Kyle MacLachlan

Kyle MacLachlan was born February 22, 1959, in Yakima, Washington, USA. He is a Golden Globe award winning American actor.

Kyle MacLachlan is an actor who has brought indelible charm and a quirky sophistication to some of film and television's most memorable roles.

He is beginning his third season on Desperate Housewives, playing Dr. Orson Hodge, a charming dentist with a hidden agenda. He recently completed filming on Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.

MacLachlan is perhaps best known for his performance as FBI Agent 'Dale Cooper' in David Lynch's ground breaking series Twin Peaks, for which MacLachlan received two Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe Award. MacLachlan also starred for two seasons on HBO's highly successful comedy series Sex And The City, as Charlotte's 'ideal man,' Dr. Trey MacDougal.

MacLachlan made his feature film debut in the futuristic drama Dune, directed by David Lynch. This was followed by his second collaboration with Lynch in the uniquely disturbing film, Blue Velvet. He starred alongside Ethan Hawke in Miramax's Hamlet (2000).

MacLachlan was also featured in Mike Figgis's experimental Timecode, which was the first film of its kind--shot with four digital cameras simultaneously in one continuous 93-minute take. MacLachlan also worked with Figgis in the film One Night Stand with Wesley Snipes and Robert Downey, Jr.

Other work includes The Trigger Effect, co-starring Elizabeth Shue and Dermot Mulroney; The Flintstones, produced by Steven Spielberg; Paul Verhoeven's controversial cult classic, Showgirls; and Bruce Beresford's Rich In Love, with Albert Finney and Jill Clayburg, produced by Richard and Lili Zanuck.

He starred opposite Samuel L. Jackson in HBO's award-winning film, Against The Wall, the story of the 1971 Attica prison riots, which was directed by the late John Frankenheimer, and in the Showtime original film Roswell, based on the infamous story of an alleged UFO sighting in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico.