Kieran Culkin

43, from New York City, New York, USA

Artwork for Home AloneImage of Kieran Culkin

Biography

Kieran Kyle Culkin (born September 30, 1982) is an American actor known for portraying distasteful yet sympathetic characters across stage and screen. His accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.

Culkin began his career as a child actor in off-Broadway theatre productions. He debuted his feature film alongside his older brother, Macaulay, in the Christmas comedy Home Alone (1990). After achieving his breakthrough role as a sardonic teenager in the comedy-drama Igby Goes Down (2002), which earned him his first Golden Globe Award nomination, Culkin took a break from the screen due to personal conflicts. He returned to film six years later by playing Wallace Wells in the action comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). Culkin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a grief-stricken cousin in the buddy comedy A Real Pain (2024). 

On television, Culkin found a career resurgence with his portrayal of Roman Roy in the HBO drama series Succession (2018–2023), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. His voice-acting work includes roles in Solar Opposites (2022–present) and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023). On stage, Culkin starred in the West End and Broadway productions of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth. He also portrayed Richard Roma in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (2025).

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Timeline

2028Future projects

  • Poster for Clay

    Flip (voice)

2027Future projects

2026Aged 44

  • Poster for Animal Farm

    Squealer (voice)

  • Poster for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

    Caesar Flickerman

2024Aged 42

  • Poster for A Real Pain

    Benji Kaplan

2021Aged 39

  • Poster for No Sudden Move

    Charley Barnes

2020Aged 38

  • Poster for Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)

    Matty

2017Aged 35

  • Poster for Approaching a Breakthrough

    Norman

  • Poster for Infinity Baby

    Ben

2016Aged 34

  • Poster for Wiener-Dog

    Brandon McCarthy

2015Aged 33

  • Poster for Quitters

    Mr. Becker

2013Aged 31

  • Poster for Movie 43

    Neil (segment "Veronica")

2011Aged 29

  • Poster for Margaret

    Paul

2010Aged 28

  • Poster for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

    Wallace Wells

  • Poster for The Making of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'

    Self

2009Aged 27

  • Poster for Paper Man

    Christopher

2008Aged 26

  • Poster for Lymelife

    Jimmy Bartlett

2003Aged 21

  • Poster for Michael Jackson's Private Home Movies

    Self (archive footage)

2002Aged 20

  • Poster for The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

    Tim Sullivan

  • Poster for Igby Goes Down

    Igby

1999Aged 17

  • Poster for She's All That

    Simon Boggs

  • Poster for Home Alone - Making of & Behind the Scenes

    Fuller

  • Poster for Music of the Heart

    Lexi at 15

  • Poster for The Cider House Rules

    Buster

1998Aged 16

  • Poster for The Mighty

    Kevin "Freak" Dillon

1996Aged 14

  • Poster for Amanda

    Biddle Farnsworth

1995Aged 13

  • Poster for Father of the Bride Part II

    Matty Banks

1994Aged 12

  • Poster for It Runs in the Family

    Ralph "Ralphie" Parker

1993Aged 11

  • Poster for Nowhere to Run

    Mike 'Mookie' Anderson

1992Aged 10

  • Poster for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

    Fuller

1991Aged 9

  • Poster for Only the Lonely

    Patrick Muldoon Jr.

  • Poster for Father of the Bride

    Matty Banks

1990Aged 8

  • Poster for Home Alone

    Fuller