Biography
This veteran actor started out charming audiences in the 1985 film "A Room With A View," but darker roles in "Warlock" (1989), "Boxing Helena" (1993), and a string of films with director Mike Figgis always suggested a powerful talent with the potential to become a household name if the right role came along.
Julian Sands was born in Otley, the Yorkshire region of England, in January of 1958. He was classically trained in drama at the Lord …
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Career Milestones
| First film appearance in Derek Jarman short, "Broken English" | ||
| Founded small theater company that performed in schools and youth clubs | ||
1981 | TV debut in "A Married Man" on England's Channel Four (syndicated in 1984) | |
1982 | First appearance in feature film, "Privates on Parade"; had one-line part | |
1984 | Appeared in the comedy "Oxford Blues" | |
1984 | Had a featured role in Roland Joffe's "The Killing Fields" | |
1985 | Featured in the NBC TV-movie "Romance on the Orient Express" | |
1986 | Had a memorable featured role in the Merchant-Ivory production "A Room With a View" | |
1986 | Played Percy Bysshe Shelley in "Gothic", a Ken Russell film based loosely upon the memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | |
1987 | Starred in the Robert Altman-directed ABC TV-movie presentation "The Room", based on Harold Pinter's one-act play | |
1988 | Featured in the quirky psychic comedy "Vibes" | |
1989 | Starred as a 17th-century "Warlock" in Steve Miner's time travel adventure | |
1990 | Featured in the thriller "Arachnophobia" | |
1990 | Had a starring role in "Il Sole anche di notte", a Italian-French co-production helmed by the Taviani brothers | |
1991 | Had a supporting role in David Cronenberg's ambitious "Naked Lunch" | |
1991 | Played Franz Liszt in James Lapine's "Impromptu" and Gustav Jung in Carlo Lizzani's "Cattiva" | |
1992 | Acted in TNT's "Grand Isle", a TV-movie drama based on Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" | |
1993 | Reprised titular role in "Warlock: The Armageddon" | |
1993 | Starred in Jennifer Chambers Lynch's notorious directorial debut "Boxing Helena" | |
1994 | Co-starred in Mike Figgis' "The Browning Version", the first of several collaborations with the director | |
1994 | Played a leftist German author encountering the rise of facism in 1920s Italy in Klaus Maria Bransauer's "Mario and the Magician" | |
1995 | Acted in the ABC TV-movie "The Great Elephant Escape" | |
1995 | Had a supporting role in Figgis' "Leaving Las Vegas" | |
1996 | Had a guest starring role on an episode of "Chicago Hope" (CBS) | |
1997 | Appeared in the Mike Figgis drama "One Night Stand" | |
1999 | Reteamed with Figgis, starring in the episodic "The Loss of Sexual Innocence" | |
1999 | Starred as "The Phantom of the Opera" in Dario Argento's reworking of the classic tale | |
2000 | Acted in Figgis' experimental "Timecode", a presentation of four fully improvised movies filmed in a single take and exhibited on a quadruple split screen | |
2000 | Appeared in the sex-themed suspense thriller "Mercy", aired on HBO | |
2000 | Played King Louis XIV in Roland Joffe's "Vatel", the story of a chef and entertainer hired to fete the monarch | |
2003 | Co-starred in the romantic drama "The Scoundrel's Wife" | |
2006 | Joined the cast of the FOX drama "24" in season five as billionaire bad guy, Vladamir Bierko | |