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=== 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, 1936β2010|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'' β 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 β 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 β Rossif, Angus, and Roeg<ref name=Observer/> β 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 [[FrΓ©dΓ©ric Rossif]]; and Angus's middle name is after [[Robert Redford]].<ref name=Observer/>
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