page_title: Kyle Chandler
section_title: 2011–present: Film career and Bloodline
hierarchical_section_title: Kyle Chandler / Career / 2011–present: Film career and Bloodline
caption_attribution_description: English: Kyle Chandler and Mark Wahlberg on the set of Broken City in New York last November 17, 2011.
context_page_description: Kyle Martin Chandler is an American actor. Making his screen acting debut in a 1988 television film, Chandler's first regular television role was in the ABC drama Homefront. This was followed by the lead role of Gary Hobson in the CBS series Early Edition, for which he won a Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television. His other television roles include the short-lived sitcom What About Joan? and the legal drama The Lyon's Den, both short-lived, and a well-received guest appearance on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, for which Chandler received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
  Chandler received widespread critical acclaim for his performance as Eric Taylor in Friday Night Lights; he received numerous award nominations for his portrayal of the character and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2011 for his performance in the show's final season. Chandler's film work has included notable supporting roles in King Kong, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Super 8, Argo and Zero Dark Thirty, The Wolf of Wall Street, Carol, Manchester by the Sea and Game Night and First Man.
context_section_description: After Friday Night Lights ended, Chandler focused on film work. In 2011, he had a lead role in J.J. Abrams' science fiction film Super 8. The following year, he appeared in Argo. Chandler also co-starred in Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty in 2012, playing the role of Joseph Bradley, an Islamabad CIA Station Chief. He co-starred alongside Jessica Chastain and Jason Clarke.
  In 2013, he had a supporting role in Broken City, starring Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Chandler appeared in The Wolf of Wall Street, also released in 2013, based on the memoir of Wall Street tycoon Jordan Belfort. It was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, with Martin Scorsese directing. Chandler played FBI agent Patrick Denham. That same year, he played a deadbeat alcoholic father in The Spectacular Now.
  In 2015, Chandler co-starred in Todd Haynes' drama film Carol, portraying "a jealous husband" to his wife played by Cate Blanchett, who is revealed to be lesbian. Also in 2015, Chandler returned to television with the Netflix drama series Bloodline, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. The show premiered to positive reviews from critics, and ended after airing its third season. In the 2016 drama Manchester by the Sea, he played the main character's older brother.
  Chandler played an investigator in Shawn Christensen's film The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017), and starred with Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman in the comedy film Game Night (2018).
  In 2019, he starred in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, a role he is set to reprise in 2020's Godzilla vs. Kong.
caption: Chandler and Mark Wahlberg filming Broken City in November 2011
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