Kyle MacLachlan Filmography

Born:: February 22, 1959 in Yakima, WA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Born in 1959, Washington native Kyle MacLachlan, among other things, claims to be a descendent of the legendary composer Johann Sebastian Bach. However, unlike his very distant relative, MacLachlan made his mark not in music, but in television and film. After performing in a variety of local...Read More

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Justice League: The New Frontier

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Jeremy Sisto, Lucy Lawless, Neil Patrick Harris, David Boreanaz

Synopsis: Adapted from the six-issue comic book series originally published in 2004, the animated adventure Justice League: The New Frontier follows the epic adventures of Superman and his fellow DC Comics superheroes from the end of World War II to the global tensions of the Cold War. In addition to Read More

2008
Desperate Housewives: Season 04

Actors: Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, Nicollette Sheridan

2007
Free Jimmy

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Jan Saelid, Anders T. Andersen, Simon Pegg, Egil Birkeland, Phil Daniels, Jay Simpson, Terje Rangnes, Kyle MacLachlan, Kristopher Schau

Synopsis: A drug-addled elephant is on the run from people who either want to help him or kill him in this dark computer-animated comedy that is decidedly not for children. Jimmy is a performing elephant who travels with a third-rate Russian circus run by ringmaster Stromowski (voice of Jim Broadbent). Read More

2006
In Justice [TV Series]

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Jason O'Mara, Marisol Nichols, Daniel Cosgrove, Constance Zimmer

Synopsis: Debuting January 1, 2006 on ABC, the hour-long crime drama In Justice was clearly inspired by recent instances wherein a number of innocent people sentence to death or life imprisonment had been freed with the help of concerned legal advocacy groups and new DNA evidence. Starring in this series Read More

2006
Desperate Housewives: Season 03

Actors: Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, Nicollette Sheridan

2006
Mysterious Island

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Gabrielle Anwar, Vinnie Jones, Omar Gooding, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: Five prisoners of war escape captivity in a Confederate prison camp only to land in an uncharted Pacific island where time stands still and dastardly pirates don't take kindly to strangers in director Russell Mulcahy's screen adaptation of fantasy author Jules Verne's literary classic. They Read More

2005
Touch of Pink

Actors: Jimi Mistry, Kyle MacLachlan, Kristen Holden-Reid, Suleka Mathew, Brian George, Veena Sood

Synopsis: Canadian writer/director Ian Iqbal Rashid makes his feature film debut with the romantic comedy Touch of Pink. Jimi Mistry plays Alim, an young gay Ismali-Canadian living in a fashionable section of London. He has an active fantasy life involving Kyle MacLachlan, who appears as the charming ghost Read More

7/16/04
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

Actors: Noah Wyle, Kyle MacLachlan, Sonya Walger, Jane Curtin, Kelly Hu

Synopsis: A "professional student" lands a truly remarkable job in this witty made-for-TV fantasy adventure. Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle) is a 30-year-old graduate student who has managed to collect a whopping 22 university degrees; despite his brilliance, shy Flynn seems to have a hard time with the real Read More

2004
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Conscience

Synopsis: Detectives Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Benson (Mariska Hargitay) investigate when the five-year-old son of prominent psychiatrist Brett Morton (Kyle MacLachlan) vanishes from a toy store. Though the most obvious suspect would seem to be the convicted child molester seen hanging around the Read More

2004
Northfork

Actors: James Woods, Nick Nolte, Claire Forlani, Duel Farnes, Mark Polish

Synopsis: What was once a brave frontier town has become a haven for enlightened oddballs in this unusual drama from director Michael Polish, written in collaboration with his twin brother, Mark Polish. Northfork is a small town in Montana which, in 1955, is soon to disappear in the name of progress; a Read More

7/11/03
The Reality of Reality: How Real is Real?

2003
The Reality of Reality [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: Narrated by actor Kyle MacLachlan, the five-part cable miniseries The Reality of Reality investigated the then-current reality show craze. Tracing the genre from its roots in such golden-age TV efforts as Truth or Consequences and The Gong Show, the series offered interviews with the producers of Read More

2003
The Spring

Synopsis: This made-for-television thriller stars Kyle MacLachlan (Blue Velvet, Showgirls) and centers on a small town with a dark secret. MacLachlan is Dennis, a single father who takes his son camping near a rural hamlet. Soon, he discovers that within the tiny burg lies a fountain of youth. However, in Read More

2003
The Reality of Reality: Behind the Scenes

2003
The Reality of Reality: Outrageous Worldwide TV

2003
The Mullets [TV Series]

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Weaver, David Hornsby, John O'Hurley, Loni Anderson

