Lois Hardwick: Where is Donald Sutherland's ex-wife now?

Lois Hardwick is an actress and the ex-wife of Donald Sutherland. Lois Hardwick’s husband is an award-winning actor who has starred in dozens of titles throughout his career, showing no signs of slowing down with older age. Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films including The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H, Kelly’s Heroes, Klute, Don’t Look Now, and more recently Pride & Prejudice, The Mechanic, The Hunger Games franchise, and Ad Astra.

Lois Hardwick: Bio Summary

Full Name	Lois May Hardwick
famous as	Donald Sutherland’s ex-wife
Age	51 years old at the time of death
Date of Birth	July 22, 1917
Place of Birth	United States of America
Date of death	August 1968 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Zodiac sign	Leo
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Caucasian
Children	N/A
Parents	Donald Sutherland (m. 1959–1966)

Who was Donald Sutherland’s ex-wife, Sutherland?

Lois Hardwick was born on July 22, 1917, in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America to her parents. She was 51 years old at the time of her passing. Not much is known about her parents and siblings. However, she grew up in a nurturing environment that help her to find her talents at a very young age.

Lois Hardwick is an actress

Per IMDb, Lois started her acting career at a very young age. Lois Hardwick was a child actress of the 1920s. She started her career after she was chosen as the fourth actress after Virginia Davis, Margie Gay, and Dawn O’Day (later changed her stage name to “Anne Shirley”) to play “Alice” in the “Alice Comedies” film short series by Walt Disney.

Hardwick appeared in ten “Alice Comedies” films in 1927, six of which are considered lost according to IMDb. Her first appearance in the series was in “Alice’s Circus Daze” (1927), in which she played a circus acrobat. Her final appearance in the series was in “Alice in the Big League” (1927), in which she played a baseball umpire. After that, the Alice series came to an end due to financial difficulties for producer Walt Disney.

Hardwick’s acting career continued when she was cast to play the character “Mary Jane” in the “Buster Brown” film series (1925-1929). The series was an adaptation of a popular comic strip and Hardwick’s “Mary Jane” was the young protagonist’s love interest. After the series ended in 1929, Hardwick retired from acting.

Lois Hardwick and Donald Sutherland’s marriage

Donald Sutherland and Hardwick tied the knot in 1959. It is unclear how the couple’s paths crossed, which lead to their relationship and eventually marriage. Though they promised each other forever, things didn’t go as planned. The couple called their marriage a quit in 1966 after being together for about 7 years.

The reason behind their divorce was not made public. Lois Hardwick was the first woman Donald Sutherland took to the altar. The couple didn’t have any known children.

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Sutherland’s second marriage, which lasted from 1966 to 1970, was to Shirley Douglas, and then a third marriage to French Canadian actress Francine Racette in 1972, after meeting her on the set of the Canadian pioneer drama Alien Thunder. Though Sutherland didn’t have any children with Hadwick, the Hunger game actor has five children- Kiefer Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland, Rachel Sutherland, Angus Sutherland, and Roeg Sutherland- from his subsequent marriages.

What happened to Donald Sutherland’s ex-wife?

Per Whodatedwho, Lois Hardwick passed away two years later, after their divorce. She died in August 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The cause of her death has not been made public. She was 51 years old at the time of her sad dismay.