Who is Allen Kelsey Grammer?

Who is Allen Kelsey Grammer?  The entertainment and acting world knows him as Kelsey Grammer. Grammer is a 5-time Emmy Award-winning American actor and comedian. He is most widely known for his two-decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcoms Cheers and Frasier. He has been nominated for fourteen Emmys, including one for playing his character on three sitcoms (the third being a guest appearance on Wings), as well as portraying the part on an episode of The John Larroquette Show, and has also worked as a television producer, director, writer, and as a voice artist. He has received many accolades for his role as the voice of Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons.

Early life and family tragedies

Grammer was born February 21, 1955  in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands to Sally Grammer (née Cranmer, 1928 – July 7, 2008),^[1] a singer, and Frank Allen Grammer Jr., a musician and owner of a coffee shop and a bar & grill called Greer's Place.^[2][3][4] His parents divorced when Grammer was two.^[5] He attended Pine Crest School, a private preparatory school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for high school. Grammer then spent two years at the Juilliard School.^[6]
Grammer's family life has been plagued by tragedies. In 1968, when Grammer was thirteen years old, his father, whom he had seen only twice since his parents' divorce, was shot and killed.^[3] In 1975, his younger sister Karen was abducted, raped, and murdered.^{[7][8][9][10][11]} In 1980, his twin half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident.^[12][13]

Career

Stage

After leaving Juilliard, he had a three-year internship with the Old Globe Theatre, in San Diego, in the late 1970s, before a stint in 1980 at the Guthrie Theater, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He made his Broadway debut in 1981, as "Lennox," in Macbeth, taking the lead role when Philip Anglim withdrew after receiving negative reviews. In 1983, he performed on the demo of the Stephen Sondheim–James Lapine production Sunday in the Park with George, starring Mandy Patinkin. Also featured on the demo was Christine Baranski, who later starred as Mrs. Lovett to Grammer's Sweeney Todd in the 1999 LA Reprise! production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Grammer then played Michael Cassio in a Broadway revival of Othello, with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer.
On April 18, 2010, Grammer made his Broadway musical debut playing the role of Georges in a revival of the Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.

Television

His television career began in the early 1980s when he portrayed Stephen Smith in the NBC miniseries Kennedy. Grammer came to broader public attention as Dr. Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcom Cheers. Grammer's former Juilliard classmate and Broadway co-star Patinkin suggested Grammer to the New York casting director, and he got what was supposed to be a six-episode job but ended up as a regular cast member.^[14] The character became the center of the spin-off Frasier, arguably the most successful spinoff in TV history. In addition to starring, he also directed many episodes, especially during the second half of the series. In 2008, Grammer reprised his role of Dr. Frasier Crane in a commercial for Dr Pepper.
In 2001, he negotiated a US$700,000-per-episode salary for Frasier, and his 20-year run playing Dr. Frasier Crane ties a length set by James Arness in playing Marshall Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke from 1955 to 1975.^[15]
In 2005, he returned to series television on Fox, by attempting to create an American adaptation of The Sketch Show, a British sketch show. The main cast consisted of Malcolm Barrett, Kaitlin Olson, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Paul F. Tompkins, as well as Lee Mack from the British version of the show. Grammer appeared in only short opening and closing segments in each episode. Many of the sketches from the British version were recreated, such as the "California Dreamin'," "English Course," and "Sign Language" sketches. Only six episodes of the show were made, and it was canceled after only four of them had aired.
In addition to being producer, he guest-starred as the Angel of Death on Medium.
In 2007, Grammer returned to the sitcom format as the central character in the American sitcom Back to You, co-starring with Patricia Heaton. It was canceled by Fox after its first season.
Grammer's ABC sitcom Hank was canceled in its first season on November 11, 2009, with Grammer saying at the end, "Honestly, it just wasn't very funny."^[16]
He is currently in negotiations to host the American version of the British panel game, Quite Interesting.

Voice work

Grammer's smooth, deep voice and Mid-Atlantic accent make him popular for voiceover work. He has provided the voice of Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons, winning an Emmy for his work in the episode "The Italian Bob".^[17]
  He has appeared in twelve episodes since the show's inception in 1989, the most recent being "The Bob Next Door" that aired in May 2010. Grammer supplied the voices for "Stinky Pete the Prospector" in 1999 Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 2, Vladimir in the Fox animated movie Anastasia, (Rothbart) Barbie of Swan Lake, Zozi the Bear in the subsequently produced prequel Bartok the Magnificent, and the title character in the short-lived animated series Gary the Rat. He provided the opening speech and piano in The Vandals' song "Phone Machine" from the album Fear of a Punk Planet, and sang a rewritten version of the "grinch" on an episode of Just Shoot Me!. He was the voice of the mad scientist, Dr. Frankenollie, in the Mickey Mouse short Runaway Brain.