Synopsis: Dwayne and Denny Mullet (Michael Weaver, David Hornsby) were a pair of blue-collar, white-trash siblings -- one outspoken, one shy -- who preferred to sport the haircut bearing their family name, and who enjoyed nothing better than hunkering down before the tube to watch the weekly wrestling Read More

2003
The Reality of Reality: America's Instant Idols

2003
The Reality of Reality: Everything New is Old

2003
Miranda

Actors: Christina Ricci, John Simm, Kyle MacLachlan, John Hurt, Julian Rhind-Tutt

Synopsis: First-time feature director Marc Munden's Miranda is a story about a man obsessed with an elusive woman. Frank (John Simm) is a librarian who falls hard for Miranda (Christina Ricci) the second he sees her in the library. She is secretly helping the nefarious Christian (John Hurt) in a real estate Read More

2002
Sex and the City: Season 05

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon

2002
Me Without You

Actors: Anna Friel, Michelle Williams, Kyle MacLachlan, Oliver Milburn, Trudie Styler, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: The joys and horrors of female friendship are explored in writer/director Sandra Goldbacher's Me Without You. Bold, brash, and fashionable Marina (played by Anna Popplewell as a child, and Anna Friel as a teen and adult) comes from a broken home. Her mother, Linda (Trudie Styler, who executive Read More

11/23/01
Perfume

Actors: Joanne Baron, Angela Bettis, Sonia Braga, D.W. Brown, Coolio

Synopsis: As a number of luminaries on the international fashion scene converge for a major show, their personal and professional crises come to a head in this comedy-drama. Lorenzo Mancini (Paul Sorvino) is an internationally famous designer who has learned he has only a short time to live. As Mancini Read More

2001
Sex and the City: Season 04

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon

2001
Hamlet

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Shepard, Diane Venora, Bill Murray, Julia Stiles

Synopsis: William Shakespeare's classic tale is brought to the screen for the third time in ten years in this modernized interpretation. Writer/director Michael Almereyda updates the story to the present day, where Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) is a struggling filmmaker whose personal and familial trials are set Read More

5/12/00
Timecode

Actors: Xander Berkeley, Golden Brooks, Saffron Burrows, Richard Edson, Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter, Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Mann, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Synopsis: Director Mike Figgis helmed this ground-breaking experimental feature, filmed with four synchronized digital video cameras in four separate locations. The story, outlined in advance but otherwise improvised, was enacted in a single continuous take, like a stage play, with the unedited images from Read More

4/28/00
XChange

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Kyle MacLachlan, Kim Coates

Synopsis: This science fiction thriller is set in a future where new technology allows travelers to save time and effort by transporting their minds into a body waiting at their chosen destination. However, a public relations man learns of the potential dangers of this new service when his body is taken Read More

2000
Sex and the City: Season 03

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon

2000
The Spring

Actors: Joseph Cross, Kyle MacLachlan, Alison Eastwood, George Eads, Aaron Pearl

Synopsis: While on a vacation in the Pacific Northwest, widower Nick Conway (Kyle McLachlan) and his son Dennis (Joseph Cross) are involved in a car accident. Dennis is rushed to the hospital in a strange, remote village called Springdale, where all the residents seem unusually youthful and attractive. As Read More

2000
Route 9

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Peter Coyote, Amy Locane, Miguel Sandoval, Wade Williams, Richard Riehle

Synopsis: Two lawmen find the call of corruption too loud to ignore in the drama Route 9. Booth Parker (Kyle MacLachlan) and Earl Whitney (Wade Williams) are two deputies in a small town who discover a crime scene along a deserted highway. There appears to have been a shoot-out with no living witnesses, and Read More

1/1/98
One Night Stand

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Ming-Na Wen, Robert Downey, Jr., Kyle MacLachlan

Synopsis: A man's brief fling threatens to ruin what he values most in life in this drama. Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) lives in California, where he has a successful career directing television commercials and is happily married to Mimi (Ming-Na Wen), with whom he has two children. While visiting New York Read More

1997
The Trigger Effect

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney, Richard T. Jones, Michael Rooker

Synopsis: The film's opening sequence takes the audience inside a mall, where a series of minor slights among strangers leads to an inexorable tension. Eventually, the focus settles on the main characters of The Trigger Effect, Matthew (Kyle MacLachlan) and his wife Annie (Elisabeth Shue). When a massive Read More

1996
Mad Dog Time

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum, Diane Lane

Synopsis: A group of mobsters fight for control in this satirical comedy-drama. Vic (Richard Dreyfuss) is a not-especially-stable crime boss who -- following a spell in a mental hospital after being diagnosed with schizophrenia -- is sent home and is ready to resume his place as supreme leader of the mob. Read More

1996
The Windsor Protocol

Actors: John Colicos, Alan Thicke, Kyle MacLachlan

1996
Moonshine Highway

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Randy Quaid, Jeremy Ratchford, Gary Farmer, Maria Del Mar

