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About Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon is an American actor and a subject of the the game / hypothesis of a theorem of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. He is bigger in Hollywood than in Geni.
After an electrifying performance in the 1984 film Footloose, actor Kevin Bacon was transformed from a virtual unknown into an unlikely heartthrob. Bacon has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, was nominated for an Emmy Award, and was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. His prolific screen career inspired the trivia game titled Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, based on the idea that any Hollywood actor can be linked to another in a handful of steps based on their associations with Bacon.
Born on July 8, 1958, one of six children, Bacon was raised in a close-knit family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Ruth Hilda (née Holmes; 1916–1991), taught elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Bacon, was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years. At 16, in 1974, Bacon won a full scholarship to and attended the Pennsylvania Governors School for the Arts, at Bucknell University, a state-funded five-week arts program where he studied Theatre under Dr. Glory Van Scott, which helped solidify Bacon's passion for the arts.
Bacon studied acting at the Circle in the Square Theater in New York, and after some stage work gained his first feature film role in National Lampoon's Animal House (1981). Later films include Footloose (1984), JFK (1991), The River Wild (1993, Golden Globe Best Actor nomination), Apollo 13 (1995), Hollow Man (2000), Mystic River (2003), and Saving Angelo (2006). Since the mid-1990s he has performed with The Bacon Brothers, a folk-rock group formed with his brother Michael.
He has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since September 4, 1988; they met on the set of the PBS version of Lanford Wilson's play Lemon Sky.
Filmography
1978 National Lampoon's Animal House Chip Diller
1979 Starting Over Husband
1979 The Gift Teddy
1980 Hero at Large 2nd Teenager
1980 Friday the 13th Jack Burrell
1981 Only When I Laugh Don
1982 Diner Timothy Fenwick Jr.
1982 Forty Deuce Ricky
1983 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Dennis
1984 Footloose Ren McCormack
1986 Quicksilver Jack Casey
1987 White Water Summer Vic
1987 End of the Line Everett
1987 Planes, Trains & Automobiles Taxi Racer
1988 She's Having a Baby Jefferson 'Jake' Edward Briggs
1989 Criminal Law Martin Thiel
1989 The Big Picture Nick Chapman
1990 Tremors Valentine 'Val' McKee
1990 Flatliners David Labraccio
1991 Pyrates Ari
1991 Queens Logic Dennis
1991 He Said, She Said Dan Hanson
1991 JFK Willie O'Keefe
1991 "A Little Vicious" narrator short subject
1992 A Few Good Men Capt. Jack Ross
1994 The Air Up There Jimmy Dolan
1994 The River Wild Wade Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1994 "New York Skyride" narrator short subject
1995 Murder in the First Henri Young Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
1995 Apollo 13 Jack Swigert Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1995 Balto Balto
1996 Sleepers Sean Nokes
1997 Picture Perfect Sam Mayfair
1997 Destination Anywhere Mike
1997 Telling Lies in America Billy Magic
1998 Digging to China Ricky Schroth
1998 Wild Things Sgt. Ray Duquette
1999 Stir of Echoes Tom Witzky
2000 My Dog Skip Jack Morris
2000 We Married Margo Himself
2000 Hollow Man Sebastian Caine
2001 Novocaine Lance Phelps
2002 Trapped Joe Hickey
2003 Mystic River Sean Devine Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cast
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2003 In the Cut John Graham
2003 "Imagine New York" Himself short subject
2004 The Woodsman Walter Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
2004 Cavedweller Randall Pritchard
2004 "Natural Disasters: Forces of Nature" narrator short subject
2005 Loverboy Marty also directed
2005 Beauty Shop Jorge
2005 Where the Truth Lies Lanny Morris
2007 Death Sentence Nick Hume
2007 Rails & Ties Tom Stark
2008 The Air I Breathe Love
2008 Frost/Nixon Jack Brennan Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2008 "Saving Angelo" Brent short subject
2009 Taking Chance Lt. Col. Michael Strobl Television Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
2009 The Magic 7 Himself
2009 My One and Only Dan
2011 X-Men: First Class
Television
1979 Search for Tomorrow Todd Adamson
1980–1981 The Guiding Light T. J. 'Tim' Werner #2 Six episodes
1983 The Demon Murder Case Kenny Miller Television film
1984 Mister Roberts Ens. Frank Pulver
1985 The Little Sister Probation Officer Uncredited; television film
1988 Lemon Sky Alan Television film
1994 Frasier Vic Single episode
2002 Will & Grace Himself Single episode: "Bacon and Eggs"
Directing
* The Closer (2006) (Episode: Serving the King: Part 2)
* The Closer (2007) (Episode: Blindsided)
* The Closer (2008) (Episode: Sudden Death)
* The Closer (2009) (Episode: Waivers of Extradition)
Kevin Bacon's Timeline
1958 |
July 8, 1958
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North Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States
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1992 |
March 15, 1992
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