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Meet Macaulay and Kieran Culkin’s other 3 actor brothers Rory, Christian and Shane: the former Home Alone star and the Succession actor’s siblings have united for a new Prime Video animated series

All five Culkin brothers are part of Prime Video’s new animation seeries. Photos: @macaulayculkin80, @dailyroryculkin/Instagram

It’s no secret that Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin hails from a large family, but who would have thought that all four of his brothers would get into acting too?

 

While his brother Kieran has undoubtedly made a name for himself in Hollywood thanks to HBO’s Succession, less is known about the other three male Culkins – Rory, Christian and Shane, who also started out as child actors.

 

And now we’re getting all five of them together in the same show! The Culkin brothers just made their collective debut in new Prime Video animated series titled The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy.

Kevin McCallister (aka Macaulay Culkin) in the 1990 Christmas film Home Alone. Photo: 20th Century Fox
Apparently, it was all thanks to Natasha Lyonne, who executive produced and co-stars in the show and is long-time friends with Kieran and Macaulay Culkin.
Showrunner Cirocco Dunlap told The Hollywood Reporter that Macaulay’s character in the animation happened to have four brothers, which worked out well for casting. “When we cast Kieran we were like, ‘You have four brothers! That’s ridiculous, what fate’”, Dunlap told the industry publication. “Kieran was the one who suggested it, he was like, ‘We could get my brothers’ and I was like, ‘What? Yes, yes we should.’ And they’re so wonderful, they’re so funny, they’re very empathic and very sweet.”

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“I’m the Culkin whisperer it turns out,” Lyonne joked.

Here’s everything we know about the “other” Culkin brothers:

1. Rory Culkin, 34

Rory Culkin often played a younger version of his older brothers in films as a child. Photo: @theroryculkin/Instagram

Rory, 34, is the youngest child of Christopher “Kit” Culkin and Patricia “Patty” Brentrup. As a child actor, he would often get roles as the younger version of his brothers’ characters in films such as Richie Rich and Igby Goes Down, per People.

Rory and Christian Culkin (right) are three years apart in age. Photo: @culkin__rory/Instagram
He’s since starred in Signs with Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix, The Zodiac with Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr, Scream 4 and more. He also had a full-frontal nude scene in last year’s Swarm, which raised a few eyebrows. Rory has been married to cinematographer Sarah Scrivener since 2018, according to People.

2. Christian Culkin, 37

Rory (left) and his brother Christian Culkin. Photo: @culkin__rory/Instagram

Kit and Patty’s second youngest child hasn’t done as much acting as his brothers. According to his IMDB page, his only other project was My Summer Story in 1994. Not much is known about his personal life.

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3. Shane Culkin, 48

Born in New York in 1976, Shane is the eldest child from Kit and Patty’s marriage. Like his brother Christian, he has stayed out of the public eye and only occasionally dabbled in acting. According to People magazine, his most prominent gig was playing the character of Wally Webb in Our Town on Broadway at the Lincoln Center.

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Macaulay and Kieran Culkin with their parents in 1990. Photo: UPPA

Macaulay Culkin, now 43, rose to fame as a child actor in the 1990s for his roles in cult classic films Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and the comedy Richie Rich. According to People, the Culkin children were mainly raised by Brentrup, with Macaulay alleging that his father was abusive.

Macaulay Culkin and his partner Brenda Song at the ceremony honouring Culkin with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last December. Photo: Getty Images

“[He said] ‘Do good or I’ll hit you.’ He was a bad man. He was abusive, physically and mentally – I can show you all my scars if I wanted to,” he said on WTF With Marc Maron in 2018. Per People, Macaulay has maintained a relationship with his mother, but he and Kieran have been estranged from their father since their teens.

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Who are the Culkin sisters?

The Culkin clan also includes a sister Quinn Culkin, 39. Their sister Dakota Culkin tragically died in a car accident in 2008, while half-sister Jennifer Adamson reportedly died from an overdose in 2000.

  • All 5 Culkin brothers – Macaulay, Kieran, Rory, Christian and Shane – just made their collective debut in Prime Video’s animated series The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy
  • All 5 started out as child actors, though less is known about Rory, Christian and Shane, and 2 of the men no longer talk to their father Kit – here’s everything we know about them