Julian Sands Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
Birth name Julian Richard Morley Sands
British nationality
Born January 4, 1958 (Otley, West Yorkshire, England)
Death January 13, 2023

BIOGRAPHY
Julian Sands grew up in a large family of five children, who were raised by their single mother after her divorce. At a very young age, he showed a pronounced taste and talent for comedy. After studying drama at the Central School of Speech and Drama, he joined the Forum Theater Company, which allowed him to act in numerous plays. At the same time, he is casting for both the small and big screens.

Julian found his first significant role in the war film La Torn (1985), about the Khmer Rouge dictatorship. We then see him in The Doctor and the Assassins , Gothic and especially Room with a View , a romantic drama where he falls under the spell of Helena Bonham Carter . Playing in international films, he played a wizard in the horrific Warlock (1989) and a lawyer accused of murder in the thriller Tennessee Nights (id.).

Active, Julian Sands specializes in horror. This is evidenced by his performances in Arachnophobia , The Naked Feast , Warlock 2 , The Turn of the Screw and The Phantom of the Opera . Proof of his ability to worry, he plays a terrifying mafioso in the moving Leaving Las Vegas (he became the favorite actor of Mike Figgis who subsequently hired him for For One Night , The End of Sexual Innocence , Time Code , Hotel and La Maison biscornue after Agatha Christie ).

From the 2000s, the native of Otley multiplied the roles in varied films (few comedies however) and often unknown to the general public. Among them we can cite The Million Dollar Hotel , Love Me , The Medallion , The Trail , The Hell of the Wolves , Blood and Bone , Suspension of Disbelief and The Painted Bird . He also shoots from time to time under the direction of great filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh ( Ocean’s 13 ) and David Fincher ( Millennium ).

Still since the 2000s, Julian Sands has been more present in television series. He thus finds more or less significant characters in Jackie Chan (where he acts as a voice actor), Smallville (in the role of young Jor-El),Stargate SG-1 , New York Special Unit , 24 (where he plays a Russian businessman alongside Kiefer Sutherland ), Blood Ties , Ghost Whisperer , Dexter , Crossbones , Will and What/If .

The 65-year-old actor has been missing since January 13, 2023 after hiking in a mountainous area of ​​California. On June 24, 2023, the remains of a body found by hikers on the mountain where he had disappeared confirm that it is indeed the corpse of the actor.

Laurent Schenck