Kevin Bacon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kevin Bacon

American actor

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1958

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: actor, musician, character actor, stage actor, voice actor, film producer, director, television actor, film actor, producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Kevin Bacon

  • Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor and musician.
  • His films include musical-drama film Footloose (1984), the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller JFK (1991), the legal drama A Few Good Men (1992), the historical docudrama Apollo 13 (1995), and the mystery drama Mystic River (2003).
  • Bacon is also known for taking on darker roles such as that of a sadistic guard in Sleepers (1996) and troubled former child abuser in a critically acclaimed performance in The Woodsman (2004).
  • A highly versatile actor, he is also known for the hit comedies National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Diner (1982), Tremors (1990) and Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011).
  • His other well known films are Friday the 13th (1980), Flatliners (1990), The River Wild (1994), Wild Things (1998), Stir of Echoes (1999), Hollow Man (2000), Frost/Nixon (2008), X-Men: First Class (2011), Black Mass (2015) and Patriots Day (2016).
  • He is equally prolific on television, having starred in the Fox drama series The Following (2013–2015).
  • For the HBO original film Taking Chance (2009), Bacon won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, also receiving a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
  • More recently Bacon portrayed the title character and was the series lead of the Amazon Prime web television series I Love Dick for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.
  • In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion pictures industry.Bacon has become associated with the concept of interconnectedness (as in social networks), having been popularized by the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon".
  • In 2007, he created SixDegrees.org, a charitable foundation.

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