Wissenswertes

The name of his winery, "Pursued by Bear," was suggested one evening over dinner by Steve Martin, and refers to a stage direction in Shakespeare's play, The Winters Tale. As the story goes, Shakespeare only ever wrote one stage direction in any of his plays (that job was generally left for stage managers), as included in "The Winter's Tale": "Exit, pursued by a bear".

When his son, Callum, was born in 2008, he created a new wine vintage at his winery called "Baby Bear".

Director Bruce Beresford said about him: "Kyle wears his handsomeness easily; he doesn't carry on. And he's not a boring man. He's ordinary but interesting, which is difficult to find."

Often stars in David Lynch films such as Der Wüstenplanet (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Twin Peaks - Der Film: Die letzten 7 Tage im Leben der Laura Palmer (1992), and the television series Das Geheimnis von Twin Peaks (1990), originated by Lynch and Mark Frost.

Was nominated for a 1990 Grammy Award in the category of Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording for the album "Diane...'The Twin Peaks Tapes Of Agent Cooper'".

He turned down the Charlie Sheen role in Platoon (1986).

Owns a winery in the Columbia Valley of Washington State. Other than his well known love of wine, his main reason for purchasing a vineyard was to spend more time with his brothers and father, Kent McLachlan, who had recently retired as a stock broker.

Spells his last name differently than his father Kent McLachlan, who died in 2011 at age 77.

Graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelors of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in 1982.

Living with his wife Desiree, and son Callum, in Los Angeles, California. (2025)

Married Desiree Gruber at Plymouth Congregational Church in Miami, Florida (her hometown).

Graduated from Eisenhower High School in Yakima, Washington, in 1977.

Kyle and his wife, Desiree Gruber, became the parents of their first child, a son named Callum Lyon MacLachlan, on July 25, 2008. Callum weighed in at 8 lbs. 6 oz.

In one of his roles, as the fictional Mayor of Portland, Oregon, on the Independent Film Channel series Portlandia (2011), he co-stars with Sarah McLachlan, who spells her last name the same as his father, Kent McLachlan, but is no relation.

Kyle has Scottish, English, Cornish, and German ancestry. He has, perhaps jokingly, stated that he could be a direct descendant of composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), through Kyle's maternal great-grandmother, Henrietta Bach. However, Henrietta was descended, through her own patrilineal line, from a man named Johann Christoph Bach, born in Germany in the late 1600s. Thus, Kyle is not a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach nor his other musician relatives (at least through that line).

Older brother of Craig MacLachlan and Kent MacLachlan.

Of Clan Maclachlan.

In Sydney, Australia, filming Maos letzter Tänzer (2009). (Mai 2008)

Born at 3:04 PM (PST).