Career

Julian Sands began his film career appearing in supporting roles in films, including Oxford Blues (1984) and The Killing Fields (1984). He also had a cameo as a Greek soldier in the BBC adaptation of The Box of Delights in 1984. He was cast as the romantic lead in the 1985 film A Room with a View. In 1985, following the success of A Room with a View and Ken Russell's Gothic (1986) Sands decided to move to Hollywood and pursue a career in American films. He appeared in several of them—both lower-tier and higher-budget.

He played the title role in the horror film Warlock (1989) and its sequel, Warlock: The Armageddon (1993), the role of Franz Liszt in Impromptu (1991), the role of Yves Cloquet in Naked Lunch (1991), and prominent roles in Arachnophobia (1990), Boxing Helena (1993) and Leaving Las Vegas (1995). He played "Erik, aka the Phantom" in the 1998 horror-film version of The Phantom of the Opera. He starred opposite Jackie Chan in the action-comedy film The Medallion (2003). And he played Lord Olivier in BBC Four's In Praise of Hardcore (2005), a drama about the critic and impresario Kenneth Tynan.

In television work, he was the voice of Valmont in the Jackie Chan Adventures cartoon (Seasons 1 and 2) (succeeded by the British actors Andrew Ableson and Greg Ellis in the remaining seasons). He played the Doci of the Ori in two episodes of Stargate SG-1—in its ninth and tenth seasons (a role he reprised in the film, Stargate: the Ark of Truth). He played a college professor in a Season One episode of The L Word. In 2001, he starred in Stephen King's Rose Red. Sands portrayed Austrian ambassador Klemens von Metternich in the 2002 miniseries Napoléon. In the 2006 season of 24, he played terrorist Vladimir Bierko.

Sands played Jor-El, Superman's biological father on Smallville, and reprised the role in the series' final (tenth) season. In 2009, he played Reg Hunt in Bollywood Hero. In 2012, he played Alistair Wesley in the seventh episode of the second season of Person of Interest.

In August 2011, he appeared onstage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in A Celebration of Harold Pinter, directed by John Malkovich at the Pleasance Courtyard. His performance in A Celebration of Harold Pinter was well-received; one theatre, the Irish Repertory Theatre, added an extra three weeks to the show's run.

Sands was nominated for "Outstanding Solo Performance" for the 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards (2013).

In 2011, Sands appeared in the mystery thriller film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, an American remake of the original version, as the younger version of Henrik Vanger. In 2012, Sands voiced the character of DeFalco in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. On 26 April 2013, it was announced that Sands would appear as Miles Castner, a wealthy international businessman during the eighth season of Dexter.

Personal life

Sands was born in Otley, Yorkshire and educated at Lord Wandsworth College, Long Sutton, Hampshire. He has four brothers, one of whom, Quentin, was selected by She magazine as "Britain's Sexiest Man" of 1998.

Marriages

Sands' first marriage was to Sarah Harvey, a British journalist. They have one child, Henry Morley Sands (born 20 September 1985); the couple divorced in 1987. In 1990, he wed Evgenia Citkowitz (born 1964), a journalist and the daughter of the Anglo-Irish novelist and socialite Lady Caroline Blackwood and American composer-pianist Israel Citkowitz. Sands and Citkowitz have two daughters Natalya (14 August 1996) and Imogen (31 December 1999).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Privates on Parade	Sailor
1984	Oxford Blues	Colin Gilchrist Fisher
	Killing Fields, TheThe Killing Fields	Jon Swain
1985	After Darkness	Laurence Hunningford
	The Doctor and the Devils	Dr. Murray
	A Room With A View	George Emerson
1986	Gothic	Percy Bysshe Shelley
1987	Siesta	Kit
1988	Vibes	Dr. Harrison Steele
	Wherever You Are...	Julian Castor
1989	Warlock	Warlock
1990	The Sun Also Shines at Night	Sergio Giuramondo
	Arachnophobia	Dr. James Atherton
1991	Impromptu	Franz Liszt
	The Wicked	Gustav
	Husband and Lovers	Stefan
	Naked Lunch	Yves Cloquet
1992	Tale of a Vampire	Alex
1993	Warlock: The Armageddon	Warlock
	Boxing Helena	Dr. Nick Cavanaugh
1994	The Browning Version	Tom Gilbert
	The Turn of the Screw	Mr. Cooper
	Mario and the Magician	Professor Fuhrmann
	Witch Hunt	Finn Macha
1995	Leaving Las Vegas	Yuri Butso
1997	One Night Stand	Charlie's Nurse
1998	The Phantom of the Opera	Erik, The Phantom of the Opera
1999	The Loss of Sexual Innocence	Adult Nic
2000	Mercy	Dr. Dominick Broussard
	Timecode	Quentin
	Vatel	Louis XIV
2003	The Medallion	Snakehead
2007	Ocean's Thirteen	Greco Montgomery
2008	Stargate: The Ark of Truth	Doci
2009	Blood and Bone	Franklin McVeigh
2011	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Young Henrik Vanger
2014	Cesar Chavez	Victore Representative
	Jetty	Skylar Nielsen

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	The Box of Delights	Greek soldier	Episode: Beware of Yesterday
2000 - 02	Jackie Chan Adventures	Valmont	26 episodes, voice
2001	Rose Red	Nick Hardaway	TV mini-series, 3 episodes
2002	Ozzy and Drix	Penicillin G	Episode: Strep-Finger, voice
2004	Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King	Hagen	TV
2005	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Barclay Pallister	Episode: Design
2006	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Paul Reinhardt	Episode: Dramma Giocoso
2006	24	Vladimir Bierko	TV - recurring, 11 episodes
2009	Beyond Sherwood Forest	Malcolm	TV movie
2010	Castle	Teddy Farrow	Episode: Inventing the Girl
2012	Person of Interest	Alistair Wesley	Episode: Critical
2013	Dexter	Miles Castner	TV - recurring
2014	Banshee	Priest	3 episodes
	Crossbones	William Jagger	TV - recurring, 8 episodes
2015	Gotham	Dr. Gerald Crane/"Todd"	2 episodes

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