Kim Cattrall’s extensive acting career spans film, stage and television. Though she became best known for her television role as Samantha Jones on Sex and the City, Kim is equally at home on stage and was classically trained at LAMDA and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. In the ’70s, she was a part of the Canadian Underground Theatre scene working in productions at Factory Theatre Lab in Toronto and City Stage in Vancouver. She made her Broadway debut opposite Sir Ian MacKellen in Anton Chekov’s ‘Wild Honey’ with the National Theatre Of England and performed in Sir Peter Hall’s critically acclaimed production of ‘Whose Life Is It Anyway’. In 2006, she starred in David Mamet’s play ‘The Cryptogram’ at London’s Donmar Warehouse, for which she received rave reviews.
On television Cattrall starred opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in the TNT television adaptation of Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles and in Oliver Stone’s miniseries Wild Palms for ABC. She has also appeared in a host of Hollywood blockbusters, including Police Academy, Porky’s, Mannequin, Masquerade, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, John Carpenter’s cult classic Big Trouble in Little China, Disney’s The Ice Princess, and Brian De Palma’s infamous Bonfire of the Vanities.
She was recognized for her role as Samantha Jones with a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She’s also received four Emmy Award nominations and three Screen Actors Guild nominations for her work on the series.
