Kim Cattrall Bio
Kim Cattrall is a British Actress. She was born Kim Victoria Cattrall on August 21, 1956, in Liverpool, United Kingdom. She appeared in Playboy in March 1980 at 23, adding the feature to her public career. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Cattrall has natural breasts, brown eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 33-26-36.
Kim Cattrall appeared in the March 1980 issue of Playboy in a semi-nude pictorial photographed by Harry Langdon. The feature caught her near the beginning of a career that would eventually make her one of television’s most recognisable symbols of sophisticated, self-directed sensuality. At the time, however, she was still an emerging actress moving between television assignments and supporting film roles. Langdon’s polished studio photographs presented her with a poised, classic glamour that already suggested a performer unusually comfortable defining herself before the camera.
Cattrall began her professional screen career after studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and signing a contract with director Otto Preminger. She made her film debut in Rosebud before becoming part of Universal’s fading contract-player system, which placed her in a steady succession of television roles. Appearances in Quincy, M.E., Columbo, Starsky & Hutch and Charlie’s Angels gave her practical experience across drama, mystery and popular entertainment, while the 1980 miniseries Scruples placed her naturally inside a world of fashion, ambition and high-gloss intrigue.
Her Playboy appearance preceded the run of films that established her as a distinctive presence in 1980s cinema. Porky’s introduced her comic fearlessness to a mass audience, Police Academy revealed an engagingly playful side, and Big Trouble in Little China made memorable use of her sharp delivery and adventurous energy. In Mannequin, Cattrall found an ideal showcase as Emmy, the ancient woman who comes alive inside a department-store display. She later entered science-fiction history as Lieutenant Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, contributing to the character’s carefully controlled appearance and identity.
International fame arrived with Samantha Jones on HBO’s Sex and the City. Cattrall turned the public-relations executive into a woman of wit, appetite and fierce personal independence, refusing to play her merely as a comic libertine. Samantha could be outrageous, but she was also loyal, professionally accomplished and refreshingly direct about what she wanted. The performance brought Cattrall five Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations and a Golden Globe victory, while helping reshape television’s portrayal of female confidence beyond conventional romantic expectations.
Her March 1980 Playboy feature now reads like an early glimpse of qualities that would define her finest work: composure, humour and an instinctive understanding of glamour as performance rather than submission. Long before Samantha Jones made fearless sensuality part of prime-time conversation, Kim Cattrall was already presenting herself as polished, intelligent and entirely at ease with attention. The photographs preserve a young actress before her defining roles arrived—but never one waiting passively to be discovered.
