Biography
Kyle Chandler is an actor from the United States well known for his roles on Friday Night Lights , Chandler garnered widespread critical acclaim. He was nominated for multiple awards for the role, and in 2011 his performance in the show’s final season earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Age
He is 58 years old as of 17 September 2023. He was born in 1965 in Buffalo, New York, United States. His real name is Kyle Martin Chandler.
Family – Education
Chandler was the fourth child of pharmaceutical sales representative Edward Chandler and dog breeder Sally Jeanette (née Meyer), and was born in Buffalo, New York. There are three siblings for Chandler. Chandler was brought up as a Roman Catholic, but upon his father’s passing in 1980, he stopped going to church. Up to the age of eleven, he was raised in the suburban Lake Forest, Illinois, when his family relocated to a tiny farm near Loganville, Georgia. Chandler grew up traveling to dog shows with his parents and helping out at their dog boarding kennel; his mother had raised Great Danes as show dogs.
In order to provide for Chandler and his siblings, Chandler’s mother, who had been widowed, operated Sheenwater Kennels. Following his high school graduation, Chandler majored in acting and joined the Sigma Nu fraternity, class of 1984, at the University of Georgia. Chandler left college in 1988, seven credits shy of a bachelor’s degree in drama, in order to seek a television deal.
Wife – Children
Since 1995, Chandler and Kathryn Macquarrie have been wed. In the middle of the 1990s, Chandler met his wife in a dog park. Sydney, an actress, and Sawyer are their two daughters. Chandler has actively worked to put a stop to the practice of shark finning, as has his daughter Sawyer.
Height
He stands at a height of 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m).
Bloodline
He appeared as John Rayburn, the second son; a detective and local deputy with the Monroe County sheriff’s office in the American psychological thriller television series Bloodline. Critics gave the Netflix original series Bloodline favorable reviews; according to 31 reviews on Metacritic, the first three episodes scored 75 out of 100.
Based on 48 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes gave the season an approval rating of 81% and an average rating of 7/10. One description of the show is that it’s a convincingly rendered, compelling brainteaser presented on a realistic canvas. While some reviewers thought the three episodes that were available for viewing were too little, others applauded the show for its compelling slow-burn plot and its ability to tackle difficult family issues.
Friday Night Lights
Chandler met Peter Berg, who was creating the drama series Friday Night Lights, which followed the lives of a high school football coach, his family, and the players in a tiny Texas town, while he was filming his Primetime Emmy Award-nominated guest appearance on Grey’s Anatomy. The novel and movie of the same name by Buzz Bissinger served as inspiration for the series. While on Christmas vacation with his family in 2005, Chandler found out he had been cast as Eric Taylor, the high school football coach.
In 2006, the NBC pilot for the show debuted. Even though the show received high praise from critics, it was almost cancelled every year. First-run episodes of the show aired on The 101 Network, a satellite channel owned by DirecTV, beginning with the third season in 2008. These episodes were later rebroadcast on NBC. 2011 saw the conclusion of the last season.
Chandler indicated that he didn’t want to play Coach Taylor; neither did Berg. Chandler’s performance in Friday Night Lights’ last season earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Dramatic Series. Chandler did some acting in movies in between filming the series. He starred as John Driscoll in The Kingdom (2007), directed by Friday Night Lights creator Berg, and in The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008).
Movies
♦ 2024 – Back in Action
♦ 2022 – Slumberland
♦ 2021 – Godzilla vs. Kong
♦ 2020 – The Midnight Sky
♦ 2019 – Godzilla: King of the Monsters
♦ 2018 – Game Night
♦ 2018 – First Man
♦ 2017 – The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
♦ 2016 – Manchester by the Sea
♦ 2015 – Carol
♦ 2013 – Broken City
♦ 2013 – The Naughty List
♦ 2013 – The Spectacular Now
♦ 2013 – The Wolf of Wall Street
♦ 2012 – Argo
♦ 2012 – Zero Dark Thirty
TV Shows
♦ 2022 – Super Pumped
♦ 2021 – Star Wars: Visions
♦ 2021 – Mayor of Kingstown
♦ 2019 – Catch-22
♦ 2016 – Family Guy
♦ 2015–2017 – Bloodline
♦ 2014 – American Dad!
♦ 2013 – The Vatican
♦ 2013 – A Monstrous Holiday
♦ 2011–2014 – Robot Chicken
♦ 2008 – King of the Hill
♦ 2006–2007 – Grey’s Anatomy
♦ 2006–2011 – Friday Night Lights
♦ 2005 – Lies and the Wives We Tell Them To
♦ 2004 – Capital City