Career
He has also acted on-stage, most notably in several productions of the Kenneth Lonergan play This is Our Youth. Culkin was born in New York City, the son of Patricia Brentrup and Kit Culkin, a former stage actor with a long career on Broadway. He also played a role in She"s All That as Laney"s younger brother, Simon.
As a teenager, he alternated between lead roles in independent films and small parts in mainstream films.
He also had two lead role in The Mighty as Kevin Dillon. He played Buff in Eric Bogosian"s updated version of SubUrbia at the Second Theatre in New New York
In 2010, Culkin played Scott Pilgrim"s "cool gay roommate" Wallace Wells in the movie Scott Pilgrim versus the World.