Shirley Douglas
Shirley Jean Douglas , OC (born April 2, 1934 in Weyburn , Saskatchewan , † April 5, 2020 in Toronto ) was a Canadian actress .
Private life
Shirley Douglas was the daughter of Tommy Douglas , a former Prime Minister of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan , and Irma Dempsey. A son was born from a first marriage. From 1966 to 1970 she was married to Donald Sutherland for the second time . This relationship resulted in two children, the twins Kiefer and Rachel Sutherland. Douglas died in April 2020, three days after her 86th birthday.
Career
Douglas was already acting at the age of 16 and attended the Banff School of Fine Arts and from 1950 to 1952 the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London . After graduating, she starred in British theater productions and appeared sporadically on television. In 1957 she returned to Canada. In 1962 she was hired for a supporting role in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita .
She moved to California in 1967 when she married Donald Sutherland . In the United States she was involved in the civil rights movement . During these activities, she was denied a work permit in the United States. In 1977 she returned to Canada and moved to Toronto . From this point on, she took on more film and television roles, u. a. Lead roles in the 1996 emitted to 2001 television series Wind at My Back and the film The Path to 9/11 - way of terror , that of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the events leading to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 led, acts.
Filmography (selection)
- 1955: Legion of Hell (Joe MacBeth)
- 1962: Lolita
- 1983: The Wars
- 1988: Dead Ringers (Dead Ringers)
- 1994: Mesmer
- 2000: The Law of Enclosures
- 2006: The Path to 9/11 - way of terror ( The Path to 9/11 , television series, two episodes)
Web links
- Shirley Douglas at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kiefer Sutherland pays tribute to 'extraordinary' mother, actress Shirley Douglas, dead at 86
- ↑ Shirley Douglas Biography (1934-) . filmreference.com. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
- ↑ Actress Shirley Douglas is dead , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on April 6, 2020
- ↑ Shirley Douglas Biography ( Memento of May 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed June 15, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Douglas, Shirley |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Douglas, Shirley Jean (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weyburn , Saskatchewan , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 2020 |
| Place of death | Toronto , Canada |