Production work

His production company, Grammnet Productions, produces the CW sitcoms Girlfriends and The Game which is now on BET, the NBC drama Medium, and is involved in many other projects.

Other work

His film work includes the role of Dr. Hank McCoy (also known as the Beast) in X-Men: The Last Stand, and he was the voice of Snowball in the live-action film adaptation of the George Orwell book Animal Farm. Grammer co-starred in the movie Swing Vote, playing the Republican incumbent. He played General George S. Patton in An American Carol. In 2010, he starred in "The Kelsey Grammer Bill Zucker Comedy Hour".
Grammer's voice has been featured in commercials. One of the earliest was a 1998 commercial for Honey Nut Cheerios, where he played the voice of the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. He was the voice of the original GEICO gecko, a talking reptile created by The Martin Agency in 1999. In the commercial, the gecko pleads for people to stop calling him in error, mistaking gecko for GEICO. Since 2006, Grammer has provided the voice for television commercials advertising Hyundai.

Awards

He won a number of Emmys, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Golden Globes for his work on Frasier. He was the first American actor ever to be nominated for multiple Emmy awards for portraying the same character on three different television shows (Cheers, Frasier, and Wings).
Grammer has received at least 45 nominations for major awards and has won on 18 occasions.^[18] He has received 14 individual Emmy Award nominations for 4 different television shows (plus an additional 2 as part of the Frasier ensemble) and has won on 5 occasions. At the Golden Globes, he has received eight nominations and twice been victorious. He has received two People's Choice Awards, and in 1999 his directorial skills were recognized with a nomination for a Directors Guild of America award for directing an episode of Frasier. He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in X-Men: The Last Stand. On May 22, 2001, he was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for television. On April 20, 2009, Grammer was presented the inaugural Television Chairman's Award at the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas.^[19] In 2010, Grammer enjoyed his first Tony Award nomination for "La Cage Aux Folles" as Best Leading Actor in a Musical.
The following table gives a selection of the awards he has won.

Year	Award	Category
1994	Emmy	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Frasier)
1995	Emmy	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Frasier)
1995	American Comedy Award	Funniest Male Performer in a TV Series (Frasier)
1996	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series Comedy/Musical (Frasier)
1996	American Comedy Award	Funniest Male Performer in a TV Series (Frasier)
1998	Emmy	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Frasier)
2001	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series Comedy/Musical (Frasier)
2004	Emmy	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Frasier)
2006	Emmy	Outstanding Voice-Over Performance (The Simpsons)

Personal life

Family

Grammer has been married four times.

Doreen Alderman

His first marriage, to dance instructor Doreen Alderman, lasted from 1982 to 1990. They had one daughter, Spencer Grammer (born October 9, 1983), an actress on the CBS Daytime soap opera As the World Turns and the ABC Family show Greek.
After this marriage, Grammer had a daughter, Greer Kandace (born February 15, 1992), with hair and makeup stylist Barrie Buckner.^[20]

Leigh-Anne Csuhany

His second marriage, to stripper Leigh-Anne Csuhany in 1992, lasted one year. Grammer says that she was abusive and shot a gun at him,^[21] and that, after talk of divorce, she attempted suicide, which resulted in the miscarriage of their child.^[22]

Tammy Baliszewski

In 1994, he met 28-year-old Tammy Baliszewski, also known as Tammy Alexander, at a bar in Manhattan Beach, California. In December 1994, the two of them appeared on the cover of People magazine, announcing their engagement and Grammer's substance abuse problems. They broke up in 1995.

