Kyle Martin Chandler (born September 17, 1965 in Buffalo, New York) is an American film and television actor. He was a familiar face in film and television, until his Star-Making Role as Coach Eric Taylor in the critically acclaimed television series Friday Night Lights, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2011.
Film Roles
- Mulholland Falls (1996) as Captain
- King Kong (2005) as Bruce Baxter
- The Kingdom (2007) as Francis Manner
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) as John Driscol
- Super 8 (2011) as Jackson Lamb
- Argo (2012) as Hamilton Jordan
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012) as Joseph Bradley
- The Spectacular Now (2013) as Mr. Keely
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) as Patrick Denham
- Manchester by the Sea (2016) as Joe Chandler
- Game Night (2018) as Brooks
- First Man (2018) as Deke Slayton
- MonsterVerse as Mark Russell
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
- Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
- The Midnight Sky (2020) as Mitchell
- Slumberland (2022)
Television Roles
- Homefront (1991–93) as Jeff Metcalf
- Early Edition (1996–2000) as Gary Hobson
- Grey's Anatomy (2006–07) as Dylan Young
- Friday Night Lights (2006–11) as Eric Taylor
- Bloodline (2015–17) as John Rayburn
- Catch-22 (2019) as Col. Cathcart
- Star Wars: Visions (2021) as Mitaka
- Mayor of Kingstown (2021) as Mitch McLusky
- Super Pumped The Battle for Uber (2022) as Bill Gurley
