The 1990s were marked by significant health problems for Kidder: In 1990, she sustained serious injuries in a car accident that left her temporarily paralyzed, and she later had a highly publicized manic episode and nervous breakdown in 1996 stemming from bipolar disorder. By the 2000s, she maintained steady work in independent films and television, with guest-starring roles in "Smallville", "Brothers & Sisters", ' and "The L Word", and appeared in a 2002 Off-Broadway production of "The Vagina Monologues". In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in the children's television series '.