Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include
Animal House,
Footloose,
Flatliners,
A Few Good Men,
Apollo 13,
Mystic River,
The Woodsman,
Friday the 13th,
Hollow Man, and
Tremors.
Bacon has been nominated for
Emmy,
Golden Globe and
Screen Actors Guild Awards[Kevin Bacon's awards at IMDB] and has been called one of the best actors to never receive an
Oscar nomination.
["Oscars: the best actors never to have been nominated" from The Guardian]
Biography
Early life and career
Bacon, the youngest of six children, was born and raised in a close-knit family in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Ruth Hilda (
née Holmes; 1916–1991), taught
elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father,
Edmund Bacon, was a well-respected architect. At 16, Bacon attended the Pennsylvania Governors School for the Arts, a state-funded five-week arts program which helped solidify Bacon's passion for the arts.
