Wednesday 21 September 2011

Kieran Culkin

Kieran Kyle Culkin. born September 30, 1982 is an American actor and brother of actors Macaulay Culkin and Rory Culkin.
Culkin was born in New York City, the son of Patricia Brentrup and Christopher 'Kit' Culkin, a former stage actor with a long career on Broadway.
He has four brothers, Shane Arliss (b. 1976), Macaulay Carson Culkin (b. 1980), Christian Patrick (b. 1987), and Rory Hugh Culkin (b. 1989), and two sisters, Dakota Ulissa (1978–2008) and Quinn Kay (b. 1984).






Career


Kieran 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 and Father of the Bride and its sequel.
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. He appeared in the Academy Award-nominated movie Music of the Heart as well.
He played Buff in Eric Bogosian's updated version of SubUrbia at the Second Stage Theatre in New York. In 2010, Culkin played Scott Pilgrim's "cool gay roommate" Wallace Wells in the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
He also had the lead role in The Mighty as Kevin Dillon.




Filmography






Culkin at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival


1990 Home Alone Fuller McCallister
1991 Only the Lonely Patrick Muldoon Jr.
1991 Father of the Bride Matty Banks Nominated — Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor Co-starring in a Motion Picture
1992 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Fuller McCallister
1993 Nowhere to Run Mike 'Mookie' Anderson
1994 My Summer Story Ralph 'Ralphie' Parker
1995 Father of the Bride Part II Matty Banks
1996 Amanda Biddle Farnsworth
1998 The Mighty Kevin Dillon Nominated — Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actor
1999 She's All That Simon Boggs
1999 Music of the Heart Lexi at 15
1999 The Cider House Rules Buster Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1999 The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns Barney O'Grady
2001 Go Fish Andy 'Fish' Troutner Lead role, TV Series
(5 episodes)


2002 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Tim Sullivan
2002 Igby Goes Down Jason "Igby" Slocumb, Jr. Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Youth in Film
Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
2009 Lymelife Jimmy Bartlett
2009 Paper Man Christopher
2009 Three Stories About Joan
2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Wallace Wells Nominated—Detroid Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble
2010 The Stanford Prison Experiment
2011 Margaret Paul
2012 The Other Side Rupert Pupkin




Stage credits


Year Title Role Notes
2000 The Moment When Wilson Playwrights Horizons, New York
2003 This is Our Youth Warren Garrick Theatre, London
2004 After Ashley Justin Hammond Vineyard Theatre, New York/Obie Award for Performance
2007 subUrbia Buff Second Stage Theatre, New York

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