Kieran Culkin

Kieran Culkin
Kieran Kyle Culkin (born September 30, 1982) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in Father of the Bride (1991), The Mighty (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999). He achieved a career breakthrough after starring in the film Igby Goes Down (2002), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, as well as winning a Critics' Choice Movie Award. He appeared in the films Margaret (2011), Wiener-Dog (2016), and No Sudden Move (2021), playing Wallace Wells in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023).
From 2018 to 2023, Culkin starred as Roman Roy in the HBO television series Succession, for which he has won a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
He made his Broadway debut in the 24 Hours Play in 2006. He returned to Broadway in the 2014 revival of Kenneth Lonergan's play This is Our Youth.
Early life
Kieran Kyle Culkin was born on September 30, 1982, in New York City to Christopher Cornelius "Kit" Culkin, a former Broadway stage actor, and Patricia Brentrup, a native of North Dakota who met Kit in 1974 while working as a road traffic controller in Sundance, Wyoming. The couple relocated to Kit's native New York City, and had seven children: Shane (1976), Dakota (1978–2008), Macaulay (1980), Keiran (b. 1982), Quinn (1984), Christian (1987), and Rory (1989). He also had a paternal half-sister, Jennifer (born 1970), who died in 2000. Culkin's paternal aunt is actress Bonnie Bedelia.
He spent his early life in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan, where he resided with his parents and siblings. In his early childhood, the family struggled financially; his mother worked as a telephone operator, while his father served as a sacristan at a local Catholic church. In September 1995, Culkin's parents separated, and he has been estranged from his father since.
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, Father of the Bride, and its sequel, Father of the Bride Part II.
As a teenager, he alternated between lead roles in independent films and small parts in mainstream films. He appeared in the Academy Award-nominated film Music of the Heart, played the title role in the film Igby Goes Down, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and played the lead role in The Mighty as Kevin Dillon.
He is one of the ensemble main cast members in the HBO series Succession, portraying immature and entitled COO Roman Roy. In 2018, 2020, and 2021, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Roman Roy on the show. In 2023, he earned an Emmy nomination for Lead Actor in a Drama Series, alongside castmates Jeremy Strong and Brian Cox.
Personal life
Culkin married Jazz Charton on June 8, 2013. They have two children, a daughter born September 2019 and a son born August 2021.
Filmography
Film
Television
Stage
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Audiobook narrators
American male child actors
American male film actors
American male stage actors
American male television actors
American people of Irish descent
Male actors from New York City
Obie Award recipients