Donald Sutherland

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On March 26, 2012, Sutherland appeared on the Opie and Anthony radio show to promote the release of the first Hunger Games film, in which he portrayed President Snow. During the interview, he revealed that, for his role in Animal House, he declined an offer by Universal Studios to receive 2% of the film’s gross earnings and instead opted for a flat one-day fee. That decision earned him $50,000, while the 2% stake would ultimately have totaled around $2.8 million.

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Birth Date: 17 Jul, 1935
Age: 84 yrs
Citizenship: Canada

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Birth Place: Saint John
residence: Stanstead
Gender: Male
Description: Canadian actor
Net Worth 2021: 60 million

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Sutherland also shared that he had been offered leading roles in the films Deliverance and Straw Dogs but turned them down due to discomfort with the violent content of those scripts at that stage in his career.

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