Shirley Douglas, a Canadian actor and activist, died on Sunday of complications from pneumonia. She was 86. Her son, actor Kiefer Sutherland, announced the sad news of her death on Twitter and spec…
Douglas graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1952 and performed on stage and TV for several years before returning to Canada in 1957. She appeared in projects like “Wind at My Back,” “The Stone Angel” and narrated the children’s program “Franklin.”
In 1997, she appeared on stage with Sutherland in “The Glass Menagerie” at the National Arts Centre’s Royal Alexandra Theatre. She was the daughter of Tommy Douglas, the premier of Saskatchewan and the first leader of Canada’s new Democratic Party. Throughout her life, she championed the civil rights movement, the Black Panther party and Canada’s public health care. In 2003, she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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