Star who played Lois Lane in Superman dies

Leading role: Margot Kidder MARGOT Kidder, who starred as Lois Lane in the Superman film franchise of the late 1970s and early 1980s, has died.

Kidder died in her sleep on Sunday at her home in Livingston, Montana at the age of 69.

Both Kidder and co-star Christopher Reeve, who played Superman, were relative unknowns when they got their leading parts, and neither saw many major roles afterwards. Reeve died in 2004.

The Canadian-born Kidder also appeared in 1974’s A Quiet Day in Belfast — a Canadian drama film set in Northern Ireland, in which soldiers battle the IRA during the early Troubles.

The film was based on a play by Andrew Dalrymple and was filmed in Dublin.