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For other persons named Donald Sutherland, see Donald Sutherland (disambiguation).
Donald McNicol Sutherland OC KBE (born July 17, 1935) is a prolific Canadian actor with a film career spanning over 40 years.
BiographyEarly lifeDonald Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick . He got his first part time job aged 14 as a news correspondent for local radio station CKBW Radio in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He then studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and graduated with a double major in engineering and drama. He had, at one point, been a member of "UC Follies" comedy troupe in Toronto. He changed his mind about becoming an engineer and subsequently left Canada for England to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Acting career
Sutherland and Fonda went on to co-produce and star together in the anti-Vietnam war film F.T.A. (1972) consisting of a series of sketches performed outside army bases in the Pacific Rim and interviews with the American troops who were then on active service. Sutherland found himself in demand as a leading man throughout the 1970s in films such as the Venice-based psychological horror Don't Look Now (1973), the war film The Eagle Has Landed (1976), and as the ever optimistic health inspector in the sci-fi horror Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) alongside Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum. He also had a small role as the pot-smoking Professor Dave Jennings in National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978. Image:Sutherland screams.jpg Sutherland in the twist ending from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He also received acclaim for his performances in the 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci Italian fascism epic 1900 and for the role as the torn father in the Academy award-winning family drama Ordinary People (1980) alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton. He played the part of fellow countryman, Canadian Norman Bethune, a physician, humanitarian and hero in China, in two separate biographical films in 1977 and 1990. A prolific actor, some of Sutherland's better-known roles in the 1980s and 1990s were the South African apartheid drama A Dry White Season (1989) alongside Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon; the fire fighter thriller Backdraft (1991) alongside Kurt Russell and De Niro; and as the snobbish NYC art dealer in Six Degrees of Separation (1993) with Stockard Channing and Will Smith. In the 1991 Oliver Stone film, JFK, Sutherland played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer who spoke of links to the military-industrial complex in relation to Kennedy's assassination. He also guest starred in The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Iconoclast".
Sutherland's distinctive voice has been used in many radio and television commercials, including those for Volvo automobiles. He is also the spokesperson for Simply Orange orange juice. Personal lifeSutherland was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978. He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000. Sutherland maintains a home in Georgeville in Quebec's Eastern Townships. Sutherland met his current wife, the French-Canadian actress, Francine Racette, on the set of the Canadian pioneer drama Alien Thunder. They have three sons, including actor Rossif Sutherland; actor Kiefer Sutherland and his twin sister Rachel were born to Sutherland and his second wife.
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