Kieran Culkin

Kieran Culkin

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).

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Kieran Culkin Movies

Discover the best Kieran Culkin movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Kieran Culkin ranked by year and score.

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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026)

Action Adventure Science Fiction
Long before Katniss Everdeen ever held a bow, Panem was already perfecting its cruelty. Set 24 years prior to the original trilogy, the story drops us into the morning of...
Score -.-
2

Animal Farm (2026)

Animation Comedy Drama
When the animals of Manor Farm overthrow their human master, they envision a utopia of shared prosperity and mutual respect. Yet power corrupts swiftly. The pigs, claiming superior intellect, consolidate...
Score 6.5
3

A Real Pain (2024)

Comedy Drama
David and Benji haven't seen eye to eye in years, but a pilgrimage through Poland to commemorate their grandmother forces them back into each other's orbit. What begins as a...
Score 6.8
4

Movie 43 (2013)

Comedy
A desperate Hollywood screenwriter buttonholes a studio executive and proceeds to pitch a string of deeply wrong, gleefully offensive sketch comedies featuring an absurd roster of A-list stars doing things...
Score 4.7
5

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

Action Comedy Romance
Scott Pilgrim is a slacker bassist in Toronto who falls hard for the mysterious, pastel-haired Ramona Flowers. The catch: to date her, he has to defeat her seven evil exes...
Score 7.5
6

The Cider House Rules (1999)

Drama
Raised in a rural orphanage, Homer has absorbed medicine from his mentor Dr. Larch without ever stepping into the wider world. When he finally escapes to find his own path,...
Score 7.1

Kieran Culkin TV Shows

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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023)

Action & Adventure Animation Comedy
When Scott Pilgrim encounters Ramona Flowers, he's certain she's the one. But getting to know her means confronting an inconvenient truth: her seven exes have literally weaponized their resentment, and...
Score 7.9
2

Succession (2018)

Comedy Drama
Power is the only language the Roy family speaks fluently. When patriarch Logan Roy signals that his grip on his vast media empire may finally be loosening, his adult children...
Score 8.3

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According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Kieran Culkin are The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, Animal Farm, and A Real Pain.
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Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 8 titles starring Kieran Culkin, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
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