- Kieran Culkin won the best supporting actor award for “A Real Pain” at the 2025 Oscars.
- Culkin has been in the industry since he was a child.
- Fellow Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Jodie Foster were child stars, too.
Kieran Culkin concluded his awards season with a bang, winning the Oscar for best supporting actor thanks to his performance as Benji Kaplan in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain.”
But while Culkin may be best known for his Oscar-winning role and as Roman Roy in the satirical drama “Succession,” the 42-year-old has been in the spotlight for decades.
Turns out, there was more than one Culkin in the “Home Alone” movies; Kieran played Fuller McCallister, a cousin of Kevin McCallister, famously played by Culkin’s older brother, Macaulay.
“What Kieran loves more than anything is for people to go up to him when they meet him and talk about ‘Home Alone,’ so I did, yeah,” Eisenberg told People about his costar in January.
Culkin’s journey from child star to Oscar winner isn’t unique, either. From Leonardo DiCaprio to Jodie Foster, here are 10 Oscar winners who got their start as children.
