Kyle MacLachlan

At 65 years old, Kyle MacLachlan has this physical status:

Kyle Merritt MacLachlan (born February 22, 1959) is an American actor.

Dale Cooper (1990) and its film prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), as well as roles in two of David Lynch's films: Paul Atreides (1984) and Jeffrey Beaumont (1986).

Lloyd Gallagher in The Hidden (1987), Ray Manzarek in The Doors (1991), Cliff Vandercave in The Flintstones (1994), and Riley's father in Inside Out (2015) are among MacLachlan's film roles. He has appeared in television shows including in the films Trey MacDougal in Sex and the City (2000–2002), Orson Hodge in Desperate Housewives (2006–2012), and Matthew Zabo in Agents of S.H.I.D. (2014–2015) MacLachlan has received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Drama Drama (1990), and was nominated in the same category in 2017 for his role as Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks.

He has also been nominated for two Emmy Awards for Twin Peaks.

Early life

Kyle Merritt McLachlan, a boy from Scotland, was born Kyle Merritt McLachlan (subsequently adjusting the spelling of his name to reflect his Scottish roots), at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital in Yakima, Washington. Catherine (née Stone), a public relations manager for a school district and a homemaker who was active in community arts programs, was his mother. Kent Alan McLachlan (1933-2011), a stockbroker and solicitor, was his father. Kyle is descended on Scotch, Cornish, and German ancestry. He grew up in Yakima, the eldest of three boys. Craig and Kent Jr., his two younger brothers, live in the Seattle area. MacLachlan graduated from Eisenhower High School in Yakima. When he was 17, his father was exiled, and his parents divorced in his senior year of high school on October 12, 1977.

When MacLachlan became the head of a youth theater program for teenagers that she helped develop in Yakima, she was introduced to stage acting by his mother. She introduced him to piano lessons from the age of 9 to 14, when he then began to study classical singing. He appeared in plays and in class musicals while in high school, as well as in his first play at age 15. MacLachlan appeared in Brindsley Miller's one-act play Black Comedy in Peter Shaffer's one-act play Black Comedy and also appeared as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady in his senior year. He received a BFA in drama from the University of Washington (UW) in 1982 as a member of the Professional Actor Training Program. He set out to major in commerce and also looked at classical voice at the University of Wisconsin, but then moved to acting.

Personal life

When his mother died of ovarian cancer in 1986, aged 53, just before Blue Velvet was released, MacLachlan was devastated. She had been diagnosed while filming Dune in 1983 and had been waiting for her to inform him of the condition. In 2011, his father died of post-surgery complications.

Laura Dern, a former member of Blue Velvet, was in a three-and-a-half relationship from 1985 to 1989. He was in a two-and-a-half years with Twin Peaks co-star Lara Flynn Boyle. He started a friendship with supermodel Linda Evangelista in 1992 after he ended his boyhood with Boyle. They had been involved for a few years before their six-year marriage ended in 1998, according to MacLachlan.

Desiree Gruber, a year ago, met and began a friendship. Gruber founded her own public relations company in 2004; she became an executive producer of Project Runway. MacLachlan migrated to New York City because he was filming Sex and the City and Gruber were based there. They were married on April 20, 2002. Their son was born on July 25, 2008. The family has resided in Los Angeles and New York.

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Career

The Changeling (1980), MacLachlan's first film, was shot on the University of Washington campus. He was paid $10 as an extra.

He starred in three roles at the Old Lyric Repertory Theatre in Logan, Utah, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, in 1981.

In the role of Paul Atreides, MacLachlan made his film debut in Dune (1984). MacLachlan appeared in Molière's Tartuffe in a Seattle-area theater while still in college. Multiple people suggested MacLachlan because a casting agent for Dune producer Dino de Laurentiis was looking for a young actor to play in the film. He loved it after several screen tests and went on to win the role.

MacLachlan, who lost Dune and received poor feedback from critics, found it difficult to find jobs after it flopped and received poor feedback from critics. He moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and appeared in many films, including Top Gun, but he was unable to win any roles, eventually leaving his agent, Creative Artists Agency, behind him.

Lynch later performed MacLachlan in the starring role of Jeffrey Beaumont (1986), which was received more positively. In a 2012 interview, MacLachlan reflected on his long-term friendship with Lynch, adding, "David Lynch plucked me from obscurity." In Dune and Blue Velvet, he portrayed me as the lead, and many people have recognized me as this boy-next-door-cooking-something-weird-in-the-basement's ever since." Lynch's on-screen incarnation of Lynch's personal identity, according to Lynch biographer Chris Rodley.

Lloyd Gallagher, a former FBI agent, appeared in the 1987 science fiction action film The Hidden as FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher.

