Kim Cattrall was born on August 21, 1956 in Liverpool, England. At the age of three months, emmigrated with her father, Dennis, and mother, Shane, to Canada, where a large number of her films have been made. At the age of eleven, Kim returned to her native country and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Upon her return to Vancouver, Canada, Kim graduated high school at age sixteen and won a scholarship to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. During her final year at the academy, she won a part in Otto Preminger's Rosebud. Following her film debut Kim returned to the theatre first in Vancouver and then played repertory in Toronto prior to winning a contract at Universal in Los Angeles.



Is an advocate for senior citizens. Studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art when she was eleven. Dated former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, whom she met at the premiere of Tribute (1980). Named one of People Magazine's "25 Most Intriguing People of 2001." According to costume designer Ann Roth, the actress diligently took two months to diet herself down to a size four in order to play a bony society wife in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). One of the last participants in the studio "contract" system. 6/7/05: Won a Glammy Award at the British Glamour magazine's Women of the Year Awards held in Berkeley Square Gardens, London, England. She won for Theatre Actress of the Year for her performance in the West End play, "Whose Life Is It Anyway?". Friend of Isabelle Huppert. Born in Liverpool, England, she moved with her parents at the age of three months to Canada and was raised in Little River, British Columbia, a small community on the eastern side of Vancouver Island. Has an older sister who is a school teacher in Courtenay, British Columbia. Her grandmother was a babysitter of Ringo Starr. Sang "Nobody Does It Better" over a TV satellite link for fellow-Liverpudlian Paul O'Grady on the occasion of his very last TV show broadcast, "The Paul O'Grady Show" (2004) (Dec. 2009).