Kevin Bacon
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.
Filmography (62)
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
The Best You Can
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
MaXXXine
Leave the World Behind
Space Oddity
They/Them
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
One Way
You Should Have Left
Tour de Pharmacy
The Darkness
Patriots Day
Cop Car
Black Mass
R.I.P.D.
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Elephant White
X-Men: First Class
Super
Taking Chance
My One and Only
Frost/Nixon
Death Sentence
The Air I Breathe
Rails & Ties
Where the Truth Lies
Loverboy
Beauty Shop
The Woodsman
Mystic River
In the Cut
Trapped
Novocaine
Hollow Man
My Dog Skip
Stir of Echoes
Wild Things
Picture Perfect
Digging to China
Sleepers
Apollo 13
Murder in the First
Balto
The River Wild
The Air Up There
A Few Good Men
JFK
He Said, She Said
Tremors
Flatliners
The Big Picture
She's Having a Baby
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
White Water Summer
Quicksilver
Footloose
Diner
Friday the 13th
Hero at Large
Starting Over
