24 Facts About Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8,1958 and is an American actor.

Kevin Bacon made his feature film debut in National Lampoon's Animal House before his breakthrough role in the musical-drama film Footloose.

Kevin Bacon has directed the films Losing Chase and Loverboy.

Kevin Bacon is equally prolific on television, he starred in the Fox drama series The Following from 2013 to 2015.

Kevin Bacon is a brand ambassador for British mobile network operator EE and has been featured in several ads for the company.

Kevin Bacon was born and raised in a close-knit family in Philadelphia.

Kevin Bacon's mother, Ruth Hilda, taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Bacon, was an urban planner who served for as executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission and authored the seminal text Design of Cities.

At age 16, in 1975, Kevin Bacon won a full state-funded scholarship to the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, a five-week arts program where he studied theater under Glory Van Scott.

Kevin Bacon left home at age 17 to pursue a theater career in New York City, where he appeared in a production at the Circle in the Square Theater School.

Kevin Bacon briefly worked on the television soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Guiding Light in New York.

In 1994, Kevin Bacon earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in The River Wild, opposite Meryl Streep.

Kevin Bacon described the film 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".

Kevin Bacon played a trademark dark role in Sleepers.

Kevin Bacon made his debut as a director with the television film Losing Chase, which was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, and won one.

Kevin Bacon again resurrected his oddball mystique that year as a mentally-challenged houseguest in Digging to China and as a disc jockey corrupted by payola in Telling Lies in America.

Kevin Bacon appeared in the HBO Films production of Taking Chance, based on an eponymous story written by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl, an American Desert Storm war veteran.

Kevin Bacon won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for his role.

On July 15,2010, it was confirmed that Kevin Bacon would appear in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class as mutant villain Sebastian Shaw.

From 2013 to 2015, Kevin Bacon starred as Ryan Hardy in the FOX television series The Following.

However, Kevin Bacon did not appear in Tremors 5: Bloodline.

In 1995, Kevin formed a band called The Bacon Brothers with his brother, Michael.

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 covering a diverse range of genres, any Hollywood actor can be linked to another in a handful of steps based on their association with Bacon.

Kevin 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.

Kevin Bacon was previously in a five-year relationship with actress Tracy Pollan, in the 1980s.