Rossif Sutherland
- Actor
- Composer
- Producer
Rossif Sutherland is a Canadian actor, son of Donald Sutherland and
Francine Racette, who got his acting debut in a short film he directed
while studying at Princeton University after his lead actor was a
no-show on the first day of shooting.. Encouraged by his father, Rossif
studied with Harold Guskin in New York, coach to Kevin Kline, Glen
Close and the late James Gandolfini. He got his professional debut in
Richard Donner's Timeline as a young French archaeologist. His first
lead role was in Clement Virgo's Poor Boy's Game, playing an amateur
boxer recently released from jail on a journey to redemption. The film
starred Danny Glover and traveled the world's festivals including
Toronto and Berlin. He was then in Gary Yates' High Life, starring
Timothy Olyphant, portraying a morphine addict Don Juan who gets his
pills from seducing nurses and gets to play cowboy for a day when he
teams up with three other addicts to rob a bank. He was nominated for a
Genie for his performance in the film. Rossif bounces around from one
TV show to the next. He did a season of ER, King, and most recently
Reign in which he played Nostradamus. He was nominated for an Actra
award for his performance in Flashpoint playing an escaped convict who
suffers from a crippling speech impediment desperate for justice having
been wrongfully accused . His ambition was never to be an actor, he
grew up in Paris far from Hollywood (he is fluent in French as a
result), and spent his time writing and singing. However challenging it
was for him to start a career in the shadows of his very successful
father and brother, his love of the work has driven him to commit whole
heartedly to the privileged life of experiencing the life of others.
Francine Racette, who got his acting debut in a short film he directed
while studying at Princeton University after his lead actor was a
no-show on the first day of shooting.. Encouraged by his father, Rossif
studied with Harold Guskin in New York, coach to Kevin Kline, Glen
Close and the late James Gandolfini. He got his professional debut in
Richard Donner's Timeline as a young French archaeologist. His first
lead role was in Clement Virgo's Poor Boy's Game, playing an amateur
boxer recently released from jail on a journey to redemption. The film
starred Danny Glover and traveled the world's festivals including
Toronto and Berlin. He was then in Gary Yates' High Life, starring
Timothy Olyphant, portraying a morphine addict Don Juan who gets his
pills from seducing nurses and gets to play cowboy for a day when he
teams up with three other addicts to rob a bank. He was nominated for a
Genie for his performance in the film. Rossif bounces around from one
TV show to the next. He did a season of ER, King, and most recently
Reign in which he played Nostradamus. He was nominated for an Actra
award for his performance in Flashpoint playing an escaped convict who
suffers from a crippling speech impediment desperate for justice having
been wrongfully accused . His ambition was never to be an actor, he
grew up in Paris far from Hollywood (he is fluent in French as a
result), and spent his time writing and singing. However challenging it
was for him to start a career in the shadows of his very successful
father and brother, his love of the work has driven him to commit whole
heartedly to the privileged life of experiencing the life of others.