Kevin Michael Bacon

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Kevin Bacon

• Birth Name Kevin Norwood Bacon
• Biography Kevin Bacon's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. His debut as the strict Chip Diller in Animal House (1978) almost seems like an inside joke, but he managed to escape almost unno...
  
• Write biography < [email protected]>
  
• Spouse Kyra Sedgwick (4 September 1988 - present); 2 children
  
• Trade Mark Often appears in large ensemble pieces, leading to the ease of many "sixdegrees" games
  Frequently plays anti-heroic protagonists
  His deep voice
  
• Other Work Wrote the foreword to the book "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"
  (1998) The Bacon Brothers CD release entitled "Forosoco".
  (1998) Kevin also directed the video for "Boys In Bars".
  TV commercial for www.nycmiracle.com (2001)
  TV commercial for VISA Check Card (2002)
  (February 2002): Plays Samuel Gentle in "An Almost Holy Picture" playby Heather McDonald (Roundabout Theater, New York City, New York, USA).
  
• Personal quotes There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to befamous and those who are liars.
  I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold andup and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.
  [about his preference for being nude when at home] There's somethingtherapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things abouta character. Take away the Gucci or Levis and we're all the sa...
  [on his wife, Kyra Sedgwick] Kyra is a woman who made all thewrong choices when it comes to being an actress. She got married tooyoung, had a kid and then had another kid.
  [on L.A.] That's where the industry is. There is a tremendous amount ofbusiness you can do just by walking through restaurants and just beingthere.
  I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages areany less successful than other marriages. It's just very public whenthey fail.
  
• Salary Sleepers (1996): $2,500,000.00
  A Few Good Men (1992): $650,000.00
  
• Article "Parade" (USA), 15 February 2009, pg. 18, by: James Brady, "In Step With: Kevin Bacon"
  "Minneapolis Star Tribune" (USA), 15 February 2009, by: Neal Justin, "Bacon's Best Work"
  "San Jose Mercury News" (USA), 31 December 2008, by: Associated Press, "Actors Bacon, Sedgwick Among Madoff Victims"
  "Moving Pictures Magazine" (USA), 14 July 2007, Vol. 2007, Iss. Summer, pg. 30-37, by: Elliot V. Kotek, "Kevin Bacon's Death Wish"
  "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 24 December 2004, Vol. 1, Iss. 798, pg. 38-41, by: Missy Schwartz, ""Zero Degrees""
  "The Los Angeles Times" (USA), 21 December 2004, by: Mary McNamara, "Sum of His Parts"
  
• Pictorial "Playboy" (USA), December 2005, Vol. 52, Iss. 12, pg. 94, by: Stephen Rebello, "Sex in Cinema 2005"
  "Playboy" (USA), November 1991, Vol. 38, Iss. 11, pg. 140, by: Bruce Williamson, "Sex In Cinema 1991"
  
• Cover Photo "Moving Pictures Magazine" (USA), 14 July 2007, Vol. 2007, Iss. Summer
  "Parade" (USA), 15 August 2002, Vol. -
  "Video Watchdog" (USA), April 2001, Iss. 70
  "SFX" (UK), October 2000, Iss. 69
  "Premiere" (France), October 2000, Iss. 283
  "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 20 February 1998, Vol. 1, Iss. 419
  
• Filmography

  Elephant White (2011) Thriller

  Untitled Marital Crisis Comedy (2011)

  15th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards (2010) (TV)

  Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006) Documentary

  My One and Only (2009) Comedy

  Philadelphia Chickens (2010) Music

  Super (2010) Action

  Taking Chance (2009) (TV) War

  The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2010) (TV)

  The Technician (2010) Adventure