Macaulay Culkin Biography

Fast Facts

• Took ballet lessons as a child
• Made his film debut in the 1988 drama Rocket Gibraltar
• Earning about $8 million for one movie, he was the highest paid child star of all time
• Tap danced with Bob Hope in one of Hope's Christmas specials
• Left acting when he was 14; came out of retirement nine years later to star in the 2003 drama Party Monster
• Got married at 17, was separated two years later and then divorced
• Published a book in March 2006 called Junior; it included quizzes, poems, letters and sketches
• Is the godfather to two of Michael Jackson's children