# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-sutherland
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:47:28.496Z

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description: "Six decades, no Oscar nomination — yet Sutherland became the actor other actors studied. That angular face and cool, unsettling presence carried him from the anarchic bite of M*A*S*H to the cold cruelty of President Snow, a range so wide the Academy finally issued an honorary statue in 2017 just to close the gap."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Canada on 17 July 1935 and rose through 1960s war films — The Dirty Dozen in 1967, then M*A*S*H and Kelly's Heroes in 1970 — before settling into a rhythm of leading and character work that never quit. He moved through Klute, the eerie Don't Look Now, Fellini's Casanova, Animal House, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Ordinary People, and dozens more across four decades, then found a late commercial apex as the despotic President Snow in The Hunger Games franchise. Television brought him an Emmy for Citizen X in 1995 and a Golden Globe for Path to War in 2002. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978, elevated to Companion in 2019, and remained a vocal anti-war activist from Vietnam onward. He died 20 June 2024, father to three actors, never Oscar-nominated but impossible to forget.