Sydney Chandler: 5 Things To Know About Kyle Chandler’s Daughter Who Is In ‘Don’t Worry Darling’

Olivia Wilde‘s latest directorial feature, Don’t Worry Darling, has an all-star formed including Harry Styles, Florence Pugh, Gemma Chan, and Chris Pine. But there’s 1 lesser-known formed subordinate who is really related to Kyle Chandler, 57. The Friday Night Lights star’s daughter Sydney Chandler, 25, plays the relation of Violet successful the intelligence thriller, which marks her archetypal large diagnostic film. Here’s everything you request to cognize astir Sydney.

Sydney Chandler (Photo: John Nacion/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)

Sydney is Kyle Chandler’s oldest child.

Sydney is the eldest kid of Kyle and his woman of implicit 25 years, Kathryn Macquarrie. Sydney has a younger sister named Sawyer. The Chandler household lives extracurricular of Austin, Texas, though they predominant Los Angeles owed to Kyle and Sydney’s Hollywood vocation connections.

She plays Violet successful ‘Don’t Worry Darling’.

Sydney’s Don’t Worry Darling character is a housewife and person of Alice Chambers (played by Florence Pugh). They unrecorded successful Victory, California, wherever their husbands enactment connected the concealed “Victory Project” which sparks Alice’s suspicions. Sydney explained however she related to Violet arsenic a newcomer to Hollywood successful an interrogation with WWD.

“Me, myself arsenic Sydney was precise caller to this world, and truthful I felt my quality very, precise quickly, conscionable benignant of stepping successful and soaking up the vibe connected acceptable and seeing however each of it works,” she said. “And truthful that benignant of translated truly perfectly for my character.”

She was successful a amusement astir the Sex Pistols.

Sydney had a pb relation successful the FX connected Hulu miniseries Pistols, astir Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and the band’s emergence to fame. She played Chrissie Hynde, founding subordinate of the Pretenders who astir joined Steve and his bandmate Johnny Rotten for a enactment permit.

Sydney Chandler with her dada Kyle Chandler (Photo: Eric Charbonneau/Shutterstock)

She didn’t privation to beryllium an histrion astatine first.

“My dad’s an actor, and truthful you ne'er privation to bash what your parents are doing,” Sydney explained successful her WWD interview. “So I stayed precise acold distant from that. And past I wanted to beryllium a vet, and past I deliberation it was my past twelvemonth of precocious schoolhouse erstwhile I was failing my mathematics and my science, I was like, ‘maybe not.’ And past I went into originative writing, and I ended up taking an acting people successful Austin present successful municipality erstwhile I was studying for my writing. And I wanted to conscionable bash a quality survey connected writers, connected actors, and spot radical trying to act, that would beryllium an absorbing idiosyncratic to evaluate. And past I ended up conscionable perfectly falling successful emotion with it. My acting manager said, ‘you tin enactment successful the people if you commencement auditioning,’ and it each conscionable benignant of went from there.”

Her dad’s fixed her advice.

Kyle, who is besides celebrated from the movies Manchester by the Sea, The Wolf of Wall Street, and First Man, has been determination for his girl arsenic she follows successful his footsteps professionally.

“He’s been highly supportive and we actually, we’ve had immoderate truly bully talks about, you know. I privation to marque my ain mode done this, my ain way done this, with my work,” Sydney told WWD. “And he’s been really, truly conscionable supportive. He’s my dad. He’s determination for me,” she said.