Donald Sutherland's wife, Francine Racette, has been his rock and companion for over five decades. The Canadian actress, born in Quebec, met Sutherland on the set of the 1972 film Alien Thunder.

Donald Sutherland, whose ability to both charm and unsettle, both reassure and repulse, was amply displayed in scores of film roles as diverse as a laid-back battlefield surgeon in “M*A*S*H,” ...