Kevin Bacon

Acting · 7.4 popularity

Age

Movies

127

Born: July 8, 1958
From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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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.

Works

127 films

Apollo 13

19957.5

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

20117.3

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

20227.1

Mystic River

20037.7

Hollow Man

20006.0

A Few Good Men

19927.6

Wild Things

19986.4

Sleepers

19967.6

Black Mass

20156.5

Leave the World Behind

20236.4

R.I.P.D.

20135.9

Friday the 13th

19806.4

Patriots Day

20167.1

Tremors

19906.9

The Toxic Avenger Unrated

20256.0

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

20246.6

Animal House

19786.9

MaXXXine

20246.3

JFK

19917.6

Cop Car

20156.0

Starting Over

19796.4

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

19877.3

Footloose

19846.7

Balto

19957.3

The River Wild

19946.5

Stir of Echoes

19996.7

Flatliners

19906.5

You Should Have Left

20206.1

In the Cut

20035.1

Beauty Shop

20056.3

Frost/Nixon

20087.3

Death Sentence

20076.8

Murder in the First

19957.1

They/Them

20224.7

Super

20106.5

Trapped

20026.2

Taking Chance

20097.2

My Dog Skip

20006.7

Space Oddity

20235.9

Picture Perfect

19975.9

The Woodsman

20046.8

Criminal Law

19895.6

Loverboy

20054.9

The Darkness

20164.8

Quicksilver

19865.6

One Way

20225.8

The Best You Can

20257.0

She's Having a Baby

19885.9

Tour de Pharmacy

20176.7

Diner

19826.8

My One and Only

20096.6

Elephant White

20115.0

White Water Summer

19876.1

The Big Picture

19895.9

Where the Truth Lies

20056.1

Digging to China

19976.4

The Air I Breathe

20076.3

He Said, She Said

19915.9

The Words That Built America

20176.0

Family Movie

2026

X-Men: First Class 35mm Special

20126.8

Jayne Mansfield's Car

20135.7

Mister Roberts

19847.5

Novocaine

20016.0

The Tender Age

19866.0

End of the Line

19875.3

Rails & Ties

20076.4

Queens Logic

19915.8

Telling Lies in America

19975.8

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

20156.7

Pyrates

19915.3

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

20136.1

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13

19966.2

The Air Up There

19946.2

Fleshing Out the Hollow Man

2026

Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart

2026

Beyond All Boundaries

20096.8

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"

20196.1

Animal House: The Inside Story

20084.0

Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class

20118.0

20125.3

Story of a Girl

20176.0

The Presidents' Gatekeepers

20138.3

X-Men: First Class

20117.3

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

19834.6

We Married Margo

20005.3

Forces of Nature

20048.2

Only When I Laugh

19815.7

Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Outlaw

20207.5

Hero at Large

19805.9

Vanilla Ice Archive

2012

Lemon Sky

19887.6

The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion

19987.3

Connected: The Power of Six Degrees

20087.8

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

200310.0

Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives

20192.7

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

20049.5

The Gift

19796.5

Cavedweller

20045.8

These Vagabond Shoes

20095.3

Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music

20016.5

Saving Angelo

2007

Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update

20039.0

Step Into… The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough

20226.6

Destination Anywhere

19976.9

The Demon Murder Case

19836.2

Let’s Dance! Kevin Bacon on "Footloose"

2011

Footloose: A Modern Musical

2004

Diner: On The Flip Side

199910.0

Skum Rocks!

20133.0

Beach Read

2027

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

19977.3

"Footloose": Remembering Willard

2011

Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine

2020

Tremors: Making Perfection

20206.4

North Star

20225.0

Find Your Groove

202010.0

America's Funniest Dirty Jokes

19915.0

New Orleans Animal Rescue

2009

Forty Deuce

19825.1

The Bellamy Brothers: Guilty of the Crime

2026

The Legend of Burt Gummer

2020

The Human Family Tree

20097.2

Summoner

2026

The Bloody Plumage from Another World

2025

A Little Vicious

19917.7

John Hughes: Time Capsule

1986