Donald Sutherland has died at the age of 88 , leaving behind his wife Francine Racette, sons Roeg, Rossif, Angus, and Kiefer, and daughter Rachel. The actor has had four grandchildren. Donald got married three times .
His first marriage, to Lois May Hardwick, lasted from 1959 to 1966. His second marriage was to Shirley Douglas. Donald and Shirley were married from 1966 to 1970 and they had two children, twins Kiefer and Rachel.
He then married the French Canadian actress and his costar Francine Racette in 1972, after meeting her on the set of Alien Thunder. The couple welcomed three sons together, Rossif Sutherland, Angus Redford Sutherland, and Roeg Sutherland. Donald and Francine stayed together for five decades.
He previously opened up about the decisions that he made in his career, and The Hunger Games star talked about his relationship with Francine. “Everything was my fault. I was so dumb,” he told the Guardian in 2005.
“But if I hadn’t made the mistakes I made , I wouldn’t have met the wonderful woman I’ve been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.” Francine was born in September 1947 in Quebec, Canada. She graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1966.
She is also an actor and has worked in American and French films. She worked in films like Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Lumière, and Les Vilaines Manières. She worked with her late husband twice, and they co-starred in Alien Thunder and The Disappearance.
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