1. Macaulay Culkin earned recognition for playing Kevin McCallister in the Christmas comedy Home Alone, and reprised the role in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
52 Facts About Macaulay Culkin
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Macaulay Culkin furthered his success with the coming-of-age film My Girl, the psychological thriller film The Good Son, and the comedy films Getting Even with Dad and Richie Rich.
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Macaulay Culkin took a hiatus starting in 1995, and returned to acting with the biographical drama film Party Monster.
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Macaulay Culkin starred in the comedy film Changeland and the tenth season of the anthology series American Horror Story, and had a voice role in Kid Cudi's television special Entergalactic.
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Macaulay Culkin wrote the autobiography Junior, which describes his experiences with stardom and relationship with his father.
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In 2018, Macaulay Culkin became the publisher and CEO of Bunny Ears, a satirical popular culture website and podcast.
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Macaulay Carson Culkin was born on August 26,1980, in the Manhattan borough of New York City.
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Macaulay Culkin was named after British historian Thomas Babington Macaulay.
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Macaulay Culkin was the third of seven children born to Christopher "Kit" Macaulay Culkin, a former stage actor, and Patricia Brentrup, a native of North Dakota.
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Macaulay Culkin's mother worked as a telephone operator and his father was a sacristan at a local Catholic church.
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Macaulay Culkin was raised Roman Catholic and attended St Joseph's School of Yorkville for five years before transferring to the Professional Children's School.
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Macaulay Culkin took his parents to court to remove their name from his trust fund, which was reportedly worth between $15 and 20 million, and hired an executor.
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Macaulay Culkin continued appearing in roles on stage, television and films throughout the 1980s.
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Macaulay Culkin made an appearance in the TV movie The Midnight Hour.
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Macaulay Culkin made his film debut as Cy Blue Black in the drama Rocket Gibraltar.
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Macaulay Culkin played the role of Billy Livingstone in the romantic comedy film See You in the Morning, starring Jeff Bridges, Alice Krige, Farrah Fawcett and Drew Barrymore.
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Macaulay Culkin starred as Miles Russell alongside actor John Candy in the comedy film Uncle Buck.
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Macaulay Culkin rose to fame with his lead role of Kevin McCallister in the blockbuster comedy film Home Alone.
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In 1991, Macaulay Culkin starred in an animated Saturday morning cartoon television series titled Wish Kid, hosted Saturday Night Live and starred in Michael Jackson's "Black or White" music video.
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Macaulay Culkin starred as Thomas J Sennett in the film My Girl, for which he was nominated for Best On-Screen Duo and won Best Kiss at the MTV Movie Awards, with Anna Chlumsky.
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Macaulay Culkin was paid $4.5 million for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
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Macaulay Culkin played the role of Henry in the drama thriller film The Good Son, which only did reasonably well, although he was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in the category for Best Villain for his performance.
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Macaulay Culkin was a student at the School of American Ballet and appeared in a filmed version of The Nutcracker as the title role in 1993, which was staged by Peter Martins from the 1954 George Balanchine New York City Ballet version of the work.
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In 1994, Macaulay Culkin appeared in three films: Getting Even with Dad, The Pagemaster and Richie Rich.
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Macaulay Culkin established himself as one of the most successful child actors of the 1990s.
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Macaulay Culkin grew tired of acting and retired after Richie Rich.
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In 2000, Macaulay Culkin returned to acting with a role in the play Madame Melville, which was staged in London's West End.
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Macaulay Culkin headed back into motion pictures in 2003 with Party Monster, in which he played a role very different from those he was known for, that of party promoter Michael Alig, a drug user and murderer.
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Macaulay Culkin began doing voice-over work, with appearances in Seth Green's Robot Chicken.
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Macaulay Culkin's next project was a role in the thirteen-episode NBC television series Kings as Andrew Cross.
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In 2009, Macaulay Culkin appeared in a UK-based commercial for Aviva Insurance to help promote their company's rebranding.
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In February 2010, Macaulay Culkin appeared in an episode of Poppy de Villeneuve's online series for The New York Times, The Park.
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In December 2013, a viral video of Macaulay Culkin eating a cheese pizza was uploaded to YouTube.
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In late May 2014, Macaulay Culkin stormed off stage at Rock City during his kazoo solo after fans began booing and throwing pints of beer at the band.
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On July 10,2016, Macaulay Culkin announced that The Pizza Underground was splitting up and their next album would be the last.
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In July 2016, Macaulay Culkin appeared in a television advertisement for Compare the Market.
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In January 2018, Macaulay Culkin launched a comedy website and podcast called Bunny Ears that parodied other celebrity-owned websites such as Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop.
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Since 2018, Macaulay Culkin has been a frequent guest of Red Letter Media, appearing in multiple episodes of their Best of the Worst, re:View, and Half in the Bag webseries, as well as Angry Video Game Nerd, where he appears as a parody of himself.
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In 2021, Macaulay Culkin was part of the starring cast of the series' tenth season, American Horror Story: Double Feature.
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On December 1,2023, Macaulay Culkin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Macaulay Culkin tends to refrain from disclosing aspects of his personal life; however, he has discussed his life as a child actor, the conflict in his family life, including his estrangement from his father, and how he retired from acting at age 14.
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On September 17,2004, Macaulay Culkin was arrested in Oklahoma City for the possession of 17.3 grams of marijuana and two controlled substances, 16.5 milligrams of alprazolam and 32 milligrams of clonazepam, for which he was briefly jailed and then released on $4,000 bail.
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Macaulay Culkin received three one-year suspended prison sentences and was ordered to pay $540 in fees.
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Macaulay Culkin announced in April 2019 that the legal name change process had been completed.
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Macaulay Culkin married actress Rachel Miner in 1998 when they were both 18, but they separated in 2000 and divorced in 2002.
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In 2017, Macaulay Culkin started dating Changeland co-star Brenda Song, having met while working together on that film.
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Shortly after their son's birth, comments Macaulay Culkin made on a 2018 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience about his relationship with Song resurfaced, which were criticized for stereotyping Asians.
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Macaulay Culkin argued that he was entitled to make Asian jokes because of his relationship with Song, and because of his future fatherhood to multiracial children, stating that he would "understand the struggle".
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Macaulay Culkin and Song's second son was born in December 2022.
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Around the time of the first Home Alone movie, Macaulay Culkin became friends with the pop singer Michael Jackson and appeared in Jackson's 1991 "Black or White" music video.
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Macaulay Culkin is the godfather of Jackson's children Paris Jackson, Prince and Michael Jr.
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Macaulay Culkin is close with fellow actor Seth Green, with whom he co-starred in the film Party Monster, as well as in Green's 2019 directorial debut, Changeland, and on episodes of Green's adult animated sitcom Robot Chicken.