Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film and theater actor who has starred in Footloose, Stir of Echoes, Wild Things, JFK, and Apollo 13, among many others. He has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since September 3, 1988. They have two children, Travis Sedg and Sosie Ruth Bacon.

Bacon's father was the noted city planner Edmund Norwood Bacon and his mother was Ruth Hilda Holmes, a teacher and liberal political activist. In 1995, Kevin and his older brother, Michael Bacon, formed a band, The Bacon Brothers, and have been touring on and off since then.

Bacon is the subject of the trivia game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. It is 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.

Despite his prolificacy, ability and leading man looks, Bacon has never achieved "A-list" stardom. Although frequently cast as the lead in independent films and minor releases, when appearing in major motion pictures he tends to be cast in a supporting role or as part of an ensemble. In a Men's Edge article by A.D. Amorosi (summarized in the February 4, 2005 issue of The Week), Bacon talks about the poor judgment he exercised in his acting career. He said he failed to capitalize on the success of Footloose by waiting for serious roles that never came in the film's aftermath, turning down several good movie roles in the process. "People in this business say that you get three bombs before you're yesterday's news. I had four, five," going into the early 1990s.

Filmography

2007

The Air I Breathe

2005

2004

"The Woodsman''
Cavedweller

2003

Mystic River
In the Cut

2002

Trapped
Elvis Lives

2001

Code of Conduct
Novocaine

2000

My Dog Skip
Hollow Man
We Married Margo

1999

Stir of Echoes

1998

Digging to China
Elizabeth Jane
Wild Things

1997

Telling Lies in America
Picture Perfect
Destination Anywhere (video)

1996

Sleepers

1995

1994

New York Skyride
The River Wild
The Air Up There

1992

A Few Good Men

1991

A Little Vicious
JFK
Queens Logic
Pyrates
He Said, She Said

1990

Flatliners
Tremors

1989

The Big Picture

1988

1987

1986

Quicksilver

1984

Mister Roberts (TV)
Footloose

1983

The Demon Murder Case (TV)
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

1982

Forty Deuce
Diner

1981

Only When I Laugh

1980

Hero at Large
Friday the 13th

1979

The Gift (TV)
Starting Over

1978

National Lampoon's Animal House

Kevin Bacon also appeared in the soap operas Search for Tomorrow (1951) as Todd Adamson in 1979 and in The Guiding Light (1952) as T.J. Werner from 1980 to 1981.

Trivia

Kevin Bacon makes an appearance demonstrating techniques such as "the can opener" and "the scissors kick" in the 1979 book, Roller Disco Dancing by Kerry Kollmar & Melody Mason. Sterling Publishing Co.
An anatomically-correct computer model of Kevin Bacon's entire body was made for the movie Hollow Man. This model was later donated to scientists.
Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth and Rachel Blanchard depict a ménage à trois in their new 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." ^*

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