1. Kieran Culkin
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 onBroadway.
He has four brothers, Shane
(born 1976), Macaulay (born
1980), Christian (born 1987),
and Rory (born 1989), and two
sisters, Dakota (1979–2008)
and Quinn (born 1984).
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 andFather of the
Bride and its sequel. He also played a
role in She's All That as Laney's
younger brother, Simon.
3. • 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, 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.
4. • 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.
