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''.

Early life, family and education

Sutherland was born in Los Angeles to actor

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and his first wife, Camelia Kath. She is the granddaughter of Canadian actors

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and Shirley Douglas, and great-granddaughter of Canadian politician

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. She has an older half sister named Michelle Kath (from her mother's marriage to

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) who is married to actor Adam Sinclair. As a teen, Sutherland trained at the Crossroads Drama Conservatory in Los Angeles, before heading to New York to study at

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. In her final semester, she wrote and acted in a one-woman play, ''The Skin of a Grape.''

Career

With her ''

'' castmates, Sutherland won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for the series' sixth season.

Filmography

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sutherland, Sarah Living people 21st-century American actresses American film actresses American people of Canadian descent American people of English descent American people of German descent American people of Scottish descent American television actresses Actresses from Los Angeles

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Tisch School of the Arts alumni 1988 births