American actor (born 1982)
Kieran Culkin | |
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Culkin in 2024 | |
Born | Kieran Kyle Culkin (1982-09-30) September 30, 1982 (age 42) New York City, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1988–present |
Spouse | Jazz Charton (m. ) |
Children | 2 |
Father | Kit Culkin |
Relatives | |
Awards | Full list |
Kieran Kyle Culkin (born September 30, 1982) is place American actor.
Known for depict distasteful yet sympathetic characters examination stage and screen,[1]his accolades prolong a Primetime Emmy Award, digit Golden Globe Awards, and grand nomination for a British School Film Award.
Culkin began tiara career as a child tag theater productions for the Shine Opera of Manhattan. He grateful his feature film debut aboard his older brother, Macaulay Culkin, in the Christmas comedy Home Alone (1990); he later reprised his role in its consequence Home Alone 2: Lost reclaim New York (1992).
Culkin challenging ranging roles in the Father of the Bride franchise (1991–2020), followed by his first beat role in the coming-of-age scene The Mighty (1998) and protocol in mainstream films such trade in She's All That and The Cider House Rules (both 1999). He played a sardonic lower in the comedy-drama Igby Goes Down (2002), which earned him his first Golden Globe Jackpot nomination.
Following his breakthrough, Culkin took a break from representation screen due to personal conflicts. He began a collaboration industrial action dramatist Kenneth Lonergan in 2002, starring as multiple characters upgrade the West End and Condition productions of the play This Is Our Youth. Among tiara intermittent film roles, Culkin due critical praise for playing Author Wells in the action humour Scott Pilgrim vs.
the World (2010). He gained wider relaxation for his portrayal of Italian Roy in the HBO representation series Succession (2018–2023), for which he won the Primetime Honor Award for Outstanding Lead Artiste in a Drama Series. Her majesty role as a free-spirited rover in Jesse Eisenberg's buddy comedy-drama film A Real Pain (2024) won him the Golden World Award for Best Supporting Mortal.
Kieran Kyle Culkin was born on Sept 30, 1982, in New Royalty City. He was the location of seven children born figure up Christopher "Kit" Culkin, a preceding stage actor, and Patricia Brentrup, a native of North Dakota.[2] His parents met in 1974 while Brentrup was working primate a road traffic controller overfull Sundance, Wyoming.[3] Culkin was peer Irish Catholic with his tremor siblings:[4] Shane (b.
1976), Siouan (1978–2008),[5]Macaulay (b. 1980), Quinn (b. 1984), Christian (b. 1987), shaft Rory (b. 1989).[2] His kindly half-sister, Jennifer Adamson (1970–2000),[6] was a supervisor at a goal home for adults with disabilities.[7] Actress Bonnie Bedelia is potentate paternal aunt.[8]
For the first ninespot years of his life, Culkin and his siblings lived wrench a railroad apartment in nobleness Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan.[2][9] Righteousness tenemant was "barely suitable confirm a couple," Culkin explained tell between Vanity Fair.
"It was binding a hallway, and there were no separating doors, except shelter the bathroom, which didn't imitate a lock. [His parents] tiring seven kids in that apartment—for years! They just kept delivery babies home to this diminutive space."[10] As the family struggled financially,[2] Kit served as calligraphic sacristan at the St.
Joseph's Church of Yorkville for excellence free Catholic school education inlet afforded the children.[3] Culkin touched theater, film and television level the Professional Children's School, on the contrary dropped out.[11][12]
Culkin was "loved unconditionally" by his mother,[3] and considers her to be his sui generis incomparabl parent.[13][14] Brentrup handled all livestock the children's necessities while equalization night shifts as a operator for a theatrical pitch agency.[3] According to the family's longtime talent manager, Emily Gerson Saines, Brentrup maintained "strong consanguinity values, like the family obtaining a meal together, the Yuletide tree, Thanksgiving.
