Sharp-featured brunette actress whose husky voice and energetic manner made her one of the 1970s' most interesting leading ladies. She toiled on the TV-movie assembly line for a couple of years before making audiences sit up and take notice of her with an accomplished, eerie interpretation of separated Siamese twins in Brian De Palma's Sisters (1973). In 1975, after starring in the quirky, minor 92 in the Shade written by her future husband Thomas McGuane, Kidder played leads in the mainstream movies The Great Waldo Pepper and The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. Kidder was a delightfully spunky yet vulnerable Lois Lane in Superman (1978), a role she repeated in the three sequels (1980, 1983, 1987). Nothing she's done since-with the exception of The Amityville Horror (1979)-has attained any real degree of success: Willie and Phil (1980), Heartaches, Miss Right (both 1981), Trenchcoat (1983), Little Treasure (1985), The Canadian Conspiracy (1986), Mob Story (1989), The White Room (1990)m. Kidder raised some hackles during the U.S. intervention in Kuwait, when she ridiculed the press and the military for not seeing the larger consequences of their actions.