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Biography

Rarely can it be said that an actor is so recognized and of such prominence that a game can be played by connecting him to just about any other celebrity simply through referencing his resumé. Any film buff has most likely participated in a round of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and it's likely that if their opponent was an avid cinemaphile they came out on the losing end of the match. This should come as no surprise, considering Bacon's extensive and diverse body of work.

Born in Philedelphia, PA, in 1958, Bacon received his education at The Circle in the Square (where he became the youngest student to appear in a production) and Manning Street Actor's Theater after leaving home at the age of 18. Two years later, Bacon made his feature debut as the smarmy Chip Diller in director John Landis' beloved frat house epic Animal House. Following in the next few years with minor roles in such seemingly forgettable films as Hero at Large and Friday the 13th (both 1980), Bacon would re-create his off-Broadway role of a drug-addicted male prostitute in Forty Deuce the same year that he made a memorable appearance as the troubled Timothy Fenwick in Barry Levinson's Diner (1982).

Though he had appeared in a few major films and displayed an intriguing range of abilities, it was 1984's Footloose that brought Bacon his breakthrough role. As the big-city boy crusading against the puritanical constraints against dancing imposed by a well-meaning but overbearing fundamentalist minister, Bacon became a teen icon -- an image that though it propelled him to stardom would prove difficult to shed. Following Footloose's success with a series of curious failures such as Quicksilver (1986) and White Water Summer (1987), it was on the set of Lemon Sky (also 1987) that Bacon would meet future wife Kyra Sedgwick; the couple exchanged wedding vows the following year. Though he would appear in a few other failed-but-interesting, audience-pleasing thrillers such as Tremors (1989) and Flatliners (1990) in the following years, it was with his role in conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) that Bacon found his career revived and began to shed his heartthrob image. Narrowly escaping the Brat Pack trappings of his '80s contemporaries, though every role after JFK may not have been a gigantic hit for Bacon, audiences were now aware of his talents and thirsted for more.

Bacon would again prove his substantial range in the true story of a brutalized prison inmate opposite Gary Oldman in 1995's Murder in the First. His performance as the disillusioned and broken prisoner, accentuated by his famished and frail skeletal figure, was followed by an equally challenging, reality-based role as a member of the troubled Apollo 13 (1995) lunar mission team in Ron Howard's widely praised film. Proving that he could play sleaze as successfully as slice-of-life, Bacon took a turn for the worse as the sadistic reform school guard responsible for the rape of a trio of young boys in Sleepers (1996), and as a cop investigating accusations of rape in director John McNaughton's raunchy sex-thriller Wild Things. Bacon's entertaining turn as a receptive father tangled in a mind-bending murder mystery in Stir of Echoes (1999) gained positive reviews, though the intelligent and subtle shocker withered in the shadow of another similarly themed thriller, The Sixth Sense. And though he wasn't visible for the majority of the film, Bacon fell into psychotic territory as the malicious genius consumed by his discovery of the key to invisibility in Paul Verhoeven's sadistic Hollow Man (2000). In addition to his film work, Kevin frequently tours with brother Michael, playing upbeat country-folk rock under the alliterate moniker The Bacon Brothers. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Filmography

Mystic River (2003) .... Sean
In the Cut (2003) .... John Graham
Trapped (2002) .... Hickey
Novocaine (2001) (uncredited) .... Lance Phelps
Fleshing Out the Hollow Man (2000) (V) .... Himself
Hollow Man (2000) .... Sebastian Caine
... aka Hollow Man - Unsichtbare Gefahr (2000) (Germany)
We Married Margo (2000) .... Himself
My Dog Skip (2000) .... Jack Morris
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars (1999) (TV) .... Himself
Stir of Echoes (1999) .... Tom Witzky
Elizabeth Jane (1998) .... Sean Murray
Seventeen: The Faces for Fall (1998) (TV) (uncredited) (archive footage) .... Himself
Wild Things (1998) .... Sgt. Ray Duquette
... aka Sex Crimes (1998) (Belgium: English title)
... aka wildthings (1998) (USA: video box title)
Digging to China (1998) .... Ricky Schroth
"Celebrity Profile" (1997) TV Series .... Himself
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life (1997) (TV) .... Himself
1997 VH1 Fashion Awards (1997) (TV)
Telling Lies in America (1997) .... Billy Magic
Destination Anywhere (1997) (V) .... Mike
Picture Perfect (1997) .... Sam Mayfair
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 (1996) (V) .... Himself
Sleepers (1996) .... Sean Nokes
Balto (1995) (voice) .... Balto
Apollo 13 (1995) .... Jack Swigert
... aka Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience (2002) (USA: IMAX version)
Murder in the First (1995) .... Henri Young
... aka Meurtre à Alcatraz (1995) (France)
River Wild, The (1994) .... Wade
Air Up There, The (1994) .... Jimmy Dolan
Few Good Men, A (1992) .... Capt. Jack Ross
Pyrates (1991) .... Ari
JFK (1991) .... Willie O'Keefe
... aka JFK (1991) (France)
He Said, She Said (1991) .... Dan Hanson
Queens Logic (1991) .... Dennis
Flatliners (1990) .... David Labraccio
Tremors (1990) .... Valentine McKee
Big Picture, The (1989) .... Nick Chapman
Criminal Law (1989) .... Martin Thiel
End of the Line (1988) .... Everett
She's Having a Baby (1988) .... Jefferson 'Jake' Edward Briggs
Lemon Sky (1988) (TV) .... Alan
White Water Summer (1987) .... Vic
... aka Rites of Summer, The (1987)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) .... Taxi Racer
Quicksilver (1986) .... Jack Casey
Mister Roberts (1984) (TV) .... Ensign Frank Pulver
Footloose (1984) .... Ren MacCormack
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983) .... Dennis
... aka Enormous Changes (1983)
... aka Trumps (1983)
Demon Murder Case, The (1983) (TV) .... Kenny Miller
... aka Rhode Island Murders, The (1983) (TV)
Forty Deuce (1982) .... Rickey
Diner (1982) .... Timothy Fenwick, Jr.
Only When I Laugh (1981) .... Don
... aka It Hurts Only When I Laugh (1981)
... aka Neil Simon's Only When I Laugh (1981)
"Guiding Light, The" (1952) TV Series .... T. J. 'Tim' Werner #2 (1980-1981)
... aka "Guiding Light" (1977) (USA: new title)
Hero at Large (1980) .... 2nd Teenager
Friday the 13th (1980) .... Jack
"Search for Tomorrow" (1951) TV Series .... Todd Adamson (1979)
Gift, The (1979) (TV) .... Teddy
Starting Over (1979) .... Husband (Young Couple)
Animal House (1978) .... Chip Diller
... aka National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

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