Early life

MacLachlan was born at Memorial Hospital in Yakima, Washington. His mother, Catherine (née Stone), was a public relations director, and his father, Kent Alan MacLachlan, was a stockbroker and lawyer. He has Scottish, Cornish and German ancestry. He has two younger brothers named Craig and Kent, both of whom live in the Pacific Northwest. MacLachlan graduated from Eisenhower High School in Yakima 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, which was a flop and met with poor reviews from critics, and as Jeffrey Beaumont in Blue Velvet (1986). He starred in 1987s Science Fiction Action film The Hidden as FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher. 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 1994, MacLachlan featured in The Flintstones, a live-action adaptation of the animated sitcom of the same name, portraying Cliff Vandercave, the movie's primary antagonist opposite John Goodman and Rick Moranis. 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 multimillion-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 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 had also guest starred in season 6, 8 and 9 of How I Met Your Mother.

He currently has a role as the Mayor of Portland, Oregon, in the IFC comedy Portlandia and a recurring role on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series as Calvin Zabo / The Doctor.

In 2015, MacLachlan voiced the main character's father in the Pixar animated feature Inside Out. In January 2015, it was announced that MacLachlan would return as Special Agent Dale Cooper for the new episodes of the television series Twin Peaks.

Personal life

In 1993, Kyle met model Linda Evangelista on a fashion shoot for Barneys New York, and the two began dating. Evangelista separated from her husband, Elite executive Gerald 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 became pregnant by him.

MacLachlan met Desiree Gruber, an executive producer of Project Runway, in June 1999, they became engaged in August 2001, and married on April 20, 2002; their son, Callum Lyon MacLachlan, was born July 26, 2008, in Los Angeles. MacLachlan lives in Manhattan with his family.

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 label of Dunham Cellars in Walla Walla, Washington. 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
1995	Showgirls	Zack Carey
1996	Windsor Protocol	Sean Dillon
1996	The Trigger Effect	Matthew
1996	Mad Dog Time	Jake Parker
1997	One Night Stand	Vernon
1998	Route 9	Booth Parker
2000	XChange	Fisk / Toffler 2
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
2006	Free Jimmy	Marius (voice)	English dub
2008	Justice League: The New Frontier	Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman (voice)	Direct-to-DVD
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
2011	Peace, Love & Misunderstanding	Mark
2013	Breathe In	Peter Sebeck
2015	Inside Out	Riley's Dad (voice)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990-1991	Twin Peaks	Dale Cooper	30 episodes
1990	Saturday Night Live	Host	Episode: "Kyle MacLachlan/Sinead O'Connor"
1990	The American Experience	Narrator	Episode: "Insanity on Trial"
1991	Tales from the Crypt	Earl Raymond Digs	Episode: "Carrion Death"
1994	Roswell	Maj. Jesse Marcel	Television film
1996	Moonshine Highway	Jed Muldoon	Television film
1998	Thunder Point	Sean Dillon	Television film
2000	The Spring	Dennis Conway	Television film
2000-2002	Sex and the City	Trey MacDougal	23 episodes
2004	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Dr. Brett Morton	Episode: "Conscience"
2004	The Librarian: Quest for the Spear	Edward Wilde	Television film
2005	Mysterious Island	Cyrus	Television film
2006	In Justice	David Swain	13 episodes
2006-2012	Desperate Housewives	Orson Hodge	86 episodes
2010-2014	How I Met Your Mother	George Van Smoot / The Captain	7 episodes
2011	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Andrew Raines	Episode: "Blood Brothers"
2011-present	Portlandia	Mayor	19 episodes
2012	Made in Jersey	Donovan Stark	8 episodes
2013-2014	The Good Wife	Josh Perotti	4 episodes
2014	Believe	Roman Skouras	12 episodes
2014-2015	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Calvin Johnson / The Doctor	13 episodes
2016	Gravity Falls	Bus Driver (voice)	Episode: "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls"
2017	Twin Peaks	Dale Cooper	Upcoming series

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2001	Grand Theft Auto III	Donald Love (voice)

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
1990	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Twin Peaks	Nominated
1991	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actor - Television Series Drama		Won
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
	Viewers for Quality Television	Best Actor in a Quality Drama Series		Nominated
1996	Golden Raspberry Awards	Worst Supporting Actor	Showgirls	Nominated
2005	Genie Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Touch of Pink	Nominated
	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actor on Television	The Librarian: Quest for the Spear	Nominated
2007	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series	Desperate Housewives	Nominated
2008	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Nominated
2009	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Nominated

Charities

Kyle MacLachlan supports the following charitable cause: Cancer.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]