She continued to act; and her career encompassed several memorable roles on stages in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. She portrayed prominent feminist Nellie McClung, family matriarch and business woman May Bailey in the television series "Wind at My Back", Hagar Shipley in Margaret Laurence's "The Stone Angel", and even characters in popular science fiction series like "The Silver Surfer" and "Flash Gordon". In 1997, Douglas appeared on stage with her son Kiefer Sutherland at the Royal Alexandra Theatre and at the National Arts Centre in "The Glass Menagerie". In 2000, she performed on stage in "The Vagina Monologues". In 2006, she portrayed former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in the ABC mini-series "The Path to 9/11".