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Full Name:	Kevin Bacon
Birth Name:	Kevin Norwood Bacon
Famous As:	Actor
Date of Birth:	July 08, 1958
Place of Birth:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,USA
Height:	5' 11
Nationality:	American
Relationships:	Tracy Pollan (1979 - 1987)
Father:	Edmund Bacon
Mother:	Ruth Hilda Holmes
Brother(s):	Michael Bacon (a musician)
Spouse:	Kyra Sedgwick (an actress, since September 3, 1988)
Son(s):	Travis Bacon (b. 1989)
Daughter(s):	Sosie Ruth Bacon (b. March 1992)

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Kevin Bacon
Born	Kevin Norwood Bacon July 8, 1958 (1958-07-08) (age 51) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1978–present
Spouse(s)	Kyra Sedgwick (1988–present)
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Kevin Norwood Bacon¹ (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Footloose, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, and Tremors.

Bacon has been nominated for Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards² and has been called one of the best actors to never receive an Oscar nomination.³

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and career 1.2 Acting career 1.3 Personal life 1.4 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon 1.5 Music 2 Filmography 2.1 Films 2.2 Television 3 Awards 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Early life and career

Bacon, the youngest of six children, was born and 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. At 16, Bacon attended the Pennsylvania Governors School for the Arts, a state-funded five-week arts program which helped solidify Bacon's passion for the arts.^{citation needed}

Acting career

Bacon left home at age 17 to pursue a theater career in New York, where he appeared in a production at the Circle in the Square Theater School. "I wanted life, man, the real thing", he later recalled to Nancy Mills of Cosmopolitan. "The message I got was 'The arts are it. Business is the devil's work. Art and creative expression are next to godliness.' Combine that with an immense ego and you wind up with an actor."⁴

Bacon's debut in the fraternity comedy Animal House in 1978 did not lead to instant fame for which he had hoped, and Bacon returned to waiting tables and auditioning for small roles in theater. He briefly worked on the television soap operas Search For Tomorrow (1979) and The Guiding Light (1980–81) in New York. He refused an offer of a television series based on Animal House to be filmed in California in order to remain close to the New York stage^{citation needed} . Some of his early stage work included Getting Out performed at New York's Phoenix Theater, and Flux which he did at Second Stage Theatre during their 1981–1982 season.

In 1982, he won an Obie Award for his role in Forty-Deuce, and soon after made his Broadway debut in Slab Boys, with then-unknowns Sean Penn and Val Kilmer. However, it was not until he portrayed Timothy Fenwick that same year in Barry Levinson's Diner â€“ costarring Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Tim Daly and Ellen Barkin â€“ that he made an indelible impression on film critics and moviegoers alike.^{citation needed}

Bolstered by the attention garnered by his performance in Diner, Bacon starred in the 1984 box-office smash Footloose. Richard Corliss of Time likened Footloose to the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland musicals, commenting that the film includes "motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement, and Bible Belt vigilantism."⁵ To prepare for the role, Bacon enrolled at a high school as a transfer student named "Ren McCormick" and studied teenagers before leaving in the middle of the day.^{citation needed} Bacon did earn strong reviews for Footloose⁶, and he appeared on the cover of People magazine soon after its release.

Bacon's critical and box-office success lead to a period of typecasting in roles similar to the two he portrayed in Diner and Footloose. Bacon would have difficulty shaking this on-screen image. For the next several years he chose films that cast him against either type and experienced, by his own estimation, a career slump. In 1988 he starred in John Hughes's comedy She's Having a Baby and the following year he was in another comedy called The Big Picture.

In 1990, Bacon had two successful roles. He played a character who saved his town from under-the-earth "graboid" monsters in the comedy/horror film Tremors â€“ a role that People found him "far too accomplished"^{cite this quote} to play â€“ and portrayed an earnest medical student experimenting with death in Joel Schumacher's Flatliners.

