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== Personal life == Sutherland was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] on 22 December 1978,<ref name="OCC">{{cite news |title=Order of Canada honors 64 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-hamilton-spectator/149818359/ |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=[[The Hamilton Spectator]] |agency=[[The Canadian Press]] |date=23 December 1978 |page=16 |archive-date=22 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240622063336/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-hamilton-spectator/149818359/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gg.ca/en/media/news/2019/governor-general-announces-83-new-appointments-order-canada|title=Governor General Announces 83 New Appointments to the Order of Canada|last=General|first=Office of the Secretary to the Governor|date=20 June 2019|website=The Governor General of Canada|access-date=27 June 2019|archive-date=28 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628034534/https://www.gg.ca/en/media/news/2019/governor-general-announces-83-new-appointments-order-canada|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was inducted into [[Canada's Walk of Fame]] in March 2000.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sutherland, Young get stars on Canada's Walk of Fame |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/423095370 |access-date=20 June 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |agency=[[Canwest]] |date=31 March 2000 |id={{ProQuest|423095370}} |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621142322/https://www.proquest.com/docview/423095370 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/inductees/00_donald_sutherland.xml.htm Canada's Walk of Fame: Donald Sutherland, actor] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061030073843/http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/inductees/00_donald_sutherland.xml.htm |date=30 October 2006 }}, canadaswalkoffame.com; accessed 15 June 2014.</ref> He had maintained a residence in [[Georgeville, Quebec|Georgeville]], a village in Quebec,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ould-Hammou |first1=Hénia |last2=Stevenson |first2=Verity |title=Donald Sutherland, famed actor dead at 88, remembered 'like a Quebecer' |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/donald-sutherland-obit-quebec-1.7242299 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=[[CBC News]] |date=21 June 2024 |archive-date=22 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240622064626/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/donald-sutherland-obit-quebec-1.7242299 |url-status=live }}</ref> since 1977. Referred to as his "emotional home," Sutherland occupied this house during the summer. He had additional houses in other places, including Paris, France. Sutherland also owned a [[condominium]] in [[Miami]], Florida.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2024/06/20/donald-sutherland-death-florida-hunger-games-mash/74158943007/ |title=Beloved actor and Florida resident Donald Sutherland dies at 88 |work=The Palm Beach Post |last1=Bridges |first1=C. A. |last2=Alexander |first2=Bryan |date=20 June 2024 |access-date=31 March 2025 |archive-date=29 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250329163654/https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2024/06/20/donald-sutherland-death-florida-hunger-games-mash/74158943007/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Donald Sutherland's talent, kindness remembered in Hollywood and back home in Canada |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/donald-sutherland-quebec-canada-memories-1.7241920 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=[[CBC News]] |date=20 June 2024 |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621164432/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/donald-sutherland-quebec-canada-memories-1.7241920 |url-status=live }}</ref> === Marriages and family === {{Quote box | quote = Me and my dad really got to know each other after I left home at 15. My parents split when I was three and my mum, sister and I moved to Canada, so I didn't live with my dad. I would see him at Christmas and for a couple of weeks in the summer. I certainly did see him, but it was really relegated to around holidays. | source = [[Kiefer Sutherland]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Georgina |date=2024-07-07 |title=Kiefer Sutherland: 'I got to know my dad after I left home at 15' |url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/kiefer-sutherland-interview-donald-sutherland-nz6hn63h8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701125109/https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/kiefer-sutherland-interview-donald-sutherland-nz6hn63h8 |archive-date=2024-07-01 |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=www.thetimes.com |language=en}}</ref> | align = right | width = 220px }} Sutherland married three times. His first marriage, to Lois May Hardwick, a head school teacher,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Lois Sutherland, 1936–2010|url=http://www.the-archer.co.uk/archive/2010/2010Dec09.pdf|url-status=live|website=The Archer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601130149/http://www.the-archer.co.uk:80/archive/2010/2010Dec09.pdf |archive-date=1 June 2011}}</ref> lasted from 1959 to 1966. His second marriage, which lasted from 1966 to 1970, was to [[Shirley Douglas]], daughter of [[Tommy Douglas]], the social democratic former [[premier of Saskatchewan]].