Since Sutherland had a near-death experience in the 1970s due to spinal meningitis, an infection of the fluid and membranes around the brain and spinal cord, people are often curious to know about his health and if he is still alive.
That is one reason you will find the internet littered with people all asking the same question — is Donald Sutherland still alive?
Donald Sutherland at the premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. (Photo: Instagram)
To answer that first, the actor — whose film career spans more than seven decades and has been nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards — is still alive and allegedly living a healthy life.
He is 86-year-old as of this writing.
During an interview with Reuters in September 2019, when the interviewer asked him if he ever imagined not working, Sutherland sarcastically responded by saying he would have to die to stop working.
“I do imagine it, it’s called dying, and I try not to imagine too much; I can imagine being dead but then I think about my wife and I don’t ever want to leave her,” he said while gushing about his longtime wife, Francine Racette.
Donald Sutherland with his wife Francine Racette in 2000. (Photo: Twitter)
The Citizen X star has been married to Racette, a French Canadian actress, since 1972.
He also shares three sons — Rossif Sutherland, Angus Redford Sutherland, and Roeg Sutherland — with her.
