Kevin Bacon Biography

Kevin Bacon biography

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NAME: Kevin Bacon
OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Musician
BIRTH DATE: July 08, 1958 (Age: 53)
EDUCATION: Circle in the Square Theater
PLACE OF BIRTH: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer

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Actor Kevin Bacon has starred in Animal House, Footloose, JFK, and Mystic River. Since the mid-1990s he has performed with The Bacon Brothers band.

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Synopsis

Kevin Bacon was born July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After some stage work, he gained his first feature film role in National Lampoon's Animal House. Later films include Footloose, JFK, The River Wild, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Mystic River, and Saving Angelo. Since the mid-1990s he has performed with The Bacon Brothers, a folk-rock group formed with his brother Michael.

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Actor and musician, born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Kevin Bacon studied acting at the Circle in the Square Theater in New York, and after some stage work gained his first feature film role in National Lampoon's Animal House (1981). Later films include Footloose (1984), JFK (1991), The River Wild (1993, Golden Globe Best Actor nomination), Apollo 13 (1995), Hollow Man (2000), Mystic River (2003), and Saving Angelo (2006). Since the mid-1990s he has performed with The Bacon Brothers, a folk-rock group formed with his brother Michael. He married actress Kyra Sedgwick in 1988 and they have two children.