Donald Sutherland is one of the most prolific and versatile of motion picture actors, whose offbeat elegance is evident in an astonishing array of more than one hundred films. These films range from the biting political satire of Robert Altman's M.A.S.H. to the intimate drama of Robert Redford's Ordinary People to the subtle intricacy of Alan Pakula's Klute to the eccentric romanticism of Fellini's Casanova.

Born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, Sutherland began his multi-media career as a fledgling disc jockey, at fourteen years of age, and won acclaim for a vivid radio portrayal of Scrooge in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. His first real taste of theater came via a variety of roles in campus productions at the University of Toronto. His performance in a production of The Tempest brought him to the attention of Herbert Whitaker, then critic of the Toronto Globe and Mail, who suggested to Sutherland that he seriously consider an acting career--rather than engineering as he planned.

Before earning his degree, he moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and made his London stage debut in August for the People with Rex Harrison and Rachel Roberts, and spent the next several years there performing in theatre and television.

In 1964 producer Paul Maslansky signed Sutherland for a dual role in The Castle of the Living Dead, filmed in Italy. Then followed a brief series of other horror films, including Die! Die! My Darling with the inimitable Tallulah Bankhead.

M.A.S.H. which was Sutherland's fourteenth motion picture, brought him international stardom.

During the eighteen months or so preceding Ordinary People, Sutherland starred in A Man, a Woman, and a Bank; a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers; The Great Train Robbery; Murder by Decree, Bear Island and Nothing Personal, as well as a cameo appearance in the National Lampoon classic Animal House.

Following Ordinary People, Sutherland starred in Richard Marquand's Eye of the Needle, and Richard Pearce's Threshold, for which he received the 1983 Genie Award as Best Actor, Canada's equivalent of the Oscars.

1981 marked Sutherland's return to the stage in a Broadway production of (Edward Albee's adaptation of) Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita on Broadway, and in 1983 he made his American television debut in an adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent for Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Sutherland recently starred with James Garner, Tommy Lee Jones and Clint Eastwood in Eastwood’s Space Cowboys, The Art of War, and Feng Xiaogang’s Big Shot’s Funeral. Television projects include Behind the Mask, The Hunley, Uprising, and Path to War.

Sutherland recently appeared at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre of Lincoln Center in Jon Robin Baitz’s "Ten Unknowns" earning Sutherland an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for "Best Actor," and starred in London opposite John Rubenstein in Enigmatic Variations," an English-language translation, by his son Roeg Sutherland, of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s hit French play.