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Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland

Birthday: 1935-07-17 | Place of Birth: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Donald McNichol Sutherland (born 17 July 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Swimming with Sharks

as    Redmond

2021
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

as    Narrator (voice)

2021
JFK: Destiny Betrayed

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2020
Alone

as    Edward

2020
The Undoing

as    Franklin Reinhart

2020
The Burnt Orange Heresy

as    Jerome Debney

2019
The Physics of Sorrow

as    (additional voice)

2019
American Hangman

as    Judge Straight

2019
Backdraft 2

as    Ronald Bartel

2019
Ad Astra

as    Thomas Pruitt

2018
Measure of a Man

as    Dr. Kahn

2018
Basmati Blues

as    Gurgon

2018
Trust

as    J. Paul Getty Sr.

2018
The Leisure Seeker

as    John Spencer

2018
A Reindeer's Journey

as    Narrator (English Version) (voice)

2016
Milton's Secret

as    Grandpa Howard

2016
Forsaken

as    Rev. Clayton

2015
Pirate's Passage

as    Captain Charles Johnson (voice)

2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

as    President Coriolanus Snow

2015
2014
The Best Offer

as    Billy

2014
The Calling

as    Father Price

2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

as    President Coriolanus Snow

2013
Crossing Lines

as    Michael Dorn

2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

as    President Coriolanus Snow

2012
Treasure Island

as    Captain Flint

2012
The Hunger Games

as    President Coriolanus Snow