Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon, 2007
Born	Kevin Norwood Bacon July 8, 1958 (1958-07-08) (age 49) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Years active	1978-present
Spouse(s)	Kyra Sedgwick (1988–present)
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Kevin Norwood Bacon^[1] (born July 8, 1958) is a Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Footloose, Animal House, Stir of Echoes, Wild Things, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River and The Woodsman. Kevin Bacon is a British musician and Record producer best known for his work with fellow brit Jonathan Quarmby under the moniker 'Bacon & Quarmby' Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Kyra Minturn Sedgwick (born August 19 1965 is an Emmy -nominated and Golden Globe Award -winning American actress. Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner The Screen Actors Guild Awards are an annual award given by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG to recognize outstanding performances by members The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works For the musical see Footloose (musical. For the title song by Kenny Loggins from this movie see Footloose (song. Stir of Echoes is a Supernatural thriller released in the United States in 1999 starring Kevin Bacon and directed by David Wild Things is a 1998 Neo-noir erotic - Crime film starring Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon, Denise Richards JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. The film was released on December 20 1991 Mystic River is an American Drama film released in 2003 directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins The Woodsman is a 2004 film directed by Nicole Kassell. The movie stars Kevin Bacon as a convicted Child molester who must adjust to life

Biography

Early life & career

Bacon, the youngest of six children, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in a close-knit family in Philadelphia. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə A former Park Avenue debutante, his mother, Ruth Hilda (née Holmes) (1916-1991), taught elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Bacon, was a well-respected urban planner. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. See also Primary education An elementary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of Compulsory education known as elementary Edmund Norwood Bacon ( May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was a noted American Urban planner, Architect, In characterizing their parents' approach to raising children, Bacon's older sister Karin explained in Premiere: "We were all given the sense that we should be independent, that we were never to feel needy. Premiere was an American and New York City -based film Magazine published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U " Knowing that he wanted to be an actor by age 13, Bacon left home four years later to pursue a theater career in New York, where he was one of the youngest students ever admitted to the Circle in the Square Theater School. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The Circle in the Square Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 235 West 50th Street in midtown Manhattan. "I wanted life, man, the real thing", he later recalled to Nancy Mills of Cosmopolitan. Dr Nancy Fannie Millis (born April 10 1922) is an Australian Microbiologist, who introduced fermentation technologies to Australia Cosmopolitan is the best-selling young women's magazine in the world "The message I got was 'The arts are it. Business is the devil's work. Art and creative expression are next to godliness. ' Combine that with an immense ego and you wind up with an actor. "^[2]

Bacon's decision to become an actor did not come without pressures. Describing his father to Mills as a "city-planning superstar", he set very high goals for himself because he "felt nothing less than stardom would be enough. "^[2] However, his movie debut in the fraternity comedy Animal House in 1978 did not lead to the instant fame for which he had hoped, and Bacon returned to waiting tables and auditioning for small roles in theater. Fraternities and sororities (from the Latin words la frater and la soror, meaning "brother" and "sister" respectively are fraternal He refused a subsequent offer of a television series based on Animal House in order to stay on the New York stage. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Some of that early work included Getting Out performed at New York's Phoenix Theater, and Flux which he did at Second Stage Theatre during their 1981–1982 season. In the various subfields of Physics, there exist two common usages of the term flux, both with rigorous mathematical frameworks Second Stage Theatre is a contemporary American Off-Broadway theater company A season is one of the major divisions of the Year, generally based on yearly periodic changes in Weather.

His motivation to remain in New York still has resonance for Bacon. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous In Physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to Oscillate at maximum Amplitude at certain frequencies, known as the system's "I think my decision had a lot to do with just being afraid," he explained to Chase in Cosmopolitan. "L.A. scared me. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West I call it the city of fear. I get scared when I land, and I live in fear there, and I think a lot of people do. I mean, I've had a hard time in New York City too, but aesthetically and spiritually, I'm an East Coast person. The City of New York The East Coast of the United States, also known as the "Eastern Seaboard" or "Atlantic Seaboard" refers to the easternmost coastal states in the central and northern "^[3] With the support of his wife, actress Kyra Sedgwick, Bacon believes that he has come to terms with his qualms about Los Angeles, thus strengthening his commitment to acting. Kyra Minturn Sedgwick (born August 19 1965 is an Emmy -nominated and Golden Globe Award -winning American actress. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West "Our lives are still crazy, we still spend a ton of time out [in L. A. ], and I've finally admitted that the movie business means a lot to me", he told Chase. "I used to say, it's okay, I can do it, but it isn't that important, and then I realized I was out of my mind; this is what I do for a living. "^[3]

