Kiefer Sutherland is a Canadian-American actor, born in London (England) who currently has a net worth of $75 million. He is well known worldwide for his character Jack Bauer from the T.V series “24”.
Kiefer Sutherland was born in London (England) on December 22nd, 1966. His parents are Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas, both Canadian actors. His maternal grandfather was a prominent Canadian politician, Tommy Douglas, prime minister of the Saskatchewan region, and founder of the social security system in that country. He has a twin sister, Rachel Sutherland, and three half-brothers, actors Rossif Sutherland, Angus Sutherland and Roeg Sutherland.
His family moved to Corona (California) by divorce from his parents in 1972. In 1975, he moved with his mother to Toronto, where he was educated at a Catholic school.
Career.
Kiefer felt from a very young age interested by the world of the interpretation. After his fleeting appearance in one of his father’s films, Hello, Mr. Dugan, he would achieve his first important protagonist role on the film, The Bay Boy. For this role, he obtained a nomination to the Genie Awards, the Canadian Film Academy Awards, in the category of best actor, which encouraged him to move to the United States to try his luck. He excelled there in the cast of new actors for his ability to adjust his physique to the needs of his roles and, especially, to specialize in villains such as the vampire David of The Lost Boys, and Ace Merrill in the 1986 classic, Stand by Me.
In 1990, he worked in the successful film, Dead Line where he interpreted an egocentric scientist along with Julia Roberts with whom he a relationship that in 1991, was about to become a marriage before their break up.
Come back.
Kiefer retired a while back from the movies, returning a couple of years later from Rob Reiner, his discoverer in “Stand by Me”, which gave him an excellent opportunity to show off in front of Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson in “A Few Good Men “.
However, after the success of The Three Musketeers and Time to Kill along with Sandra Bullock and Samuel L. Jackson, his career went into decline, and his films, except for a few cases, began to have no repercussion, without even being released in movie theaters, which matched with his second divorce.
TV.
Television has allowed him to launch his career to fame as the star of the hit series, 24 which was also praised by critics and millions of viewers in the United States and England, In that TV series, Kiefer Sutherland seemed to have found a role to his measure since, his performance was made him worth many praises, and prizes among them a Golden Globe and an Emmy to as best actor, his role was like the federal agent Jack Bauer, a vulnerable hero and with a darker character than is usual in television shows.
