Kieran Kyle Culkin\u00a0(born September 30, 1982) is an American actor known for portraying distasteful yet sympathetic characters across stage and screen. His accolades\u00a0include an\u00a0Academy Award, a\u00a0BAFTA Award, a\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award, and two\u00a0Golden Globe Awards.<\/p>\n
Culkin began his career as a\u00a0child actor\u00a0in\u00a0off-Broadway\u00a0theatre productions. He debuted his feature film alongside his older brother,\u00a0Macaulay, in the Christmas comedy\u00a0Home Alone (1990). After achieving his\u00a0breakthrough role\u00a0as a sardonic teenager in the comedy-drama\u00a0Igby Goes Down\u00a0(2002), which earned him his first\u00a0Golden Globe Award\u00a0nomination, Culkin took a break from the screen due to personal conflicts. He returned to film six years later by playing\u00a0Wallace Wells\u00a0in the action comedy\u00a0Scott Pilgrim vs. the World\u00a0(2010). Culkin won the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor\u00a0for his performance as a grief-stricken cousin in the buddy comedy\u00a0A Real Pain\u00a0(2024).\u00a0<\/p>\n
On television, Culkin found a career resurgence with his portrayal of\u00a0Roman Roy\u00a0in the\u00a0HBO drama series\u00a0Succession\u00a0(2018\u20132023), for which he won the\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. His voice-acting work includes roles in\u00a0Solar Opposites\u00a0(2022\u2013present) and\u00a0Scott Pilgrim Takes Off\u00a0(2023). On stage, Culkin starred in the\u00a0West End\u00a0and\u00a0Broadway\u00a0productions of\u00a0Kenneth Lonergan’s\u00a0This Is Our Youth. He also portrayed\u00a0Richard Roma\u00a0in the Broadway revival of\u00a0David Mamet’s\u00a0Glengarry Glen Ross (2025).<\/p>\n
Description above from the Wikipedia article Kieran Culkin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kieran Kyle Culkin\u00a0(born September 30, 1982) is an American actor known for portraying distasteful yet sympathetic characters across stage and screen. His accolades\u00a0include an\u00a0Academy Award, a\u00a0BAFTA Award, a\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award, and two\u00a0Golden Globe Awards. Culkin began his career as a\u00a0child actor\u00a0in\u00a0off-Broadway\u00a0theatre productions. He debuted his feature film alongside his older brother,\u00a0Macaulay, in the Christmas comedy\u00a0Home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-32673","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n