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Michael Culkin
Known for: ActingMichael Culkin is an Irish actor who grew up in Newfoundland. Here he appeared in myriad stage productions for the Arts Centre St Johns, including: The Lion in Winter, A Scent of Flowers, The Hostage, Carousel, among others. Having studied in Paris he moved to Bristol to attend The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and after graduating went into bi-weekly rep with the Yorkshire Theatre Company. While living in Los Angeles he worked with Bernard Rose on the seminal "Candyman' and subsequently worked on 'Candyman 2' directed by the Oscar Winner, Bill Condon. He returned to London where he worked in the West End, 'Lady In The Van'. At the National Theatre, and the Donmar, as well as appearing in many British Television classics: Our Mutual Friend, Perfect Strangers, Poldark 1,2,3, Holby City, Garrow's Law 1,2,3,, Father Brown, Poirot, Morse, Kavanagh QC, alongside feature film work with Meryl Streep, "Iron Lady", Hugh Grant, Johnny Depp "Mortdecai", Judi Dench, Rufus Sewell among others. He is a longstanding member of BAFTA, the Society of Artists Potters & Poets, and Chair of a Community Land Trust in Essex. He has a remaining fondness for France having made several films in French, including Place Vendome, and Monsieur N, and also for Llamas having been left two by an uncle. The Llamas and Culkin enjoy a quiet rural life when he's not busy away working...
Filmography 30
Pretty Lethal
as Lothar Marcovic 
Mortdecai
as Sir Graham Archer 
Dorian Gray
as Lord Radley 
The Hours
as Doctor 
The Good Liar
as Dr. Livesey 
Dangerous Beauty
as Bishop De la Torre 
Candyman
as Purcell 
The Fifth Estate
as Ralph Zilke 
Garrow's Law
as Judge Buller 
Holmes & Watson
as Judge 
Dot.Kill
as Happy Bob's Clerk 
Mr. Holmes
as Bank Manager 
The Nest
as Arthur Davis 
55 Steps
as Judge Farelly 
Immortal Beloved
as Jakob Hotscevar 
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
as Phillip Purcell 
Shanghai
as Billy 
An Ideal Husband
as Oscar Wilde 
Solomon
as Hiram of Naphtali 
Dark Angel
as Sunderland vicar 
Boogie Woogie
as Beth's Father 
Strings
as Agra 
Place Vendôme
as De Beers Man 
Photographing Fairies
as Cole 
Surprised by Oxford
as Professor McTeague 
Crusade in Jeans
as Anselmus 
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
as Willie De Salis 
Treasure Island
as Captain Smolett 
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Charles Lawton 
Into the Blue
as Rex Cunningham