Bacon's next project was to star opposite Elizabeth Perkins in He Said, She Said. Despite lukewarm reviews and low audience turnout, He Said, She Said was illuminating for Bacon. Required to play a character with sexist attitudes, he admitted that the role was not that large a stretch for him. "In some ways, this character is like me. What he's going through is maybe something I was going through ten or twelve years ago."^{cite this quote}

By 1991, Bacon began to give up the idea of playing leading men in big-budget films and to remake himself as a character actor. "The only way I was going to be able to work on 'A' projects with really 'A' directors was if I wasn't the guy who was starring", he confided to The New York Times writer Trip Gabriel. "You can't afford to set up a $40 million movie if you don't have your star."⁷

His performance that year as gay prostitute Willie O'Keefe in Oliver Stone's JFK received tremendous critical acclaim.^{citation needed} He went on to play a prosecuting attorney in the military courtroom drama A Few Good Men. Later that year he returned to the theater to play in Spike Heels, directed by Michael Greif.

In 1994, Bacon earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in The River Wild opposite Meryl Streep. He described the film to Chase in Cosmopolitan as a "grueling shoot," in which "every one of us fell out of the boat at one point or another and had to be saved,"^{cite this quote}

His next film, "Murder in the First" earned him the Broadcast Film Critic's Association Award in 1995, the same year that he starred in the blockbuster hit Apollo 13^{citation needed}.

Bacon reverted to his trademark dark role once again in Sleepers in 1996. This role was in stark contrast to his appearance in the lighthearted romantic comedy, Picture Perfect the following year. Bacon again resurrected his oddball mystique that year as a retarded houseguest in Digging to China, and as a disc jockey corrupted by payola in Telling Lies in America. As the executive producer of 1998's Wild Things, Bacon reserved a supporting role for himself, and went on to star in Stir of Echoes (directed by David Koepp) in 1999, and in Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man in 2000.

Bacon, Colin Firth and Rachel Blanchard depict a ménage à trois in their film, Where the Truth Lies. Bacon and director Atom Egoyan have condemned the MPAA ratings board decision to give the film their "NC-17" rating over the preferable "R". Bacon decried the decision, commenting: "I don't get it, when I see films (that) are extremely violent, extremely objectionable sometimes in terms of the roles that women play, slide by with an R, no problem, because the people happen to have more of their clothes on."⁸ Bacon was again acclaimed for a dark starring role playing an offending pedophile on parole in the 2004 film The Woodsman; he was nominated best actor receiving the Independent Spirit Award.

He appeared in the HBO Films production of Taking Chance, a film based on a story of the same name written by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl, an American 'Desert Storm' war veteran. The film premiered on HBO on February 21, 2009.

In January 2009, Bacon appeared in a video on funnyordie.com pranking people around Venice Beach and at the end of each prank exclaiming the person was just "Bacon'd".⁹

Personal life

Bacon 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. "The time I was hitting what I considered to be bottom was also the time I met my wife, our kids were born, good things were happening", he explained to Cosmopolitan's Chase. "And I was able to keep supporting myself; that always gave me strength."^{cite this quote}

Bacon and Sedgwick have starred together in Pyrates, Murder in the First, and The Woodsman. They have two children, Travis Sedgwick Bacon (born June 23, 1989 in Los Angeles, California) and Sosie Ruth Bacon (born March 15, 1992). The family resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Bacon and Sedgwick appeared in will.i.am's video It's a New Day which was released following Barack Obama's 2008 presidential win.

Bacon and Sedgwick lost an undisclosed amount of money in the Ponzi scheme of infamous fraudulent investor Bernard Madoff.¹⁰¹¹

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Bacon is the subject of the trivia game titled Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, based on the idea that, due to his prolific screen career, any Hollywood actor can be "linked" to another in a handful of "steps" based on their associations with Bacon. Although it has been proven that there are "better" centers in the Hollywood universe, such as Sean Connery, Christopher Lee, Rod Steiger, Gene Hackman or Michael Caine, Bacon's name remained the focus because he was the first one selected by the game's creators, and because the name "Kevin Bacon" sounds similar to the last word of the phrase "six degrees of separation". A person's number of degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon is known as one's "Bacon Number" which takes its name from Erdős number.

