Biografía

Was novelist Anne Rice's choice to play Lestat in Entrevista con el vampiro (1994). More marquee value was needed for the role and the part ultimately went to Tom Cruise.

An avid runner and mountain climber/hiker who often took off on solo adventures, Sands disappeared on January 13, 2023, after he went for a hike near the Mouny Baldy area of California's San Bernardino Mountains. Local authorities and search and rescue teams conducted over six weeks of multiple ground and aerial searches, which were unsuccessful. On June 24, 2023, hikers near Mount Baldy discovered human remains. On June 27, 2023, local authorities confirmed the remains to be those of Julian Sands.

Studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where he met a journalist named Sarah Harvey (now Sarah Sands), who became his first wife.

Was introduced to his wife, Evgenia, by John Malkovich.

Was married to Guinness heiress Evgenia Citkowitz. Evgenia is the granddaughter of the late Maureen [Guinness], Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, one of a glamorous trio of sisters.

I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it's nice to make people laugh sometimes.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

There was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.