Kiefer Sutherland's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) 24 Jack Bauer Touch Martin Bohm The Charlie Rose Show Kiefer Suth… Doctors Without Borders Narrator

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Twelve 2010 - Marmaduke 2009 - Monsters vs. Aliens 2008 - Mirrors 2006 - I Trust You to Kill Me 2006 - The Sentinel 2006 - The Wild 2005 - River Queen 2004 - NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience 2004 - Taking Lives 2003 - Paradise Found 2002 - Phone Booth 2002 - Desert Saints 2002 - Dead Heat 2000 - Beat 2000 - Picking Up the Pieces 1998 - Dark City 1997 - Truth or Consequences, N.M. 1996 - Eye For An Eye 1996 - A Time to Kill 1996 - The Last Days of Frankie the Fly 1996 - Freeway 1994 - The Cowboy Way 1993 - The Three Musketeers 1993 - The Vanishing 1992 - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 1992 - Article 99 1992 - A Few Good Men 1990 - The Nutcracker Prince 1990 - Flatliners 1990 - Young Guns II 1990 - Chicago Joe and the Showgirl 1989 - Renegades 1988 - Young Guns 1988 - Bright Lights, Big City 1988 - 1969 1987 - The Killing Time 1987 - The Lost Boys 1986 - Stand by Me 1986 - At Close Range

BIOGRAPHY:

Kiefer Sutherland was born on December 21st, 1966 in London, England, UK to parents Donald Sutherland (I) and Shirley Douglas. He got his first film role in the movie Max Dugan Returns (1983). Sutherland's first major role was in the Canadian drama, The Bay Boy (1984), which earned Sutherland and director Daniel Petrie, Genie award nominations for best actor and best director, respectively. Following his success in "The Bay Boy", Sutherland eventually moved to Los Angeles and landed television appearances in "The Mission", an episode of "Amazing Stories" (1985) and in the telefilm Trapped in Silence (1986) (TV) with Marsha Mason.

In 1992, Sutherland starred opposite Ray Liotta and Forest Whitaker in Article 99 (1992) and in the military drama A Few Good Men (1992) also starring Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise. Later, in 1994, he starred with Jeff Bridges (I) and Nancy Travis in the American version of The Vanishing (1993) for Twentieth Century Fox.

In 1997, he co-starred with William Hurt (I) and Rufus Sewell in Dark City (1998), directed by Alex Proyas, which was a special presentation at the Cannes Film Festival. Sutherland also added his second directorial credit and starred in Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997) alongside Kevin Pollak, Mykelti Williamson, Rod Steiger and Martin Sheen. He currently stars in the Fox drama "24" (2001) as Jack Bauer for which he has earned a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series. Most recently he has been seen in the movie Phone Booth (2002) as a man who calls up someone at a phone booth and threatens to kill them if they hang up.


TRIVIA:

• Has spent 15 hours a day, six days a week, for the last five years on the set of _"24" (2001)_ (qv).
• For his role in _The Wild (2006)_ (qv), he had to practice roaring like a lion. Rather than doing it at his home with his daughter and stepdaughter around, he practiced in his car while driving on the freeway, completely unaware of a woman in the next lane watching him.
• He left Canada to do commercials in New York. In 1983 he landed a jeans advertisement and got enough money to buy a car and go to California.
• Ranked #68 on the 2006 Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world's most powerful celebrities. His earnings were a reported $23 million.
• On January 23, 2005, became the first _"Inside the Actors Studio" (1994)_ (qv) guest to be the offspring of a former guest. His father, 'Donald Sutherland (I)' (qv) appeared on the show in 1998.
• Shares a birthday with 'Jane Fonda' (qv), 'Samuel L. Jackson' (qv), and 'Ray Romano (I)' (qv).
• Is seven minutes older than sister 'Rachel Sutherland (I)' (qv).
• Has a 1967 Chevy Chevelle that he has a "personal attachment to"