Has Sutherland lived in the USA are this time and never gotten his American Citizenship? If not, this says a lot about what he has thought about the USA for years, even when his buddies like Carter and Clinton were in power.
It doesn't mention anywhere in his bio about him getting U. S. citizenship.
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Debate is what is needed, a politically clued-up Donald Sutherland said. "What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticised. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem."
What is not the answer, he argued, is to "railroad through an abrogation of the ABM treaty" as Bush has done, nor is it a missile defence system that will cost the country billions. "The reason the United States wants it, and unilaterally wants it, is because it makes them feel like they're better endowed as masculine individuals than the rest of the world. We all know that's a silly idea, in any relationship."
And, though he and his companion of nearly 30 years, actress Francine Racette, now divide their time among homes in Los Angeles, Paris, and Québec, he also remains forever faithful to his homeland. Recently, when National Post columnist Linda Frum inquired about his citizenship, Sutherland simply replied: "Canada is where my heart is."
DONALD SUTHERLAND
Date of Birth: July 17, 1934
Born in St. John, New Brunswick, Donald Sutherland got his first taste of show business as a disc jockey for a Nova Scotia radio station when he was only 14. The acting bug hit full time when he moved west to attend the University of Toronto where he took to the stage in a number of student productions.
After graduating in 1956, Sutherland moved to London to study acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He appeared in a few stage productions in London before landing his first film gig on an Italian horror flick in 1964.
Divorced twice, he has been married to third wife Francine Racette since 1972. They have three children together: Roeg, Rossif and Angus.
April 26, 2005
Donald Sutherland admits he would kill himself if he became severely ill - and he already knows how.
"I would probably do it with sleeping pills and a plastic bag over my head, a clear one, Velcro or taped," Sutherland grimly told interviewer Robin Milling at Tribeca Grill on Friday. The "Don't Look Now" star was "celebrating" the Tribeca Film Festival screening of Griffin Dunne's movie "Aurora Borealis," in which he plays a man with Parkinson's disease who enlists his grandson to help him commit suicide.
"To my wife's dismay, I've designed it for myself. But absolutely I would certainly [do it]," Sutherland added.