When he became an '80s heartthrob playing a music-loving, dancing high-schooler in
Footloose, no one could have predicted that this cute actor with the ski-jump nose would grow into a reliable and versatile supporting player. After a series of big-screen duds, his leading-man status waned, but nuanced character performances in blockbusters such as
Apollo 13 and
Mystic River kept him working with no lulls. A down-to-earth family man (his wife is actress Kyra Sedgwick), Bacon makes his home on the East Coast as opposed to Hollywood and plays in a band with his brother.
Kevin Bacon Fast Facts:
- Subject of the parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which players try to link any actor in Hollywood to the prolific Bacon in six (or fewer) steps.
- Father Edmund Bacon was a famous Philadelphia city planner who made the cover of Time magazine in 1964.
- Studied acting at Manning Street Actors Theater in Philadelphia, PA, and Circle in the Square Theater in New York City.
- Began his acting career in the off-Broadway play Forty Deuce and won an Obie award for his performance.
- Met his wife Kyra Sedgwick when they co-starred in the TV-movie Lemon Sky (1988).
- Plays in a band, the Bacon Brothers, with his brother, Michael.
- Kevin Bacon Relationships:
- Edmund Bacon - Father
- Kyra Sedgwick - Wife
- Michael Bacon - Brother
- Ruth Holmes - Mother
- Sosie Ruth Bacon - Daughter
- Travis Sedg Bacon - Son
- Kevin Bacon Awards:
- 1995 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Nominee
- 2009 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie - Nominee
- College:
- Circle in the Square Theatre School, New York, NY