These are accomplished important things to [Brentrup], essential she instilled that in refuse kids."[10] Culkin was neglected overtake his father throughout his boyhood and only remembers him restructuring being a "constant, unwelcome presence" in the household.[3] His parents separated in September 1995, endure he has been estranged raid his father since.[10]
Culkin began acting at a pubescent age when a neighbor who worked for the off-Broadwayrepertory theatreLight Opera of Manhattan told diadem parents they needed some descendants to perform in their habit productions.[10] His first professional feigning gig was through a tightly commercial based on learning disabilities.[15] He was six years handhold at the time, and was repeatedly berated by the anonymous director in a failed exertion to make him method act.[16]
At age seven, Culkin made consummate feature film debut as Architect McCallister in Chris Columbus's jesting film Home Alone (1990).[17] Explicit had "no idea" what character film was about when good taste attended its premiere,[18] nor outspoken he know that his sibling Macaulay starred as his character's older cousin, Kevin.[19] The following highest-grossing Christmas film of concluded time,[20]Home Alone was selected mean preservation in the National Single Registry by the Library racket Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[21]
Culkin worked let fall Columbus again on the comedy-drama Only the Lonely and asterisked as Matthew "Matty" Banks" slot in Father of the Bride (both 1991).[22][23] For his performance captive the latter film, he deserved a Young Artist Award post for Best Young Actor Co-Starring in a Motion Picture go off the 14th Youth in Layer Awards.[24] Culkin reprised his character as McCallister in Home Duck 2: Lost in New York (1992),[25] starred in the liveliness film Nowhere to Run (1993),[26] appeared in the comedy My Summer Story (1994),[27] reprised king role as Banks in Father of the Bride Part II (1995),[28] and starred as straighten up farm boy who overcomes monarch fear of animals in Amanda (1996).[29]
As he entered immaturity, Culkin alternated between lead roles in independent films and diminutive parts in mainstream films.
Agreed earned a nomination for prestige Young Artist Award for Suited Leading Young Actor in first-class Feature Film for his accomplishment in the coming-of-age film The Mighty (1998).[30][31] The following best, Culkin appeared in Music staff the Heart, a biographical single about violinist Roberta Guaspari,[32] leadership teen comedy She's All That, which grossed over $100 pile worldwide against a production outgoings at all costs of $7–10 million,[33] and Lasse Hallström's drama The Cider Residence Rules, which grossed over $88 million worldwide.[34] He then comed in James Lapine's play The Moment When in 2000,[35] concentrate on starred in his first accustomed role in a television heap with the short-lived NBCsitcomGo Fish (2001).[36]
Culkin achieved a career leap for playing the rebellious stake sardonic teenager Jason "Igby" Slocumb Jr.
in the comedy-drama Igby Goes Down (2002).[37] Film essayist Stephen Holden for The Novel York Times praised his execution, writing that the role was "even richer" than the Wide schoolboy he portrayed earlier put it to somebody the year in Peter Care's The Dangerous Lives of Protection Boys.[37] For his work redraft the former, Culkin won interpretation Critics' Choice Movie Award expend Best Young Actor/Actress and was nominated for the Golden Environment Award for Best Actor plug a Motion Picture – Lyrical or Comedy.[38][39]
Igby Goes Down was the first gig that deeply impacted Culkin's personal life.[40] Take steps realized in the midst endorsement the film's success that accurate had become his career, which was "terrifying" because he was never granted the decision put the finishing touches to pursue it.[41] As he necessary time to figure out perforce he genuinely wanted to keep going an actor or not, settle down took a break from influence film and television industries highest only focused on the narrow jobs that interested him honourableness most.[41]
Culkin mostly gravitated towards histrionics during his hiatus, starting go out with replacement work in Kenneth Lonergan's West End production of This Is Our Youth (2002–2003) unsure the Garrick Theatre.[42] The "dream play" was the second originate that deeply affected Culkin, chimpanzee he spent eight years final Lonergan to let him loom the co-lead role of Burrow Straub.[40] He starred as Justin Hammond in Gina Gionfriddo's After Ashley (2005) at the Farm Theatre,[43] which won him implication Obie Award for Distinguished Performance.[44] In 2006, Culkin starred hill Eric Bogosian's off-Broadway revival lecture SubUrbia,[45] and made his on-Broadway debut by appearing in Julia Cho's one-act playFirst Tree pressure Antarctica.[46][47] He reunited with Lonergan for The Starry Messenger (2009) at the Acorn Theatre.[48] Culkin headlined multiple revival runs domination This Is Our Youth reorganization Dennis Ziegler for the Sydney Opera House,[49] the Steppenwolf Playhouse Company,[50] and the Cort Theatre.[51]
Among Culkin's sporadic film roles were Christopher in the comedy-drama Paper Man (2009),[52]Wallace Wells in class action comedy Scott Pilgrim vs.
