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Kieran Culkin
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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 yea…
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kieran Culkin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kieran Culkin's Filmography
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Clay
as Flip (voice)
No Poster
Paris Paramount
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as Caesar Flickerman
Family Guy Happy Hell-o-ween
as The Devil (voice)
Animal Farm
as Squealer (voice)
An SNL Thanksgiving
as (archive footage)
A Real Pain
as Benji Kaplan
No Sudden Move
as Charley Barnes
Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)
as Matty
Infinity Baby
as Ben
Approaching a Breakthrough
as Norman
Wiener-Dog
as Brandon McCarthy
Quitters
as Mr. Becker
Movie 43
as Neil (segment "Veronica")
Margaret
as Paul
The Making of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'
as Self
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
as Wallace Wells
Paper Man
as Christopher
Lymelife
as Jimmy Bartlett
Michael Jackson's Private Home Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Igby Goes Down
as Igby
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
as Tim Sullivan
The Cider House Rules
as Buster
Music of the Heart
as Lexi at 15
Home Alone - Making of & Behind the Scenes
as Fuller
She's All That
as Simon Boggs
The Mighty
as Kevin "Freak" Dillon
Amanda
as Biddle Farnsworth
Father of the Bride Part II
as Matty Banks
It Runs in the Family
as Ralph "Ralphie" Parker
Nowhere to Run
as Mike 'Mookie' Anderson
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
as Fuller
Father of the Bride
as Matty Banks
Only the Lonely
as Patrick Muldoon Jr.
Home Alone
as Fuller