Kiefer Sutherland joins Festival Artistic Director Cameron Bailey for an intimate discussion about his stellar career, from his formative years in Toronto and his breakout role in Daniel Petrie's acclaimed Canadian film The Bay Boy, through Hollywood stardom and his Golden Globe-, Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning work on television's 24, to his acclaimed performance in Forsaken, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.
Kiefer Sutherland was born in England and raised in Toronto. A film star since the 1980s, he gained his most recent international acclaim for his lead role as Jack Bauer on television’s 24 (06-10), winning a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for best actor in a drama series. He reprised the role in the miniseries 24: Live Another Day (14). Sutherland has been acting professionally since he was a teenager and made his lead debut in Daniel Petrie’s feature The Bay Boy (84), which earned him a Genie Award nomination for best actor. His many other film credits include Stand By Me (86), The Lost Boys (87), Young Guns (88), 1969 (88), Flatliners (90), A Few Good Men (92), The Vanishing (93), The Three Musketeers (93), A Time to Kill (95), Phone Booth (03), The Sentinel (06), Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (11), Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (12), and, alongside Donald Sutherland, Forsaken (15), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. His extensive voice work includes the English version of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (14) and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (15), from the bestselling videogame franchise.