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Main Movie Roles 2009 - My One and Only 2008 - Frost/Nixon 2007 - Rails & Ties 2007 - Death Sentence 2005 - Beauty Shop 2005 - Where the Truth Lies 2004 - The Woodsman 2003 - In the Cut 2003 - Mystic River 2002 - Trapped 2001 - Freedom Downtime 2001 - Novocaine 2000 - Hollow Man 2000 - My Dog Skip 1999 - Stir of Echoes 1998 - Digging to China 1998 - Wild Things 1997 - Picture Perfect 1996 - Sleepers 1995 - Murder in the First 1995 - Apollo 13 1995 - Balto 1994 - The Air Up There 1992 - A Few Good Men 1991 - JFK 1991 - He Said, She Said 1990 - Flatliners 1990 - Tremors 1988 - She's Having a Baby 1988 - Criminal Law 1987 - Planes, Trains and Automobiles 1987 - White Water Summer 1986 - Quicksilver 1984 - Footloose 1982 - Diner 1981 - Only When I Laugh 1980 - Hero at Large 1980 - Friday the 13th 1978 - National Lampoon's Animal House

BIOGRAPHY:

Kevin Bacon's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. His debut as the strict Chip Diller in Animal House (1978) almost seems like an inside joke, but he managed to escape almost unnoticed from that role. Diner (1982) became the turning point after a couple of TV series and a number of less-than-memorable movie roles. In a cast of soon-to-be stars, he more than held his end up, and we saw a glimpse of the real lunatic image of The Bacon. He also starred in Footloose (1984), in She's Having a Baby (1988), in Tremors (1990) with Fred Ward (I), in Flatliners (1990), and in Apollo 13 (1995).


TRIVIA:

• Lost an undisclosed amount of money in the 'Bernard Madoff' (qv) scandal.
• (1995) Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#61).
• Met wife 'Kyra Sedgwick' (qv) on the set of _Lemon Sky (1988) (TV)_ (qv).
• Is a fifth cousin of William Thomas Hamill Jr., married to Virginia Suzanne Johnson, the parents of 'Mark Hamill (I)' (qv).
• Is part of 'The Bacon Brothers' (qv), with his older brother 'Michael Bacon (I)' (qv). The band has released three albums: "Forosoco" (1997), "Getting There" (1999) and "Can't Complain" (2001).
• Inspired a game called "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon", whereby people have to link any given actor to him by no more than six steps. For instance, to do 'Fred MacMurray' (qv), you could observe that MacMurray worked with 'Lee Marvin' (qv) in _The Caine Mutiny (1954)_ (qv), which is one step; and Marvin worked with 'Jane Fonda' (qv) in _Cat Ballou (1965)_ (qv), which is two steps; and Fonda worked with 'Jack Lemmon (I)' (qv) in _The China Syndrome (1979)_ (qv), which is three steps; and Lemmon worked with Bacon in _JFK (1991)_ (qv), which completes the link in four steps. Harder versions of the game exist, limiting the player to five, four or even three steps. The original version of this game existed for numerous years and the pivot-person was then 'Paul Erdös' (qv), a mathematician (one's Erdös number measures the number of people a scientist is away from having authored a paper with Dr. Erdös). A very few people, mostly scientists who have appeared in documentaries (such as 'Carl Sagan' (qv)), or actors who have also co-authored scientific papers (such as 'Danica McKellar' (qv) and 'Natalie Portman' (qv)), have both Erdös AND Bacon numbers.
• Lives in NY with wife 'Kyra Sedgwick' (qv) and their 2 kids.
• The family dog, a mutt, is called Paulie.