Synopsis: In this rip-roaring actioner, a moonshiner comes to a crossroads in his life when he must decide whether he should spend the rest of his days running illegal corn squeezin's and eluding the vengeful and corrupt sheriff, or follow the advice of his lover (the same sheriff's estranged wife) and head Read More

1996
Thunder Point

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, James Kidnie, Pascale Bussières, Cedric Smith, Chris Wiggins

Synopsis: Former IRA agent Sean Dillon comes to the rescue when a woman discovers a briefcase containing plans that could destroy all of Europe. Dillon's assignment is to protect her until the plans can be properly destroyed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Showgirls

Actors: Elizabeth Berkley, Gina Gershon, Kyle MacLachlan, Robert Davi, Alan Rachins, William Shockley

Synopsis: "I'm gonna dance," Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) insists in the opening scene of Showgirls, and dance she does. In this quasi-update of All About Eve, Nomi is a drifter whose sole ambition is to headline the "Goddess" topless dance show at the Stardust in Las Vegas. Of course, even Nomi must pay Read More

1995
Against the Wall

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Samuel L. Jackson, Harry Dean Stanton, Clarence Williams III, Frederic Forrest

Synopsis: Made for cable TV, Against the Wall represents filmmaker John Frankenheimer's return to the small screen. This in-your-face reenactment of the 1971 Attica prison riots is jam-packed with political and sociological implications. Refreshingly, none of the participants -- the prisoners, the guards Read More

1994
The Flintstones

Actors: John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan

Synopsis: The good (if not fully evolved) citizens of Bedrock make their way to the big screen in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series of the 1960s. Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) and his best friend Barney Rubble (Rick Moranis) work together at the Slate and Company Rock Quarry. When Read More

1994
Roswell

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Martin Sheen, Dwight Yoakam, Kim Greist

Synopsis: Originally made for cable television, Roswell is an entertaining mix of purported actual events and science fiction. The narrative unfolds primarily in flashbacks as retired Army officer Jesse Marcel (Kyle MacLachlan) attends a reunion of the 509th Bomber Group and tries to come to closure on Read More

1994
The Trial

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards, Jr., Jean Stapleton, Polly Walker

Synopsis: Franz Kafka's classic tale of Josef K., a bank clerk who is placed on trial for an unnamed, unknowable crime, is given a faithful, if not overly literal, treatment in this drama. Knowing only that he has been charged, Josef naturally sets out to defend himself, but soon finds himself deeply mired Read More

1993
Rich in Love

Actors: Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe, Kyle MacLachlan, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: The final installment of what might be called Bruce Beresford's southern trilogy (the other films being Crimes of the Heart and Driving Miss Daisy) examines a disintegrating Southern family. The Odom family live in an elegant mansion, where Warren (Albert Finney) is retired and spends the days Read More

1993
Where the Day Takes You

Actors: Sean Astin, Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Dobson, Balthazar Getty, Ricki Lake, James LeGros, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: Marc Rocco's gritty drama Where the Day Takes You stars Dermot Mulroney as King, a street-smart hustler who acts as a father figure to a motley collection of young runaways. Among the people in his sphere are the young self-destructive drug addict Greg (Sean Astin), self-hating gay prostitute Read More

9/11/92
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Actors: Sheryl Lee, Chris Isaak, Ray Wise, David Bowie, Moira Kelly, Kyle MacLachlan, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series "Twin Peaks" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), whose plastic-wrapped corpse, found floating in a river, was the fulcrum for the television series. During the day in the town of Twin Peaks, Laura is a top Read More

8/28/92
The Doors

Actors: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon

Synopsis: Val Kilmer delivers what was considered one of 1991's best performances as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's hallucinatory bio-pic of the seminal 1960s rock group The Doors. Stone cuts a jagged swath through Morrison's life, starting with a childhood memory where Morrison sees an elderly Indian dying Read More

3/1/91
Don't Tell Her It's Me

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Jami Gertz, Shelley Long, Kyle MacLachlan, Kevin Scannell

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, recovering chemotherapy patient and cartoonist Gus Kubicek (Steve Guttenberg) is made over into every woman's fantasy man by his romance-novelist sister, Lizzie (Shelley Long). As Gus succeeds in sweeping the attractive reporter Emily Pear (Jami Gertz) off her feet, he Read More

9/21/90
Twin Peaks: Episode 04

Synopsis: The fourth episode of Twin Peaks' first season, "The One-Armed Man," was originally broadcast on May 3, 1990, and directed by Tim Hunter (River's Edge). Deputy Andy Brennan sketches Sarah Palmer's visions of Killer Bob, resembling the Bob in Agent Cooper's dream from episode two. Another of Read More

