BREAKING NEWS: Legendary actor Donald Sutherland has died at age 88,b his family confirms.

He began as an engineering student at the University of Toronto but switched to English and started acting in school theatrical productions. While studying in Toronto, he met Lois Hardwick, an aspiring actress. They married in 1959 but divorced seven years later.

After graduating in 1956, he attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts to study acting. Sutherland began appearing in West End plays and British television. He then moved to Los Angeles where his on-screen career took off.

He married actress Shirley Douglas in 1966. The couple had twins Rachel and Kiefer, who was named after Warren Kiefer, the writer of Sutherland’s first film, “Castle of the Living Dead.” They divorced in 1971.

Kiefer would later become an Emmy-award-winning actor best known for his role as Jack Bauer in Fox’s “24.”

In 1972, he married actress Francine Racette. They had three children: Roeg, born in 1974 and named after the director Nicolas Roeg (“Don’t Look Now”); Rossif, born in 1978 and named after the director Frederick Rossif; and Angus Redford, born in 1979 and named after Robert Redford.

Rossif and Angus also became actors.

Before his death, Sutherland was working on his memoir “Made Up, But Still True,” which is due out Nov. 12.