Acclaim and success

Known for having what Entertainment Weekly called "bone-dry humor and [an] average-Joe ability to tell it like it is",^[4] Bacon has always been forthcoming about his lack of professional self-confidence, which has never stopped him from delivering powerful performances. Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is a Magazine published by Time Inc In 1982, he won an Obie Award for his role in Forty-Deuce, a play about street hustlers, and soon after made his Broadway debut in Slab Boys, with then-unknowns Sean Penn and Val Kilmer. The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards bestowed by The Village Voice newspaper to Off-Broadway Theater Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located The Slab Boys is a play by the Scottish Artist and Playwright John Byrne. Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American Actor. However, it was not until he portrayed Timothy Fenwick that same year in Barry Levinson's Diner – costarring Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Tim Daly and Ellen Barkin – that he made an indelible impression on film critics and moviegoers alike. Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an Academy Award -winning American Screenwriter, Film director, Actor Diner is a 1982 film written and directed by Barry Levinson which along with Avalon, Tin Men, and Steven Robert "Steve" Guttenberg (born August 24 1958) is an American film and television Actor. Daniel Stern is The pen name of Marie d'Agoult Daniel Stern (actor - an actor who appeared in the films Diner Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr (born September 16, 1952 in Schenectady New York) is an American Actor, who has appeared Ellen Rona Barkin (born April 16, 1954) is an Emmy Award -winning and Golden Globe Award -nominated American Actress. Film review redirects here for the similar sounding Film revue please visit Revue#Film revues. Set in Baltimore during Christmas week of 1959, Diner depicts the lives of six young men in their early twenties who have been close friends since childhood but are gradually moving in different directions. By far the most aimless of the group, the surly, sarcastic Fenwick gets increasingly drunk as the story progresses, deriving great pleasure from playing practical jokes on his friends and outanswering contestants on the television quiz show College Bowl from the safety of his sofa. A practical joke or prank is a stunt or trick to purposely make someone feel foolish or victimized usually for humor A contestant is someone who takes part in a Competition, usually a Professional competition or a Game show on Television. College Bowl was a format of college-level Quizbowl run and operated by College Bowl Company Incorporated. The New Yorker's Pauline Kael, who included Bacon's name on her list of the film's "amazing" performances, also noted that "with his pointed chin, and the look of a mad Mick, [he] keeps Fenwick morose and yet demonic. The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry Pauline Kael (June 19 1919 &ndash September 3 2001 was an American Film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991 Demonic is a Death metal / Thrash metal album by Testament, released in 1997 " David Denby of New York found Fenwick "both attractive and creepily self-destructive", attributing much of Diner's success to the fact that it "offers a completed vision of life, ecstatic in its recovery of forgotten pleasures, melancholy in its knowledge of how small a chance these men ever had of reclaiming their freedom. David Denby is an Senior Lecturer in French at Dublin City University. "^[5]

Bolstered by the attention garnered by his performance in Diner, Bacon went on to star in the 1984 box-office smash Footloose. For the musical see Footloose (musical. For the title song by Kenny Loggins from this movie see Footloose (song. Directed by Herbert Ross and packed with energetic musical dance sequences, the film tells the story of Ren McCormick, a streetwise Chicago teenager (Bacon was actually 24 years old when filming began) who, after moving with his mother to a repressive small town in the Midwest, is determined to reverse the town minister's ban on rock-and-roll made years earlier. Herbert Ross ( May 13, 1927 – October 9, 2001) was an American Film director, producer, Choreographer Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Richard Corliss of Time likened Footloose to the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland musicals, commenting that the film includes "motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement, and Bible Belt vigilantism. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and James Byron Dean ( February 8 1931 &ndash September 30 1955) was a two-time Oscar -nominated American Film Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 film directed by Nicholas Ray that tells the story of a rebellious teenager played by James Dean, Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr; September 23, 1920) is an American Film Actor and Entertainer whose Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10 1922 – June 22 1969 was an American actress and singer "^[6] Part of the conflict centers around the relationship between the minister, played by John Lithgow, and his wild teenage daughter, played by Lori Singer, who falls in love with Bacon's character and joins forces with him to put on a dance in a neighboring town. John Arthur Lithgow (ˈlɪθɡoʊ̪ born October 19, 1945) is an American Actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dr Lori Singer (born November 6 1957 is an American actress and cellist. To prepare for the role, Bacon enrolled at a high school as a transfer student named "Ren McCormick" and studied teenagers before leaving in the middle of the day. Sporting a punk haircut for the role and a rebellious James Dean-type attitude somewhat different than that of the Fenwick character in Diner, Bacon earned strong reviews for Footloose, appearing on the cover of People magazine soon after its release. People (full name People Weekly) is a weekly American Magazine of Celebrity and human interest stories, published David Ansen of Newsweek noted that Footloose "works because Bacon [is] always a fine actor," while Corliss found his performance to be "smart and appealing". Newsweek is an American weekly Newsmagazine published in New York City. ^[6] The film itself, wrote Ansen, "has a lively, sweet infectious spirit," providing a "jolt of disposable but pleasant energy that makes you want to roll back the rug and boogie. "

