Kyle Chandler

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Kyle Chandler (2011)

Kyle Martin Chandler (born September 17, 1965 in Buffalo , New York ) is an American actor .

biography

Chandler grew up in a suburb of Chicago . At the age of eleven, he moved to Loganville , Georgia with his mother and three siblings . His father died early when Chandler was a child. He graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in Theater Studies . Today he lives in Austin / Texas with his wife and two children .

Career

Chandler played his first significant role on the ABC show Homefront in the early 1990s. Before that, he mostly played supporting roles in smaller television productions . Homefront was a drama set in the fictional town of River Run, Ohio , in the 1940s . In his next TV role, Chandler played a man with the ability to change future events in the CBS series Alone Against the Future . In this series, he plays the stockbroker Gary Hobson, who receives tomorrow's paper every morning from a mysterious cat. In 1996 he received the Saturn Award for Best Actor in a Television Series for his role as Gary.

Chandler also starred alongside Joan Cusack in the ABC comedy series What About Joan and deviated from his sonnyboy image as a lawyer in The Lyon's Den . He played other roles in series such as Freddy's Nightmares and films such as King Kong In the second season of Grey's Anatomy , Chandler also has a guest role as a bomb defuser. For his role alongside Christina Ricci in the episodes Code Black and The Last Day (original title: It's the end of the world (as we know it) Part 1 & 2 ), which were broadcast in the USA directly after the Super Bowl and thus one Reaching an audience of nearly 40 million, not only did it get a lot of attention; rather, this success earned him an Emmy nomination in 2006 .

Between 2006 and 2011 he starred in the critically acclaimed Friday Night Lights series for which he won an Emmy for Best Actor in a Drama Series.

In 2011, Kyle Chandler received a lead role as a cop in the science fiction film Super 8 . In 2013 he played an FBI agent alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street . Kyle Chandler was nominated for an Emmy in both 2015 and 2016 for his role as John Rayburn in the US television series Bloodline .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 2011: Emmy Awards - Best Actor in a Drama Series for Friday Night Lights
  • 2011: Phoenix Film Critics Society Award (Best Ensemble) for Super 8
  • 2012: Hollywood Film Festival Award (Best Ensemble) for Argo
  • 2012: Palm Springs International Film Festival (Best Ensemble) for Argo
  • 2012: Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance (Best Ensemble) for Argo
  • 2012: Nomination for the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award (Best Ensemble) for Argo
  • 2012: Nomination for the San Diego Film Critics Society Award (Best Ensemble) for Argo
  • 2012: Nomination for the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award (Best Ensemble) for Zero Dark Thirty

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