Acting
Kevin Bacon
EN, PT cinema · 136 credits
Born
8 July 1958 (age 68)
Birthplace
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known as Kevin Norwood 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.
Known for
Filmography
Summoner
Summoner
as Jefferson Haddock
Family Movie
as Jack, Director, Producer
The Best You Can
as Stan Olszewski, Producer
The Bloody Plumage from Another World
as Evil Chicken
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
as Bob Garbinger, the Villain
MaXXXine
as John Labat
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
as Captain Cade Grant
Space Oddity
as Jeff McAllister
They/Them
as Owen Whistler, Executive Producer
North Star
as Dr. Owen Broderick
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
as Kevin Bacon
One Way
as Fred Sr.
Val
as Self (archive)
You Should Have Left
as Theo Conroy
Tremors: Making Perfection
as Himself
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Pinky Peterson
Story of a Girl
as Michael
Tour de Pharmacy
as Ditmer Klerken
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
The Darkness
as Peter Taylor
Patriots Day
as Richard DesLauriers
Cop Car
as Sheriff Kretzer, Executive Producer
Black Mass
as FBI Agent Charles McGuire
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self - Actor
R.I.P.D.
as Bobby Hayes
Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Carroll Caldwell
Skum Rocks!
as Self
The Presidents' Gatekeepers
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Vanilla Ice Archive
2012
Vanilla Ice Archive
as Self (archive footage)
8
as Charles J. Cooper
X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
as Self - Sebastian Shaw
X-Men: First Class
as Sebastian Shaw
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
as David Lindhagen
Elephant White
as Jimmy the Brit
Super
as Jacques
Taking Chance
as LtCol Mike Strobl
My One and Only
as Dan Devereaux
The Human Family Tree
as Himself - Narrator
Beyond All Boundaries
as Robert Sherrod
Frost/Nixon
as Jack Brennan
Connected: The Power of Six Degrees
as Kevin Bacon
Death Sentence
as Nick Hume
Rails & Ties
as Tom Stark
Saving Angelo
as Brent
Where the Truth Lies
as Lanny
Beauty Shop
as Jorge
Loverboy
as Marty, Director, Producer
The Woodsman
as Walter, Executive Producer
Forces of Nature
as Himself - Narrator
Cavedweller
as Randall Pritchard
Footloose: A Modern Musical
as Self, Thanks
Mystic River
as Sean Devine
In the Cut
as John Graham (uncredited)
Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update
2003
Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update
as Rev. Chip Diller
Trapped
as Hickey
Novocaine
as Actor Lance Phelps
Hollow Man
as Sebastian Caine
My Dog Skip
as Jack Morris
We Married Margo
as Self
Stir of Echoes
as Tom Witzky
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as (archive footage)
Wild Things
as Sergeant Ray Duquette, Executive Producer
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
as Self - Chip Diller
Digging to China
as Ricky Schroth
Telling Lies in America
as Billy Magic
Sleepers
as Nokes
Losing Chase
Director
Apollo 13
as Jack Swigert
Balto
as Balto (voice)
Murder in the First
as Henri Young
The River Wild
as Wade
The Air Up There
as Jimmy Dolan
A Few Good Men
as Capt. Jack Ross
JFK
as Willie O'Keefe
He Said, She Said
as Dan Hanson
Queens Logic
as Dennis
Pyrates
as Ari
A Little Vicious
as Narrator
Flatliners
as David Labraccio
Tremors
as Valentine McKee
Criminal Law
as Martin Thiel
The Big Picture
as Nick Chapman
She's Having a Baby
as Jake Briggs
Lemon Sky
as Alan
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
as Taxi Racer
End of the Line
as Everett
Quicksilver
as Jack Casey
The Tender Age
as Probation Officer (uncredited)
Footloose
as Ren
Mister Roberts
as Ens. Frank Pulver
The Demon Murder Case
as Kenny Miller
Diner
as Timothy Fenwick Jr.
Forty Deuce
as Ricky
Friday the 13th
as Jack
Hero at Large
as 2nd Teenager
Starting Over
as Husband - Young Couple
The Gift
as Teddy
Animal House
as Chip Diller