Kim Cattrall (born Clare Woodgate on August 21, 1956) is a British-American actress born in Liverpool, England.
At the age of 3 months, Cattrall and her family moved across the Atlantic Ocean to Canada, eventually settling for a time in Nanaimo, BC. When she was 16, she moved to New York where she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1981, at age 25, she briefly dated the recently-divorced Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Cattrall starred in a handful of films during the 1970s, but her first taste of international fame came in 1981 when she participated in the first Porky's film. Subsequently she starred in the first Police Academy film in 1984, and in the first Mannequin in 1987.
Cattrall is better known for her work as Samantha Jones on Sex and the City. This character and several others she has portrayed are known for being sexually-open women.
In addition to her career as an actress she is also a writer, having co-written with her third husband Mark Levinson the book Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm. Cattrall was previously wed to Larry Davis and Andre Lusonin.
