Kevin Norwood Bacon Кевин Норвуд Бейкон
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Kevin Bacon, born July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, is an American actor and musician. He first gained wide notice with the 1984 film Footloose and later starred in Apollo 13 and Mystic River. He won a Golden Globe for the miniseries Taking Chance and inspired the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game.
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Kevin Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Ruth Hilda Holmes, an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Bacon, a prominent architect featured on the cover of Time Magazine in 1964.
He attended Julia R. Masterman School, the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, and Circle in the Square Theatre School. He also spent time at Albright College. His father’s public career and mother’s academic influence provided a stimulating childhood environment.
Kevin Bacon made his film debut as Chip Diller in National Lampoon’s Animal House 1978. His breakthrough came with Diner 1982, directed by Barry Levinson. In 1984, he starred as Ren McCormack in Footloose, a role that made him a household name.
He later appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Apollo 13 1995 and Mystic River 2003. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his performance in Taking Chance 2009. He has also worked as a producer and director, and performs with his brother in the band The Bacon Brothers.
Kevin Bacon married actress Kyra Sedgwick on September 4, 1988. The couple met on the set of the TV film Lemon Sky 1988. They have two children: son Travis born June 23, 1989 and daughter Sosie born March 15, 1992.
The family resides in New York City, but also owns a vacation farmhouse in Litchfield Hills, Connecticut. Bacon is also a musician, forming the band The Bacon Brothers with his older brother Michael.
Kevin Bacon inspired the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, which connects any actor to him within six film steps. He has appeared in five films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: JFK 1991, A Few Good Men 1992, Apollo 13 1995, Mystic River 2003, and Frost/Nixon 2008.
He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003. The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game remains a fixture in pop culture.
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There Are Two Types of Actors: Those Who Say They Want to Be Famous and Those Who Are Liars.
I Think of Myself More as a Workhorse Actor. It Will Be Hot and Cold and up and Down, but No One Will Kick Me Out of the Business.
I Want to See the Numbers That Prove That Show Business Marriages Are Any Less Successful Than Other Marriages. It’s Just Very Public When They Fail.
I Think of Being an Actor as Kind of a Young Man’s Gig. It’s Emasculating, in a Way, People Messing with You and Putting Make up on You and Telling You When to Wake up and When to Go to Sleep, Holding Your Hand to Cross the Street. I Can Do It up to a Certain Point and Then I Start to Feel Like a Puppet.
I’ve Heard People Say You Have to Love the Characters You Play. I Don’t Feel That Way. I’ve Played a Lot of People That I Don’t Love at All. What’s Important to Me Is to Try to Make Them Real.
There Are Two Types of Actors: Performers and Personalities.
Most Actors Want to Have the World Look at Us and Love Us, and Those Who Say That That’s Not Really a Driving Force for Them, I Don’t Believe.
I’m Obsessed with Zombies. I Like Watching Zombie Movies and I Read Zombie Books.
When I Started I Thought I Knew Everything There Was to Know. You Progressively Learn That You Know Less and Less. to Me the Greatest Challenge Is to Get a Little More Truthful, to Get Closer to the Truth in a Way. That’s Not to Say I Want to Put Me up There. I Never Play the Character That Is Kevin. I’m Not Interested in That and I Don’t Think Anyone Else Would Be Either. I’ve Got Home Movies for That.
I Really Believe That All of Us Have a Lot of Darkness in Our Souls. Anger, Rage, Fear, Sadness. I Don’t Think That’s Only Reserved for People Who Have Horrible Upbringings.
Little-known facts about Kevin Bacon — origins, oddities, and behind-the-scenes details from a public life.
Kevin Bacon performs with his older brother Michael in the band The Bacon Brothers. The band released three albums: Forosoco 1997, Getting There 1999, and Can’t Complain 2001.
Kevin Bacon and his wife Kyra Sedgwick appeared on the genealogy show Finding Your Roots in 2012. They discovered they are ninth cousins.
Kevin Bacon has only lived in Hollywood or Los Angeles when working on film projects.
Kevin Bacon lost a significant portion of his life savings in the Bernie Madoff scandal, though he has not disclosed the exact amount.
