Age: 45
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Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin (born Macaulay Carson Culkin; August 26, 1980) is an American actor who rose to fame in John Hughes’s 1990 box office hit Home Alone and quickly became one of the most famous child actors of the 1990s. He next appeared in Only the Lonely and costarred in the highly acclaimed My Girl, both released in 1991. Culkin returned to his star-making role as Kevin in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), which also performed well at the box office. Culkin’s next role, a dramatic turn from his previous work, was in the dark and disturbing The Good Son (1993), in which he played a deeply troubled child. Culkin continued to work steadily, appearing in one more film that year and in three films the next year—The Nutcracker (1993), Getting Even with Dad (1994), The Pagemaster (1994), and, in the title role, Richie Rich (1994)—before taking a step back from acting in his early 20s to act occasionally and to pursue other creative opportunities. Meanwhile, Culkin had returned to acting in the early 2000s. He starred in the play Madame Melville, which opened in London in 2000 and moved to New York City (Off-Broadway) the next year. His first movie as an adult was Party Monster (2003), in which he played the murderous party promoter Michael Alig. It was closely followed by his role in Saved! (2004), a comedy in which he played a high-school student whose sister is a Christian zealot. Later films included Sex and Breakfast (2007), The Wrong Ferrari (2011), Adam Green’s Aladdin (2016), and Changeland (2019). During this time he also worked in television, notably making appearances on Will & Grace, in 2003; Foster Hall, in 2004; Kings, in 2009; Dollface, in 2019; American Horror Story, in 2021; and The Righteous Gemstones, in 2022. Culkin lent his voice to Robot Chicken (2001– ) and appeared as himself in The Jim Gaffigan Show (2015–16). Culkin pursued other creative interests as well. He wrote a novel, Junior (2005), which is the story of a young star who has a troubled relationship with his father; while ostensibly fiction, it appeared to have many similarities to Culkin’s own experiences with his father. Culkin also dabbled in music. He formed a band called the Pizza Underground that performed the songs of the Velvet Underground but with the lyrics humorously revised to incorporate a pizza theme. Pizza Underground went on a brief tour in 2014. In 2017 Culkin created the comedy website and accompanying podcast Bunny Ears, which was a satiric riff on wellness and lifestyle brands.
Macaulay Culkin
Arcade
for Arcade in Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: Darkest Day
Suggested by erentan
Three years after the devastating aftermath of Secret Wars, New York has morphed into a dark and hopeless metropolis under the iron fist of Kingpin (Wilson Fisk). More exhausted than ever, Peter Parker (Spider-Man) and Matt Murdock (Daredevil) wage a relentless guerrilla war against Fisk's empire on the city's streets. To crush this resistance forever, Kingpin forms a diabolical alliance with the assassin Arcade and the dark sorceress Nicola Zosimos (Hexfinder). In this plot centered entirely around symbiotes, Arcade combines Hexfinder's dark magic with corrupted symbiotic materials to transform the entirety of New York into a massive, living "Murderworld." As subway stations and skyscrapers turn into deadly traps, Kingpin's brainwashed operative Agent-Venom (Flash Thompson) and the ruthless Lee Price begin to hunt within this unleashed symbiotic nightmare. Their prime targets are Peter's greatest pillar of support, MJ (Michelle Jones), and Eddie Brock's young son trying to survive, Teen-Venom (Dylan Brock); our heroes engage in a deadly street-by-street game of cat-and-mouse to protect them. In the breathtaking climax of the story, this war on the streets is brought to the technological and magical core Arcade has hidden beneath Central Park. As Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) descends in her astral form to break the mind-bending magical rituals enveloping the city, Daredevil and Spider-Man clash hand-to-hand with Arcade's deadly traps below. However, the shattering of the magical core tears an interdimensional rift, revealing a terrifying truth: the massive surge of symbiotic energy has drawn the attention of Knull, the God of the Symbiotes. The sky suddenly bleeds crimson as Knull's colossal Grendel Symbiote Dragons and bloodthirsty armies of Xenophages begin raining down onto New York through the rift. Diving into the chaos with pure rage to save his son and prevent this cosmic horror from consuming the city, Eddie Brock (Venom) undergoes a much darker, permanent bonding with his symbiote, plunging into the core to seal the gateway and fading into the darkness. Following this epic struggle, Wanda silently vanishes and Fisk retreats underground; but for Peter Parker, left alone in the fractured city, this is only the beginning, as the looming shadow of Knull's inevitable, universe-consuming invasion sets the stage for their next dark adventure.
