Kyle MacLachlan

Biography:

At Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital in Yakima, Washington, MacLachlan was born Kyle McLachlan. His mother, Catherine Stone (1934–1986), was as a school district’s public relations director  and a housewife involved in neighborhood arts initiatives. Kent Alan McLachlan (1933–2011), his father, was a lawyer and stockbroker. Kyle’s background is Cornish, German, and Scottish. He and his younger brothers, Craig and Kent Jr., grew up in Yakima as the oldest of three boys. MacLachlan received his diploma from Yakima’s Eisenhower High School. His parents split during his final year of high school, and his mother abandoned his father when he was 17 . When MacLachlan’s mother took on the role of director of a youth theater program for teenagers that she assisted in establishing in Yakima, she introduced him to stage acting. From the age of 9 to 14, she also sent him to piano lessons, during which time he started learning classical singing. He acted in his first play at the age of 15 and participated in plays and class musicals during his time in high school. He played Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady and played the lead part of Brindsley Miller in a production of Peter Shaffer’s one-act drama Black Comedy during his final year. As a participant in the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Washington (UW), he earned a cum laude BFA in drama in 1982.