- - In 1990, She Played Kevin's Sister in “Home Alone”. Now She's a Mom and a Former Olympian, Paying Homage to the Iconic Film

Virginia ChamleeDecember 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM

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Former child actress Hillary Wolf Saba is celebrating her role in Home Alone

The actress shared a video to both Instagram and TikTok in which she can be seen eating a pint of ice cream on the couch, while Home Alone plays on the tv in front of her

The video is set to the Fleetwood Mac song “Silver Springs,” a recently trending audio used to reference a life-changing moment in videos posted to the social platforms

Former child actress Hillary Wolf Saba is celebrating her role in Home Alone — and participating in a social media trend in the process.

The actress shared a video to both Instagram and TikTok in which she can be seen eating a pint of ice cream on the couch, while Home Alone plays on the tv in front of her. As the camera pans to the screen, a younger version of Saba (who played Kevin McAllister's sister Megan in the 1990 film) can be seen.

"When you're 13, you'll get the opportunity to be in the most iconic Christmas movie of all time. It's very important that you do it," the text on the video reads.

The video is set to the Fleetwood Mac song “Silver Springs,” a recently trending audio used to reference a life-changing moment in videos posted to the social platforms.

The video is captioned: "VERY important. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals."

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Hillary Wolf Saba in Home Alone

Saba, now 48, also appeared in the 1992 sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and in several other films and television miniseries of the time, including Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even.

In an essay written for Newsweek in 2021, she recounted her time filming the movie, writing, "As a whole, my memories of Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost In New York are that it was a very fun set. Between the McCallisters and the cousins there were a lot of children, so it was a very kid-friendly environment."

"Catherine O'Hara was one of the best things about that movie set," she added. "She was funny, great with kids, and just a wonderful person. I actually had a lot of fun filming the scene we did running through O'Hare airport, and that was because I was with Catherine."

Her impression of Macaulay Culkin, she added, was that "he was a typical little boy having fun and that his personality really shone through."

She added that, while filming the sequel to the film, she and Culkin would sometimes visit Chicago's Navy Pier and lip sync to music videos — including Michael Jackson's "Black or White," in which Culkin appeared.

"One day during filming in Chicago, a car with blacked out windows drove up to the set and I remember hearing somebody say: 'Oh, there's a Michael Jackson lookalike here!' It was actually him," she wrote. "The whole situation was surreal and weird, it was like, 'holy s***, that's Michael Jackson!' I'm not impressed by famous people often, but Michael Jackson was next level."

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Saba — now a mom of two — left acting in 1992 and focused on her athletic career, competing around the country in judo competitions before making the U.S. Olympic team in 2000.

She won the 1994 World Junior Judo Championships in her weight class and competed in Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996 and in Sydney in 2000.

Athletics, she told Newsweek, was more difficult to step away from than acting: "I never wanted anyone to think that I considered myself really cool because I was in those movies, so I didn't really tell anybody I met. I was so private about it that it's almost like I didn't embrace the joy and the fun oddity of being in Home Alone movies."

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