Kyle Maclachlan

About Kyle Maclachlan

Kyle MacLachlan (born February 22, 1959 in Yakima, Washington) is a Golden Globe award winning American actor.

He is a graduate of the University of Washington and moved to Hollywood, California, to pursue his career soon after his 1982 graduation. He is best recalled for his roles as Jeffrey Beaumont in the cult film Blue Velvet, and Paul Atreides in Dune, as well as his television series roles as Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks, Trey MacDougal in Sex and The City and Orson Hodge in Desperate Housewives. He is known for playing lead characters in several of director David Lynch's films.

MacLachlan has worked extensively with David Lynch. He first appeared as Paul Atreides in the film Dune, Lynch's adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel, and as Jeffrey Beaumont in Blue Velvet. Although Dune was not a commercial success, Blue Velvet, being a major critical and commercial success, caused considerable controversy. It has since developed status as a cult classic, and is frequently listed in critical and public polls on the greatest films of all time. Later he played Special Agent Dale Cooper in Lynch's ABC television series Twin Peaks, 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."