Camille Donatacci

In August 1997, Grammer married Camille Donatacci, a former Playboy model. They met on a blind date in 1996.^[23] They have a daughter, Mason Olivia (born October 24, 2001), and a son, Jude Gordon (born August 28, 2004), both born to a surrogate mother.^[20] Grammer and Donatacci have several homes that have been featured in InStyle magazine and Architectural Digest. Some are: Malibu, California (February 2001, InStyle magazine), Maui (May 2004, InStyle magazine), Long Island, New York (April 2008, InStyle magazine), Denver, Colorado (Architectural Digest), and Bel Air, Los Angeles (Architectural Digest). On June 14, 2010, Donatacci and Grammer appeared together at the Tony Awards. It was announced on July 1, 2010 that Donatacci had filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.^[24]

On August 12, 2010, Grammer announced that he was going to be a father for the fifth time with girlfriend Kayte Walsh.^[25] On October 9, 2010, Grammer announced that Walsh had miscarried six weeks earlier.^[26] On December 28, 2010, Grammer announced their engagement.^[27] At the beginning of February, Grammer and Walsh booked the ballroom at the Plaza Hotel on February 25, 2011 for their marriage, at a cost of more than $100,000 for the reception, despite Grammer's divorce not being finalized.^[28] Grammer and Donatacci's divorce was finalized on February 10, 2011.^[29] On February 25, 2011, he married Walsh. ^[30]

 

 

Lawsuits

Defamation lawsuit

In 1995, Grammer was sued by ex-girlfriend Cerlette Lamme for defamation of character and invasion of privacy over content he included in his autobiography So Far.^[31]

Sex tape lawsuit

In 1998, Grammer filed a lawsuit against Internet Entertainment Group, which Grammer claimed had stolen from his home a videotape of him having sex with a woman. IEG countersued Grammer, denying they were in possession of such a tape, and Grammer's suit was eventually dropped.^[32] IEG President Seth Warshavsky told the New York Post, "We have been presented with another Kelsey Grammer tape. But we have no plans to air it. We are still evaluating it at this time."^[33] Grammer later told Maxim, "Whether or not you’re a celebrity—even if you’re just an old slob with a video camera—you don’t realize you shouldn’t do it. So you throw the tape in the back of a dark closet until your old girlfriend remembers it’s there because you’re famous now and she’s not. But if you’re not prepared to do the time, don’t do the crime."^[34]

Copyright lawsuit

 In August 2008, Bradley Blakeman, a former aide to George W. Bush, filed a copyright lawsuit in federal court on Long Island over Grammer's movie Swing Vote, claiming that parts of its plot and marketing had been stolen from him. The lawsuit claimed that Blakeman had given a copyrighted screenplay called Go November to Grammer in 2006, and that Grammer agreed to develop the project and star as a Republican president but instead ended up playing a similar role in Swing Vote, which was released on August 1, 2008. Grammer's spokesman dismissed the claims as "frivolous" and a "waste of time". The lawsuit claims that Blakeman's copyrighted screenplay had the same basic plot as Swing Vote.^[35]

Substance abuse and arrests

Grammer began drinking at age nine^[36] and became a frequent abuser of alcohol. In 1988, he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for drunk driving and cocaine possession. He was again arrested for cocaine possession in August 1990 and was sentenced to three years' probation, fined $500, and given 300 hours of community service. In January 1991, he was given an additional two years' probation for violating his original probation through additional cocaine use. In September 1996, he flipped his Dodge Viper while intoxicated and subsequently checked into the Betty Ford Center for 30 days.^[37]

Health problems

Grammer suffered a heart attack on May 31, 2008. He told Jay Leno on the July 24, 2008, airing of The Tonight Show that he had to wait one and a half hours for paramedics to arrive. He was hospitalized in Hawaii after he had symptoms while paddleboarding with his then wife, Camille.^[38] He was released on June 4, 2008, and was listed as "resting comfortably" at his Hawaiian residence.^[39] Seven weeks after his attack, Grammer told Entertainment Tonight that, although at the time his spokesman described the attack as mild, it was in fact more severe, almost leading to his death, as his heart had stopped.^[40]
Grammer thought Fox's decision to cancel his TV sitcom Back to You contributed to his health problems, stating that "It was a very stressful time for me, and a surprise that it was cancelled. But you know, everything that doesn't kill us—which it almost did—makes us stronger!".^[41]
On June 28, 2008, Grammer checked into an undisclosed New York hospital after complaints of feeling faint. His publicist said that it may have been due to a reaction to medication.^[42]

