Kevin Bacon
Acting
- Born:
- 1958-07-08
- Place of birth:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor. Known for various roles, including leading-man characters, Bacon has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and two Actor Awards. Bacon made his feature film debut in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and appeared in Diner (1982) before his breakthrough role in the musical drama Footloose (1984). Since then, he has starred in critically acclaimed films such as JFK (1991), A Few Good Men (1992), Apollo 13 (1995), Mystic River (2003), and Frost/Nixon (2008). Other credits include Friday the 13th (1980), Tremors (1990), The River Wild (1994), Balto (1995), The Woodsman (2004), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), X-Men: First Class (2011), and Patriots Day (2016). Bacon has also directed the films Losing Chase (1996) and Loverboy (2005). On television, Bacon received a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role as Michael Strobl in the HBO original film Taking Chance (2009). He starred in the Fox drama series The Following from 2013 to 2015. Bacon played the title role in the Amazon Prime Video series I Love Dick from 2016 to 2017. From 2019 to 2022, he starred in the Showtime series City on a Hill. In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His prolific career in a variety of genres has led him to become associated with the concept of interconnectedness among people, as evidenced by the trivia game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". He is a brand ambassador for British mobile network operator EE and has appeared in the company's advertisements. Bacon is married to actress Kyra Sedgwick. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kevin Bacon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Beach Read
Family Movie
Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
The Best You Can
The Bloody Plumage from Another World
Sirens
The Bondsman
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
MaXXXine
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Leave the World Behind
Space Oddity
Colin from Accounts
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
Take 5 with Zan Rowe
One Way
They/Them
Step Into… The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough
North Star
Last Meals
Ben & Jerry's: Clash of the Cones
Val
The Legend of Burt Gummer
Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Outlaw
Tremors: Making Perfection
You Should Have Left
Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine
Find Your Groove
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
The Kelly Clarkson Show
City on a Hill
Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
Tremors
No Activity
SMILF
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Tour de Pharmacy
The Words That Built America
Story of a Girl
Patriots Day
I Love Dick
The Darkness
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Black Mass
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Cop Car
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Hot Ones
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Off Camera with Sam Jones
@midnight with Chris Hardwick
Skum Rocks!
The Presidents' Gatekeepers
Jayne Mansfield's Car
R.I.P.D.
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Teen Titans Go!
The Following
Vanilla Ice Archive
Comedy Bang! Bang!
X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
Finding Your Roots
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"Footloose": Remembering Willard
Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
X-Men: First Class
Elephant White
Let’s Dance! Kevin Bacon on "Footloose"
Super
Conan
Beyond All Boundaries
Taking Chance
Bored to Death
The Human Family Tree
My One and Only
These Vagabond Shoes
New Orleans Animal Rescue
Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
RuPaul's Drag Race
Frost/Nixon
Animal House: The Inside Story
Connected: The Power of Six Degrees
Saving Angelo
Rails & Ties
Death Sentence
The Graham Norton Show
The Air I Breathe
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
The Colbert Report
Where the Truth Lies
Beauty Shop
American Dad!
Loverboy
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Woodsman
Footloose: A Modern Musical
The Tony Danza Show
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
Forces of Nature
Cavedweller
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
In the Cut
Mystic River
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update
Trapped
American Idol
Novocaine
Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music
Critics Choice Awards
Hollow Man
God, the Devil and Bob
We Married Margo
My Dog Skip
The Early Show
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Stir of Echoes
Diner: On The Flip Side
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
Will & Grace
Wild Things
The View
Telling Lies in America
Picture Perfect
Leute heute
Digging to China
Destination Anywhere
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
Sleepers
The Daily Show
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
Balto
The Frank Skinner Show
Apollo 13
Sci-Fi Channel: The Making of Apollo 13
Murder in the First
The River Wild
The Air Up There
Frasier
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
A Few Good Men
Mad About You
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
JFK
Pyrates
A Little Vicious
He Said, She Said
Queens Logic
America's Funniest Dirty Jokes
Flatliners
Tremors
The Simpsons
The Big Picture
Criminal Law
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
POV
Lemon Sky
She's Having a Baby
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
End of the Line
White Water Summer
John Hughes: Time Capsule
ZDF-Fernsehgarten
The Tender Age
Quicksilver
Mister Roberts
Footloose
The Demon Murder Case
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Forty Deuce
Diner
American Playhouse
Only When I Laugh
Friday the 13th
Hero at Large
The Gift
Starting Over
Animal House
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Search for Tomorrow
Golden Globe Awards
The Bellamy Brothers: Guilty of the Crime
Fleshing Out the Hollow Man
Summoner