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(1958-)

Who Is Kevin Bacon?

Kevin Bacon's film career started with 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House, but it was 1984's Footloose that made him a pop culture icon.

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He has cranked out endless flicks since, and, in 2013, transitioned into full-time television star with the eerie crime series The Following. Bacon is married to actress Kyra Sedgwick. He's also the inspiration behind the popular pop culture game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Early Life

Bacon was born Kevin Norwood Bacon on July 8, 1958, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Urban planner/architect Edmund Bacon and teacher and social activist Ruth Hilda Holmes.

He is the youngest of six children. Having the call to acting at a young age, Bacon attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, the Manning Street Actor's Theatre in Philadelphia and the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City's Greenwich Village.

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'Animal House,' 'Footloose'

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