Kyle Martin Chandler was born on September 17, 1965 in Buffalo, New York. He was raised in Chicago suburbs until the age of 11, when he and his family moved to the small town Loganville, Georgia. He has two brothers in their 40's (one lives in Florida and the other in Texas), as well as an older sister living in California, and his mother, Sally, a dog breeder, has lived on the same 22-acre farm where Kyle grew up until just recently (May 2000). His father, Edward, passed away when Kyle was still a boy. Kyle earned a bachelor's degree in theater from the University of Georgia in Athens, where he first landed the lead in their production of A Comedy of Errors. Kyle and his wife, Kathryn, a screenwriter, live in California with their daughter Sydney. They have two terriers, Buckley and Otis (named for R&B singer Otis Redding).