Douglas was the mother of three children: Thomas Emil Sick from her marriage to
Canadian prairie brewery heir Timothy Emil Sicks in 1957, and twins Rachel Sutherland and
Kiefer Sutherland from her second marriage to Canadian actor
Donald Sutherland (1966–70).
Activism Douglas moved to Los Angeles, California in 1967 after marrying actor
Donald Sutherland. She became involved in the
American Civil Rights Movement, the campaign against the
Vietnam War, and later on behalf of immigrants and women. She helped establish the fundraising group "Friends of the
Black Panthers". In 1969, she was arrested in Los Angeles for Conspiracy to Possess Unregistered Explosives. According to a sworn statement by FBI agents, she allegedly attempted to purchase hand grenades from those FBI agents for the Black Panthers using a personal cheque. As her defence, she claimed the FBI was framing her by creating a crime where none existed prior to their involvement. Douglas co-founded the first chapter in Canada of the Performing Artists for Nuclear Disarmament. As the daughter of
Tommy Douglas, promoter of
Medicare, she was one of Canada's activists in favor of taxpayer funded health care instead of
privatised care. In the
2006 Canadian federal election, Douglas campaigned on behalf of the federal
New Democratic Party and in 2012 she supported
Brian Topp for that party's leadership. ==Filmography==