Julian Sands ✝

Julian Richard Morley Sands (born 4 January 1958) is an English actor based in the United States. He is known for his roles in films such as The Killing Fields, A Room with a View, Warlock, Arachnophobia, Boxing Helena and Leaving Las Vegas. On television, he is known for playing Vladimir Bierko in 24, Jor-El in Smallville, and as Yulish Rabitov in Banshee. Sands was born the third of five boys on 4 January 1958, in Otley, West Yorkshire, to mother Brenda, who raised her boys alone after her divorce. Sands was educated at Lord Wandsworth College, Long Sutton, Hampshire. His youngest brother, Quentin, was selected by She magazine as "Britain's Sexiest Man" of 1998. From 1984 to 1987, Sands was married to Sarah Harvey, a British journalist. They have one son. In 1990, he married 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.