Politics

Grammer is a member of the Republican Party and has expressed an interest in someday running for United States Congress.^[43] Grammer was a guest at President George W. Bush's first inauguration.^[44] Grammer endorsed Rudy Giuliani in the 2008 presidential primary and later campaigned for John McCain in the general election.^[45][46]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Galaxies Are Colliding	Peter
1995	Runaway Brain	Dr. Frankenollie	Short film
1996	Down Periscope	Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge
1997	Anastasia	Vladimir
1998	The Real Howard Spitz	Howard Spitz
1999	Animal Farm	Snowball
1999	New Jersey Turnpikes	Unknown
1999	Standing on Fishes	Verk
1999	Toy Story 2	"Stinky Pete" the Prospector
1999	Bartok the Magnificent	Zozi	Direct-to-video release
1999	Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas	Narrator	Direct-to-video release
2001	15 Minutes	Robert Hawkins
2001	Just Visiting	Narrator	Uncredited
2003	The Big Empty	Agent Banks
2003	Barbie of Swan Lake	Rothbart	Direct-to-video release
2004	Teacher's Pet	Dr. Ivan Krank
2005	The Good Humor Man	Mr. Skibness	Also executive producer
2006	X-Men: The Last Stand	Dr. Henry 'Hank' McCoy/Beast
2007	Even Money	Detective Brunner
2008	Swing Vote	President Andrew Boone
2008	An American Carol	General George S. Patton
2009	Fame	Joel Cranston
2010	Crazy on the Outside	Frank
2010	Bunyan and Babe	Norm Blandsford	Post-production
2010	Middle Men	Frank Griffin
2010	Alligator Point[47]	Director	TBA

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Macbeth	Ross	TV film
1983	Kennedy	Stephen Smith	TV miniseries
1984	Kate & Allie	David Hamill	Episode 1.1: "Allie's First Date"
1984	George Washington	Lt. Stewart	TV miniseries
1984– 1985	Another World	Dr. Canard	Recurring role
1984– 1993	Cheers	Dr. Frasier Crane	Appeared in 201 episodes
1986	Crossings	Craig Lawson	TV miniseries
1987	Biography	George Washington	Episode: "Benedict Arnold"
1987	J.J. Starbuck	Pierce Morgan	Episode 1.3: "Murder in E Minor"
1988	Dance 'til Dawn	Ed Strull	TV film
1989	Top of the Hill	Unknown	TV film
1989	227	Mr. Anderson	Episode 4.24: "For Sale"
1990	The Tracey Ullman Show	Mr. Brenna	Episode 4.12: "Maria and the Mister"
1990–present	The Simpsons	Sideshow Bob	Has appeared in twelve episodes, Recurring Role.
1991	Baby Talk	Russell	Episode 1.7: "One Night with Elliot"
1992	Wings	Dr. Frasier Crane	Episode 3.16: "Planes, Trains and Visiting Cranes"
1992	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Captain Bateson	Episode 5.18: "Cause and Effect"
1993	Roc	Detective Rush	Episode 2.25: "To Love and Die on Emerson Street: Part 2"
1993	Beyond Suspicion	Ron McNally	TV film
1993	Mike & Spike	Super Dog	Episode: "Person To Sea Creature" (voice only)
1993– 2004	Frasier	Dr. Frasier Crane	Appeared in all 264 episodes; also executive producer and director of 37 episodes
1994	The Innocent	Det. Frank Barlow	TV film
1995	The John Larroquette Show	Dr. Frasier Crane	Episode 3.1: "More Changes"
1996	London Suite	Sydney Nichols	TV film
1997	Fired Up	Tom Whitman	Episodes 1.3: "Who's the Boss" and 2.3: "You Don't Know Jack"; also executive producer
1998	The Pentagon Wars	Major General Partridge	TV film
1998	Just Shoot Me!	Narrator	Episode 3.10: "How the Finch Stole Christmas"
1999	Animal Farm	Snowball	TV film
2000	Stark Raving Mad	Professor Tuttle	1.17: "The Grade"
2001	Neurotic Tendencies	N/A	TV film; executive producer, director and writer
2000– 2008	Girlfriends	himself	Executive producer
2001	The Sports Pages	Howard Greene	TV film
2002	Mr. St. Nick	Nick St. Nicholas/Santa Claus the 21st	TV film
2002– 2003	In-Laws	N/A	Executive producer
2003	Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor	George Washington	TV film
2003	Becker	Rick Cooper	Episode 5.13: "But I've Got Friends I Haven't Used Yet"
2003	Gary the Rat	Gary "The Rat" Andrews	Appeared in all 13 episodes; also executive producer
2004	A Christmas Carol	Ebenezer Scrooge	TV film
2004	The Soluna Project	N/A	TV film; executive producer
2005	Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show	Various characters	Appeared in all four aired episodes; also executive producer
2005	Out of Practice	N/A	Directed episodes 1.1 and 1.18
2006	Medium	Angel of Death/Bob	Episode 2.21: "Death Takes a Policy" Also executive producer/Double Role
2006	My Ex Life	N/A	Director
2006– 2009	The Game	N/A	Executive producer
2007	Dash 4 Cash	N/A	TV film; executive producer
2007	Everybody Hates Chris	N/A	Directed episode 2.22: "Everybody Hates the Last Day"
2007– 2008	Back to You	Chuck Darling	Appeared in all 17 episodes Also executive producer
2009	Hank	Lead role	Also executive producer[48]
2010	The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills	Himself	Filmed during his marriage to Camille Donatacci Grammer
2010	30 Rock	Himself