Kevin Bacon’s daughter Sosie Bacon was born on March 15, 1992, to him and his wife Kyra Sedgwick.
Kevin Bacon is a distant cousin of Robert Redford and Valerie Bertinelli, tracing their family trees back to the 1500s.
Kevin Bacon met his future wife Kyra Sedgwick on the set of the television film Lemon Sky in 1988.
Despite being from Philadelphia and living in New York City, Kevin Bacon often portrays Bostonian characters in films like Mystic River 2003, Black Mass 2015, and Patriots Day 2016.
Kevin Bacon inspired the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, which connects any actor to him within six film steps. The game is similar to the mathematical concept of Erdős number, and some people have both an Erdős number and a Bacon number.
Kevin Bacon portrayed the head of the FBI’s Boston field office in the films Black Mass 2015 and Patriots Day 2016.
Kevin Bacon has appeared in five Best Picture Oscar nominees: JFK 1991, A Few Good Men 1992, Apollo 13 1995, Mystic River 2003, and Frost/Nixon 2008.
Kevin Bacon’s father, architect Edmund Bacon, appeared on the cover of Time magazine on November 6, 1964. His mother Ruth was a teacher and liberal activist.
Kevin Bacon attended the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts.
Kevin Bacon owns a vacation farmhouse in Litchfield Hills, Connecticut.
Kevin Bacon has lived in New York City since he was 17 years old.
Kevin Bacon attended the Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School in Philadelphia alongside his brother Michael.
Kevin Bacon’s father was a seventh cousin of President Richard Nixon.
Kevin Bacon’s son Travis Bacon was born on June 23, 1989, to him and Kyra Sedgwick.
Kevin Bacon was the first choice for the role eventually played by Charlie Sheen in Being John Malkovich 1999.
In the films Quicksilver 1986 and A Few Good Men 1992, Kevin Bacon’s characters both share the nickname Smiling Jack.
Kevin Bacon has English ancestry, with smaller amounts of German and Irish heritage.
Kevin Bacon’s line I am a Goddamn genius appears in both Hollow Man 2000 and Trapped 2002.
Kevin Bacon was the last person interviewed by Parade magazine columnist James Brady, who died in January 2009. The interview was published on February 15, 2009.
The Bacon family dog, a mutt, is named Paulie.
Kevin Bacon is a fifth cousin of William Thomas Hamill Jr., making him distantly related to Mark Hamill.
Kevin Bacon has worked with four Academy Award-winning directors: Barry Levinson, Oliver Stone, Ron Howard, and Clint Eastwood.
In his early New York acting days, Kevin Bacon earned acclaim co-starring with Keith Gordon in the off-Broadway play Album at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
Kevin Bacon performed with his brother Michael at The Towne Cryer in Pawling, New York, where Michael played guitar.
In 1995, Empire magazine named Kevin Bacon one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history, ranking him at number 61.
Kevin Bacon is a descendant of Sir Francis Bacon, the English philosopher and statesman who served as Lord Chancellor.
For his role in Telling Lies in America 1997, Kevin Bacon based his radio banter on Philadelphia DJ Jerry Blavat, an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Kevin Bacon starred in Friday the 13th 1980 and Johnny Depp appeared in A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984. Both later co-starred in Black Mass 2015.
Kevin Bacon sings and performs in the band The Bacon Brothers.
Two of Kevin Bacon’s films, National Lampoon’s Animal House 1978 and Apollo 13 1995, have been added to the National Film Registry.
Kevin Bacon is uncle to actors Philip Nozuka, George Nozuka, and Justin Nozuka through his wife Kyra Sedgwick’s family.
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have both starred in historical films set in Baltimore: Bacon in Diner 1982 and Sedgwick in Something the Lord Made 2004.
Kevin Bacon has played a character named Jack or Jackie in seven productions: Friday the 13th 1980, Quicksilver 1986, A Few Good Men 1992, Apollo 13 1995, My Dog Skip 2000, Frost/Nixon 2008, and City on a Hill 2019-2022.
Girard Swan served as Kevin Bacon’s stand-in on the film Frost/Nixon 2008.
Kevin Bacon is brother-in-law to Robert Sedgwick and Betsy Bacon.
Kevin Bacon is the uncle of Neal Bacon.
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