Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland was born on 21 December 1966 and is a British-Canadian actor and musician.
52 Facts About Kiefer Sutherland
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Kiefer Sutherland is best known for his starring role as Jack Bauer in the Fox drama series 24, for which he won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Satellite Awards.
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Kiefer Sutherland has 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.
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Kiefer 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 was born on 21 December 1966 at St Mary's Hospital in the Paddington district of London, to Donald Kiefer Sutherland and Shirley Douglas, both successful Canadian actors who had been living and working in England.
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Kiefer Sutherland has a twin sister, Rachel Sutherland, who works as a post-production film supervisor.
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Kiefer Sutherland's maternal grandfather was Scottish-born Canadian politician and former Premier of Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas, who is widely credited for bringing universal health care to Canada.
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In 1975, Kiefer Sutherland moved with his mother to Toronto, Ontario.
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Kiefer Sutherland attended Crescent Town Elementary School, St Clair Junior High East York, and John G Althouse Middle School in Toronto.
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Kiefer Sutherland attended several high schools, including St Andrew's College, Martingrove Collegiate Institute, Harbord Collegiate Institute, Silverthorn Collegiate Institute, Malvern Collegiate Institute, and Annex Village Campus.
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Kiefer Sutherland spent a semester at Regina Mundi Catholic College in London, Ontario and attended weekend acting lessons at Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School.
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Kiefer Sutherland made his screen debut in Max Dugan Returns, in which his father Donald Kiefer Sutherland starred.
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Kiefer Sutherland was one of the contenders for the role of Glen Lantz in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, which ultimately became Johnny Depp's feature film debut.
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Kiefer Sutherland next appeared as vampire David in Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys in 1987.
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Kiefer Sutherland was considered for the role of Robin in Batman, alongside Michael Keaton, in the early production before the character was deleted from the shooting script.
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Kiefer Sutherland went on to star again with his close friend Lou Diamond Phillips, in the crime-action film Renegades.
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Kiefer Sutherland starred as the lead in Flatliners, with an ensemble cast featuring Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon, a film about a student who wants to "experience" death's afterlife and record what happens during it, with the help of a group of young students who are "a little" crazy like him; the film received positive reviews from critics.
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Kiefer Sutherland plays a young FBI agent coming to terms with his life in a commune in Flashback alongside Dennis Hopper.
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Kiefer Sutherland played a supporting character in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, the continuation of the short-lived television series of the same name which ran from 1990 to 1991, as agent Sam Stanley; and in A Few Good Men, where he played a junior officer subordinate to Jack Nicholson's Col.
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Kiefer Sutherland starred with Reese Witherspoon in Freeway, which gained a cult following.
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Kiefer Sutherland starred with Sally Field in the thriller Eye for an Eye, and he appeared in A Time to Kill alongside his father Donald Sutherland.
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Kiefer Sutherland starred in the film Ground Control where he played Jack Harries, an air traffic controller who had a perfect record until one air crash haunts him to leave the business.
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Since then, Kiefer Sutherland has starred in small projects and festival-released films.
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Kiefer Sutherland starred in the film Beat, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000.
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Kiefer Sutherland appeared in 2001 film Cowboy Up, which won the Crystal Heart Award at the 2001 Heartland Film Festival.
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Kiefer Sutherland starred in the film To End All Wars, which won two awards at the Heartland Film Festival and one award at the Hawaii International Film Festival.
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Since 2001, Kiefer Sutherland has been associated most widely with the role of Jack Bauer on the critically acclaimed television series 24.
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Kiefer Sutherland was nominated for Best actor in a Drama Television Series at the 2007 Golden Globe Awards for 24.
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Kiefer Sutherland played the lead roles in Alexandre Aja's supernatural horror, Mirrors.
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In 2005, Kiefer Sutherland was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, where both of his parents have been inducted.
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Kiefer Sutherland was the first Inside the Actors Studio guest to be the child of a former guest; his father, Donald, appeared on the show in 1998.
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Kiefer Sutherland has starred in Japanese commercials for CalorieMate, performing a parody of his Jack Bauer character.
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Kiefer Sutherland provides voice-overs for the current ad campaign for the Ford Motor Company of Canada.
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Kiefer Sutherland shared the screen with Hurt another time, this time on the small screen, in the web series The Confession.
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Kiefer Sutherland provided narration for several promotional spots for the United States Men's National Soccer Team during the 2014 FIFA World Cup for ESPN.
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Kiefer Sutherland has appeared in a Brazilian TV commercials for Citroen C4 sedan and a voice-over for a commercial for Bank of America.
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In 2011, Kiefer Sutherland made his Broadway debut, opposite Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth and Jason Patric, in the Broadway revival of That Championship Season, which opened in March 2011.
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In 2012, Kiefer Sutherland starred in the Fox television series Touch.
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Kiefer Sutherland played the father of an autistic boy who does not like to be touched, while the son communicates future humanity interrelated events to his father through numbers and mathematics.
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In 2015, it was announced that Kiefer Sutherland was cast in the lead role of the former ABC political drama series Designated Survivor as Tom Kirkman, the President of the United States.
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In 2016, Kiefer Sutherland released his first album, Down in a Hole, and a music video for "Not Enough Whiskey" from the album.
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The Kiefer Sutherland Band toured in April and May of that year, and debuted at the Grand Ole Opry on June 6,2016.
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Sarah Kiefer Sutherland is an actress and appeared on the TV series Veep.
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Roberts broke the engagement three days before the wedding allegedly because Kiefer Sutherland had been meeting with a go-go dancer named Amanda Rice.
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Kiefer Sutherland denied having an affair with Rice and said that they only met because he liked to play pool.
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Kiefer Sutherland was charged in Los Angeles on 25 September 2007, on drunk driving charges, after failing a field sobriety test.
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Kiefer Sutherland's test exceeded the state's legal blood alcohol limit, and he was later released on a $25,000 bail.
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Kiefer Sutherland pleaded no contest to the DUI charge and was sentenced to 48 days in jail.
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Kiefer Sutherland surrendered to the NYPD on 6 May 2009 for head-butting fashion designer Jack McCollough, founder and co-designer of Proenza Schouler, at The Mercer Hotel in SoHo following a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Kiefer Sutherland is the co-owner of the independent record label Ironworks.
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Kiefer Sutherland reportedly fell victim to a financial scam involving cattle in 2010.
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Kiefer Sutherland is a member of a Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.