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Kevin Bacon

From Footloose to The Following, Kevin Bacon's career spans decades and genres.

Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to an urban planner and a teacher and social activist.[1] Bacon is the subject of the trivia game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," based on his prolific screen career.[2] Kevin Norwood Bacon, born July 8, 1958, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, started his film career with the 1978 comedy National Lampoon's Animal House and became widely known after starring in the 1984 film Footloose.[1]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Kevin Norwood Bacon
Born
8 July 1958
Birthplace
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation
Actor; musician
Years active
1977–present
Spouse
Kyra Sedgwick (1988)
Children
2, including Sosie Bacon
Father
Edmund Bacon

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Bacon starred in Footloose (1984), and Richard Corliss of TIME likened the film to Rebel Without a Cause.[3] By 1991, he began to remake himself as a character actor, performing as a gay prostitute in Oliver Stone's JFK.[4] He has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since September 4, 1988, and they have two children.[5][6] Raised in Philadelphia, Bacon is the sixth child in a family that was very close.[7]

At 17, Bacon moved to New York City to act in theater, and he performed at the Circle in the Square Theater School.[8] For his performance in Forty Deuce, Bacon received an Obie Award in 1982, and that same year he made his first Broadway appearance in Slab Boys.[9] Bacon was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance opposite Meryl Streep in the 1994 film The River Wild.[10] Kevin and his brother Michael started the musical group The Bacon Brothers in 1995.[11]

What the cited sources add

The Biography.com account states that Bacon's film career started with National Lampoon's Animal House but that Footloose made him a pop culture icon.[1] It notes that Bacon attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts and the Circle in the Square Theatre School.[1] The same source reports that Bacon and Sedgwick met while doing American Playhouse's production of Lemon Sky in 1987 and married the following year.[1] The Biography.com account says that a group of college friends introduced the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game in the mid-1990s.[1]

The Bacon Brothers' website describes their twelfth album, Ballad Of The Brothers, releasing April 19, 2024, as blending folk, rock, soul, and country.[12] The SixDegrees.org charity was founded by Kevin Bacon in 2007 on the principle that we are all six degrees from someone who needs help.[13]

References

  1. "Kevin Bacon", Biography.com. facts only, no text reused. biography.com
  2. Wikipedia, "Kevin Bacon" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Six Degrees" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Kevin Bacon" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Kevin Bacon", pbs.org; Richard Corliss, "Revel Without a Cause", February 20, 1984; "Kevin Bacon: 6 Things You Didn't Know", biography.com; "Kevin Bacon Got Bullied By High Schoolers While Prepping For 'Footloose'", huffington post; "Kevin Bacon", Biography Channel (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Kevin Bacon" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Trip Gabriel, "A Second Wind Is Blowing For Kevin Bacon", The New York Times, September 25, 1994; "Kevin Bacon"; "A few good men", tcm; "Kevin Bacon", pbs.org (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Kevin Bacon" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cosmopolitan. March 1991, p. 92. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Kevin Bacon" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Kevin Bacon has loyalty to NYC despite Philly origins, says he's 'most at peace' in bustling city", New York Daily news, May 30, 2011; Deirdre Donahue, "America's Sweethearts", February 24, 1986 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Kevin Bacon" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Kevin Bacon", Biography.com (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Kevin Bacon" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cosmopolitan. March 1991, p. 92.; "Kevin Bacon: 6 Things You Didn't Know", biography.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Kevin Bacon" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Kevin Bacon biography" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Kevin Bacon" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Kevin Bacon", pbs.org (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Kevin Bacon" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Bacon Brothers"; "Kevin Bacon Serenading His Goats"; "Marvel website discusses Kevin Bacon singing in the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  12. "The Bacon Brothers". facts only, no text reused. baconbros.com
  13. "Six Degrees". facts only, no text reused. sixdegrees.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Kevin Bacon (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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