Jack Kyle

Cast

Born

April 7, 1968 · Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Birth name

Jack Kyle Franklin

Jack Kyle was raised in Sparta, Tennessee the home of The Foggy Mountain Boys, Lester Flatt. Jack's parents names are Jack and Susan and he has two sisters, Kristina and Lauren. In High School Jack was a highly recruited athlete playing football, basketball, and baseball. He also excelled in theater both as an actor and as his classes mime coach. Jack attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville majoring in Business and Theater while playing football and water polo for the Vols before becoming one of the nations top triathletes. He also did print ads throughout college to help pay the bills, shooting ads for Versace, Gap, Goodies, Levis, Bugle Boy, Lee Jeans, Men's Health, Clairol and Calvin Klein. He booked his first acting audition as a series regular on the country dance show Club Dance on TNN. His breakthrough role came in the Coen brothers film Intolerable Cruelty (2003), playing the womanizing Beverly Hills pool boy, Ollie Olerud.