Kevin Bacon Biography

Kevin Bacon is one of the foremost actors of his generation. His talent for balancing starring roles with powerful supporting characters on both film and stage has allowed him to build a varied and critically acclaimed body of work. With the support of his parents Bacon left his native Philadelphia to become the youngest student at Circle in the Square Theatre in New York where he studied until he made his film debut as Chip in National Lampoon's Animal House. This led to roles in Diner and Footloose the latter of which propelled him to stardom.
Kevin Bacon has proven his talents in a wide range of film genres from action thrillers to romantic comedies to heavy dramas and even the occasional musical. Just some of Bacon's film credits include John Hughes' She's Having a Baby The Big Picture Tremors Flatliners Oliver Stone's JFK Rob Reiner's A Few Good Men The River Wild (Golden Globe nomination) Murder in the First (Best Actor by The Broadcast Film Critics Association and Best Supporting Actor nominations by The Screen Actors Guild and the London Film Critics Circle) Ron Howard's award-winning Apollo 13 Balto Barry Levinson's Sleepers with Brad Pitt and Robert De Niro Picture Perfect with Jennifer Aniston Telling Lies in America Wild Things David Koepp's Stir of Echoes the sleeper hit My Dog Skip Hollow Man Trapped with Charlize Theron Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (Academy Award® and Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture) Beauty Shop Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies The Air I Breathe Death Sentence Rails & Ties My One and Only with Renée Zellweger James Gunn's Super and Frost/Nixon which reunited him with Apollo 13 director Ron Howard. In 2004 Bacon starred in The Woodsman a compelling drama that premiered to great critical acclaim at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals and Bacon received an IFP Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor. More recently Bacon was seen on the big screen alongside Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell in Crazy Stupid Love. as the villainous Sebastian Shaw in director Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class and in Jayne Mansfield's Car by director Billy Bob Thornton and with Ryan Reynolds in the action-comedy R.I.P.D.

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