Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland is a British-born Canadian actor, producer, director, and singer-songwriter. He has won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Satellite Awards for his portrayal of Jack Bauer on the Fox series 24. He also starred as Martin Bohm in the Fox drama Touch and provided the facial motion capture and English voices of Big Boss and Venom Snake in the video games Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth21 December 1966
CityLondon, England
CountryCanada
You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.
There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.
My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.
I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.
I would love to do '24' until I was 60, but I don't think anybody would accept it.
If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting for this next period of time.
I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'
We're kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just can't believe how successful the show has become.
I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.
I loved '24', but I didn't think anyone else would. I had absolutely no idea.
I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.
Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.
There's a running joke among fans that Jack never goes to the bathroom. We had a scene where I was running towards a sign pointing ?BATHROOM' to the left and ?OFFICES' to the right. I did a double-take and ran towards the bathroom! We sent it in to the network, as a joke reel. But, quite frankly, nobody wants to see Jack Bauer go to the bathroom.
You're going to tell me what I want to know. It's just a question of how much you want it to hurt.