Arvin Sloane

Arvin Sloane
Alias character
Ron Rifkin as Arvin Sloane
First appearance	"Truth Be Told" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance	"All the Time in the World" (episode 5.17)
Portrayed by	Ron Rifkin
Information
Gender	Male
Occupation	Army Corps of Engineers CIA Director of SD-6 Alliance of Twelve Omnifam The Covenant APO Prophet Five
Title	Alliance of Twelve Senior Partner President of Omnifam Director of APO APO Deputy Director (demoted)
Spouse(s)	Emily Sloane (wife, deceased)
Children	Jacquelyn Sloane (daughter, deceased) Nadia Santos (daughter, deceased)
Nationality	American

Arvin Sloane is a fictional character played by Ron Rifkin. He was the former director of SD-6 on the television series, Alias. TV Guide included him in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.

Arvin Sloane is the cold, calculating leader of SD-6, directing its operations against the U.S. government under the guise of being a secret organization within the government itself. He is eventually promoted to being a full member of "The Alliance", the organization that operates above each individual SD cell.

It is revealed through the course of the series that Sloane speaks Spanish, French, Japanese, Nepali, Mandarin, and Russian and reads Homeric Greek. It was revealed in the third season that Sloane has a life-threatening allergy to morphine.

Sloane is married to his long-time wife, Emily, for over 30 years. Early in his marriage Sloane was with the CIA, attached to the US Army Corps of Engineers, which is where he first encountered the works of Milo Rambaldi. Initially, Sloane dismissed Rambaldi and his works. That would change following the death of Arvin and Emily's infant daughter, Jacqueline. Wracked with grief, Sloane stumbled across some Rambaldi pages that he had stuck in a desk drawer and forgotten about. Reviewing the pages, Sloane was gripped by the possibilities inherent in what he saw there. This interest would rapidly grow into an obsession with all things Rambaldi.