<ref name="Observer">[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/mar/30/television.television ''The Observer''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129193027/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/mar/30/television.television |date=29 January 2017 }}, 30 March 2008: ''On the money'' – interview with Donald Sutherland; retrieved 16 June 2012.</ref> Sutherland and Douglas had two children, twins Kiefer and Rachel.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kaloi |first1=Stephanie |title=Donald Sutherland's 5 Children: All About His Sons and Daughter |url=https://people.com/parents/all-about-donald-sutherland-kids/ |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=20 June 2024 |language=en |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621041737/https://people.com/parents/all-about-donald-sutherland-kids/ |url-status=live }}</ref> From 1970 to 1972, he had an affair with ''[[Klute]]'' co-star [[Jane Fonda]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cinema.com/news/item/3394/donald-sutherlands-love-for-jane-fonda.phtml|title=Donald Sutherland's Love For Jane Fonda|date=14 March 2001|author=World Entertainment News Network|work=www.cinema.com|access-date=21 July 2023|archive-date=29 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029185233/https://www.cinema.com/news/item/3394/donald-sutherlands-love-for-jane-fonda.phtml|url-status=live}}</ref> with whom he had participated in anti-Vietnam war activism.<ref>{{cite news |title=Donald Sutherland, magnetic Hollywood star whose work ranged from Don't Look Now to The Hunger Games – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/06/20/donald-sutherland-hollywood-dont-look-now-mash-hunger-games/ |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=20 June 2024 |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621222409/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/06/20/donald-sutherland-hollywood-dont-look-now-mash-hunger-games/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Sutherland married his long-term partner [[Francine Racette]] in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Christie and Sutherland |work=Irish Independent |date=25 May 1991 |accessdate=27 February 2025 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001715/19910525/161/0013| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The couple had been together since meeting on the set of the Canadian pioneer drama ''[[Alien Thunder]]'' in the early 1970s. They had three sons – Rossif, Angus, and Roeg<ref name=Observer/> – all of whom were named after directors Sutherland had worked with. Kiefer (his son with Douglas) is named after American-born director and writer [[Warren Kiefer]], who, under the assumed name of Lorenzo Sabatini,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Curti |first1=Roberto |title=Warren Kiefer: The Man Who Wasn't There |journal=Offscreen |date=December 2011 |volume=15 |issue=12 |url=http://www.offscreen.com/index.php/pages/essays/warren_kiefer |access-date=22 June 2024 |archive-date=17 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517071701/http://www.offscreen.com/index.php/pages/essays/warren_kiefer |url-status=live }}</ref> directed Sutherland in his first feature film, the Italian low-budget horror film ''Il castello dei morti vivi'' ''([[Castle of the Living Dead]])'';<ref>{{cite news |title=Donald Sutherland |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune/149817689/ |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=[[The South Bend Tribune]] |date=2 March 1985 |page=16 |archive-date=22 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240622060354/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune/149817689/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="FirstRoleCastle">{{Cite web |date=4 March 2016 |title=Castle Of The Living Dead |website=[[TV Guide]] |url=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/castle-of-the-living-dead/review/110496/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304212329/http://www.tvguide.com/movies/castle-of-the-living-dead/review/110496/ |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead |access-date=22 June 2024}}</ref> Roeg is named after director [[Nicolas Roeg]]; Rossif is named after French director [[Frédéric Rossif]]; and Angus's middle name is after [[Robert Redford]].<ref name=Observer/> === Politics === [[File:Rita Martenson, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.jpg|right|thumb|upright=.8|Sutherland (seated) performing in the [[anti-Vietnam War]] FTA ([[Free the Army|Free The Army]]) road show, 1971]] Sutherland was an antiwar activist who started the Free Theatre Associates (aka [[Free The Army tour|Free The Army]]) tour with [[Jane Fonda]], [[Peter Boyle]], [[Howard Hesseman]], [[Elliott Gould]], [[Mike Nichols]], [[Ben Vereen]], [[Dick Gregory]], [[Nina Simone]], and other celebrities as an alternative to [[Bob Hope]]'s [[United Service Organizations|USO]] in Vietnam.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saad |first=Nardine |date=20 June 2024 |title=Prolific actor Donald Sutherland, the stately star of 'MASH,' 'Ordinary People' and 'Hunger Games,' has died |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-06-20/donald-sutherland-dead-hunger-games-mash |access-date=21 June 2024 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en-US |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621142322/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-06-20/donald-sutherland-dead-hunger-games-mash |url-status=live }}</ref> Documents declassified in 2017 show that Sutherland was on the [[National Security Agency]] watchlist between 1971 and 1973 at the request of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] because of his [[Anti-war movement|anti-war]] activities.