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Who is Macaulay Carson Culkin?

Who is Macaulay Carson Culkin?  Macaulay Culkin is an American actor. He became widely known for his portrayal of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. At the height of his fame, he was regarded as the most successful child actor since Shirley Temple.^[1]
Culkin was ranked No. 2 in VH1 and E!'s respective lists, the "100 Greatest Kid-Stars" and "50 Greatest Child Stars".^[2]

Early life

Culkin was born August 26, 1980  in Manhattan, New York City,^[3] and raised in Yorkville, the son of Patricia Brentrup and Kit Culkin, a former stage actor known for his productions on Broadway.^[4] Culkin was raised Roman Catholic;^[5] he attended a Catholic school (St. Joseph's School of Yorkville) for 5 years^[6] before moving on to Professional Children's School. Culkin also studied ballet at the School of American Ballet.^[7] Culkin was the third of seven children, five boys and two girls: Shane (born 1976), Dakota (1978–2008),^[8] Kieran (born 1982), Quinn (born 1984), Christian (born 1987), and Rory (born 1989). Culkin is the nephew of actress Bonnie Bedelia, his father's sister. During Culkin's early childhood, the family lived in a small apartment; his mother was a telephone operator and his father worked as a sacristan at a local Catholic church.^[9]

Career

Culkin began acting at the age of four. Early roles saw him appearing in a stage production of Bach Babies at the New York Philharmonic. He continued appearing in roles on stage, television, and in films throughout the 1980s. Notable parts in this period included an episode of the popular action series The Equalizer in which he played the victim of a kidnapping, and also in the TV movie The Midnight Hour. In 1989 he starred in Uncle Buck with John Candy.^[10]
Culkin rose to international fame with his lead role as Kevin McCallister in the blockbuster film Home Alone (1990), where he was reunited with Uncle Buck writer and director John Hughes and Uncle Buck co-star John Candy.^[11] He reprised the role of Kevin in the 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
Culkin also starred in a Saturday morning cartoon entitled Wish Kid, and hosted Saturday Night Live in late 1991.
Despite the huge success of Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and My Girl, other films Culkin acted in, such as The Good Son, only did reasonably well (although he was nominated for MTV Movie Award in the category for Best Villain for his performance in the film). Getting Even with Dad, Richie Rich, and The Pagemaster, all released in 1994, were only mildly successful at the box office. He also appeared in a filmed version of The Nutcracker as the title role in 1993, which was staged from the 1954 George Balanchine New York City Ballet version of the ballet. He appeared in the 1998 music video for the song "Sunday" by the rock band Sonic Youth.
After several years of inactivity, Culkin returned to acting in 2000 with a role in the play Madame Melville, which was staged in London's West End.^[12] In the spring of 2003, he made a guest appearance on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace.^[13] His role as Karen Walker's deceptively immature divorce lawyer won him favorable reviews. Culkin headed back into motion pictures in 2003 with Party Monster, in which he played a role very different from those he was known for, that of party promoter Michael Alig, a drug user and murderer. He quickly followed that with a supporting part in Saved!, as a cynical wheelchair-bound, non-Christian student in a conservative Christian high school. Though Saved! only had modest success at the box office, Culkin received positive reviews for his role in the film and its implications for a career as an adult actor.^[14][15][16]
Culkin began doing voice-over work, with his appearances on Seth Green's Robot Chicken. In 2006, he published an experimental, semi-autobiographical novel, Junior, which featured details into Culkin's stardom and his shaky relationship with his father. Culkin starred in Sex and Breakfast, a dark comedy written and directed by Miles Brandman.^[17] Alexis Dziena, Kuno Becker and Eliza Dushku also star in this story of a couple whose therapist recommends group sex to them. Shooting for the film, Culkin's first since Saved!, took place in September 2006. The film opened in Los Angeles on November 30, 2007, and was released on DVD on January 22, 2008 by First Look Pictures. Culkin's next project was a role in the thirteen-episode NBC television series Kings as Andrew Cross.^[18]
In 2009, Culkin appeared in a UK-based commercial for Aviva Insurance (formerly Norwich Union) to help promote their company's rebranding. Culkin stared into the camera citing the phrase "Remember me."
On August 17, 2009, Culkin made a brief cameo appearance on WWE Raw at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri, following a "falls count anywhere" match between Hornswoggle and Chavo Guerrero in which Guerrero was defeated by the classic Home Alone gag of rigging a swinging paint can to hit him upon opening a door. Culkin appeared in the doorway and said, "That's not funny."

