Kieran Culkin
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![]() Culkin in This Is Our Youth at the Sydney Opera House, 2012. | |
Born | Kieran Kyle Culkin September 30, 1982 |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1990–present |
Parent(s) | Kit Culkin and Patricia Brentrup |
Relatives | Macaulay Culkin (older brother) Rory Culkin (younger brother) Bonnie Bedelia (aunt) Jazz Charton (spouse 2013-) |
Kieran Kyle Culkin (born September 30, 1982) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor, acting alongside his older brother Macaulay in the Home Alone franchise (1990-92) before going on to feature in films including the 1991 film Father of the Bride and its 1995 sequel, as well as The Mighty (1998), She's All That, The Cider House Rules (1999), The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) and Movie 43. His breakout role in Igby Goes Down (2002) received critical acclaim and he was nominated for a Best Actor Golden Globe Award, as well as winning a Critics' Choice Movie Award and Satellite Award. He has also acted on-stage, most notably in several productions of the Kenneth Lonergan play This is Our Youth. He recently portrayed Rye Gerhardt in the second season of Fargo on FX.
Early life
Culkin was born in New York City, the son of Patricia Brentrup and Kit Culkin, a former stage actor with a long career on Broadway.[1]
He has four brothers, Shane (born 1976), Macaulay (born 1980), Christian (born 1987), and Rory (born 1989), and sister Quinn (born 1984). His second sister Dakota (1979) died in 2008.[2]
Career
Culkin's first film role was a small part alongside his brother, Macaulay, in Home Alone as cousin Fuller McCallister. He continued acting as a child and teenager, mainly working in comedies, including Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Father of the Bride and its sequel. He also played a role in She's All That as Laney's younger brother, Simon.
As a teenager, he alternated between lead roles in independent films and small parts in mainstream films. He played the title role in the film Igby Goes Down,[3] for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award; and previously appeared in the Academy Award-nominated movie Music of the Heart. He also had two lead role in The Mighty as Kevin Dillon.
He played Buff in Eric Bogosian's updated version of SubUrbia at the Second Stage Theatre in New York; and in 2010, Culkin played Scott Pilgrim's 'cool gay roommate' Wallace Wells in the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
Personal life
Culkin married Jazz Charton, a foley artist, in June of 2013. The wedding took place in Decorah, Iowa. [4][5]
Filmography
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Stage credits
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2000 | The Moment When | Wilson | Playwrights Horizons, New York |
2003 | This is Our Youth | Warren | Garrick Theatre, London |
2004 | After Ashley | Justin Hammond | Vineyard Theatre, New York/Obie Award for Performance |
2007 | subUrbia | Buff | Second Stage Theatre, New York |
2012 | This is Our Youth | Dennis | Sydney Opera House |
2014 | This Is Our Youth | Dennis | Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago |
2014 | This Is Our Youth | Dennis | Cort Theatre, New York |
References
- ^ Kieran Culkin Biography (1982-)
- ^ Ken Lee. "Macaulay Culkin's Sister Killed in Traffic Accident". People.
- ^ "Movie Review: Igby Goes Down, On the Outs With Almost Everything," Stephen Holden, New York Times, September 13, 2002
- ^ David Burke. "Actor picks up marriage license in the Q-C". The Quad-City Times. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ^ "The Revival of Kieran Culkin: A Reluctant Star Seizes the Spotlight". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ^ ""Grown Ups 2" leads Razzies worst film list". CBS News. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
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- 1982 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American male actors
- 21st-century American male actors
- American male child actors
- American male film actors
- American male stage actors
- American male television actors
- American people of English descent
- American people of German descent
- American people of French descent
- American people of Irish descent
- American people of Norwegian descent
- American people of Swiss descent
- Male actors from New York City
- Obie Award recipients