Macaulay Culkin parents: Meet Kit Culkin, Patricia Brentrup

Posted by Lorie Orum on Sunday, May 19, 2024

Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin rose to prominence as a child actor starring as Kevin McCallister in the first two films of the Home Alone film series (1990 and 1992), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Macaulay Culkin parents: Meet Kit Culkin, Patricia Brentrup

Macaulay Culkin came from a larger family, they have all been supportive of his career till the end. He was born on August 26, 1980, in New York City to Christopher Cornelius “Kit” Culkin, a former stage actor, and Patricia Brentrup, a native of North Dakota. His parents met in 1974 while Kit was working as a road traffic controller in Sundance, Wyoming.

During Culkin’s early childhood, the family lived together in a small apartment and struggled financially. His mother worked as a telephone operator and his father was a sacristan at a local Catholic church.

His parents had a total of seven children together Culkin’s siblings include Shane (b. 1976), Dakota (1979–2008), Kieran (b. 1982), Quinn (b. 1984), Christian (b. 1987), and Rory (b. 1989). He also had a paternal half-sister, Jennifer (born 1970), who died in 2000.

According to several reports gathered, Culkin’s parents never married; they split when Culkin was in his teens, and his mother filed for custody and he was in support of his mum. He later effectively ‘divorced’ both his parents when they began fighting over his fortune. He sued his parents for £ 13 million when he was just 15 years old and had them removed as his legal guardians, meaning they had no control over his career or money.

Since then, he has been estranged from his father since.

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