Career slump

Bacon's long-awaited exposure from these two films proved a mixed blessing, however, who found himself saddled with a new concern – that he had become typecast as the characters he portrayed in the films Diner and Footloose. For other meanings see Typecasting. Typecasting is the process by which a film TV or stage Actor is strongly identified with a specific Bacon would have difficulty shaking this on-screen image. His portrayal of Fenwick, Bacon explained to Mills in Cosmopolitan, "made enough of an impact that it was very difficult for me to get a lead in a movie. The perception was that I was incapable of being heroic, that I was offbeat, dark, nutty, and messed up. " Nor did he welcome the teen-idol image that Footloose offered him, shunning other chances to play what he deemed "angst-ridden teenagers". For the next several years Bacon chose films that cast him against either type and experienced, by his own estimation, a career slump. In 1988 he portrayed a newlywed who, ambivalent about marriage, faces the added burden of impending fatherhood in John Hughes's comedy She's Having a Baby, costarring Elizabeth McGovern. She's Having a Baby is an American movie released in 1988, which was directed by John Hughes. Elizabeth McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an Academy Award -nominated American film and theater Actress, who later became a singer The next year he starred in a Christopher Guest comedy called The Big Picture, playing a film student whose excessive pride leads to trouble after achieving instant Hollywood fame as a filmmaker. Christopher Guest (born February 5 1948 is an Emmy Award-winning writer Grammy Award-winning composer/musician director and comic actor While The Nation found little else redeeming about the movie, it did comment on Bacon's "perfect face and unfailing charm as Nick", noting the actor's ability to "play just about anything". This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation.

In 1990, Bacon had two successful roles. He played a character who saved his town from under-the-earth "graboid" monsters in the comedy/horror film Tremors – a role that People found him "far too accomplished" to play – and portrayed an earnest medical student experimenting with death in Joel Schumacher's Flatliners. Tremors is a 1990 Dark comedy Monster film about a group of people from a small Nevada town fighting subterranean Joel Schumacher (born August 29, 1939 in New York City) is an American Film director, Screenwriter and producer Flatliners is a 1990 movie starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and

Bacon's next project was to star, opposite Elizabeth Perkins, in the 1991 romantic comedy He Said, She Said, codirected by Ken Kwapis and Marisa Silver. Elizabeth Perkins (born November 18 1960 is an Emmy - and Golden Globe award-nominated American Film, television and Theater actress He Said She Said is a 1991 Romantic comedy starring Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins and Sharon Stone. Ken Kwapis (born August 17, 1957, Belleville, Illinois) is an American film and Television director and Marisa Silver ( April 23, 1960 -) is an American author Screenplay writer and Film director. As clashing newspaper reporters who are forced to write a column together, the two fall in love; the film's story was made more interesting by being told twice, first from the viewpoint of Bacon's character, which Kwapis directed, and then from the viewpoint of Perkins's character, directed by Silver. Despite lukewarm reviews and low audience turnout, He Said, She Said was illuminating for Bacon. Required to play a character with sexist attitudes, he admitted that the role was not that large a stretch for him. "Until he meets Elizabeth, he sees women as sex objects. . . not people to respect or share your life with," he told Mills. "But he changes when he falls in love with the strongest woman he could possibly find. In some ways, this character is like me. What he's going through is maybe something I was going through ten or twelve years ago. " After completion of He Said, She Said, Perkins had nothing but praise for her costar both on and off screen. "When Kevin first came on the set, I thought he was one of those actors who just breezes in and doesn't need to prepare for a scene. After a couple weeks, I realized that he does his homework, is extremely [focused], and never misses a beat," she remarked in Cosmopolitan. "What you assume is not always the truth about Kevin. He can come off as suave, and people may mistake it for arrogance. But underneath, he's very compassionate and kindhearted. "

