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At the age of 3 months, Cattrall and her family moved across the Atlantic Ocean to Canada. 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 MannequinMannequin is a 1987 film starring Kim Cattrall, Andrew McCarthy, and Meshach Taylor, James Spader, and Estelle Getty. Kim Catrall plays the mannequin, who is actually a princess from centuries past who was condemned to become a mannequin by a marriage pro in 19871987 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events January January 1 Nunavut's capital changes it name to Iqaluit from Frobisher Bay. January 3 Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. January 4 An Amtrak train.
Cattrall is better known for her work as "Samantha Jones" in Sex and the CitySex and the City is a book and newspaper column written by Candace Bushnell, and an American cable television show based on Bushnell's writing. The television series, produced by the HBO network, portrays the lives of four best friends from New York 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 LevinsonMark Levinson, now owned by Madrigal Audio Laboratories is a company specializing in high-end digital audio processors, integrated amplifiers, power amplifiers, pre amplifiers, and CD players. It was founded in 1972 as Mark Levinson Audio Systems (MLAS), the book Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm. Cattrall was previously wed to Larry Davis and Andre Lusonin .