Kyle Kaplan

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Kyle Kaplan
Kyle Kaplan
Born	Kyle Joseph Kaplan Los Angeles, California, USA
Years active	2005-present

Kyle Joseph Kaplan is an American actor who was born in Los Angeles, California.

At the age of 13, Kaplan toured with Jim Henson's Bear and the Big Blue House Live! across the U.S. and United Kingdom for ten months. He also performed at the Los Angeles Stage Ovation Awards in 2004. He is a member of a comedy improvisation troupe in Los Angeles. Early in his career, he was the subject of a German filmmaker's documentary called "Hollywood Kids".

Kaplan's current focus is on television and film, and he played Greg Grunberg's nephew in NBC's Grand Union sitcom pilot in 2005. He has appeared in several national commercials, including Wendy's restaurants, Yahoo!, Cingular Wireless, Simon Malls, Dairy Queen, and most recently, Honda. He can be seen in a recurring role as Chad the Chomper in Disney's Hannah Montana. In 2006, he also appeared in The Bernie Mac Show, CSI: Miami, and Zoey 101. In April 2006, he completed filming on Chris Elliott's semi-autobiographical sitcom pilot for CBS called "You've Reached the Elliotts" playing the star's son. He filmed his 3rd pilot (in less than a year) in September, 2006, as the son of actor/comedian/writer Tim Stack in the "Tim Stack's Family Vacation", a hybrid comedy (part scripted, part improv) produced for Nick at Nite.

Kaplan was a recurring character on the Fox sitcom The War at Home, made a guest appearance in the short-lived Fox sitcom The Winner starring Rob Corddry, and recently filmed an episode of The Riches for the FX network. He appeared in the Owen Wilson comedy Drillbit Taylor, released in theaters in March of 2008. Most recently, he was cast as Brian in The Oaks, a high concept family drama series for the Fox network.