TIFF '08: The Culkin Brothers

Kieran Culkin was born in New York City, the son of Patricia Brentrup and Christopher 'Kit' Culkin, a former stage actor with a long career on Broadway. The brother of child actor Macaulay Culkin, Kieran Culkin debuted at the age of eight in a small role alongside his brother in Home Alone. He continued acting as a child and teenager, mainly working in comedies, including Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Father of the Bride and its sequel. As a teenager, he alternated between lead roles in independent films and small parts in mainstream films. His most notable role to date is probably the title character in the well received film Igby Goes Down, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He has also appeared in the Academy Award-nominated movie Music of the Heart. Recently, Culkin played Buff in Eric Bogosian's updated version of SubUrbia at the Second Stage Theatre in New York.

Rory Culkin began acting by playing alongside his elder brothers, amongst them Macaulay and Kieran, often as the younger versions of their characters. He first appeared in a photograph as a baby in The Good Son (1993), then as Young Richie in Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994) and in 2002 played 10-Year-Old Igby in Igby Goes Down (Igby was played by Kieran). Rory's breakthrough role ...

Kieran Culkin was born in New York City, the son of Patricia Brentrup and Christopher 'Kit' Culkin, a former stage actor with a long career on Broadway. The brother of child actor Macaulay Culkin, Kieran Culkin debuted at the age of eight in a small role alongside his brother in Home Alone. He continued acting as a child and teenager, mainly working in comedies, including Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Father of the Bride and its sequel. As a teenager, he alternated between lead roles in independent films and small parts in mainstream films. His most notable role to date is probably the title character in the well received film Igby Goes Down, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He has also appeared in the Academy Award-nominated movie Music of the Heart. Recently, Culkin played Buff in Eric Bogosian's updated version of SubUrbia at the Second Stage Theatre in New York.

Rory Culkin began acting by playing alongside his elder brothers, amongst them Macaulay and Kieran, often as the younger versions of their characters. He first appeared in a photograph as a baby in The Good Son (1993), then as Young Richie in Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994) and in 2002 played 10-Year-Old Igby in Igby Goes Down (Igby was played by Kieran). Rory's breakthrough role was in You Can Count On Me, opposite Laura Linney, a role for which he received much praise and a Young Artist Award. Since then, Culkin has appeared in numerous films, Signs being the most famous, in which he starred alongside Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix. As a teenager, Rory started moving into more independent films, such as The Chumscrubber and Down in the Valley. He took a leading role in Mean Creek, a 2004 independent film about a group of teenagers that plan to get revenge on a bully. The entire youth cast won an Independent Spirit Award for this film. Since his Young Artist Award win for You Can Count on Me, Culkin has received three more nominations. He also had a guest role in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Manic", and in an episode of the Twilight Zone called "Azoth the Avenger Is a Friend of Mine" alongside Patrick Warburton.