Comeback

By 1991, Bacon began to give up the idea of playing leading men in big-budget films and to remake himself as a character actor. "The only way I was going to be able to work on 'A' projects with really 'A' directors was if I wasn't the guy who was starring", he confided to The New York Times writer Trip Gabriel. "You can't afford to set up a $40 million movie if you don't have your star. "^[7]

His performance that year as gay prostitute Willie O'Keefe in Oliver Stone's JFK received tremendous critical acclaim, Premiere calling his work "flawless", while National Review described it as "stunning". William Oliver Stone (born 15 September) is an American Film director and Screenwriter. JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. The film was released on December 20 1991 National Review ( NR) is a biweekly Magazine and Web site, founded by the late author William F Shining among an ensemble cast in a small but memorable role had its appeal for Bacon, whose career began to swing in a more positive direction. Encouraged by his JFK reviews, he went on to play another character role – prosecuting attorney Jack Ross in the 1992 military courtroom drama A Few Good Men, starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. A Few Good Men is a play by Aaron Sorkin, first produced on Broadway by David Brown in 1989 Thomas Cruise Mapother IV ( born July 3 1962 better known by his screen name Tom Cruise, is an American Actor and Film producer John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22 1937) is an American Actor, internationally renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals Michael Sragow of The New Yorker found Bacon's performance to be the strongest in the film: "Kevin Bacon, as the prosecutor, gives the most full-bodied performance. You find yourself believing he is a career serviceman – not because of his flattop haircut but because he's marinated in Marine tradition. His boyish competitive streak emerges from a saltier place than Cruise's. "

Bacon's newfound career momentum did not stop with these two films; that same year he returned to the theater to play, opposite Saundra Santiago, in Spike Heels, directed by Michael Greif. Saundra Santiago (born April 13, 1957 in The Bronx, New York) is an American actress Time, which praised the play's "tart wit, feminist insight, and quirky detours of plot", also pronounced Bacon, who portrays a wealthy cad, its "standout" for his ability to blend "ribaldry, rudeness, rapscallion reprehensibility, and believable redemption. "^[8]

It was not until his work on The River Wild in 1994, however, that Bacon began to feel more confident about the success of his professional comeback. The River Wild is a 1994 American Thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon He earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of a compulsive liar whose boyish charm turns diabolic when he overtakes the raft of a former river guide – played by Meryl Streep – and her family on a white-water rafting trip. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an award-winning American Actress who has worked in Theatre, As Wade, Bacon initially flirts with Streep's character and then befriends her young son until it becomes apparent that he only wants her knowledge of the river to secure freedom for himself and his cohorts who are on the lam after a violent robbery. Describing it to Chase in Cosmopolitan as a "grueling shoot," in which "every one of us fell out of the boat at one point or another and had to be saved," Bacon had the added stress of worrying about Sedgwick and their children, who had joined him on location. Like the actors and crew, they had to come up the river each day in a helicopter, which would land on a raft and allow them to trudge to shore. "I'd hear somebody say, 'The Bacons are in the chopper,' and I'd see them waving, and then they'd come down," Bacon recalled. "It was terrifying because everything I loved was in that whirlybird. " Dispelling any lingering suggestions that Bacon might not be leading-man material, director Curtis Hanson told The New York Times: "Kevin in our movie is playing a movie-star part. In another era – if we were making this movie in 1950 – I would have wanted Robert Mitchum to play that part. "^[7] Hanson, after reflecting on Bacon's earlier career, also ventured to make some predictions about his future. "Kevin was going through a period of his life, agewise, that is as fragile as being a child star. . . . You can be hot for a year or two and then you can fade rapidly," he explained to Hanson. "Whereas what Kevin's doing now—-whether by design or by accident – is he's building a very fruitful and long career. . . and he just keeps getting better. "^[7]

Bacon in April 2007.

