Kevin Bacon

When he became an '80s heartthrob playing a music-loving, dancing high-schooler in Footloose, no one could have predicted that this cute actor with the ski-jump nose would grow into a reliable and ver...
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BirthDate
BirthPlace
07/07/1958
Philadelphia, PA
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Father Edmund Bacon was a famous Philadelphia city planner who made the cover of Time magazine in 1964.
Met his wife Kyra Sedgwick when they co-starred in the TV-movie Lemon Sky (1988).
Subject of the parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which players try to link any actor in Hollywood to the prolific Bacon in six (or fewer) steps.
Began his acting career in the off-Broadway play Forty Deuce and won an Obie award for his performance.
Studied acting at Manning Street Actors Theater in Philadelphia, PA, and Circle in the Square Theater in New York City.