Kiefer Sutherland

KIEFER SUTHERLAND starred in the critically acclaimed Fox drama, 24, for which he has won a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy Award and two SAG Awards, for Best Actor in a Drama Series. The show has also won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. 24 returned to FOX in January 2010 for the show's eighth and final season. 24 has enjoyed tremendous success overseas, making it one of the top shows airing internationally. 24: Redemption, a made for television movie that bridges season six and season seven of the television series, aired on November 23, 2008. The television movie has been nominated for five Emmy awards, including one for Sutherland for Best Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries.

Sutherland starred in DreamWorks Animation's Monsters vs. Aliens. He voiced the character WR Monger, the prison warden of the monsters. Additionally, Sutherland starred in New Regency's thriller Mirrors as a troubled ex-cop who must save his family from an unspeakable evil that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home. In 2006, Sutherland starred in The Sentinel with Michael Douglas and Kim Basinger. In 2004, Sutherland starred in the independent film, The River Queen opposite Samantha Morton. The film was shot in New Zealand and was directed by Vincent Ward.

In 2003, Sutherland starred in Taking Lives, opposite Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke. Sutherland also provided the narration in another Warner Bros. film, NASCAR: The Imax Experience. The year before, Sutherland starred in the Fox film, Phone Booth, directed by Joel Schumacher.

Sutherland also starred in the limited release of the World War II drama To End All Wars. The screenplay was based on the best-selling book, Through the Valley of the Kwai which is an account of life as a POW in a Southeast Asian prison camp. The film also starred Robert Carlyle, Ciaran McMenarrin and Mark Strong and successfully screened at both the Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals in 2002.

In 1998, Sutherland was seen starring in Showtime's critically-acclaimed original picture, A Soldier's Sweetheart with Skeet Ulrich and Georgina Cates.

In 1997, Sutherland co-starred with William Hurt and Rufus Sewell in the Newline production, Dark City. Directed by Alex Proyas, Dark City was a special presentation at the Cannes Film Festival. Sutherland also added his second directorial credit and starred in Truth or Consequences, alongside Kevin Pollak, Mykelti Williamson, Rod Steiger and Martin Sheen.

In the 1996 Paramount thriller, Eye for an Eye, directed by John Schlesinger, Sutherland portrayed an unremorseful, brutal murderer opposite Sally Field and Ed Harris. Later that summer, he co-starred with Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock and Matthew McConaughey in the screen adaptation of John Grisham's novel, A Time to Kill.

In 1993, Sutherland starred in Touchstone Pictures' The Three Musketeers, based on the classic tale by Alexandre Dumas. The same year, he made his directorial debut in the critically acclaimed Showtime film Last Light, in which he starred opposite Forest Whitaker.

Sutherland's first major role was in the Canadian drama, The Bay Boy, 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 and in the telefilm Trapped in Silence with Marsha Mason.

In 1992, Sutherland starred opposite Ray Liotta and Forest Whitaker in Orion Pictures' Article 99, and in Castle Rock's military drama A Few Good Men. In 1994, he starred with Jeff Bridges and Nancy Travis in the American version of The Vanishing for 20th Century Fox.

Sutherland's other film credits include Flatliners, Chicago Joe and the Showgirl, 1969, Flashback, Young Guns, Young Guns 2, Bright Lights, Big City, The Lost Boys, Promised Land, At Close Range and Stand By Me.

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