Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon

Name

Kevin Norwood Bacon

Birthplace

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Birth date

July 8, 1958 (1958-07-08) (age 61)

Occupation

Actor, director, producer, musician

Active Years

1978–present

Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor and musician. He included in films such as Friday the 13th (1980), Footloose (1984), Tremors and Mystic River. Bacon has won a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Early lifeEdit

Bacon was born in Philadelphia, one of six children of Ruth Hilda (née Holmes) and Edmund Norwood Bacon. He won a full scholarship to and attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts at Bucknell University.

Acting careerEdit

Bacon made his acting debut in 1978 in National Lampoon's Animal House. He then had a bigger role in the slasher film Friday the 13th (1980). He went on to appear in other films such as Diner, Footloose (1984), Tremors, JFK, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Sleepers, Mystic River and Black Mass.