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Donald Sutherland
1 FOLLOWER • 59 CREDITS • JUL 17, 1935 • 88
Biography
Donald McNichol Sutherland (born July 17, 1935) is a Canadian actor whose film career spans over 6 decades. He has been nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards, winning two for his performances in the television films Citizen X (1995) and Path to War (2002); the former also earned him a Primetime Emmy Award. An inductee of the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canadian Walk of Fame, he also received a Canadian Academy Award for the drama film Threshold (1981). Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his contributions to cinema. In 2021, he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries for his work in the HBO miniseries The Undoing (2020).
Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films including The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Fellini's Casanova (1976), 1900 (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Animal House (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Ordinary People (1980), and Eye of the Needle (1981). He later went on to star in many other films where he appeared either in leading or supporting roles such as A Dry White Season (1989), JFK (1991), Outbreak (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), The Assignment (1997), Without Limits (1998), Big Shot's Funeral (2001), The Italian Job (2003), Cold Mountain (2003), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Aurora Borealis (2006) and The Hunger Games franchise (2012–2015).
He is the father of actors Kiefer Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland, and Angus Sutherland.
Known For
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
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The Name of the Game
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The Graham Norton Show
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The Oscars
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The Simpsons
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Honest Trailers
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America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
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Backstory
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Beerfest
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
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Lord of War
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Promise Her Anything
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Moonfall
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JFK
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The Kentucky Fried Movie
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The Dirty Dozen
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The Undoing
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
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Cold Mountain
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Horrible Bosses
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The Hunger Games
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The Italian Job
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
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Ad Astra
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Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
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Lawmen: Bass Reeves
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Outbreak
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A Time to Kill
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1900
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Crossing Lines
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
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Astro Boy
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Kelly's Heroes
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Backdraft
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Gas
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Pride & Prejudice
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The Burnt Orange Heresy
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The Eagle
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Disclosure
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Virus
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Ask the Dust
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The Mechanic
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Fool's Gold
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
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Path to War
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Citizen X
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Lock Up
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Dirty Sexy Money
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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The Pillars of the Earth
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Heaven Help Us
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Trust
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JFK: Destiny Betrayed
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Ordinary People
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Mr. Harrigan's Phone
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A Dry White Season
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The Day of the Locust
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