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Kieran Culkin Reflects on Sister Dakota's Death and Keeping Her Memory Alive 16 Years Later: 'Losing a Big Piece of Myself'

Kieran Culkin opened up about the death of his sister, Dakota Culkin, 16 years after her death. Dakota worked in film as a production assistant and had recently moved to Los Angeles from N.Y.C., before the accident that stole her life.

Dakota worked on the opposite side of the camera as an art production assistant on the 2009 supernatural thriller Lost Soul. At the time of her death in 2008, Dakota had recently moved from New York City to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film production, her friend Andrea Poe told PEOPLE. When Macaulay, 44, and Brenda Song, welcomed their first child in 2021, they named the baby boy Dakota.

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