall Early Days
Kim Cattrall starred in a number of films throughout the early 1980s, including Ticket to Heaven, Porky’s, and Police Academy. She starred in three films in 1985, and her popularity increased as she took on bigger roles opposite other well-known actors.
She starred opposite Kurt Russell in 1986’s Big Trouble in Little China and played the lead in the box-office success Mannequin in 1987. She then appeared in one of her best-known film roles, Lieutenant Valeris, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Kim Cattrall Career
Cattrall began portraying her most iconic role in 1997 when she was cast as Samantha Jones on the HBO series Sex and the City. The series aired through 2004 for a total of six seasons. She also reprised the role in two spin-off films: Sex and the City in 2008 and Sex and the City 2 in 2010.
Throughout her time on the series, she was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, which she won in 2002, and five Emmy Awards. However, she did not return for the revival of the series, titled And Just Like That… She has stated in the past that she never got along with co-star Sarah Jessica Parker but cited disagreements with the storyline as her reason for not reprising her role.
Kim Cattrall Movies
The mid-2000s saw Cattrall on film, television, and stage. She portrayed a figure skating coach in the Disney film Ice Princess in 2005. That same year, she starred in the West End revival of the drama Whose Life Is It Anyway? Then in 2006, she starred in David Mamet’s The Cryptogram on the West End and then co-starred with Irish actor Brendan Gleeson in the black comedy film The Tiger’s Tail.
The next year, she starred alongside Daniel Radcliffe, Carey Mulligan, and David Haig, in ITV’s My Boy Jack, based on author Rudyard Kipling’s search for his son who went missing in action during World War I.
Kim Cattrall Performance
From February through May 2010, Cattrall starred in the West End revival of Noël Coward’s Private Lives. She stayed with the production as it transferred in 2011 to Toronto and then to New York City on Broadway, and she was nominated for a Drama League Award for her performance.
In October 2010, she portrayed Cleopatra in a Liverpool production of Antony and Cleopatra, reprising the role in September 2012. During the summer of 2013, she starred in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic in London. She then starred in and executive produced a series for HBO Canada called Sensitive Skin.
Kim Cattrall In About My Father
After struggling with insomnia which forced her to step back from work in 2015, she returned to television in 2016, starring in The Witness for the Prosecution, a BBC miniseries based on a short story by Agatha Christie. In 2017, she appeared in the second season of the Swedish television series Modus.
Her next big role came in 2020 when she portrayed a wealthy Southern matriarch on the Fox television drama Filthy Rich, which she also produced. In 2023, she will be starring alongside Robert De Niro and comedian Sebastian Maniscalco in the movie About My Father, inspired by Maniscalco’s life. Currently, Cattrall narrates the comedy series How I Met Your Father, starring Hilary Duff.
Kim Cattrall’s Dating History
Cattrall was married to her first husband, Larry Davis, from 1977 to 1979, but the marriage was annulled. She married her second husband, Andre J. Lyson, in 1982. She lived with him in Frankfurt, Germany, and learned to speak German while there. The couple divorced in 1989.
Her most recent marriage was to Mark Levinson, an audio equipment designer. The couple co-wrote the book Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm, published in 2002. They were married from 1998 to 2004.
Kim Cattrall has said that she once briefly dated Pierre Trudeau, the former Canadian Prime Minister. Her past partners include actors Alexander Siddig and Daniel Benzali, as well as French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy and musician Gerald Casale. At present, she is in a relationship with Russell Thomas, a BBC employee. They have been together since 2016.
Kim Cattrall Family
Cattrall’s parents were Gladys Shane and Dennis Cattrall. Her mother was a secretary while her father was a construction engineer. She had one brother, Christopher, who died in 2018, having committed suicide.
During her participation in the documentary series Who Do You Think You Are? in 2009, Cattrall learned that her maternal grandfather, George Baugh, took a new wife while still married to her grandmother and had another four children. He had abandoned her mother and aunts, and they never had known what happened to him after he left the family in 1938.
Cattrall has no children and discussed the matter on the BBC’s Woman’s Hour in 2015, covering the topics “Choosing to Be Child Free” and “Being a Parent without Giving Birth”.
Conclusion
We would love to your favorite Kim Cattrall performance beyond her role of Samantha, so do let us know in the comments and we hope you’ve added some of her lesser-known work to your watchlist!
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