Though he was initially dismayed by the game, the meme stuck, and Bacon eventually embraced it, forming the "charitable initiative" SixDegrees.org, a social networking site intended to link people to charities and each other.¹²

Bacon even eventually starred in a commercial for the Visa Check Card, playing on the 'six degrees of separation' to prove his identity.

Music

In 1995 Bacon formed a band called The Bacon Brothers with his brother, Michael. The duo has released six albums.

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1978	National Lampoon's Animal House	Chip Diller
1979	Starting Over	Husband
	The Gift	Teddy
1980	Hero at Large	2nd Teenager
	Friday the 13th	Jack Burrell
1981	Only When I Laugh	Don
1982	Diner	Timothy Fenwick Jr.
	Forty Deuce	Ricky
1983	Enormous Changes at the Last Minute	Dennis
1984	Footloose	Ren McCormick
1986	Quicksilver	Jack Casey
1987	White Water Summer	Vic
	End of the Line	Everett
	Planes, Trains & Automobiles	Taxi Racer
1988	She's Having a Baby	Jefferson 'Jake' Edward Briggs
1989	Criminal Law	Martin Thiel
	The Big Picture	Nick Chapman
1990	Tremors	Valentine McKee
	Flatliners	David Labraccio
1991	Pyrates	Ari
	Queens Logic	Dennis
	He Said, She Said	Dan Hanson
	JFK	Willie O'Keefe
1992	A Few Good Men	Capt. Jack Ross
1994	The Air Up There	Jimmy Dolan
	The River Wild	Wade
1995	Murder in the First	Henri Young
	Apollo 13	Jack Swigert
	Balto	Balto	Bacon's only voice-over role
1996	Sleepers	Sean Nokes
1997	Picture Perfect	Sam Mayfair
	Destination Anywhere	Mike
	Telling Lies in America	Billy Magic
1998	Digging to China	Ricky Schroth
	Wild Things	Sgt. Ray Duguette
1999	Stir of Echoes	Tom Witzky
2000	My Dog Skip	Jack Morris
	We Married Margo	Himself
	Hollow Man	Sebastian Caine
2001	Novocaine	Lance Phelps
2002	Trapped	Joe Hickey
2003	Mystic River	Sean Devine
	In the Cut	John Graham
2004	The Woodsman	Walter
	Cavedweller	Randall Pritchard
2005	Loverboy	Marty	also directed
	Beauty Shop	Jorge
	Where the Truth Lies	Lanny Morris
2007	Death Sentence	Nick Hume
	Rails & Ties	Tom Stark
2008	The Air I Breathe	Love
	Frost/Nixon	Jack Brennan
2009	Taking Chance	Lt. Col. Michael Strobl
	The Magic 7	Himself
	New York, I Love You	Tom
	My One and Only	Dan

Short Subjects

• A Little Vicious (1991) (narrator)
• New York Skyride (1994) (narrator)
• Imagine New York (2003) as Himself
• Natural Disasters: Forces of Nature (2004) (narrator)
• Saving Angelo (2008) as Brent

Television

Year	Show	Role	Notes
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)

Awards

Won

• 1996 BFCA Award for Best Actor – Murder in the First
• 2001 Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor - Science Fiction – Hollow Man
• 2003 BSFC Award for Best Cast – Mystic River

Nominated

• 1995 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture – The River Wild
• 1996 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture – Murder in the First
• 2001 MTV Movie Award for Best Villain – Hollow Man
• 2004 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture – Mystic River
• 2005 Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead – The Woodsman
• 2009 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture – Frost/Nixon
• 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie– Taking Chance

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kevin Bacon

• Kevin Bacon at the Internet Movie Database
• Kevin Bacon at the Internet Broadway Database
• Kevin Bacon at the Internet off-Broadway Database
• Kevin Bacon at Allmovie

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NAME	Bacon, Kevin Norwood
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American film and theater actor, Musician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 8, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH