RIP Margot Kidder: Stars including Mark Hamill, Kumail Nanjiani remember ‘Lois Lane’

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Margot Kidder died on Sunday at her home in Livingston, Mont.
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Friends and fans said goodbye to Margot Kidder on Monday, after learning the news that the actress died at age 69. Kidder, best known for playing Lois Lane in 1978′s Superman and Barb in Black Christmas, was remembered on Twitter.

“On-screen she was magic. Off-screen she was one of the kindest, sweetest, most caring woman I’ve ever known,” Star Wars’ Mark Hamill tweeted about Kidder. ”Your legacy will live on forever.”

Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick said, “I was such a fan of yours from the first moment I saw you on the screen as Lois Lane in Superman! I will treasure the moment that I met you forever! Sweet dreams Margot.”

Actor Elijah Wood simply wrote, “oh no, Margot Kidder.”

oh no, Margot Kidder.

— Elijah Wood (@elijahwood) May 14, 2018

“RIP Margot Kidder,” said Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon. “She will always be THE Lois Lane to me.”

Actress Barbara Crampton, tweeted that she met Kidder, an “actor who imbued all her roles with grit, strength and smarts,” at conventions. “Happy I told her what she meant to us.”

RIP Margot Kidder. An actor who imbued all her roles with grit, strength and smarts. I admired her very much and she’s gone way too soon. I chatted with her a couple of times at conventions. Happy I told her what she meant to us

— Barbara Crampton (@barbaracrampton) May 14, 2018

“I saw SUPERMAN in the theater when I was six, and I had an instant crush on Lois Lane. I remember thinking how lucky Superman was to hang out with her,” said Secret Life of Pets writer Brian Lynch. ”Margot Kidder was the coolest.”

AV Club film editor Scott Tobias said, “Most people remember her as Lois Lane, but the essence of Margot Kidder to me is her salty, mischievous sorority sister in BLACK CHRISTMAS.”

Comedian Kumail Nanjiani also posted about Kidder and Black Christmas: “It introduced some elements that are now genre tropes and she’s fantastic in it,” he said.

RIP Margot Kidder. One of my favorite movies of hers is the original Black Christmas. It introduced some elements that are now genre tropes and she’s fantastic in it.

— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) May 14, 2018

“(As) Lois Lane in the Superman movies you were the heart of a great franchise and a fine actress,” said producer Jonathan Sothcott.

Empire producer Eric Haywood said Kidder is the “only Lois Lane I acknowledge.”

“My Lois Lane has passed away,” tweeted Kingsman writer Mark Millar. ”Thank you for my favourite movie ever.”