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Although she has made an appearance in at least thirty-six movies over the course of her career, she is most recognized for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO TV series, Sex and The City, where she starred alongside the famous Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker. For all her efforts, she has earned herself a net worth of $40 million. Despite her long, publicized celebrity feud with co-star, Sarah Jessica Parker, she has been able to maintain her professionalism and went on to star in multiple other successful films with A-list actors such as Robert De Niro, Joan Cusack, Ewan McGregor, and former 007 Agent Pierce Brosnan. Here's a look at Kim Cattrall's career in Hollywood thus far.
A Star In The Making
The sensual and seductive vixen we've come to know on the Sex and the City as Samantha Jones was born Kim Victoria Cattrall on August 21st, 1956 in Liverpool, England. She shares this birthplace with English musician and photographer, Julian Lennon, the son of the famous Beatles member, John Lennon. Kim was the daughter of a secretary named Gladys Cattrall and her father, a construction engineer named Dennis Cattrall, who migrated to Canada when she was just three years old, settling in Courtenay, British Columbia.
She spent the first decade of her life in Canada and returned to Liverpool when her grandmother fell ill at the age of eleven. She went on to spend the next five years in England, during which she took acting examinations at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art . After passing those examinations, she made her way over to New York City in 1972 at the age of sixteen to audition for her first acting gig. And this is where the life of the veteran actress began to get interesting.
Upon her arrival in the United States, new York City to be exact, she then attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she also graduated successfully. Cattrall wasted no time in getting down to business after her graduation and immediately signed a five-year film deal with the late film director and producer, Otto Preminger. It was through this deal that she got her acting debut in one of his action thrillers titled Rosebud, where she shared the screen with the late Peter O' Toole and director Richard Attenborough.
Introduction To The Stage And The Screen
After one year, Universal Studios bought out her contract and Cattrall was then cast as a guest star in roles for numerous television shows, one of the first being a 1977 episode of the mystery medical drama TV series, Quincy, M.E., starring the late actor, Jack Klugman. Around the same time during the 1970s, she was also enthralled in the Canadian Underground Theater scene, where she worked on productions in both Toronto and Vancouver, according to Arts and Entertainment.
By 1978, Cattrall was appearing in numerous popular television series, such as the famed Columbo starring Peter Falk, and Starsky and Hutch, and The Incredible Hulk to name a couple. She also appeared in a few Canadian cinematic films such as Crossbar (1979), Tribute (1980), and Ticket to Heaven (1981). Around the same time, she starred as the main character in the 1981 sex comedy, Porky's, which was a super-successful film, grossing $160 million at the box office against a $4-5 million budget.
Her career went uphill from that time onward, landing a major role in the original Police Academy alongside Steve Guttenberg and Bubba Smith, which proved to be another box office success, grossing close to $150 million at the global box office. Her next major film came in 1986 in the fantasy-action-comedy, Big Trouble in Little China, in which she starred alongside action star Kurt Russell which, despite a decent lineup of characters, still flopped at the box office. Cattrall then made waves in the 1987 romantic comedy, Mannequin, where she starred beside Andrew McCarthy and Estelle Getty, grossing a total of $42.7 million against an $8 million budget. Then, in 1991, she starred in one of her best-known roles as Lieutenant Valeris in the classic science fiction franchise Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The film proved to be another major success, grossing $96.8 million at the box office.
Continued Film And Television Success
She ended her career in the 1990s on a high note with her role in the 1997 romantic-comedy-drama TV series, Sex and the City, created by writer and director, Darren Star, which was broadcast from 1998 to 2004. This was one of her most outstanding roles, co-starring with actresses Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, and Sarah Jessica Parker. The film is said to have influenced an entire generation of women, touching subjects on modern social issues such as femininity, safe sex, and promiscuity while dissecting the dynamics of a tightly-knit friendship as well as their romantic relationships. During the peak of the show's success, Cattrall was earning $350,000 per episode, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
While that's a very impressive salary, that still wasn't her largest paycheck. When the first Sex and the City movie was released on May 30th, 2008, she reportedly made $7 million out of the $418 million the film grossed at the box office. By the time the sequel was released in May 2010, Kim was paid $10 million for reprising her role as Samantha Jones. Cattrall also appeared in the 2005 Disney film, Ice Princess, opposite the prolific actress Joan Cusack and Hayden Panettiere.
Cattrall's Recent Projects
Her career continued to blossom into the late 2000s with her role in the well-received 2009 neo-noir thriller, The Ghost Writer, in which she starred alongside Ewan McGregor and Tom Wilkinson. After having worked on a few plays and made-for-television movies, she also appeared in a number of television series, such as the Fox Drama, Filthy Rich.
When it comes to the big screen, her most recent release came in September 2021 in the comedy film, About My Father, opposite the legendary actor, Robert De Niro. The Golden Globe winning actress was also supposed to have reprised her role in the 2021 Sex and the City reboot, And Just Like That, but due to disagreements on set, she never appeared in the film.
Also in 2021, Cattrall kept herself relevant on television with her role in the How I Met Your Mother spinoff series, How I Met Your Father, starring Disney's Hilary Duff. After it's successful release in January 2022, the television series was renewed by Hulu for a 20-episode series, where she currently reprises her role.
Sources: Elle, Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Net Worth
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