Kieran Culkin

Also known as Kieran Kyle Culkin, Kieran K. Culkin

Kieran Culkin 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.

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Kieran Kyle Culkin is an American film, stage, and television actor born on September 30, 1982, in New York City. He began his work period in 1990. His siblings include Macaulay Culkin and Rory Culkin. His father is Kit Culkin. He speaks and writes in English.

Culkin has received several awards, including the Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Supporting Actor. He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is recognized in the Academy Award Best Supporting Actor collection.

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New York City, New York, USA

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,…

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Clay — Flip (voice)2028
Paris Paramount2027
Animal Farm — Squealer (voice)2026
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping — Caesar Flickerman2026
Actors on Actors: Broadway — Self2025
#1 Happy Family USA — Dr. Riley (voice)2025
A Real Pain — Benji Kaplan2024
An SNL Thanksgiving — (archive footage)2024
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy — Dr. Plowp (voice)2024
Agent Elvis — Gabriel Wolf (voice)2023

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Born: Kieran Kyle Culkin , ( 1982-09-30 ) September 30, 1982 (age 43) , New York City, U.S.
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1988–present
Works: Full list
Spouse: Jazz Charton ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. June 22, 2013</span>"}]]}'>2013 )
Father: Kit Culkin
Relatives: Macaulay Culkin (brother) Rory Culkin (brother) Bonnie Bedelia (aunt)
Awards: Full list

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Instance of: human
Given name: Kieran
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: New York City
Father: Kit Culkin
Occupation: stage actor
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Award: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Image: ARealPainBFILFF131024 (82 of 138) (54065186044) (cropped) (cropped).jpg

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Commons category: Kieran Culkin
date of birth: 1982-09-30
birth name: Kieran Kyle Culkin
start of work period: 1990-00-00
writing language: English language
name in native language: Kieran Culkin
nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

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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 theater productions. He made his feature film debut 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 Jewish drifter in A Real Pain (2024).

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