1. Kieran Kyle Culkin was born on September 30,1982 and is an American actor.
62 Facts About Kieran Culkin
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Kieran Culkin made his feature film debut alongside his older brother, Macaulay, in the Christmas comedy Home Alone.
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Kieran Culkin returned to film six years later by playing Wallace Wells in the action comedy Scott Pilgrim vs the World.
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Kieran Culkin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a grief-stricken cousin in the buddy comedy A Real Pain.
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On television, Kieran Culkin found a career resurgence with his portrayal of Roman Roy in the HBO drama series Succession, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
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Kieran Culkin's voice acting work includes roles in Solar Opposites and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
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On stage, Kieran Culkin starred in the West End and Broadway productions of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth.
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Kieran Culkin portrayed Richard Roma in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross.
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Kieran Kyle Culkin was born on September 30,1982, in the Manhattan borough of New York City.
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Kieran Culkin was the fourth of seven children born to Christopher "Kit" Culkin and Patricia Brentrup.
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Kieran Culkin's father is a former stage actor, and his mother, a native of North Dakota, worked as a road traffic controller in Sundance, Wyoming.
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Kieran Culkin had a half-sister, Jennifer Adamson, from his father's previous relationship.
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The tenement was "barely suitable for a couple," Kieran Culkin explained to Vanity Fair.
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Kieran Culkin then studied theater, film and television at the Professional Children's School, but dropped out during his senior year of high school.
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Kieran Culkin was "loved unconditionally" by his mother, and considers her to be his only parent.
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Kieran Culkin was neglected by his father throughout his childhood and only remembers him as being a "constant, unwelcome presence" in the household.
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Kieran Culkin maintained a "great" relationship with his mother, but has been estranged from his father since.
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Kieran Culkin was raised as a performer and started acting at the age of two.
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Kieran Culkin's career began when a stage manager who worked for the Light Opera of Manhattan, an off-Broadway repertory theatre, heard the company needed some children for their productions.
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Kieran Culkin started auditioning for roles with his older siblings when he was six years old.
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At age seven, Kieran Culkin made his feature film debut as Fuller McCallister, the youngest cousin of the protagonist Kevin McCallister, in the Christmas comedy Home Alone.
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In 1991, Kieran Culkin had minor roles in the romantic comedies Only the Lonely, which received mixed reviews, and Father of the Bride, which earned positive reviews.
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Kieran Culkin was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor Co-Starring in a Motion Picture for his performance in the latter.
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Kieran Culkin reprised his role as Fuller McCallister in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, the poorly received sequel to Home Alone.
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Kieran Culkin alternated between lead roles in independent films and small parts in mainstream films as he entered adolescence.
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Kieran Culkin then starred as a boy suffering from Morquio syndrome in the coming-of-age film The Mighty, which earned him a nomination for the Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actor in a Feature Film.
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Kieran Culkin returned to the stage in 2000 with The Moment When, an off-Broadway romantic comedy play by James Lapine that explored the lives of New York City's arts-and-lits set.
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Kieran Culkin starred in his first regular role in a television series with the short-lived NBC sitcom Go Fish.
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Kieran Culkin realized in the midst of the film's success that acting had become his career, which was "terrifying" because he was never granted the decision to pursue it.
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Kieran Culkin mostly gravitated towards theatre during his hiatus, starting as a replacement for Jake Gyllenhaal in Kenneth Lonergan's West End production of This Is Our Youth at the Garrick Theatre.
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In 2006, Kieran Culkin starred in Eric Bogosian's off-Broadway revival of SubUrbia, and made his on-Broadway debut by appearing in Julia Cho's one-act play First Tree in Antarctica.
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Kieran Culkin reunited with Lonergan for The Starry Messenger, a cosmic drama, at the Acorn Theatre.
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Kieran Culkin headlined multiple revival runs of This Is Our Youth as Dennis Ziegler for the Sydney Opera House, the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and the Cort Theatre.
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Kieran Culkin made his intermittent return to the screen with Derick Martini's Lymelife, a teen comedy film, executive-produced by Martin Scorsese.
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In Edgar Wright's action comedy Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Kieran Culkin portrayed the titular character's "cool gay roommate" Wallace Wells.
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Kieran Culkin was frequently described by critics as one of the film's scene stealers, although it bombed at the box office.
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Kieran Culkin played a small role in Lonergan's psychological drama Margaret, before starring in the critically panned comedies Movie 43 and Quitters.
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Kieran Culkin recalled feeling comfortable with acting while he was filming the science fiction comedy Infinity Baby, and began settling into it being something he would do for a living.
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From 2018 to 2023, Kieran Culkin received renewed recognition from mainstream audiences for his lead role as Roman Roy, an immature and irresponsible media executive, in the HBO black comedy-drama series Succession.
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Kieran Culkin played a supporting role in Steven Soderbergh's crime thriller No Sudden Move, and hosted the November 6,2021 episode of the variety series Saturday Night Live; marking thirty years since his brother Macaulay anchored.
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In 2022, Kieran Culkin narrated the documentary miniseries Gaming Wall Street and joined the adult animated sitcom Solar Opposites as a recurring character.
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Kieran Culkin returned to his role as Wallace Wells for the anime series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
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Kieran Culkin played Benjamin "Benji" Kaplan, a free-spirited and mentally unstable drifter who travels to Poland with his cousin David to honor their late grandmother and connect with their Polish-Jewish heritage.
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Kieran Culkin earned several accolades for his work, including the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, the Golden Globe Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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In 2025, Kieran Culkin returned to the stage as Richard Roma in Patrick Marber's Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, opposite Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr.
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The revival received polarizing reviews from critics; many of whom believed that Kieran Culkin had been miscast.
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The truth is, [Kieran Culkin] is one of my most favorite scene partners I've had in the seven years of working on Succession.
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Succession encouraged its actors to improvise, which Kieran Culkin disliked at first due to being theatrically trained.
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Kieran Culkin soon developed a free-associative style of acting in which he learned his lines shortly before delivering them, declined to stand on his marker, and frequently experimented with the temperature of his performance.
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Kieran Culkin's methods contrasted with his co-star Jeremy Strong's labor-intensive acting style, but Strong's process was not intrusive upon his own.
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Kieran Culkin has a complicated relationship with celebrity culture, having been exposed to his brother Macaulay's fame at a young age.
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Kieran Culkin mistrusted mainstream media outlets following the release of Home Alone because of how the press treated his family.
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Kieran Culkin has been labeled as a style icon, with his incorporation of accessories listed as his trademark feature.
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In 2005, Kieran Culkin briefly dated his After Ashley co-star Anna Paquin.
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Kieran Culkin was in a relationship with his Paper Man co-star Emma Stone from 2009 to 2011.
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Some of Kieran Culkin's hobbies are cooking, playing retro video games, and watching professional wrestling.
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Kieran Culkin has attended an estimated ten editions of WrestleMania, the annual flagship event held by WWE.
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Kieran Culkin became friends with singer Michael Jackson around the time Home Alone was released.
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Kieran Culkin frequently visited his residence, Neverland Ranch, with his siblings.
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Kieran Culkin declined to speak about his relationship with Jackson in the wake of the documentary film Leaving Neverland, due to its sensitive nature.
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Kieran Culkin is the first performer to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor from a film that was not nominated in Best Picture since Christopher Plummer in 2012.
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Kieran Culkin is the third actor to sweep the American "Big Four" film critics awards for a supporting performance.