No matter how grueling the shoot of The River Wild was, it could not compare to the hardships Bacon experienced preparing for his next film, Murder in the First. Murder in the First is a 1995 film directed by Marc Rocco about a petty criminal named Henri Young (played by Kevin Bacon) who is put on trial for murder Based on a true story that occurred during the Depression, the film recounts the drama of Henri Young, a petty thief imprisoned in Alcatraz, who, after spending three years in solitary confinement, kills the inmate whose betrayal of him led to the punishment. Alcatraz Island, sometimes informally referred to as simply Alcatraz or locally as the Rock, is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay Though Christian Slater, as his public defender, received top billing for the film, Bacon's character was the dramatic core. Christian Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American Actor who has starred in films such as Heathers, To transform himself into Henri Young, Bacon lost 20 pounds, shaved his head, and wore contact lenses that completely concealed his eyes and had to be removed every hour. He spent some time in a jail cell to get the feeling of being imprisoned. "In every scene, the character suffers a different level of pain," he explained to Chase. "Because he spent three years in that dungeon trying to keep warm, I picked this extreme physicality for him when he comes out. I'm all hunched over, and I walk with a limp, and I had to pull myself into that twisted condition everyday. " Helping Bacon through the physical and psychological wringer of the role was friend and fellow actor Gary Oldman, ironically playing a sadistic warden who routinely brutalizes Young. Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958 is an English actor writer director, producer, Voice-over artist and occasional Musician who "You know, when somebody's thrown a bucket of cold water on you, and he's beating you with a blackjack, and the blood is flying, it helps if the person wielding the blackjack is someone you trust," Bacon told Cosmopolitan's Chase. "It lets you fly. " For Bacon, the experience of being filmed naked for several weeks in a Los Angeles warehouse and encrusted with mud and live bugs was not one he will forget soon. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Nor will director Marc Rocco, who told Premiere that working with Bacon was "the most rewarding experience I've ever had with an actor. " The film did well at the box office, and Bacon was given good reviews for his performance.

Continuing success

The wave of success left Bacon with little time to rest between projects. His subsequent film, Apollo 13, released in the summer of 1995, was a blockbuster. This article refers to the theatrical slang term for other uses see Blockbuster (disambiguation. Preparation for the film, which tells the true story of an aborted space mission, involved some difficult stunt work. To simulate space travel, Bacon and costars Tom Hanks and Bill Paxton took several trips on huge NASA KC-135 airplanes, which fly in such precise parabolic curves, rendering passengers weightless for several seconds. A human spaceflight is a Spaceflight with a human crew, and possibly passengers Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9 1956 is an two-time Academy award and Emmy winning American Film actor, director William "Bill" Paxton (born May 17, 1955) is an American Actor and Film director. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Weightless is the debut album by rap group The Skinny Boys. It was released in 1986 for Warlock Records and was produced by Mark Bush and Chuck Bacon, who enjoyed this sensation no more than the daily exposure to icy wind and water on the set of The River Wild, joked to Entertainment Weekly, "I mean, I'm not a thrill seeker, but I keep getting into these situations. "

Bacon reverted to his trademark dark role once again, as a brutal and sadistic reform school warden in Sleepers in 1996. Sleepers is a 1996 film based on Lorenzo Carcaterra 's novel of the same name Like Murder in the First, Sleepers presents a gripping yet horrifying reality, in stark contrast to Bacon's ensuing appearance in the lighthearted romantic comedy, Picture Perfect the following year. Picture Perfect is a 1997 film, starring Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr, Kevin Bacon, Illeana Douglas, Olympia Dukakis Bacon again resurrected his oddball mystique that year as a retarded houseguest in Digging to China, and as a disc jockey corrupted by payola in Telling Lies in America. Digging to China is a 1998 American Drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Timothy Hutton and the screen debut of A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Payola, in the American Music industry, is the illegal practice of payment or other inducement by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on Music Telling Lies in America is a 1997 Drama film directed by Guy Ferland. As the executive producer of 1998's Wild Things, Bacon reserved a supporting role for himself, and went on to star in Stir of Echoes (directed by David Koepp) in 1999, and in Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man in 2000. Wild Things is a 1998 Neo-noir erotic - Crime film starring Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon, Denise Richards Stir of Echoes is a Supernatural thriller released in the United States in 1999 starring Kevin Bacon and directed by David David Koepp (born June 9, 1963) is an American Screenwriter and director. Paul Verhoeven (ˈpʌul vɛrˈhuvən born July 18, 1938) is a Dutch BAFTA Award - nominated Film director, Screenwriter Hollow Man is a 2000 science fiction Thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth

