Macaulay Culkin
He is perhaps best known for portraying Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and the title character of Richie Rich. At the height of his fame he was regarded as the most successful child actor since Shirley Temple.
He was ranked # 2 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars".
Biography
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. Culkin was the couple's third child of seven children; he has four brothers: Shane (born 1976), Kieran (born 1982), Christian (born 1987) and Rory (born 1989), and two sisters: Dakota (born 1979) and Quinn (born 1984). Culkin is the nephew of actress Bonnie Bedelia, who is his father's sister.
During Culkin's early childhood, the family lived in a small apartment; his mother was a telephone operator and his father worked as a sacristan at a local Catholic church. Culkin was raised an Irish Catholic and attended a Catholic school (St.
Culkin also studied ballet at the School of American Ballet.
Career
Culkin began acting at the age of four, appearing in a stage production of Bach Babies at the New York Philharmonic. He continued appearing in roles on stage, television, and in films throughout the 1980s.
Notable parts in this period included an episode of the popular action series The Equalizer in which he played the victim of a kidnapping. He also appeared in the movie Uncle Buck in which his character probed John Candy's title character over his background on the basis that "I'm a kid - that's my job".
Culkin rose to international fame with his lead role as Kevin McCallister in the blockbuster film Home Alone (1990), where he was reunited with Uncle Buck's writer and director John Hughes.
He reprised the role of Kevin in the 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, which was also a success. Around this time, Culkin struck a friendship with pop legend Michael Jackson, making an appearance in the "Black or White" music video.
Culkin also starred in a Saturday morning cartoon, entitled Wish Kid and hosted Saturday Night Live in late 1991.
Despite the success of Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and My Girl, other films Culkin acted in, such as The Good Son, which co-starred Elijah Wood and Culkin's sister, Quinn Culkin (and featured a photo cameo of Culkin's youngest sibling, Rory, as Culkin's deceased infant brother), only did reasonably well. Getting Even with Dad, Richie Rich and The Pagemaster, all released in 1994, were all only mildly successful at the box office.
After several years of inactivity, Culkin returned to acting in 2000 with a role in the play Madame Melville, which was staged in London's West End. In the spring of 2003, he made a guest appearance on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace.
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 convicted of murder. He quickly followed that with a supporting part in Saved!, as a cynical non-Christian student who uses a wheelchair in a conservative Christian high school.
Though Saved! only had modest success at the box office, Culkin received positive reviews for his role in the film and its implications for a career as an adult actor.
Culkin began a career in voice over, with his appearances on Seth Green's Robot Chicken. Culkin starred in Sex and Breakfast, a dark comedy written and directed by Miles Brandman, according to Variety.
His father had been his manager.
He was married to Rachel Miner from 1998-2000.
Culkin has dated actress Mila Kunis since 2002. It has been rumored since early 2006 that they are planning to be wed.
In 2004, Culkin was arrested in Oklahoma City for the possession of marijuana and a controlled substance, Xanax.
He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Filmography
The Midnight Hour(1985)-Halloween Kid(uncredited)
Rocket Gibraltar (1988) - Cy Blue Black
See You in the Morning (1988) - Billy Livingstone
Uncle Buck (1989) - Miles Russell
Jacob's Ladder (1989) - Gabe Singer
Home Alone (1990) - Kevin McCallister
Only the Lonely (1991) - Billy Muldoon
My Girl (1991) - Thomas Jay Sennett
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) - Kevin McCallister
The Good Son (1993) - Henry Evans
The Nutcracker (1993) - The Nutcracker Prince
Getting Even with Dad (1994) - Timmy Gleason
The Pagemaster (1994) - Richard Tyler
Richie Rich (1994) - Richie Rich
Party Monster (2003) - Michael Alig
Saved! (2004) - Roland
Jerusalemski Sindrom (2004) - John McGaughran
Sex and Breakfast (2007) - James Henderson
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