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Birth Date: July 17, 1935
Birth Place: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Donald Sutherland's career as an actor encompasses over 100 films. These include such classics as Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen; Robert Altman's MASH; Alan J. Pakula's Klute (opposite Jane Fonda); Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (opposite Julie Christie); John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust; Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900; Federico Fellini's Casanova; John Landis' National Lampoon's Animal House; Robert Redford's Ordinary People (opposite Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton); and Oliver Stone's JFK.
Mr. Sutherland's many other films include Paul Mazursky's Alex in Wonderland; Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Bob Clark's Murder by Decree; Richard Marquand's Eye of the Needle; Richard Pearce's Threshold; Euzhan Palcy's A Dry White Season; Fred Schepisi's Six Degrees of Separation; Barry Levinson's Disclosure; Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill; Robert Towne's Without Limits; Clint Eastwood's Space Cowboys; F. Gary Gray's The Italian Job; and Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain.
He will shortly be seen starring in Griffin Dunne's Fierce People (opposite Diane Lane); Robert Edwards' Land of the Blind (opposite Ralph Fiennes); Aric Avelino's American Gun (opposite Sissy Spacek); James C.E. Burke's Aurora Borealis (opposite Louise Fletcher and Juliette Lewis); and Robert Towne's Ask the Dust (opposite Salma Hayek).
Mr. Sutherland won Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for his performance in Chris Gerolmo's Citizen X, and won a second Golden Globe Award for his performance in John Frankenheimer's Path to War.
He is currently at work on the new ABC dramatic series Commander-in-Chief, in which he stars as the Speaker of the House, opposite Geena Davis as the first female U.S. President.
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