Kyle MacLachlan
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 MacLachlan at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party |
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| Born | Kyle Merritt MacLachlan February 22, 1959 Yakima, Washington, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouse | Desiree Gruber (2002-present) (1 child) |
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| http://www.kylemaclachlan.com | |
Kyle Merritt MacLachlan (born February 22, 1959) is an American actor. MacLachlan is best known for his roles in cult films Blue Velvet as Jeffrey Beaumont, Showgirls as Zack Carey, as Paul Atreides in Dune, and Ray Manzarek in the Oliver Stone film The Doors. His television series roles include Orson Hodge on ABC's Desperate Housewives from 2006 to 2012, Trey MacDougal on HBO's Sex and the City, and Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks.
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[edit] Early life
MacLachlan was born in Yakima, Washington. His mother was a public relations director and his father was a stockbroker and lawyer.[1] He is of Scottish descent.[citation needed] He has two younger brothers named Craig and Kent, both of whom live in the Pacific Northwest. MacLachlan graduated from Eisenhower High School in 1977. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1982 and, shortly afterward, moved to Hollywood, California to pursue his career.
[edit] Career
MacLachlan has worked extensively with David Lynch. He first appeared as Paul Atreides in the film Dune (1984), Lynch's adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel, and as Jeffrey Beaumont in Blue Velvet (1986). Later he played Special Agent Dale Cooper in Lynch's ABC television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991), reprising that role for Lynch's 1992 prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Lynch commented on those roles in a GQ story about MacLachlan: "Kyle plays innocents who are interested in the mysteries of life. He's the person you trust enough to go into a strange world with."[2]
In the 1993 film version of Franz Kafka's The Trial, MacLachlan played the lead role of the persecuted Josef K. He also had a recurring role in the American television series Sex and the City, portraying Dr. Trey MacDougal, the one-time husband of Charlotte York (Kristin Davis). He portrayed the spirit of Cary Grant in Touch of Pink.[3] His resemblance to Grant had been previously noted in an episode of Twin Peaks.
In 1995, MacLachlan starred in Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls. The movie was heavily panned by critics[4] and it collected seven Golden Raspberry Awards (from a record 13 nominations). MacLachlan himself was deeply embarrassed with his involvement; although some entertainment writers alleged that he walked out of the film's premiere, he personally contradicted these claims with the comment that he "suffered through the whole two hours" of the premiere.[5]
MacLachlan has appeared in several plays, including John Kolvenbach's On an Average Day with Woody Harrelson, on Broadway in The Caretaker with Patrick Stewart, as well as in Romeo and Juliet and Henry V.
In recent years, MacLachlan continues to play dark or morally ambiguous characters. This included a guest role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in which he played a father who shot and killed a sociopathic child who had murdered his son. In the 1990s, MacLachlan was offered by NBC to be one of the lead actors on the new soap opera, Passions as a powerful, wealthy, villain and head of a multi-million dollar company but MacLachlan turned it down.[citation needed] MacLachlan also lent his voice to the nefarious media mogul Donald Love in the video game Grand Theft Auto III.[6] After starring in the short-lived In Justice, MacLachlan has become a regular on Desperate Housewives. His character, the mysterious dentist Orson Hodge, first appeared during the show's second season, and MacLachlan became a full-time cast member at the start of season three.
On July 7, 2007, MacLachlan was one of the presenters at the London leg of Live Earth.[7] MacLachlan appeared in the 2008 movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
In the 2008 English language DVD re-release of the cult 2006 Norwegian animated film Free Jimmy, MacLachlan voiced the character of "Marius", a militant animal rights activist.
After four years of playing Orson Hodge, MacLachlan decided to quit Desperate Housewives. He decided to leave the show because after having children, he found the commute from his home in New York City to the Desperate Housewives set in Los Angeles very difficult.[8][9] However, MacLachlan is returning to Desperate Housewives in season eight, the final season, to make one last appearance as a guest star.
MacLachlan guest starred in season 6 of How I Met Your Mother.[10]
[edit] Personal life
In 1993, Kyle met model Linda Evangelista on a fashion shoot for Barney's and the two began dating. Evangelista separated from her husband, Gerard Marie. The two appeared in further fashion spreads in Vogue magazine. Around 1998 or 1999, the two were supposedly engaged. The couple split up however, when Evangelista met French soccer star Fabien Barthez and she became pregnant by him. She later miscarried when she was 6 months along.
MacLachlan later married in 2002. MacLachlan lives in Manhattan with his wife, Desiree Gruber, an executive producer of Project Runway, and their son, Callum Lyon MacLachlan, born July 26, 2008, in Los Angeles.
The couple has two small dogs (a Jack Russell terrier and a Yorkie/Chihuahua mix) and out of "probably too much affection" have created a website about their dogs[11] as well as a TV series popular on YouTube.[12][13]
A dedicated oenophile, Kyle is partners with vintner Eric Dunham in Pursued By Bear, a winery in Washington's Columbia Valley. The name, suggested over dinner by Fred Savage, comes from a stage direction ("Exit, pursued by a bear") in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.[14]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/49/Kyle-MacLachlan.html
- ^ (French) Contrechamp.com, Voyages en cinéphilie. L'homme sériel, November 10, 2006.
- ^ About.com, Kyle MacLachlan Reflects on "Touch of Pink" by Rebecca Murray.. Retrieved January 29, 2008.
- ^ Metacritic, http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/showgirls accessed May 22, 2008
- ^ The Desert Sun. Bob Hope Chrysler Classic celebrity Q&A: Actor Kyle MacLachlan by Leighton Ginn, January 17, 2008.
- ^ Donald Love at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Blog: No Rock And Roll Fun, "Kyle MacLachlan introduces Corinne Bailey Rae", Thursday, July 5, 2007.
- ^ MacLachlan to Quit "Desperate Housewives"?, ContactMusic.com, June 11, 2009
- ^ Exclusive: Kyle MacLachlan to Exit "Desperate Housewives", Entertainment Weekly, May 19, 2010
- ^ "How I Met Your Mother" Exclusive: Kyle MacLachlan to play (spoiler)!, Entertainment Weekly, September 30, 2010
- ^ http://www.mookieandsam.com/
- ^ Mookie and Sam (EP 1) on YouTube
- ^ "Kyle MacLachlan's New Show". Showbiz Tonight. CNN. Transcript.
- ^ http://www.pursuedbybearwine.com
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