<ref>{{cite news |date=25 September 2017 |title=National Security Agency Tracking of U.S. Citizens – "Questionable Practices" from 1960s & 1970s |url=https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cybervault-intelligence-nuclear-vault/2017-09-25/national-security-agency-tracking-us |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103044145/https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cybervault-intelligence-nuclear-vault/2017-09-25/national-security-agency-tracking-us |archive-date=3 January 2020 |access-date=3 January 2020 |publisher=National Security Archive}}</ref> Sutherland was a vocal opponent of the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite news |title=FTA: unearthing Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland's anti-Vietnam war film |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/04/fta-jane-fonda-donald-sutherland-anti-vietnam-war-film |work=The Guardian |date=4 March 2021 |access-date=21 June 2024 |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621142343/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/04/fta-jane-fonda-donald-sutherland-anti-vietnam-war-film |url-status=live }}</ref> He also opposed the U.S.-led [[2003 invasion of Iraq|invasion of Iraq]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Interview: Jasper Gerard meets Donald Sutherland |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/interview-jasper-gerard-meets-donald-sutherland-rnk5kctcxgn |work=[[The Times]] |date=11 September 2005 |access-date=21 June 2024 |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621142325/https://www.thetimes.com/article/interview-jasper-gerard-meets-donald-sutherland-rnk5kctcxgn |url-status=live }}</ref> Sutherland became a blogger for the American [[news websites|news website]] ''[[The Huffington Post]]'' during the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 United States presidential election campaign]].<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-sutherland huffingtonpost.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080601210604/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-sutherland |date=1 June 2008 }}, blog entries by Donald Sutherland</ref> In his blogs, he stated his support for [[Barack Obama]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-sutherland/obama-for-president_b_112046.html|work=Huffington Post|first=Donald|last=Sutherland|title=Obama for President|date=10 July 2008|access-date=7 May 2013|archive-date=5 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105065657/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-sutherland/obama-for-president_b_112046.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Although he was proud to be Canadian, was an officer in the [[Order of Canada]], and had no intention of changing his citizenship, Sutherland complained in 2015 that he was not allowed to vote because he was an [[expatriate]] for over five years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 July 2015 |title=Donald Sutherland blasts ruling on long-term expats' right to vote |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/donald-sutherland-blasts-ruling-on-long-term-expats-right-to-vote-1.3171242 |website=cbc.ca |access-date=21 June 2024 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526025358/https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/donald-sutherland-blasts-ruling-on-long-term-expats-right-to-vote-1.3171242 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hopper |first=Tristin |date=29 July 2015 |title='I'm Canadian': Expat actor Donald Sutherland blasts inability to vote in federal elections |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/im-canadian-expat-donald-sutherland-blasts-inability-to-vote-in-canadian-federal-elections |website=National Post |access-date=21 June 2024 |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621142345/https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/im-canadian-expat-donald-sutherland-blasts-inability-to-vote-in-canadian-federal-elections |url-status=live }}</ref> The Supreme Court of Canada allowed expats to vote in national elections in a decision handed down in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Perkel |first=Colin |date=10 January 2019 |title=Was Canada's law banning expats from voting constitutional? The Supreme Court is set to weigh in |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/4835155/supreme-court-expat-voting-rights/ |access-date=21 June 2024 |website=Globalnews.ca |language=en-US |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326034728/https://globalnews.ca/news/4835155/supreme-court-expat-voting-rights/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Kathleen |date=11 January 2019 |title=Supreme Court of Canada guarantees voting rights for expats |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/supreme-court-expat-voting-rights-ruling-1.4970305 |website=cbc.ca |access-date=21 June 2024 |archive-date=10 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240610182700/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/supreme-court-expat-voting-rights-ruling-1.4970305 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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