1990
Twin Peaks: Episode 03

Synopsis: Originally broadcast on April 26, 1990, episode three of Twin Peaks, "Rest in Pain," takes place the day of Laura Palmer's funeral. After having breakfast with Audrey (Sherilyn Fenn), Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) explains his dream to Sheriff Harry Truman (Michael Ontkean), claiming it is a code Read More

1990
Twin Peaks: Episode 01

Synopsis: The first official episode of Twin Peaks, entitled "Traces to Nowhere," originally aired on April 12, 1990. Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) of the FBI continues to investigate the mysterious death of Laura Palmer. He interrogates James Hurley (James Marshall), Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook Read More

1990
Twin Peaks: Episode 02

Synopsis: Originally broadcast on April 19, 1990, the memorable and pivotal second episode of Twin Peaks, "Zen, or the Skill of Catching a Killer," contains the infamous surreal dream sequence with the Little Man From Another Place (Michael J. Anderson). On Saturday night, sleazy businessman Benjamin Horne (Richard Beymer Read More

1990
Twin Peaks: Episode 05

Synopsis: Episode five of the first season of Twin Peaks, "Cooper's Dreams," originally aired on May 10, 1990, and was directed by Lesli Linka Glatter. Trying to start her own investigation, Audrey goes to a job interview at her father's department store. She manipulates the manager, Emory Battis (Don Amendolia Read More

1990
Twin Peaks [TV Series]

Actors: Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joan Chen, Sherilyn Fenn, Piper Laurie, Michael Ontkean, Ray Wise, Grace Zabriskie, Kyle MacLachlan

Synopsis: The groundbreaking and influential Twin Peaks series originally ran on the ABC network for the short time between April 1990 and June 1991. Created by film director David Lynch (Blue Velvet) and writer Mark Frost (Hill Street Blues), it gained an enormous following of viewers while challenging Read More

1990
Saturday Night Live: Kyle MacLachlan

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Sinéad O'Connor

Synopsis: This 1990 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Kyle MacLachlan and features musical guest Sinead O'Connor. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Twin Peaks: Episode 13

Synopsis: Episode 13 of Twin Peaks, "Demons," originally aired on November 3, 1990, and was directed by Lesli Linka Glatter. This episode offers important information on the nature of Killer Bob as a spirit who requires a human host. Donna and Maddy fail at their mission to steal Laura's diary when Harold Read More

1990
Twin Peaks: Episode 06

Synopsis: Episode six in the first season of Twin Peaks, "Realization Time," originally aired May 17, 1990, and was directed by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel. The wounded suspect Leo Johnson (Eric Da Re), shot by Shelly (Madchen Amick) in self-defense, tries to kill Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook Read More

1990
Twin Peaks: Episode 07

Synopsis: The final cliffhanger episode of the first season of Twin Peaks, entitled "The Last Evening," originally aired on May 24, 1990, and was written and directed by series co-creator Mark Frost. James (James Marshall) and Donna (Lara Flynn Boyle) search for clues and find the missing tape, while Dr. Read More

1990
Dream Breakers

Actors: Robert Loggia, Kyle MacLachlan, Hal Linden, D.W. Moffett, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: The made-for-TV The Dream Breakers harks back to all those Pat O'Brien and Spencer Tracy "fighting priest" films of the 1930s and 1940s. Kyle MacLachlan plays an idealistic young cleric who opposes a powerful real-estate broker (Hal Linden) with mob ties. Complication One: MacLachlan's father (Robert Loggia Read More

1989
Twin Peaks

Actors: Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, James Marshall, Michael Ontkean, Ray Wise, Kyle MacLachlan

Synopsis: Also known as "The Northwest Passage," the two-hour pilot episode of Twin Peaks originally aired April 8, 1990. The central plot of the series is set when Pete Martell (Jack Nance) finds the body of high school student Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) wrapped in plastic by the water at the Packard Read More

1989
The Hidden

Actors: Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan, Ed O'Ross, Clu Gulager, Claudia Christian

Synopsis: A cop discovers that there's something unusual about his new partner in this unusual sci-fi thriller. A seemingly well-mannered stock broker one day snaps, robbing a bank, stealing a Ferrari, and driving straight into a police barricade without any thought for his own safety, and he's mowed down Read More

10/30/87
Blue Velvet

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, Brad Dourif

Synopsis: Director David Lynch crafted this hallucinogenic mystery-thriller that probes beneath the cheerful surface of suburban America to discover sadomasochistic violence, corruption, drug abuse, crime and perversion. Kyle Maclachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a square-jawed young man who returns to his Read More

9/19/86
Dune

Actors: Francesca Annis, Leo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Kyle MacLachlan, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis: David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and Read More

1984

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