Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia ) is an American actor , director and producer as well as musician and, among other things, Golden Globe prize winner.
Life
Career
After graduating from the Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory , Bacon left Philadelphia, Philadelphia, in 1975 and moved to New York City to become an actor. After a short basic training at various academies, he first appeared on stage at the age of seventeen in the Circle In the Square Theater , which he left at the age of 18. In 1978 he made his screen debut in the comedy I believe a horse kicks me .
After appearing in Friday the 13th , American Diner and the Broadway -Stück Slab Boys (with Sean Penn ) Bacon succeeded with the dance movie Footloose 1984 breakthrough.
The Big Picture was a failure, but Bacon's work was discovered by Ron Underwood , with whom he made Tremors (1990). After the success of this blockbuster , Bacon got a lot of film offers: Flatliners , Born in Queens , typical! , JFK - Dallas and Pirates Crime Scene .
In the following years, Bacon played mainly theater on various New York stages and roles in smaller film productions to counteract his image as a teenage idol.
In 1992, Oliver Stone made him a comeback by casting him for his political thriller JFK - Tatort Dallas . The rather minor role of a homosexual witness in the Garrison trial earned Bacon a lot of critical acclaim and a reputation for being an excellent character actor.
With A Matter of Honor , Apollo 13 , Sleepers and Hollow Man - Invisible Danger , he was able to record further successes. In 1996 he made his directorial debut with Losing Chase , for which he received three Golden Globe nominations. In 2003 he starred in Clint Eastwood's critically acclaimed drama Mystic River , and a year later he took on the role of a released pedophile in The Woodsman . In 2009, he starred in the true-event televised film Taking Chance . For the role of Lieutenant Colonel bringing the body of a US soldier from Iraq to his family, he received his first Emmy nomination in 2009 and the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award in 2010 .
Bacon is also active as a musician. Together with his brother Michael he plays in the band The Bacon Brothers , with whom he has already released six albums and a live CD and DVD.
Private life
Bacon lives in New York City with his wife, actress Kyra Sedgwick , and their children. They met in 1987 during the TV production Lemon Sky and have been married since 1988. Both children (Travis and Sosie Bacon ) are also actors and musicians. Bacon's nephew is singer Justin Nozuka .
Filmography (selection)
As an actor
- 1978: I think a horse will kick me (Animal House)
- 1979: To another (Starting Over)
- 1979: The Gift (TV)
- 1979: Search for Tomorrow (TV series)
- 1980: A True Hero / Manhattan Hero (Hero at Large)
- 1980: Friday the 13th (Friday the 13 th )
- 1980–1981: Springfield Story (The Guiding Light) (TV series)
- 1981: Mrs. Hines & Daughter (Only When I Laugh)
- 1982: American Diner (Diner)
- 1982: Forty Deuce
- 1983: Brian (The Demon Murder Case) (TV)
- 1983: Three Women in New York (Enormous Changes at the Last Minute)
- 1984: Footloose
- 1984: No Time for Heroism (Mister Roberts) (TV)
- 1985: Bull and the Streetgirl (The Little Sister) (TV)
- 1986: Quicksilver
- 1987: White Water Summer
- 1987: Full steam ahead to Chicago (End of the Line)
- 1987: One ticket for two (Planes, Trains & Automobiles)
- 1988: Lemon Sky (TV)
- 1988: She's Having a Baby
- 1988: The Woman Killer (Criminal Law)
- 1989: The Big Picture
- 1990: Tremors - In the land of rocket worms (Tremors)
- 1990: Flatliners - Today is a beautiful day to die (Flatliners)
- 1991: Ari & Sam (Pyrates)
- 1991: Born in Queens (Queens Logic)
- 1991: Saturday Night Live (TV series)
- 1991: Typical! (He Said, She Said)
- 1991: JFK - crime scene Dallas (JFK)
- 1991: A Little Vicious
- 1992: A Few Good Men (A Few Good Men)
- 1994: New York Skyride
- 1994: The Air Up There
- 1994: The River Wild (The River Wild)
- 1994: Frasier (TV series)
- 1995: Murder in the First
