Macaulay Culkin is an American actor and musician, the most famous boy in Hollywood. For more than 25 years, audiences around the world have been waiting for Kevin, played by Macaulay Culkin, to be left alone at home.
Name: Macaulay Carson Culkin
Date of birth: August 26, 1980 (age 38)
Occupation: actor, musician
Zodiac sign: Virgo
Childhood and family of Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Culkin was born in August 1980 in New York. Parents, Patricia Brentrap and Keith Culkin lived in a de facto marriage. Macaulay is the third child in the family, he has 4 brothers and 2 sisters. Older sister Dakota died in a car accident in 2004. The Macaulay family did not live well in a small apartment on the East Side. Patricia’s mother worked as a telephone operator, and her father worked as a church employee. The children had a religious upbringing, so they were taught not to dwell on money.
Macaulay Culkin was an energetic and inquisitive child. Parents and others began to notice the boy’s creative potential and acquaintances advised him to send him to a theater studio. Their debut on the theater stage happened when Macaulay was only 5 years old. The boy’s talent was noticed by the producers and offered to shoot in commercials.
Studying at the Catholic School of St. Joseph could not be combined with the new busy schedule of the actor. After grade 5, Macaulay transferred to the Children’s Professional School for child actors and musicians. Soon the boy needed a manager who was supposed to help in organizing the filming, his father became him. However, this was not good enough. The father of the aspiring actor became obsessed with big fees. His requests grew every day, he even demanded that the rest of his children also star in films. This approach was disastrous for Macaulay’s career – he was no longer offered roles. This destroyed the family and Macaulay’s mother Patricia filed for divorce.
Film career
Uncle Buck is Macaulay Culkin’s first feature film. Although the film did not become popular, for Macaulay it turned out to be a lucky ticket to the future. On the set, director John Hughes drew attention to the little actor and invited him to shoot the film Home Alone. The comedy became so popular that it broke all records at the box office. For Macaulay, the role earned him a Young Actor Award and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Leading Role. The sequel to Home Alone 2: Lost in New York was just as well received by the audience as the first part. Macaulay’s fee for the film was almost $4.5 million.
In parallel with filming a movie, Macaulay starred in the music videos of Michael Jackson himself.
The role of Kevin made Macaulay Culkin famous all over the world, but at the same time left a negative mark on the young man’s future acting career. The following films with the participation of the actor “On a par with the father”, “The Nutcracker”, “My Girl” and “The Page Master” were not very welcomed by the audience, moreover, the films did not pay back even half of the money spent. The white streak in a series of failures was the thriller The Good Son, where Macaulay Culkin played with his friend, actor Elijah Wood.
Richie Rich was the last film before Macaulay Culkin’s career break. The comedy didn’t work very well. For the role of Richie, they were looking for a high boy, Macaulay came up in height, but he was older than his movie heroin age – at the time of filming, Culkin was 14 years old.
After 10 years of break, the actor returned to the cinema, but not for long. Macaulay played in the movie “Club Mania” and in the romantic comedy “Sex for Breakfast”. In 2016, Macaulay Culkin became the face of the insurance company Compare the Market. In 2017, the actor appeared as the legendary musician Kurt Cobain, crucified on a cross, in the video for the song “Total Entertainment Forever” by singer Josh Tilman. In the same year, he joined the cast of the film Changeland. Now the actor is filming his own show called “Bunny Ears”.
Musical career
In 2012, Macaulay Culkin and his friends created the parody group The Pizza Underground. The performers were inspired by the rock band The Velvet Underground and reworked their lyrics into their own pizza verses. In 2014, the group went on tour, but the musicians’ work was not appreciated at the Rock City club and they were thrown with beer cans. The group lasted 2 years, and in 2016 it finally broke up. After that, Macaulay Culkin did not leave music and occasionally performs as a DJ.
Personal life
After filming the Michael Jackson video, the actor and musician became good friends. Moreover, Macaulay even baptized two of Michael Jackson’s children.
At a school for child actors, Macaulay met Rachel Miner. After leaving school, at the age of 17, Rachel and Macaulay got married. Unfortunately, the young couple was not ready for adult family life and soon the couple stopped living together. In 2002, Rachel and Macaulay filed for divorce.
Already in May of the same 2002, Macaulay found a new lover. She became the Hollywood actress Mila Kunis. They were together for 8 years, but in 2011 they officially broke up. According to the couple, their separation was a mutual decision and they remain friends.
Fans and the media did not believe in the friendship between the former lovers. Doubts reinforced the rumors about the unsuccessful suicide of Macaulay Culkin. According to the actor, he swallowed pills due to depression associated with breaking up with Mila Kunis. The media made a real scandal out of this and exposed Macaulay as a drug addict. Macaulay never confirmed this statement. In 2013, Macaulay admitted that he smokes 2 packs of cigarettes a day, but he has no other bad habits.
In 2017, the actor began dating his Changeland co-star Brenda Song. In an interview, Macaulay even admitted that he wants to have children and he and Brenda are already planning a family.
Filmography
- 1989 – Uncle Buck
- 1990 – Home Alone
- 1991 – My girl
- 1992 – Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
- 1993 – Good son
- 1994 – On a par with his father
- 1994 Richie Rich
- 1994 – Master of the pages
- 2003 – Club Mania
- 2007 – Sex for breakfast
- 2011 – Wrong Ferrari
- 2015 – Adam Green’s Aladdin
- 2017 — Changeland