An attractive, versatile supporting player and occasional lead, Kim Cattrall won attention as the sex-starved coach in the surprise hit teen comedy, “Porky’s” (1981) and was excellent as a bitchy socialite opposite Rob Lowe in Bob Swaim’s stylish thriller, “Masquerade” (1988), although she may be probably best remembered as the animated alter ego of the titular clotheshorse in the 1987 romantic comedy “Mannequin”. With a long list of credits in better forgotten low-budget features, Cattrall did more impressive work on the small screen with roles as the mysterious former lover of James Belushi in the Oliver Stone-produced, “Twin Peaks”-style miniseries, “Wild Palms” (ABC, 1993), a former beauty queen, wife and mother having an affair with the stable boy in the short-lived “Angel Falls” (CBS, 1993) and a fortyish femme fatale PR agent living the high life in NYC on the hit HBO series “Sex and the City” (1998- ).