Personal life

Mila Kunis

Culkin married actress Rachel Miner in 1998,^[19] but the couple later separated in 2000^[20] and divorced in 2002.^[21] Culkin began dating actress Mila Kunis in May 2002.^[21] The couple postponed a possible engagement in 2006 ^[22][23] with Culkin residing in New York, and Kunis residing in Los Angeles.^[22] On January 3, 2011, Kunis' publicist confirmed reports that Culkin and Kunis had ended their relationship several months previously, saying "The split was amicable, and they remain close friends".^[24]
On September 17, 2004, Culkin was arrested in Oklahoma City for the possession of 17.3g of marijuana and two controlled substances, 16.5 mg of Alprazolam and 32 mg of Clonazepam,^[25] for which Culkin was briefly jailed but soon released on a $4,000 bond.^[26][27] After being arraigned in court for misdemeanor drug offenses, he pleaded not guilty at the trial (October 15, 2004 to June 9, 2005), then later reversed the plea to guilty. His lawyers reached a plea bargain with the state of Oklahoma and Culkin received three one-year suspended prison terms, forced enrollment into a probationary drug treatment program and a $540 fine.

Friendship with Michael Jackson

Around the time of the first Home Alone movie, Culkin became close friends with pop singer Michael Jackson, making an appearance in Jackson's "Black or White" music video. Culkin and Jackson went on vacations together to such places as Bermuda and Disney World, and Culkin often stayed at Jackson's Neverland Ranch home. Culkin's brothers, Shane and Kieran, occasionally joined them. Jackson later asked Culkin to be godfather of his children Michael Joseph "Prince" Jackson Jr. and Paris Michael Katherine Jackson.^[28]
During the trial against Michael Jackson, Culkin reported he had slept in Jackson's bed on countless occasions, but that Michael Jackson never sexually molested him or touched him in improper ways, and referred to the allegations as "absolutely ridiculous."^[29] Culkin attended Jackson's funeral on September 3, 2009.^[30]

 

 

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1985	The Midnight Hour	Halloween Kid
1988	The Equalizer	Paul Gephardt	(1 episode)
1988	Rocket Gibraltar	Cy Blue Black
1989	See You in the Morning	Billy Livingstone
1989	Uncle Buck	Miles Russell
1990	Jacob's Ladder	Gabe Singer	Uncredited
1990	Home Alone	Kevin McCallister	American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Emerging Actor Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1991	Wish Kid	Nicholas McClary	(Voice)
1991	Only the Lonely	Billy Muldoon
1991	My Girl	Thomas J. Sennett	MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss shared with Anna Chlumsky Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo shared with Anna Chlumsky
1992	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	Kevin McCallister
1993	Dangerous - The Short Films	Himself
1993	The Good Son	Henry Evans	Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
1993	The Nutcracker	The Nutcracker Prince
1994	Getting Even with Dad	Timmy Gleason
1994	The Pagemaster	Richard Tyler
1994	Frasier	Elliot	(Voice) (1 episode)
1994	Richie Rich	Richie Rich
2003	Party Monster	Michael Alig
2003	Will & Grace	Jason 'J.T.' Towne	1 episode
2004	Foster Hall	Clark Hall
2004	Saved!	Roland
2004	Jerusalemski Sindrom	Unknown
2005–2010	Robot Chicken	Bastian Bux (voice)/ Kevin McCallister / Billy / Kid (voice)	5 episodes
2007	Sex and Breakfast	James Fitz
2009	Kings	Andrew Cross	TV series

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