10 Brilliant TV Actors Who Have Failed At Becoming Movie Stars
3. Kyle Chandler
Kyle Chandler boasts a square jaw and chiseled features straight from the Golden Age of Hollywood, but so far the 49 year-old actor has failed to make much of an impact on the big screen during his career, despite featuring in some high-profile projects, albeit usually in a supporting role.
Since making his screen debut in 1988, Chandler has built up something of a niche as an actor comfortable in small-screen drama, with a handful of television movies on his filmography throughout the 1990's along with top billing on both ABC's Homefront and CBS' Early Edition. However, Chandler's genuine breakthrough role didn't come until he landed the part of Eric Taylor on the critically-acclaimed Friday Night Lights, a part that saw him win a Primetime Emmy in 2011.
Prior to Friday Night Lights, Chandler's biggest movie role was in Peter Jackson's King Kong, but since then the actor has lent support to The Kingdom, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Super 8, Best Picture winner Argo and nominees Zero Dark Thirty and The Wolf of Wall Street. Most recently, Chandler has found himself back in his small-screen wheelhouse playing the lead role in Netflix series Bloodline. For an actor with such critically-acclaimed movies and television shows on his filmography, it seems strange that Kyle Chandler has yet to make the permanent step up to a Hollywood mainstay.