The native New Yorker was born Bonnie Bedelia Culkin on March 25, 1948, the daughter of Phillip Harley Culkin, a journalist, and Marian Ethel Wagner Culkin, a writer and editor. Trained in ballet, her parents guided all of the children at one time or another into acting , whom she married in 1995.
Her picture appears on the cover of the book "The Films of Don Shebib" by Piers Handling (Canadian Film Institute, Ottawa, 1978). Donald Shebib was her director for Between Friends .
Sister of Kit Culkin , Candace Culkin and Terry Culkin.
Aunt of Macaulay Culkin , Kieran Culkin , Dakota Culkin , Rory Culkin , Shane Culkin , Christian Culkin , and Quinn Culkin.
She appears in two films based on Stephen King books where theres an evil antique shop owner in the plot ( Salems Lot and Needful Things ).
She has two children with Ken Luber : Uri Luber (born 5 June 1970) and Jonah Luber (born 15 June 1976).
Co-founded the Los Angeles Classic Theater Works.
She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
Her paternal grandfather was of Irish descent. Her other ancestry includes German, English, Swiss-German, and French.
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers,came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the,hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by,ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.
I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and,kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played,kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.
My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers,around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My,father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go,to work to support his mother.
