English actor, born in London and first appeared in Rhodess company, having been, like Betterton, a clerk in Rhodess book-shop before he set up a company in the Cockpit in Drury Lane. Kynaston was probably the last and certainly the best of the male actors of female parts, for which his personal beauty admirably fitted him. His last female part was Evadne in The Maids Tragedy in 1661 with Killigrews company. In 1665 he was playing important male parts at Covent Garden. He joined Betterton at Lincolns Inn Fields in 1695, after which he received less important rôles, retiring in 1699.