Shirley Douglas
Shirley Jean Douglas, OC ( born April 2, 1934 in Weyburn ) is a Canadian actress.
Private life
Shirley Douglas is the daughter of Tommy Douglas, a former prime minister of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, and Irma Dempsey. From a first marriage went forth a son. From 1966 to 1970 she was married to Donald Sutherland in second marriage. From this relationship, two children, the twins Kiefer and Rachel Sutherland went out.
Career
Douglas was acting at the age of 16 years and first attended the Banff School of Fine Arts and from 1950 to 1952 the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After she obtained her degree, she starred in British theater productions and performed sporadically on television. In 1957 she returned to Canada. In 1962, she was cast in a supporting role in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita.
Through her marriage with Donald Sutherland in 1967, she moved to California. In the United States, she was active in the civil rights movement. In the course of these activities, she was denied a work permit in the United States. In 1977 she returned to Canada and moved to Toronto. From this time she took over more frequently film and television roles, including Leading roles in the 1996 broadcast and 2001 television series Wind at My Back and the movie The Path to 9 /11 - way of terror, from the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the events leading to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 led is.