
Donald Sutherland
1 FOLLOWER • 65 CREDITS • JUL 17, 1935 • 89
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

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Saint

Golden Globe Awards

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Name of the Game

The Graham Norton Show

The Simpsons

Honest Trailers

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Backstory

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 Undoing

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

Cold Mountain

Horrible Bosses

The Hunger Games

Astro Boy

The Italian Job

Lawmen: Bass Reeves

Ad Astra

A Time to Kill

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Outbreak

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

Crossing Lines

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

1900

Kelly's Heroes

Gas

The Eagle

Pride & Prejudice

The Burnt Orange Heresy

The Oscars

Backdraft

Swimming with Sharks

Virus

Disclosure

Ask the Dust

The Mechanic

Fool's Gold

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Pillars of the Earth

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Citizen X

Lock Up

Path to War

JFK: Destiny Betrayed

Dirty Sexy Money

Mr. Harrigan's Phone

Heaven Help Us

Trust

A Dry White Season

Stonehenge: Decoded

Ordinary People

The Day of the Locust
Production Credits
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