Kiefer Sutherland

Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland
	Sutherland at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland; 21 December 1966 (age 57); London, England
Citizenship	Canada; United Kingdom;
Occupations	Actor; director; producer; singer;
Years active	1983–present
Spouses	Camelia Kath (m. 1987; div. 1990); Elizabeth Kelly Winn (m. 1996; div. 2004);
Partner(s)	Cindy Vela (2014–present; engaged)
Children	Sarah Sutherland
Parents	Donald Sutherland (father); Shirley Douglas (mother);
Relatives	Angus Sutherland (paternal half-brother); Rossif Sutherland (paternal half-brother); Francine Racette (stepmother); Adam Sinclair (former-step-son-in-law); Tommy Douglas (maternal grandfather);
Website	kiefersutherland.com
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Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland^[2] (born 21 December 1966)^[3] is a Canadian actor and musician. He is best known for his starring role as Jack Bauer^[4] in the Fox drama series 24 (2001–2010, 2014), for which he won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Satellite Awards.

Sutherland got his first leading film role in the Canadian drama The Bay Boy (1984), which earned him a Genie Award nomination.^[5] Since that time he has had a successful film career, starring in films such as Stand by Me (1986), The Lost Boys (1987), Young Guns (1988), Flatliners (1990), A Few Good Men (1992), The Three Musketeers (1993), Freeway (1996), A Time to Kill (1996), Dark City (1998), Phone Booth (2002), Melancholia (2011), Pompeii (2014), and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023).

He has also starred as Martin Bohm in the Fox drama Touch, and provided the facial motion capture and English voice for Venom Snake in the video games Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. He starred as President Tom Kirkman in the ABC/Netflix political drama series Designated Survivor.

Sutherland has been inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame and to Canada's Walk of Fame, and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zurich Film Festival.

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^ "Kiefer Sutherland Biography, Celebrity Facts and Awards". TV Guide. Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
^ Harp, Justin (19 September 2016). "Kiefer Sutherland says Jack Bauer "will not ever" return to 24 on television... but he's still open to a film". Digital Spy. Hearst Magazines UK. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
^ "The Bay Boy (1985)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 2 December 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2017.