Bacon, Colin Firth and Rachel Blanchard depict a ménage à trois in their film, Where the Truth Lies. Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September, 1960) is an English film television and stage Actor. Rachel Elise Blanchard (born March 19, 1976) is a Canadian actress. Ménage à trois is the French term describing a relationship or domestic arrangement in which three people share a sexual relationship Where the Truth Lies is a 2005 dramatic film directed by Atom Egoyan, based on the novel by Rupert Holmes. Bacon and director Atom Egoyan have condemned the MPAA ratings board decision to give the film their "NC-17" rating over the preferable "R". Atom Egoyan OC (Ատոմ Էգոյան (born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Canadian - Armenian film maker The Motion Picture Association of America's film-rating system is used in the U Bacon decried the decision, commenting: "I don't get it, when I see films (that) are extremely violent, extremely objectionable sometimes in terms of the roles that women play, slide by with an R, no problem, because the people happen to have more of their clothes on. "^[9] Bacon was again acclaimed for a dark starring role playing an offending pedophile on parole in the 2004 film The Woodsman. The term pedophilia or paedophilia has a range of definitions as found in Psychology, law enforcement and the popular vernacular The year 2004 in film involved some significant events Major releases of sequels took place The Woodsman is a 2004 film directed by Nicole Kassell. The movie stars Kevin Bacon as a convicted Child molester who must adjust to life

He will appear in the HBO film Taking Chance, a movie based on a story written by LtCol. Strobl, an American 'Desert Storm' war veteran.

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Personal life

Kevin Bacon, 2006

Bacon has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since September 4, 1988; they met on the set of the PBS version of Lanford Wilson's play Lemon Sky. Kyra Minturn Sedgwick (born August 19 1965 is an Emmy -nominated and Golden Globe Award -winning American actress. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the Lanford Wilson (born on April 13, 1937 in Lebanon Missouri) is an American Playwright. "The time I was hitting what I considered to be bottom was also the time I met my wife, our kids were born, good things were happening", he explained to Cosmopolitan's Chase. "And I was able to keep supporting myself; that always gave me strength. "

Bacon and Sedgwick have starred together in Pyrates, Murder in the First, and The Woodsman. Pyrates is an American Comedy film released in 1991, starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. Murder in the First is a 1995 film directed by Marc Rocco about a petty criminal named Henri Young (played by Kevin Bacon) who is put on trial for murder The Woodsman is a 2004 film directed by Nicole Kassell. The movie stars Kevin Bacon as a convicted Child molester who must adjust to life They have two children, Travis Bacon (born June 23, 1989 in Los Angeles, California) and Sosie Ruth Bacon (born March 15, 1992). Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The family reside on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The Upper West Side is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York Bacon and Sedgwick insist that neither work on separate projects at the same time. In 1994, while shooting The River Wild, Bacon was accompanied at the set by his family. The River Wild is a 1994 American Thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon Bacon prioritizes his relationship with his children, something his father never did for him, and does not want to risk his career coming between him and his wife. "No place, no business could break up my wife and me. I would never give the movie business so much credit", he stated in Cosmopolitan. Cosmopolitan is the best-selling young women's magazine in the world "To me, marriage is about committing yourself to one person. In my opinion, I got the hottest babe there is; I would never do anything to jeopardize that. "

In December 2007, he endorsed and campaigned for John Edwards in U.S. presidential election, 2008. December 2007 is the twelfth month of that year It began on a Saturday and 31 days later ended on a Monday Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10 1953 The United States presidential election of 2008, scheduled for Tuesday November 4 2008 will be the 56th consecutive ^[10]

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon greeting fans in Columbia, SC during the production of "Death Sentence" October, 2006.

Main article: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Bacon is the subject of the trivia game titled Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, based on the idea that, due to his prolific screen career, any Hollywood actor can be "linked" to another in a handful of "steps" based on their associations with Bacon. The Trivia Game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is based on the concept of the Small world phenomenon and rests on the assumption that any Actor can Trivia (singular trivium) are unimportant (or "trivial" items especially of information A game is a structured activity, usually undertaken for Enjoyment and sometimes also used as an Educational tool The Trivia Game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is based on the concept of the Small world phenomenon and rests on the assumption that any Actor can Career is a term defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as an individual's "course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life" An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Although it has since been proven that there are "better" centers in the Hollywood universe, such as Sean Connery, Christopher Lee, Rod Steiger, Gene Hackman or the prolific Michael Caine, Bacon's name remained the focus because he was the first one selected by the game's creators, and because the name "Kevin Bacon" rhymes with the last word of the phrase "six degrees of separation". Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25 1930) is an Academy Award - Golden Globe - and BAFTA Award -winning Scottish Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE, CStJ (born 27 May 1922 is a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated Saturn Award-winning English Actor Rod Steiger ( April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American Academy Award -winning Actor known for his Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a two-time Academy Award -winning American actor and author Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr, CBE (born 14 March 1933 better known by his screen name Michael Caine, is an Oscar - and BAFTA Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they A person's number of degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon is known as one's "Bacon Number". The Trivia Game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is based on the concept of the Small world phenomenon and rests on the assumption that any Actor can

