Sutherland was born July 17, 1935 in New Brunswick, Canada, later moving to Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Throughout his childhood he battled a number of serious illnesses including polio, rheumatic fever and spinal meningitis.
He left Canada to pursue an interest in acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and soon found work in TV and low-budget films.
He got a Hollywood breakthrough in the classic war film The Dirty Dozen, whose ensemble cast includes Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine and Jim Brown. It was the fifth highest grossing film of 1967.
After leaving London for Hollywood, Sutherland landed one of his most iconic roles in the 1970 anti-war comedy-drama MASH, originating the role of “Hawkeye” Pierce. MASH was one of the most successful films of the decade and is regarded as a classic.
Throughout the ’70s, Sutherland was a Hollywood leading man: his films include in the Oscar-winning Klute opposite Jane Fonda, the psychological horror Don’t Look Now, and the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He also appeared in the hit comedy Animal House.
In 1980, he starred in Robert Redford’s Ordinary People, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Other major films include Backdraft, JFK, Six Degrees of Separation, The Italian Job and Pride and Prejudice.
Sutherland also had success on TV, winning an Emmy Award for the 1995 film Citizen X, and a Golden Globe for the television film Path to War.
A younger generation of moviegoers was introduced to Sutherland through The Hunger Games, the hit dystopian blockbuster series: Sutherland starred as the villainous President Coriolanus Snow.
Though he surprisingly never received an Oscar nomination, he received an Academy Honorary Award in 2017, “for a lifetime of indelible characters, rendered with unwavering truthfulness.” He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011, and on the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2000.
Sutherland was married three times; he was married to actress Francine Racette for 52 years until his death. He was previously married to Lois May Hardwick and Shirley Douglas, and also had an affair with his Klute co-star Jane Fonda.
He had five children — including most famously his son Kiefer Sutherland, the actor best known for playing Jack Bauer in 24.
”I was too young to go watch my father’s films in the cinema,” Kiefer Sutherland told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017. “By the time I hit 20, VHS was available and a friend of my fathers had a lot of his films. In three days I watched Don’t Look Know, Klute, M*A*S*H, Kelly’s Heroes, 1900 and Fellini’s Casanova.”
“It was such a wide spectrum of characters, and I remember calling him up and I felt really badly that I grew up not knowing what a profoundly special actor he was, I felt horribly guilty of that. As a young actor, I had never known or seen another actor who’ve done characters so diverse either.”
Rest in peace to the iconic actor Donald Sutherland who lent his talents to so many great, classic movies — you will be missed 💔😢
What does a 69-year-old beautiful Veronica Castro look like, and what is the current status of “Wild Rose”?
She was recognizable to many people because of shows like “Wild Rose” and “The Rich Cry Too.” She was a fairly young actress back then, and she is now 69 years old. Today, we’ll tell you how she looks and what she did after the series. Veronica was born on October 19, 1952, in Mexico City. Her family, which also included two brothers and a sister, lived in squalor and struggled financially after her father left. At the university, my mother was a secretary.
Due to her low stature (153 cm), Veronica was teased at school and called names like “fat” and “short.” Later, when she was younger, the girl made the decision to focus on her appearance. She shed a lot of weight, even entered a beauty pageant, and started appearing in school plays and concerts.
After winning the “Face of the Year” competition in 1970, Veronica had offers to appear on television as a presenter and then as an actor. She started acting in the theater as well, and as time went on, she made fame and escaping poverty her main priorities in life.
Her new interest, singing, has developed into much more. Castro eventually started performing live. Since she was 19 years old, Veronica has been appearing in films; her first appearance was in the television series Love has a Female Face. Additionally, she has appeared in over 40 movies and TV shows in her filmography.
The names of the major characters, Marianne and Luis Alberto, have stuck in the memory for a very long time, even though the plot of the iconic serial “The Rich Also Cry” has long since been forgotten. The actual series was shot in 1979, and we started airing it in 1991.
Additionally, you are undoubtedly aware that Castro sang the soundtracks for the series screensavers for “Wild Rose” and “The Rich Cry Too” if you remember them. After the premiere of the television series House of Flowers in 2018, Veronica called it quits.
The actress’s personal life did not work out, but this did not prevent her from giving birth to children. She has two beautiful sons — Christian (46 years old), who became a singer, and Michelle (36 years old) — became a director.
Castro visited Russia in 1992 to film “Meeting with Rose.” She also performed on the program “Minute of Fame” during her second visit, which took place in 2010, and she joined the jury for that issue.
Veronica Castro currently owns a chain of cosmetics and perfume shops as well as her own cosmetics line, «Veronica Castro».
The actress maintains her beauty with both her lifestyle and plastic surgery, and she looks terrific. She exercises and plays tennis. also keeps on singing and working in TV. And even if the actress declared that her film career was over, it’s possible that she will still receive offers to participate in projects.
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