Born: July 8, 1958 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Rarely can it be said that an actor
is so recognized and of such prominence that a game can be played by connecting
him to just about any other celebrity simply through referencing his resumé.
Any film buff has most likely participated in a round of Six Degrees of
Kevin Bacon and it's likely that if their opponent was an avid cinemaphile
they came out on the losing end of the match. This should come as no surprise,
considering Bacon's extensive and diverse body of work.
Born in Philedelphia, PA, in 1958, Bacon received
his education at The Circle in the Square (where he became the youngest
student to appear in a production) and Manning Street Actor's Theater
after leaving home at the age of 18. Two years later, Bacon made his feature
debut as the smarmy Chip Diller in director John Landis' beloved frat
house epic Animal House. Following in the next few years with minor roles
in such seemingly forgettable films as Hero at Large and Friday the 13th
(both 1980), Bacon would re-create his off-Broadway role of a drug-addicted
male prostitute in Forty Deuce the same year that he made a memorable
appearance as the troubled Timothy Fenwick in Barry Levinson's Diner (1982).
Though he had appeared in a few major films and
displayed an intriguing range of abilities, it was 1984's Footloose that
brought Bacon his breakthrough role. As the big-city boy crusading against
the puritanical constraints against dancing imposed by a well-meaning
but overbearing fundamentalist minister, Bacon became a teen icon -- an
image that though it propelled him to stardom would prove difficult to
shed. Following Footloose's success with a series of curious failures
such as Quicksilver (1986) and White Water Summer (1987), it was on the
set of Lemon Sky (also 1987) that Bacon would meet future wife Kyra Sedgwick;
the couple exchanged wedding vows the following year. Though he would
appear in a few other failed-but-interesting, audience-pleasing thrillers
such as Tremors (1989) and Flatliners (1990) in the following years, it
was with his role in conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) that
Bacon found his career revived and began to shed his heartthrob image.
Narrowly escaping the Brat Pack trappings of his '80s contemporaries,
though every role after JFK may not have been a gigantic hit for Bacon,
audiences were now aware of his talents and thirsted for more.
Bacon would again prove his substantial range in
the true story of a brutalized prison inmate opposite Gary Oldman in 1995's
Murder in the First. His performance as the disillusioned and broken prisoner,
accentuated by his famished and frail skeletal figure, was followed by
an equally challenging, reality-based role as a member of the troubled
Apollo 13 (1995) lunar mission team in Ron Howard's widely praised film.
Proving that he could play sleaze as successfully as slice-of-life, Bacon
took a turn for the worse as the sadistic reform school guard responsible
for the rape of a trio of young boys in Sleepers (1996), and as a cop
investigating accusations of rape in director John McNaughton's raunchy
sex-thriller Wild Things. Bacon's entertaining turn as a receptive father
tangled in a mind-bending murder mystery in Stir of Echoes (1999) gained
positive reviews, though the intelligent and subtle shocker withered in
the shadow of another similarly themed thriller, The Sixth Sense. And
though he wasn't visible for the majority of the film, Bacon fell into
psychotic territory as the malicious genius consumed by his discovery
of the key to invisibility in Paul Verhoeven's sadistic Hollow Man (2000).
In addition to his film work, Kevin frequently tours with brother Michael,
playing upbeat country-folk rock under the alliterate moniker The Bacon
Brothers. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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