How much is Macaulay Culkin worth?
| Net Worth: | $10 Million |
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| Profession: | Child Star / Internet Media Personality |
| Date of Birth: | August 26, 1980 (age 42) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 7 in (1.7 m) |
About Macaulay Culkin
The face of the then young Macaulay Culkin is well known to all of us. When he was of the gentle, tender age of just ten, Macaulay Culkin was on top of the world. The movie Home Alone (1990) and its subsequent sequel Home Alone 2 (1992) made him the most famous child in the world at that time. As well as one of the riches child actors in the history of Hollywood. Even today there are still debates about who is, or was, the biggest child actor star ever, him or Shirley Temple.
He was one of the seven children, five of them boys and two girls, by Kit Culkin and Patricia Bentrup. His two sisters died at 29 and 30 years old which must have had a deep impact on Macaulay. His mother was not an active part of the show biz scene, his father however was a seasoned actor who did many shows on and off-Broadway. The couple never officially married. They weren’t very wealthy and all lived in a small apartment together. When he failed to find acting work his father worked at the local Catholic church and his mother worked as a telephone operator.
Macaulay Culkin was on sets from the moment he could walk and talk. His first role was when he was just four years old, it was a stage production of Bach Babies at the New York Philharmonic. All throughout the 80s, he was in TV shows, movies, and theater productions. His first big role was in the comedy Uncle Buck when he was just 9 years old.
He also appeared in numerous other TV shows and films, but only in smaller roles. His role in the movie Rocket Gibraltar was his first-ever big-budget movie. He had a small role in the cult comedy See You In The Morning, starring Jeff Bridges and Farrah Fawcett. He starred in The Good Son in 1993.
In the 80s and 90s, John Hughes was on fire. He was creating hit after hit at the box office. And his movie that was set to release on Christmas 1990 was probably his biggest success and most enduring movie to date.
The charismatic young Macaulay Culkin who played the protagonist of the movie Kevin McCallister was the big draw. If there is one movie that is shown all over the world every single Christmas time it is this one. The movie had an estimated budget of just $10 million dollars, and generated close to half a billion at the global box office.
But the movie was not only a commercial success. The acting of young Macaulay Culkin drew a lot of praise and award show buzz. He was nominated for the Golden Globe award, and he won the American Comedy Award for this performance in the movie. He also earned an estimated $100,000 dollars for staring in the film. Naturally, something so monumental had to have a sequel.
His parents and his agents negotiated an incredible and record-breaking deal for him at the time. He was paid a sum of $4.5 million dollars, plus 5 percent of the film’s gross, to reprise his role as Kevin McCallister. The movie was as great a success as the first one. The majority of the cast were back. And it was loved by critics and families alike. Home Alone 2 grossed $359 million dollars at the box office.
That would be the last time he would play the role that has defined his acting career. From then on, he did more serious films, such as The Good Son. For his portrayal in that movie, he won an MTV Best Villain award. The movie Richie Rich, which was both a flop and was voted one of the worst movies of the year, was his last for a few years. In the period between 1994 and 1998, he was on an acting hiatus. He said that he wanted, for once, to experience a semblance of a normal life.
From 1998 to 2010 he took, for the most part, small roles or guest appearances in some popular shows. For example, he showed up in Will and Grace, he also appeared in music videos, and still does today. He was in Sonic Youth’s Sunday and he was the Jesus figure in Father John Misty’s Total Entertainment Forever. On the side, he works on his art and music. He formed a band called The Pizza Underground.
In the last few years, he has concentrated on creating internet content. He has an internet company called Bunny Ears, which deals with cynical satire. He was also in a few videos done by Red Letter Media where he and the three Milwaukee stooges made fun of a couple of really awful movies.
It is estimated that Macaulay Culkin is worth an estimated $10 million dollars in total, as of 2023. He has added to his net worth since becoming an internet media personality and making various appearances and promoting Bunny Ears.
Macaulay Culkin is a talented actor who was thrust into the spotlight and subjected to an incredible amount of wealth and fame from a very early age. Perhaps his parents pushed him and his siblings hard toward acting success or maybe he was just naturally gifted. Either way it must have been an incredibly unique childhood, but also very stressful.
The stress and pressure at that tender age can be too much and could cause riffs in the personality that is still forming. But thanks to Macaulay Culkin being a thick-skinned guy who can take jokes, and the times he spent away from the spotlight shining directly into his eyes he has managed to regroup, lived in Paris and regained his sanity.