- 1995: Apollo 13
- 1995: Balto - A dog with a hero's heart (Balto , voice)
- 1996: Sleepers
- 1997: The booked man (Picture Perfect)
- 1997: Destination Anywhere
- 1997: American Dreamer (Telling Lies in America)
- 1998: Dreams to the End of the World (Digging to China)
- 1998: Wild Things
- 1998: Elizabeth Jane
- 1998: Seventeen: The Faces for Fall
- 1999: Echoes - Voices from the Intermediate World (Stir of Echoes)
- 2000: Mein Hund Skip (My Dog Skip)
- 2000: Hollow Man - Invisible Danger (Hollow Man)
- 2000: We Married Margo
- 2001: Biography (TV series)
- 2001: Novocaine - Tooth for a tooth (Novocaine)
- 2001: Code of Conduct
- 2002: 24 hours of fear (trapped)
- 2002: Elvis Lives (TV)
- 2003: Mystic River
- 2003: In the Cut
- 2004: The Woodsman
- 2004: Cavedweller (TV)
- 2005: Loverboy
- 2005: Beauty Shop
- 2005: Where the Truth Lies (Where the Truth Lies)
- 2007: The Air I Breathe - The Power of Fate (The Air I Breathe)
- 2007: Death Sentence - death sentence (Death Sentence)
- 2007: Departure into a new life (Rails & Ties)
- 2008: Frost / Nixon
- 2009: My One and Only
- 2009: Taking Chance
- 2009: New York, I Love You
- 2009: Beyond All Boundaries
- 2010: Super - Shut Up, Crime! (Great)
- 2010: Story of a Girl
- 2010: Bored to Death (TV series, episode 1)
- 2011: Elephant White
- 2011: X-Men: First Decision (X-Men: First Class)
- 2011: Crazy, Stupid, Love.
- 2012: Jayne Mansfield's Car
- 2013: RIPD
- 2013–2015: The Following (TV series)
- 2015: Cop Car
- 2015: Black Mass
- 2016: The Darkness
- 2016: Boston (Patriots Day)
- 2016–2017: I Love Dick (TV series)
- 2017: Story of a Girl
- since 2019: City on a Hill (TV series)
As a director
- 1996: Farewell to Chase (Losing Chase)
- 2005: Loverboy
- 2006–2009: The Closer (TV series, 4 episodes)
As a producer
- 1998: Wild Things
- 2004: The Woodsman
- 2005: Loverboy
additional
- 1991: A Little Vicious (Narrator)
- 1994: New York Skyride (Narrator)
- 2003: Imagine New York (as himself)
- 2004: Natural Disasters: Forces of Nature (Narrator)
- 2008: Saving Angelo as Brent
Discography
Together with his brother Michael Bacon in the band The Bacon Brothers :
- 1997: Forosoco
- 1999: Getting There
- 2001: Can't Complain
- 2003: No Food Jokes Tour (CD / DVD)
- 2005: White Knuckles
- 2008: New Years After Kevin
- 2012: Philadelphia Road - The Best Of
Awards
- 1996: BFCA Award for Best Actor - Murder in the First
- 2001: Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor - Science Fiction - Hollow Man - Invisible Danger
- 2003: BSFC Award for Best Cast - Mystic River
- 2010: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or TV Movie - Taking Chance
In addition, Bacon was nominated for numerous other awards, which he did not win.
Others
- Bacon is the namesake of the so-called Bacon number , which is calculated through his collaboration with other actors in film productions. Based on the hypothesis of the Six Degrees of Separation , one also speaks of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon . The number is the length of the shortest chain of actors who play together in a film, from Kevin Bacon. This makes Bacon the only actor to have a KBZ of 0.
- The song Tastes like Kevin Bacon by the band Iwrestledabearonce was inspired by him.
Web links
- Kevin Bacon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kevin Bacon on AllMovie (English)
- Kevin Bacon at Moviepilot
- Kevin Bacon in the German dubbing file
- Literature by and about Kevin Bacon in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ thebiographychannel.co.uk: Kevin Bacon - Biography on Bio. ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ nytimes.com: Report on Kevin Bacon , September 25, 1994
- ↑ imdb.com: Golden Globes, USA (1997) , January 19, 1997
- ↑ writersonprocess: Michael and Kevin Bacon: The Bacon Brothers ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , dated January 27, 2011
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bacon, Kevin |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bacon, Kevin Norwood (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |