Kieran Culkin winning a 2025 Golden Globe was great, but the real success story is his 11-year marriage to Jazz Charton and their two children together.
Kieran Culkin accepting an award is always win-win: He gets another trophy and the audience gets to hear another delightful take on his relationship with Jazz Charton.
The 2025 Golden Globes was happily no exception.
While accepting his statue for Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture on Jan. 5, the A Real Pain star noted that the Globes had become “the best date night that my wife and I ever have.”
Culkin thanked a number of people, including his film’s costar and writer-director Jesse Eisenberg, then returned to his “gorgeous wife,” whom he thanked for “putting up with what you call my mania.”
He added, “I’m working on it, I’ve got a therapist now, it’s fine. It’s not fine, it’s a lot of work. We’ll see where that goes.”
But so far the brand of charm that he used to win Charton’s affections in the first place seems to be working just fine.
When they met at a New York bar in 2012, Culkin sidled up to Charton and introduced himself.
“I said, ‘I’m Kieran. You have an English accent. What’s your name?’” he recalled to The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. “She said, ‘Jazz.’ I said, ‘J-A-Z-Z, like the music?’ And she said, ‘Yeah.’ And I said, ‘Well, that’s f–king stupid.’”
That opening line could’ve fallen flat for some, but he apparently struck just the right tone for the London-born Charton, who laughed and then married him the following year.
They tied the knot on June 8, 2013, eloping in Iowa during a cross-country road trip, and began their lives together in the one-bedroom East Village apartment Culkin had bought a decade earlier.
The couple were still living there when they welcomed daughter Kinsey Sioux on Sept. 13, 2019, but decamped to a roomier space in Brooklyn before having their painstakingly named son Wilder Wolf on Aug. 17, 2021.
Charton posted a rare photo of their kids (not showing their faces) in an Instagram tribute to Culkin last June, writing, “Happy Father’s Day to this DADDY. Considering he didn’t grow up with a good example of what a dad is he’s really quite good at it.”
So she shares her husband’s ability to encapsulate a more serious issue—in this case the Culkin kids’ complicated relationship with their father, which older brother Macaulay Culkin has also spoken about—in a funny but poignant way.
Overall, though, Charton’s page is a celebration of her and Culkin’s hilarity-tinged love-fest, her first pinned photo featuring the pair all glammed up while he pours a glass of champagne.
She captioned the Jan. 16, 2024, post, “Here is the exact moment I realized I may have made a huge mistake by JOKINGLY saying ‘we can have another baby if you ever win an Emmy.’”
It turned out, Culkin can be a real pain once he gets an idea in his head.
“Thank you for sharing your life with me and for giving me two amazing kids,” the Succession star said while accepting the 2023 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. “And, Jazz, I want more. You said, maybe, if I win.”
He explained moments later in the press room that he had been asking Charton “for awhile” about having a third child.
“My wife, Jazz, said, ‘Maybe if you win the Emmy, haha,’” Culkin said. “I didn’t bring it up for months, and then when I won the Globe [last week], I said, ‘Do you remember what you said?’ And she goes, ‘No! what did I say?’ So, I told her, and it all came back to her.”
Culkin added, “So, she spent the whole week being nervous. So, instead of talking to her in private like a human, I blasted it on stage, which was very rude. That’s it. That’s the whole story.”
But when he and Charton first got married, Culkin wasn’t sure that having even one child was in the cards for them.
“It was not something that either my wife and I ever pursued,” he told NPR in 2021. “We sort of thought, you know, if it happens, it happens. But if it doesn’t, you know, hey, that’ll be great, too.”
So while he wasn’t entirely sold on the idea before becoming a dad, parenthood was “quite actually the greatest thing,” Culkin said. “And it doesn’t matter how hard it gets, unlike anything else. Like, you know, you have a job that’s too difficult or a relationship that’s too hard. You just, like, end it. It’s like, done. Move on. It doesn’t matter how hard it gets. It’s always fulfilling and always wonderful.”
In fact, Culkin has pondered whether he shouldn’t just call it a career in order to spend more time with his family.
“I feel like what I’m supposed to do is be a stay-at-home dad,” he told Esquire in 2023. “That’s where I feel like I’m the most me. And anything that takes me away from that is wrong.”
But while he remains in demand, he makes sure his family’s with him in spirit wherever he goes.
The accessory-favoring actor wears two signet rings, one engraved with his daughter’s first initial and the other with his son’s. He also bought himself and Charton Rolexes after he shot the first season of Succession. And a number of the beaded bracelets he regularly wears on his right arm (and which were on display at the Globes) are from his children, though one colorful bauble is actually a rejected present for Charton that he picked out from an in-flight catalogue.
“This is a gift I bought on Virgin Airlines for my wife,” Culkin explained to Colman Domingo during a recent chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors series. “She didn’t like it, so I wear it now…I was debating between a couple of things and I was like, ‘She’s probably gonna hate this, and if she does, I get to wear it.’ But at least I gave her a gift.”
And it’s stories like these that are the gifts that keeps on giving.
While Culkin and Charton were obviously having a blast, see all the couples who turned the 2025 Golden Globes into a date night:
Jeanne Cadieu & Jake Gyllenhaal
It’s easy to presume this couple is sweet as they step out for their red carpet moment.
Annabelle Wallis & Sebastian Stan
The actress would want no different man by her side at the 2025 Golden Globes.
Charles Guard & Felicity Jones
Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban
They may have skipped the red carpet, but the Babygirl actress and country music star made time for a a sweet PDA moment during the ceremony.
Ewan McGregor & Mary Elizabaeth Winstead
The A Gentleman in Moscow star cozies up to his wife for their photo op.
Dax Shepard & Kristen Bell
Now that’s cheesing! The couple show off subtle PDA for their red carpet moment.
Heidi Klum & Tom Kaulitz
The America’s Got Talent judge and guitarist are all dolled up for their night out.
Robbie Williams & Ayda Field
Sweet in silver! The couple compliments each other in shimmery looks on the red carpet.
Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen
The couple, who tied the knot in 1995, are all smiles on the red carpet.
Michael Angarano & Maya Erskine
Heading in! The Sky High actor supports the Best Actress nominee.
Tom Pelphrey & Kaley Cuoco
Parents night out! The couple, who welcomed daughter Matilda in 2023, are all smiles on the red carpet.
Riko Shibata & Nicolas Cage
The Longlegs actor is supported by his wife of four years.
Adrien Brody & Georgina Chapman
There’s nothing brutal about the Best Actor nominee and his girlfriend of five years’ red carpet moment.
Billy Crudup & Naomi Watts
The Morning Show star and Feud actress are a powerful duo on the red carpet.
Melissa McCarthy & Ben Falcone
The Gilmore Girls actress’ husband proves he knows how to let her shine with their incredible red carpet moment.
Viola Davis & Julius Tennon
The How to Get Away With Murder actress is all smiles with her husband. After all, she will be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at tonight’s ceremony.
Kirsten Dunst & Jesse Plemons
This classic Hollywood pair chose to go with classic looks for their night out, where the Kinds of Kindness star has earned his first nomination.
Jeremy Strong & Emma Wall
The Succession star and his wife prove to have one of the most unique red carpet looks.
Kerry Washington & Nnamdi Asomugha
A very rare date night! The Scandal actress steps out with her husband of 11 years.
Jackie Sandler & Adam Sandler
Jean Smart & Joe Pacheco
The Hacks star wears something blue beside her date.
Hannah Bagshawe & Eddie Redmayne
A couple that styles together, stays together—and The Day of the Jackal star and his wife are proving it so!
Leighton Meester & Adam Brody
Everyone wants a red carpet moment between the Gossip Girl alum and first-time Golden Globe nominee.
Mason Morfit & Jordana Brewster
The Fast and the Furious actress and her husband could never go out of style with their red carpet looks.
Pamela Chestnut & Morris Chestnut
A monochromatic match! The Resident star and his wife of nearly 30 years match-up their red and black looks to walk the red carpet.
Lucia Aniello & Paul W. Downs
A truly golden pair! The Hacks writers share their red carpet moment together.
Rika Tischendorf & Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds
They might not be nominated tonight, but this couple is included among the nominees for sweetest red carpet moment.
David Zayas & Liza Colón-Zayas
Source: www.eonline.com