Though he was initially dismayed by the game, the meme stuck, and Bacon eventually embraced it, forming the "charitable initiative" Six Degrees, a social networking site intended to link people to charities and each other. A meme (miːm consists of any idea or behavior that can pass from one person to another by learning or imitation SixDegreesorg is a website launched on January 18, 2007 by Kevin Bacon. ^[11]

Music

In 1995 Bacon formed a band called The Bacon Brothers with his brother, Michael. The Bacon Brothers is the American musical duo of Michael Bacon and Kevin Bacon. Michael Bacon (born 1949 is a Emmy Award -winning American Singer-songwriter, Musician and Film score Composer. The duo have release four albums. An album or record album is a collection of related audio or Music tracks distributed to the public

Filmography

Features

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• Frost/Nixon (2008) as Jack Brennan
• Taking Chance (2008) as Lt. Stir of Echoes is a Supernatural thriller released in the United States in 1999 starring Kevin Bacon and directed by David The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s My Dog Skip is a 2000 movie, directed by Jay Russell. It is based on the book My Dog Skip by Willie The year 2000 in film involved some significant events Events Top grossing films Please note that following the tradition of the The year 2000 in film involved some significant events Events Top grossing films Please note that following the tradition of the Hollow Man is a 2000 science fiction Thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth The year 2000 in film involved some significant events Events Top grossing films Please note that following the tradition of the Novocaine is a 2001 film written and directed by David Atkins and starring Steve Martin, Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern, Lynne The year 2001 in film involved some significant events (For more about non-English films check sources in those languages Trapped is a suspense/ Thriller film starring Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Kevin Bacon and Dakota The year 2002 in film involved some significant events The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Mystic River is an American Drama film released in 2003 directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins The year 2003 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with movies like 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Lord of the Rings The Return In the Cut is a 2003 American / British / Australian crime / erotic thriller film written and directed The year 2003 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with movies like 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Lord of the Rings The Return The Woodsman is a 2004 film directed by Nicole Kassell. The movie stars Kevin Bacon as a convicted Child molester who must adjust to life The year 2004 in film involved some significant events Major releases of sequels took place The year 2004 in film involved some significant events Major releases of sequels took place Loverboy is a 2005 dramatic film It was directed by Kevin Bacon and the cast includes his wife Kyra Sedgwick, as well as both of their The year 2005 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Devil's Rejects, Cheaper Beauty Shop is a 2005 Comedy film, directed by Bille Woodruff. The year 2005 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Devil's Rejects, Cheaper Where the Truth Lies is a 2005 dramatic film directed by Atom Egoyan, based on the novel by Rupert Holmes. The year 2005 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Devil's Rejects, Cheaper 2007 saw major releases such as The Simpsons Movie, National Treasure Book of Secrets, Rails & Ties is the directing debut of Alison Eastwood. The movie was produced by Clint Eastwood 's " Malpaso Productions " and 2007 saw major releases such as The Simpsons Movie, National Treasure Book of Secrets, The Air I Breathe is a 2008 Crime drama Romance film and the directional debut from Korean-American filmmaker Jieho Lee Frost/Nixon is a 2008 Drama film based upon the play of the same name by Peter Morgan. Col. Michael Strobl
• The Magic 7 (2008) as Himself

Short Subjects

• A Little Vicious (1991) (narrator)
• New York Skyride (1994) (narrator)
• Imagine New York (2003) as Himself
• Natural Disasters: Forces of Nature (2004) (narrator)
• Saving Angelo (2008) as Brent

References

External links

• Kevin Bacon at the Internet Movie Database
• Kevin Bacon at Allmovie
• Bacon's official website
• The Oracle of Bacon (Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game solver)