Canadian
actress
and
civil
rights
activist
Shirley
Douglas
died
on
Sunday
at
the
age
of
86,
her
son
actor
Kiefer
Sutherland
said.
Douglas
died
following
a
bout
of
pneumonia.
Sutherland
wrote
on
Twitter,
specifying
that
it
was
not
related
to
the
Novel
Coronavirus
pandemic.
"My
mother
was
an
extraordinary
woman
who
led
an
extraordinary
life," wrote
Sutherland,
best
known
as
agent
Jack
Bauer
in
the
TV
thriller
24.
"Sadly
she
had
been
battling
for
her
health
for
quite
some
time
and
we,
as
a
family,
knew
this
day
was
coming," he
wrote.
Douglas
spent
her
acting
career
between
Canada
and
Hollywood,
where
she
worked
with
big
directors
such
as
Stanley
Kubrick
and
David
Cronenberg.
She
is
also
known
for
campaigning
for
several
progressive
causes,
including
the
civil
rights
movement
and
the
Black
Panthers
in
the
1960s
and
later,
defending
Canada's
public
healthcare
system.
Douglas
had
three
children,
two
of
them,
including
Kiefer,
with
Canadian-born
Hollywood
actor
Donald
Sutherland.
She
was
the
daughter
of
Tommy
Douglas,
the
founder
of
Canada's
medicare
system
and
a
one-time
Prime
Minister
of
the
western
Canadian
province
of
Saskatchewan.