Unlike his former costar Kitsch, Chandler, 59, hasn’t gotten the call just yet to return as the fan-favorite coach Eric Taylor. “I have not. No calls.

Britton reprised her role, while he added Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor. "As soon as we met, it was clear that the casting was perfect,” Chandler said of Britton in a 2011 interview with NPR.

By Shelby Stivale January 8, 2025 TOP STORIES Taylor Kitsch as Tim Riggins and Kyle Chandler as Eric Taylor in ‘Friday Night Lights.’NBC; NBC/Paul Drinkwater ...

Kyle Chandler's daughter is starring in FX's latest sci-fi series 'Alien: Earth.' Learn more about Sydney Chandler here.

But the leading role of Eric Taylor on Friday Night Lights is the one he’s been waiting for his entire career. “I really like him a lot,” Kyle said of his TV alter-ego.

Few television roles from the past twenty years are more iconic than Kyle Chandler’s Coach Eric Taylor on Friday Night Lights. Chandler was born in upstate New York and spent most of his youth ...

In a new PSA for the Texas-based theater chain, Kyle Chandler reprises his role as Friday Night Lights ‘ Coach Eric Taylor to tell moviegoers to stop talking and being on their phones while a ...

Kyle Chandler was born in Buffalo, New York on September 17, 1965. Growing up in Chicago, and later moving to a small farm in Loganville, Georgia, Chandler was – and still is – a die-hard ...

Anyone who’s watched Friday Night Lights probably agrees— Kyle Chandler’s portrayal of Coach Eric Taylor was so powerful, so heart-tuggingly inspiring, that asking yourself “What Would ...

Though he's not a television character, Coach Eric Taylor on Friday Night Lights has often been held as a standard for coaches -- he's honest, the perfect father figure for lost teens and of ...