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Macaulay Culkin
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Actor Born: August 26, 1980 in New York City, NY Biography:The most successful child performer since "Shirley Temple" ("Mickey Rooney" wasn't a star until his teen years), "Macaulay Culkin" first stepped onto a New York stage at the age of four. Extensively trained for his craft, including a stint with Balanchine's School of the American Ballet, young Culkin became a familiar TV-commercial face and was spotlighted in several film supporting roles, the best of which was as "John Candy"'s inquisitive nephew in "Uncle Buck" (1989). After an unbilled cameo in "Jacob's Ladder" (1990) and prior to an appearance in a "Michael Jackson" video, Culkin was cast as the preteen protagonist of "Home Alone", a Three Stooges-like combination of violent slapstick and sappy sentiment that was the highest-grossing film of 1990. Culkin thereby became the highest paid child actor of all time, and one of the few under-13 performers who could be counted on to "open" a picture. Two... Full Biography
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