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Macaulay Culkin’s Parents: Get to Know His Mom & Dad

The actor was welcomed by Kit Culkin and Patricia Brentrup in 1980. Find out more about them here.

Kit and Brentrup met a neighbor who was a stage manager at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and were later introduced to casting director Billy Hopkins, who gave Macaulay his first job at 6 years old. “Everything he tried to do in life, I excelled at before I was 10 years old,” he continued, adding that his father pressured him to work even when he didn’t want to and sometimes made him sleep on the couch. Kit’s late partner, Jeanette Krylowski, denied that he was abusive to any of his children, and told New York Magazine that Patricia lied to their kids to alienate them from him.

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