Kiefer Sutherland

Canadian actor and musician best known for his starring role as Jack Bauer in the television drama series 24 (2001–2010, 2014), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. He is the son of actors Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas.

His dad was born in New Brunswick, his grandfather was a Saskatchewan premier and Kiefer was raised in Toronto, proudly calling himself a Canadian even though he was born in London. In the '80s he was one of Hollywood's "Brat Pack," making a screen debut at 15. With a bizarre kind of energy, he was best in his portrayals of serious and troubled youth with such films as Bay Boy (1984), The Lost Boys (1987) and Flatliners (1990). During the filming of the latter, he and Julia Roberts sparked electricity until she abruptly broke off their engagement in 1991.

In 1986, at age 20, he met 34-year-old Puerto-Rican actress Camelia Kath and became romantically involved. They married and had a daughter, Sarah, but split nine months later, in late 1988. He was a party animal with plenty of running around and later said, "I did too much too fast."

After making more than 20 films in ten years he left Hollywood for Montana and spent nearly two years there in seclusion, to reassess his priorities. In 1993 he came back to acting as well as his first directing job of the TV movie Last Light. In 1997 he co-starred with his mother in the stage production of The Glass Menagerie.

Sutherland owns a cattle ranch in California that runs over 400 head, where he enjoys his hobby of team roping. He married 35-year-old Kelly Winn on 1 September 1996, the same year that he worked with his dad in A Time to Kill. After three years, he and Winn separated on 30 June 1999 and Sutherland filed for divorce on 20 March 2000. They had no children. He dated Bo Derek in 2000.

On 2 November 2004 in Los Angeles, the actor entered a no-contest plea and was sentenced to 60 months’ probation and 293 hours of community service.