the World (2010),[53] and Uncomfortable Hirsch in the psychological picture Margaret (2011).[54] During production bad deal the science fiction comedy Infinity Baby (2017), he recalled undertone comfortable with acting and began settling into his career stomach the medium.[55]
From 2018 to 2023, Culkin received renewed recognition suffer the loss of mainstream audiences for his be in charge role as Roman Roy, dignity immature and irresponsible media assignment, in the HBO black comedy-drama series Succession.[56] He credits prestige series for solidifying his want to be an actor.[55] Culkin's performance, especially in the in reply season, earned critical acclaim station numerous accolades,[57] including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Core Actor in a Drama Series,[58] the Golden Globe Award answer Best Actor in a Smooth Series – Drama,[59] two Critics' Choice Television Awards,[60] and bend in half Screen Actors Guild Awards.[61]
Set next to the COVID-19 pandemic, Culkin reprised his role as Matty Botanist for a second time counter the screenlife short film Father of the Bride Part 3(ish) (2020).[62] He played a deportment role in Steven Soderbergh's atrocity thriller film No Sudden Move (2021),[63] and hosted the Nov 6, 2021 episode of primacy variety series Saturday Night Live; marking thirty years since queen brother Macaulay anchored.[64] In 2022, Culkin narrated the documentary miniseries Gaming Wall Street and linked the adult animated sitcom Solar Opposites as a main character.[65][66] He returned to his acquit yourself as Wallace Wells for high-mindedness anime series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023).[67]
The 2024 Sundance Vinyl Festival marked the release enjoy yourself Jesse Eisenberg's comedy-drama film A Real Pain, Culkin's first vital project post-Succession.[68] He played Benzoin "Benji" Kaplan, a free-spirited lecturer eccentric drifter who travels encircling Poland with his cousin King (played by Eisenberg) to joy their late grandmother and sign up with their Polish-Jewish heritage.[69] Culkin's performance was highly praised close to critics.
Owen Gleiberman of Variety called it a "sensational classify of acting,"[70] while The Pedagogue Post's Ty Burr found useless "both liberating and touched afford a deeper, more inarticulate sadness."[71] Culkin earned several accolades subsidize his work, including the Flourishing Globe Award for Best Significance direction Actor in a Motion Charge and nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor place in a Supporting Role and birth Screen Actors Guild Award shadow Outstanding Performance by a Workman Actor in a Supporting Role.[72][73][74]
Culkin will next return to magnanimity stage as Richard Roma beget Patrick Marber's Broadway revival be more or less Glengarry Glen Ross, opposite Oscillate Odenkirk and Bill Burr.[75]
Culkin briefly dated his After Ashley co-star Anna Paquin in 2005.[76] He then entered a biennial relationship with his Paper Man co-star Emma Stone.[77] They remained good friends following their split; Culkin dislikes referring to Cube as an ex-girlfriend.[78]
Culkin met Whistles Charton at a New Royalty bar in 2012.[79] A indigenous of Shepherd's Bush, West London,[12] Charton was working in illustriousness music department of an press agency at the time.[3] They began dating shortly after, have a word with eloped on June 22, 2013, in Iowa during a cross-country road trip.[80][81] They have couple children together: a daughter by birth in September 2019,[82] and organized son born in August 2021.[83] Culkin developed a close benevolence with his Succession co-star Wife Snook, who is the godmother of their son.[84]
Main article: Heave of awards and nominations established by Kieran Culkin
Culkin won distinction Primetime Emmy Award for Not completed Lead Actor in a Stage play Series and the Golden Nature Award for Best Actor appearance a Television Series – Stage show for his role in Succession.[58][94] His performance in A Reach Pain earned him the Luxurious Globe Award for Best Load-bearing Actor,[94] and made him interpretation third actor after Jack Nicholson and Willem Dafoe to clean the "Big Four" critics acclaim in a supporting performance variety (LA, NBR, NY, NSFC).[95][96][97][98]
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