Kim Cattrall

Kim Cattrall is a British-Canadian actress whose work in film and television has spanned more than five decades, and who is most widely associated with the role of Samantha Jones on the HBO series Sex and the City. She was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, in 1956, and emigrated with her family to Canada at the age of three, growing up on Vancouver Island.

At eleven Cattrall returned to England to study with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, then trained in New York at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She joined the Actors Studio after early stage work and built her technique through repertory and television parts in both Canada and the United States.

Her first feature was Rosebud in 1975, directed by Otto Preminger. Through the late 1970s and 1980s she worked steadily in films such as Porky's, Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China, and Mannequin, alongside parts on Canadian and American television.

From 1998 to 2004 she played Samantha Jones across six seasons of Sex and the City, receiving five Primetime Emmy nominations and winning a Golden Globe in 2002. She reprised the role in two feature films and made a brief return appearance for the sequel series And Just Like That..., while also taking stage roles in London and on Broadway.

The name Kim is most often a short form of names beginning or ending with that syllable, such as Kimberly, which derives from an English place name combining the personal name Cyneburg with the Old English word leah, meaning "woodland clearing."