| 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
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6356 Hollywood Blvd
Endorsement of Hanesbrands Hanes underwear (2007)
Endorsement of Visa
Risk Factors: Smoking
TELEVISION
Search for Tomorrow Todd Adamson (1979)
The Guiding Light Tim Werner (1980-81)
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Loverboy (24-Jan-2005)
Losing Chase (18-Aug-1996)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Rails & Ties (1-Sep-2007)
Death Sentence (20-May-2007)
The Air I Breathe (8-Feb-2007)
Where the Truth Lies (13-May-2005)
Beauty Shop (30-Mar-2005)
Loverboy (24-Jan-2005)
Cavedweller (4-May-2004)
The Woodsman (19-Jan-2004)
Mystic River (23-May-2003)
Trapped (20-Sep-2002)
Hollow Man (2-Aug-2000)
We Married Margo (25-Jan-2000) Himself
My Dog Skip (8-Jan-2000)
Stir of Echoes (28-Jul-1999)
Wild Things (20-Mar-1998)
Digging to China (23-Jan-1998)
Telling Lies in America (2-Aug-1997)
Destination Anywhere (16-Jun-1997)
Picture Perfect (17-Apr-1997)
Sleepers (18-Oct-1996)
Balto (22-Dec-1995) [VOICE]
Apollo 13 (30-Jun-1995)
Murder in the First (20-Jan-1995)
The River Wild (30-Sep-1994)
The Air Up There (7-Jan-1994)
A Few Good Men (11-Dec-1992)
JFK (20-Dec-1991)
He Said, She Said (22-Feb-1991)
Queens Logic (1-Feb-1991)
Pyrates (1991)
Flatliners (10-Aug-1990)
Tremors (19-Jan-1990)
The Big Picture (15-Sep-1989)
Criminal Law (15-Sep-1988)
End of the Line (Apr-1988)
She's Having a Baby (5-Feb-1988)
Lemon Sky (Jan-1988)
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (25-Nov-1987)
White Water Summer (Jul-1987)
Quicksilver (14-Feb-1986)
Footloose (17-Feb-1984)
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)
Only When I Laugh (13-Sep-1981)
Hero at Large (5-Jun-1980)
Friday the 13th (10-May-1980)
Starting Over (5-Oct-1979)
Animal House (28-Jul-1978)
Official Website:
http://www.baconbros.com/
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