Before playing one of the flagship characters of Smallvilleavailable on Prime Video, this star of the American series played the role of Clark Kent’s first love in the 1980s film, alongside Christopher Reeve.
Tom Welling isn’t the only actor viewers discovered in Smallville in October 2001. Kristin Kreuk and Michael Rosenbaum were also there, as was Annette O’Toole. The American actress played Martha Kent, a woman whose life is turned upside down when she and her husband discover an alien ship after a meteor shower. Crushed in their field, it contains a little three-year-old boy. Unable to have children, Jonathan and Martha took this gift from heaven and raised him as their own son. Annette O’Toole played this role until the sixth season of Smallville, before returning as a guest star in a few episodes of the series, to watch or rewatch on Prime Video. Ironically, Annette O’Toole played the leading female role in the film Superman IIIalmost twenty years before joining the cast of Smallville.
Annette O’Toole played Lana Lang alongside Christopher Reeve
In 1983, Annette O’Toole co-starred in Superman III with Christopher Reeve. The actress joined the famous film franchise by playing the sublime Lana Lang, the new love interest of Clark Kent/Superman. Before his arrival, the superhero had succumbed to the charm of Lois Lane. However, actress Margot Kidder had a dispute with the producers of the feature film, which led them to reduce her role in the third part of the saga. These circumstances allowed Annette O’Toole to land the role that made her known on the big screen. Despite her impressive performance opposite the late Christopher Reeve, the American actress did not return in the fourth opus of the adventures of Superman, released in 1987.
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Annette O’Toole is one of the stars of Virgin River
After SmallvilleAnnette O’Toole found a recurring series role by joining the cast of Virgin River on Netflix. In this series, which is one of the most popular on the streaming platform, the actress lends her features to Hope McCrea, the friendly mayor of the city, whose marriage to Vernon “Doc” Mullins was at a standstill before being reborn from his ashes. If the actress occupies a large place in Virgin River, she was nevertheless largely absent from season 3 of the romantic comedy, launched in July 2021, due to the Covid pandemic. “Season 3 happened at the worst time. There was no vaccine and being away from my family, for the first time in a way, was a real problem.“, revealed the one who made her comeback in season 4 of Virgin River.
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