MacLachlan also appeared in the ABC television series Twin Peaks (1990–91), as Special Agent Dale Cooper, reprising his role in Lynch's 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Lynch spoke about those characters in a GQ article about MacLachlan: "Kyle plays innocents who are interested in life's mysteries." "He's the guy you can trust enough to venture into a strange world." Lynch was also considered by MacLachlan as one of his mentors with a "monumental effect" on him. Lynch, who is known to give his collaborators a great deal of autonomy over their roles as a result of his collaboration with him, rewrote scenes in Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks at MacLachlan's behest, claiming that his characters were not correct.

In Oliver Stone's 1991 film The Doors, MacLachlan played musician Ray Manzarek, who played the band of the same name. He had previously turned down Stone's invitation to star in the 1986 film Platoon, which ultimately went to Charlie Sheen. MacLachlan played the lead role in Franz Kafka's The Trial, a 1993 film adaptation starring Harold Pinter.

In John Frankenheimer's 1994 Emmy Award-winning HBO film Against the Wall about the Attica jail riots, MacLachlan co-starred Samuel L. Jackson as a rookie prison guard. In 1994, he appeared in The Flintstones, a live-action movie version of the animated sitcom of the same name, portraying Cliff Vandercave, the movie's main antagonist, opposite John Goodman and Rick Moranis. In 1991, he appeared in Tales from the Crypt as a murderer.

MacLachlan appeared in Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls in 1995. Critics blasted the film, and it received a record seven Golden Raspberry Awards. MacLachlan recalls that he first watched Showgirls for the first time before the premiere that he considered it "horrible." But he later discovered that the film was "inadvertently funny" and embraced for its campiness. Despite claims that he walked out, MacLachlan said he sat through the entire screening, even though he skipped the movie's press tour.

MacLachlan played Dr. Trey MacDougal, Charlotte York's one-time husband, from 2000 to 2002, portrayed him in the American television series Sex and the City. (Kristin Davis) In the 2000 film Hamlet based on William Shakespeare's play, MacLachlan played King Claudius. He portrayed the character of the sociopathic real estate developer Donald Love in the 2001 video game Grand Theft Auto III. In 2002, Woody Harrelson's On an Average Day With Woody Harrelson made his West End debut in John Kolvenbach's On an Average Day with Woody Harrelson.

MacLachlan debuted in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker with Patrick Stewart in 2003. In the 2004 film Touch of Pink, he portrayed Cary Grant's spirit. In a scene of Twin Peaks, his resemblance to Grant had been known for a long time. He also appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in which he played a psychiatrist who shot and killed a sociopathic boy who had murdered his son. In 2011, he appeared as a politician whose son is charged with a rape lawsuit.

MacLachlan appeared in Desperate Housewives as the ostensive dentist Orson Hodge, who appeared in the short-lived In Justice. He appeared in the show's second season and became a full cast member at the start of season three. MacLachlan was one of the Live Earth benefit concerts in London in 2007. In the 2008 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, he appeared in the film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. He portrayed "Marius" a migrant animal rights activist in the English version of the cult 2006 Norwegian animated film Free Jimmy, which was released in 2008.

After four years of playing, Orson Hodge resigned from Desperate Housewives as he found the commute from his home in New York City to the Los Angeles set was so difficult since becoming a father in 2008. However, he appeared as a guest star in 2012 for season eight, the final season of Desperate Housewives. In season 6, 8, 8, 9 and 9 of How I Met Your Mother from 2010 to 2014, he also appeared as George "The Captain" Van Smoot. In 2022, he would reprise his role in the spinoff How I Met Your Father.

In the IFC film Portland, Oregon, he appeared as Mayor of Portland, Oregon, from 2011 to 2018. He appeared as a guest star in The Good Wife after the conclusion of the short-lived 2012 series Made in Jersey, where he played lawyer Donovan Stark. Josh Perotti appeared in four episodes of The Good Wife between 2013 and 2014. He appeared in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.L.D. in 2014 and 2015. Calvin Zabo/The Doctor is a supervillain. In the Pixar animated film Inside Out, he played Riley Anderson's father in 2015. MacLachlan will reprise as Special Agent Dale Cooper for the upcoming limited television series Twin Peaks, which premiered on May 21, 2017. MacLachlan said in an interview that he did not know anything about Twin Peaks and that fans understand it better than him.

In the fantasy-horror family film The House with a Clock in its Walls, MacLachlan starred as the main antagonist Isaac Izard.

Kyle, a passionate wine enthusiast, is partnered with winemaker Eric Dunham in Pursued by Bear, a Dunham Cellars brand in Walla Walla, Washington, which began in 2005. In Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, the name, which was based on a stage direction ("Exit, pursued by a bear") has been suggested over dinner. It is regarded as one of Washington's most rated wine labels. Bear, Pursued by Bear, Baby Bear, Blushing Bear, Bear Cub are five wines available on Pursued by Bear.

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