Ethan Cutkosky is famously known for playing Carl Gallagher on the hit show Shameless. But not a lot is known about his personal life.Born on August 19th, 1999, Ethan grew up in Illinois. He spent a lot of his childhood making money from modeling and various acting roles. Outside of Shameless, Ethan's biggest role was also as a character named Carl in the 2007 hit comedy Fred Claus. Since Shameless ended in 2021, he's tried making and producing music, but what about his love life?He is currently dating his long time girlfriend Brielle Barbusca. They've been together since 2015. According to her IMDB, Brielle was actually an extra for Shameless at one point in time, for the episode '#Ab*rtionRules', and it appears that's how they met each other. Here's what we know about their relationship.
8 Who Exactly Is Ethan Cutkosky?
If you're reading this article, you probably already know who Ethan Cutkosky is. For those who are unaware, Ethan Cutkosky starred as Carl Gallagher on Shameless, the hit show about a semi-dysfunctional family in Chicago.
Looking back on his time with Shameless, Ethan really enjoyed and learned a lot about life and acting.
Aside from his early acting career, Ethan Cutkosky lives a private life. He doesn't have any main social media accounts, and he rarely does interviews.
7 Who Exactly Is Brielle Barbusca?
Brielle Barbusca is a 23 year-old actress who got her start as a kid on the show Queens Supreme back in 2003. Her role was as a kidnapped girl.
Since then, she's appeared in a total of 37 other roles, most notably as minor characters in the shows Law and Order, Modern Family, and Young Sheldon.
She also starred in her boyfriend's hit T.V show Shameless, where she played Bonnie, who happened be a small fling of Carl Gallagher, Ethan's character on the show.
Beyond that, she's Instagram famous, with 262,000 followers on the social media platform, and she has other hobbies, but her main focus seems to be her boo.
6 Ethan Cutkosky And Brielle Barbusca On Instagram
There's no videos or interviews involving their relationship, as both of them prefer to keep their personal lives private.
However, Brielle does like to post about Ethan on Instagram. Back on Valentine's Day of 2017, she posted a selfie of them together.
In early 2018, they went hiking. She thanked him in the caption for 'being the best hiking buddy'.
Despite both of their efforts to keep their personal lives and relationships private, it does seem that Brielle keeps it a little loose on Instagram.
5 This Is What Ethan Cutkosky Is Up To Now
After appearing on nearly every episode of a show as big as Shameless at such a young age, Ethan seems to be taking his acting career slow at this point.
He re-appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2021 after appearing as a minor character on the show back in 2013. In that same year he starred as Josh in the movie Alex/October.
Other than that, his acting portfolio seems pretty empty as of now. It makes sense, as his net worth is really high.
4 Ethan Cutkosky Is Making Music Now
It seems that Ethan's interests nowadays have more to do with music than with movies or T.V.
Like a lot of people his age, Ethan seems to have a desire to make indie music, with songs released on internet streaming services such as Soundcloud and Spotify.
One of his biggest singles is a song titled Erase Me, which was released in 2021.
A neat fun fact that involves music is that Ethan appeared in the music video for OMG by rapper Vic Mensa, starring as Carl Gallagher from Shameless.
3 Are Ethan Cutkosky And Billie Eilish Related?
A common belief on the internet is that Ethan Cutkosky and Billie Eilish are related. This spawns from people in the Shameless fanbase putting up side-by-side comparisons of the two, as they both look a lot alike. They also have frowning faces that look identical to each other.
While there are pictures of them hanging out together on the internet, they are not in fact related.
Another comparison Ethan gets is to the rapper Lil Xan, as they too also look similar to each other. Back in March 2018, Ethan even appeared at one of Lil Xan's concerts and was onstage with him.
While none of them are related, perhaps Ethan uses Billie and Lil Xan as inspiration for his music.
2 What Brielle Barbusca Is Up To Now
Brielle's hobbies nowadays involve less acting and more modeling and social media.
She currently has a minor role in the upcoming movie Saturday at the Starlight, her first role since 2019.
Earlier this year, she modeled for The Bare Magazine, and she posts modelling pictures all the time on her Instagram and Twitter profiles. She has a few hundred followers on every platform.
1 These Are Brielle's Favorite Charities
The best thing a celebrity can do is give back to the community, and Brielle has a track record of being a philanthropist with her wealth.
She's publicly donated to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, and has even participated in interviews about it.
She's also attended events for the Generation On Youth Charity.
Safe to say, Brielle is a humanitarian who cares about her people, particularly younger people who need help. She's not the only celebrity who likes to donate to charity.