Macaulay Culkin was a famous child actor, best remembered as Kevin in Home Alone at the age of ten. He is 42 years old now, and he lives a peaceful life with his fiancee, actress Brenda Song, and their son Dakota. In the year after, he’d gone from being arrested for narcotics possession to creating his own comedy band. Despite his successes and struggles, Culkin has maintained his modesty and sense of humor.
Macaulay Culkin was born in New York City to a family of six. His father, Kit Culkin, was a former child actor who encouraged his children to pursue acting at a young age. Culkin’s family struggled financially during his upbringing. In 1988, he had his first credited film appearance in Rocket Gibraltar.
Culkin has stated that his father, who was also his manager, was “mentally and physically” violent. He would threaten them with phrases like “be well or I’ll hit you.” Culkin says much of the violence originated from jealously because “whatever he tried to do in life, I succeeded at before I was 10 years old”. With the success of Home Alone, his money-driven father pushed for more film jobs for him. Culkin, on the other hand, grew fatigued after a while. “It began to feel like a chore. “I started vocalizing it and wasn’t being heard: ‘I want to go to school — I haven’t done a full year of school since first grade,’” he explained.
Culkin’s parents divorced after she starred in Richie Rich in 1994. They weren’t officially married, so there was no divorce, but there was a two-year custody struggle. This fight was not only about their seven children but also about Culkin’s trust fund. Culkin hired an executor to monitor his funds and remove his parents’ names from his account as a result. Several people mistook this for Culkin’s emancipation, but this was not the case. The custody struggle was soon over. Jennifer Adamson, Culkin’s half-sister, died of a heroin overdose in 2000. His sister, Dakota, was killed in a car accident in 2008.
Macaulay Culkin had gone away from performing as a youngster but returned in his twenties. During this time, Culkin was jailed for narcotics possession, which fueled speculation that he was a drug addict. Culkin later refutes this, claiming that while he tried narcotics, he never became addicted to them. Culkin married actress Rachel Miner when they were both 18, but the couple split four years later. He also dated Mila Kunis until splitting up with her in 2010.
Although having quit from performing at the age of 14, he returned to the stage in 2000 with the Off-Broadway production Madame Melville and the 2003 feature Party Monster. His appearances, however, were more irregular than his hectic schedule as a kid actor. He has noted that while he enjoys performing, “I don’t appreciate a lot of the other things that come with it.” Maybe his most well-known part during this time period was in the Google Assistant commercial “Home Alone Again.”
Junior, a combination between a novel and a biography written by Macaulay Culkin when he was 25, expresses the difficulties of being a kid star. He later formed the comedy band Pizza Underground, which toured in 2014. While filming Changeland in 2017, he met Brenda Song. Culkin and Song became parents in 2021, and named their kid Dakota after Culkin’s sister. Later, in January 2022, they got engaged. In 2017, he launched Rabbit Ears, a humorous lifestyle brand that includes a blog, podcast, and YouTube channel.
