| Kevin Bacon  Born: 8-Jul-1958
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Musician
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Everybody cut Footloose After high school, Kevin Bacon worked Philadelphia's Manning Street Actor's Theatre, and from there to New York's Circle-in-the-Square Theater School. In his first film role, he was "Chip" in Animal House, being spanked as part of his initiation. During filming, though, to keep the characters in character, Bacon and the other actors playing straight-laced college kids were not allowed to fraternize with fraternity brothers John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Tom Hulce et al., even off camera.
He worked on soap operas Search for Tomorrow and The Guiding Light in the late 70s and early 80s, and died early in the original Friday the 13th (1980). He won an Obie in 1982, for his off-Broadway role as a drug-addicted male prostitute in Forty Deuce. He played the same role in the film, opposite Orson Bean. For discerning audiences, Bacon's breakthrough came as the rich kid with a drinking problem in Barry Levinson's Diner (1982), with Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, and Mickey Rourke. But it was Footloose two years later where Bacon caught America's attention, as the slick-stepping city kid stuck in a small-town high school where dancing is forbidden. Bacon has been almost ubiquitous in movies ever since.
In his spare time, Bacon fancies himself an interior decorator. He is also involved with Riverkeeper, an environmental organization working to clean up the Hudson River and preserve New York City's supply of drinking water. And he plays guitar with his older brother Michael, calling themselves "The Bacon Brothers" (notable for a cover of Kenny Loggins' theme song from Footloose).
When the play Six Degrees of Separation (which Bacon has never appeared in) became famous, three intoxicated college students had a clever idea, and "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" evolved into a drinking game, and something of a national pastime. To play, choose an actor at random, and determine their smallest possible "Bacon number." If the actor has worked with Kevin Bacon, his or her Bacon number is 1); if they've only worked with someone who worked with Bacon, their Bacon number is 2, and so on. Bacon has made so many movies, almost everyone involved in Hollywood can be connected to him within six hops. When the game's inventors wrote their book, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Bacon wrote the introduction.
Father: Edmund Bacon (Philadelphia city planner, b. 1910, d. 2005)
Mother: Ruth Bacon (teacher, political activist, d.)
Brother: Michael Bacon (musician)
Girlfriend: Tracy Pollan (actress, cohabited 1979-87)
Wife: Kyra Sedgwick (actress, m. 3-Sep-1988, one son, one daughter)
Son: Travis Bacon (b. 1989)
Daughter: Sosie Ruth Bacon (b. Mar-1992)
High School: Kent School, Kent, CT (1976)
The Bacon Brothers
Al Franken for Senate
MoveOn.org
Golden Globe 2010, Best Actor for Taking Chance
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6356 Hollywood Blvd
Endorsement of Hanesbrands Hanes underwear (2007)
Endorsement of Visa
Endorsement of Google Google TV (2010)
Endorsement of Logitech Google TV (2010)
Risk Factors: Smoking
TELEVISION
The Guiding Light Tim Werner (1980-81)
Search for Tomorrow Todd Adamson (1979)
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Loverboy (24-Jan-2005)
Losing Chase (18-Aug-1996)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Patriots Day (17-Nov-2016)
The Darkness (13-May-2016)
Black Mass (4-Sep-2015)
Cop Car (24-Jan-2015)
R.I.P.D. (17-Jul-2013)
Jayne Mansfield's Car (13-Feb-2012)
Crazy, Stupid, Love (28-Jul-2011) · David Lindhagen
X-Men: First Class (1-Jun-2011) · Sebastian Shaw
Elephant White (17-May-2011) · Jimmy
Super (10-Sep-2010) · Jacques
My One and Only (12-Feb-2009) · Dan Devereaux
Taking Chance (16-Jan-2009) · Lt. Col. Mike Strobl
Frost/Nixon (15-Oct-2008)
Rails & Ties (1-Sep-2007)
Death Sentence (20-May-2007)
The Air I Breathe (8-Feb-2007) · Love
Where the Truth Lies (13-May-2005)
Beauty Shop (30-Mar-2005)
Loverboy (24-Jan-2005) · Marty
Cavedweller (4-May-2004)
The Woodsman (19-Jan-2004)
Mystic River (23-May-2003)
Trapped (20-Sep-2002) · Hickey
Hollow Man (2-Aug-2000) · Sebastian Caine
We Married Margo (25-Jan-2000) · Himself
My Dog Skip (8-Jan-2000)
Stir of Echoes (28-Jul-1999)
Wild Things (20-Mar-1998) · Ray Duquette
Digging to China (23-Jan-1998)
Telling Lies in America (2-Aug-1997) · Billy Magic
Destination Anywhere (16-Jun-1997)
Picture Perfect (17-Apr-1997) · Sam
Sleepers (18-Oct-1996) · Nokes
Balto (22-Dec-1995) · Balto [VOICE]
Apollo 13 (30-Jun-1995) · Jack Swigert
Murder in the First (20-Jan-1995) · Henri Young
The River Wild (30-Sep-1994) · Wade
The Air Up There (7-Jan-1994)
A Few Good Men (11-Dec-1992)
JFK (20-Dec-1991) · Willie O'Keefe
Pyrates (May-1991)
He Said, She Said (22-Feb-1991) · Dan Hanson
Queens Logic (1-Feb-1991)
Flatliners (10-Aug-1990) · Labraccio
Tremors (19-Jan-1990) · Valentine McKee
The Big Picture (15-Sep-1989)
Criminal Law (15-Sep-1988) · Martin Thiel
She's Having a Baby (5-Feb-1988) · Jake Briggs
Lemon Sky (Jan-1988) · Alan
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (25-Nov-1987)
End of the Line (28-Aug-1987) · Everett
White Water Summer (Jul-1987) · Vic
Quicksilver (14-Feb-1986)
Footloose (17-Feb-1984) · Ren
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (13-Sep-1983)
The Demon Murder Case (6-Mar-1983)
Forty Deuce (17-Nov-1982)
Diner (5-Mar-1982) · Fenwick
Only When I Laugh (13-Sep-1981)
Hero at Large (5-Jun-1980)
Friday the 13th (10-May-1980) · Jack
Starting Over (5-Oct-1979)
Animal House (28-Jul-1978) · Chip Diller
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