Kim Cattrall is a popular Canadian actress

Kim Cattrall (full name - Kim Victoria Cattrall), a 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 after 11 years all Cattrall returned to England. Since London became the new residence for them, the growing Kim entered the London Academy of Dramatic and Musical Art, 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 already American.

The first contract

Immediately after graduating from the academy, Kim Cattrall, whose biography was ready to open the creative pages, met with director Otto Preminger, known for his shocking nature and open reluctance to obey censorship. The producer of the legendary musical "Porgy and Bess" saw in Cattrall the image for his future films and offered the beginning actress a contract for five years at once. Kim made her debut in Preminger's movie "The Pink Bud", where she played a supporting role - Joyce Donovan. The picture was filmed in 1975, on the set the girl met the Hollywood star Peter O'Toole. Eight years before, Kim, with bated breath, watched the film "How to steal a million" with him and Audrey Hepburn, and now she saw the idol of her youth firsthand.

TV

A year later Universal studio enticed Kim Cattrall to her, having redeemed her contract from Preminger. At that time, the studio filmed countless television movies, and Kim took part in almost all the productions. In addition, she had on behalf of Universal to perform in various television programs. In 1979, Cattrall played Dr. Gabriel White in the fantastic action movie "The Incredible Hulk" directed by Louis Leterrier and after the release of the film on the screen decided to part with the work on television for the sake of a large cinematography.

Roles in the big cinema

In 1980, the actress starred in the movie "Honoring" directed by Bob Clarke with Jack Lemmon in the title role. Kim played Sally Haynes, a supporting role. And the following year, Cattrall performed the role of Ruthie in the film director Ralph Thomas "A Ticket to Heaven." Then the actress starred in the movie "Spanking", staged in 1982 by the same director Bob Clarke. Two years later, Kim took part in the serial film "Police Academy", shot at the Warner Bros. film studio directed by Hugh Wilson. The actress played the female lead, cadet academy Karen Thompson.

Then actress Kim Cattrall starred in three films at once: "Borders of the City" (1984), "Turok 182" and "Robbery" (1985). In the mysterious criminal action movie "Big Trouble in Little China" directed by John Carpenter, the actress played the lead female role, journalist Gracie Lowe.

The highest grossing film

In 1987, a film-record-holder at the box office called "Mannequin" was released. In the center of the story is a young artist-loser Jonathan Switcher. He is experiencing another bad luck. At some point, he helps an elderly woman who finds herself in an uncomfortable situation on the street. The lady - the owner of a large supermarket - accepts Switcher for work. Having started his duties, the artist notices in the shop window a female mannequin, which he once made with his own hands. Like the legendary sculptor Pygmalion, who loved the creation of his hands - Galatea, Jonathan falls in love with a mannequin, which soon comes to life and turns into a beautiful Egyptian.

The bride from the special services

The next film, where Kim Cattrall, growth Which (170 cm) allowed to shoot the actress in any foreshortening, played the main role - the comedy "Crazy Honeymoon" directed by Gene Quintano. Character Kim - a young girl Chris Nelson, a secret agent of the international intelligence service. But when she is offered a hand and heart by a young man named Sean, the girl forgets about her espionage duties and becomes an ordinary bride with a veil on her head. Her husband never finds out about the dark past of her chosen one.

The main series in the life of the actress

In 1997, a television project was launched on the IEE channel under the loud name "Sex and the City", in which Cattrall received the role of Samantha Jones, one of the four heroines of the series. The 6-year-old script was written by the book writer Candace Bushnell. The series gained unprecedented popularity all over the world and was nominated for many prestigious awards. In total, "Sex and the City" withstood 6 seasons from 94 series. In the center of the story are four friends: Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Miranda Hobs (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Christine Davis). All in a little over thirty, the interests are similar, talking mainly about safe sex, feminism, free love and the role of women in society.

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

Personal life

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

Kim married three times, her first husband - Larry Davis, the second - Andre Leeson, whose marriage ended in 1989, and the third husband - Mark Levinson, with whom the actress lived until 2004. Once Kim was engaged, her choice was an actor Daniel Benzali. For a time, Cattrall met with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In 2003 she allowed herself a little adventure with a basketball player from Houston Rockets, Kattino Mobley. Then Kim took a great interest in Alan Wise, the chef of the restaurant, who was twenty-one years younger than her.

In her spare time, the actress wrote prose, it was necessary for her to realize a creative start laid by nature, as Kim Cattrall herself said. Books "Find Yourself" and "Dossier on Sexuality" have no artistic value, but it is interesting to read them.