Kyle MacLachlan Biography

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, Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks and as the mayor of Portland in Portlandia.

MacLachlan is a Golden Globe Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-nominated actor.

Early life

MacLachlan was born in Yakima, Washington. His mother was a public relations director and his father was a stockbroker and lawyer. He is of Scottish, Cornish and Irish descent. 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.

Career

MacLachlan has worked extensively with David Lynch, with whom he has been friends for many years. 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."

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. 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 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.

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. MacLachlan later had another guest role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2011 as a different character. This time he portrayed the father of a boy who is murdered by his illegitimate half-brother. In the 1990s, MacLachlan was offered by NBC to be one of the lead actors on the then-new soap opera Passions as a powerful, wealthy villain and head of a multi-million dollar company, but MacLachlan turned it down. MacLachlan also lent his voice to the nefarious media mogul Donald Love in the video game Grand Theft Auto III. 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. 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. However, MacLachlan returned to Desperate Housewives in season eight, the final season, to make one last appearance as a guest star. MacLachlan guest starred in season 6 and 8 of How I Met Your Mother. MacLachlan plays the Mayor of Portland, Oregon in the IFC comedy Portlandia.

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.

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 have two small dogs (a Jack Russell terrier and a Yorkie/Chihuahua mixed breed) and out of "probably too much affection" have created a website about their dogs as well as a TV series popular on YouTube.

A dedicated wine lover, 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.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Dune	Paul Atreides
1986	Blue Velvet	Jeffrey Beaumont
1987	The Hidden	Lloyd Gallagher
1990	Don't Tell Her It's Me	Trout
1991	The Doors	Ray Manzarek
1992	Where the Day Takes You	Ted
1992	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	Special Agent Dale Cooper
1993	The Trial	Josef K.
1993	Rich in Love	Billy McQueen
1994	The Flintstones	Clifford Vandercave
1994	Against the Wall	Michael Smith
1994	Roswell	Maj. Jesse Marcel	Television movie
1995	Showgirls	Zack Carey	Nominated"?Razzie Award for Worst Actor
1996	Moonshine Highway	Jed Muldoon
1996	Windsor Protocol	Sean Dillon
1996	The Trigger Effect	Matthew
1996	Mad Dog Time	Jake Parker
1997	One Night Stand	Vernon
1998	Thunder Point	Sean Dillon	Television movie
1998	Route 9	Booth Parker
2000	XChange	Fisk/Toffler 2
2000	The Spring	Dennis Conway	Television movie
2000	Hamlet	Claudius
2000	Timecode	Bunny Drysdale
2001	Me Without You	Daniel
2002	Miranda	Nailor
2003	Northfork	Mr. Hope
2004	Touch of Pink	Spirit of Cary Grant	Nominated"?Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor
2004	The Librarian: Quest for the Spear	Edward Wilde	Television movie Nominated"?Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television
2005	Mysterious Island	Cyrus	Television movie
2006	Free Jimmy	Marius
2007	Live Earth in London	Himself	Television movie
2008	Justice League: The New Frontier	Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman	Voice only
2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2	Bill Kerr	Uncredited
2009	Mao's Last Dancer	Charles C. Foster
2009	The Smell of Success	Jimmy St James
2013	Breathe In	Peter Sebeck

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990"1991	Twin Peaks	Dale Cooper	30 episodes Golden Globe Award for Best Actor " Television Series Drama Nominated"?Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (1990"91)
1990	Saturday Night Live	Host	Episode: "Kyle MacLachlan/Sinead O'Connor"
1991	Tales from the Crypt	Earl Raymond Digs	Episode: "Carrion Death"
2000"2002	Sex and the City	Trey MacDougal	23 episodes
2004	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Dr. Brett Morton	Episode: "Conscience"
2006	In Justice	David Swain	13 episodes
2006"2012	Desperate Housewives	Orson Hodge	92 episodes Nominated"?Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2007"09)
2010"2013	How I Met Your Mother	The Captain	6 episodes
2011	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Andrew Raines	Episode: "Blood Brothers"
2011"2013	Portlandia	Mayor of Portland	11 episodes
2012	Made in Jersey	Donovan Stark	8 episodes
2013	The Good Wife	Josh Perotti	2 episodes

See also

• List of celebrities who own wineries and vineyards