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Donald Sutherland
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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.
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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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Golden Globe Awards
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Name of the Game
The Graham Norton Show
The Oscars
The Simpsons
Honest Trailers
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Backstory
The Saint
Beerfest
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Lord of War
Promise Her Anything
Moonfall
JFK
The Kentucky Fried Movie
The Dirty Dozen
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The Undoing
Cold Mountain
Horrible Bosses
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
The Hunger Games
The Italian Job
Astro Boy
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Outbreak
A Time to Kill
Ad Astra
1900
Crossing Lines
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Kelly's Heroes
Gas
Backdraft
Pride & Prejudice
The Burnt Orange Heresy
The Eagle
Ask the Dust
The Mechanic
Fool's Gold
Disclosure
Virus
Citizen X
Path to War
The Pillars of the Earth
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
Lock Up
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Dirty Sexy Money
A Dry White Season
Stonehenge: Decoded
The Day of the Locust
Ordinary People
Trust
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Heaven Help Us
Production Credits
Murder in a Small Town
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