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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-07-08 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Kevin Bacon

Biography:

Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors and Frost/Nixon.

Bacon has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, was nominated for an Emmy Award, and was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Known For

Acting

2025

The Best You Can as Stan Olszewski
The Toxic Avenger as Bob Garbinger
The Bondsman as Hub Halloran
Sirens as Peter Kell

2024

MaXXXine as John Labat
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F as Captain Cade Grant

2023

Space Oddity as Jeff McAllister

2022

They/Them as Owen Whistler
One Way as Fred Sr.
Colin from Accounts as Kevin Bacon

2021

Val as Self (archive footage)

2020

You Should Have Left as Theo Conroy

2019

City on a Hill as Jackie Rohr

2018

Tremors as Valentine 'Val' McKee

2017

Story of a Girl as Michael
Tour de Pharmacy as Ditmer Klerken
The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
SMILF as Kevin Bacon
No Activity as Kevin Bacon (voice)

2016

The Darkness as Peter Taylor
Paparazzi: Full Throttle LA as Self (archive footage)
Patriots Day as Richard DesLauriers
I Love Dick as Dick

2015

Cop Car as Sheriff Kretzer
Black Mass as FBI Agent Charles McGuire
Hot Ones as Self

2014

2013

R.I.P.D. as Bobby Hayes
Jayne Mansfield's Car as Carroll Caldwell
Skum Rocks! as Self
The Presidents' Gatekeepers as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Following as Ryan Hardy
The Following as Himself

2012

Vanilla Ice Archive as Self (archive footage)
8 as Charles J. Cooper
X-Men: First Class 35mm Special as Self - Sebastian Shaw

2011

X-Men: First Class as Sebastian Shaw
Crazy, Stupid, Love. as David Lindhagen
Elephant White as Jimmy the Brit

2010

Super as Jacques
Conan as Self

2009

Taking Chance as LtCol Mike Strobl
My One and Only as Dan Devereaux
The Human Family Tree as Himself - Narrator
Beyond All Boundaries as Robert Sherrod
Bored to Death as Himself
RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Video Message

2008

Frost/Nixon as Jack Brennan

2007

Death Sentence as Nick Hume
Rails & Ties as Tom Stark

2006

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Self - Narrator (voice)

2005

Beauty Shop as Jorge
Loverboy as Marty
American Dad! as Kevin Bacon (voice)

2004

The Woodsman as Walter
Forces Of Nature as Himself - Narrator
Cavedweller as Randall Pritchard
The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
On Air with Ryan Seacrest as The Bacon Brothers (performance)

2003

Mystic River as Sean Devine
In the Cut as John Graham (uncredited)

2002

Trapped as Joe Hickey

2001

Novocaine as Actor Lance Phelps
Critics Choice Awards as Self - Presenter

2000

Hollow Man as Sebastian Caine
My Dog Skip as Jack Morris
We Married Margo as Kevin Bacon
God, the Devil and Bob as Kevin Bacon (voice)

1999

Stir of Echoes as Tom Witzky

1998

Wild Things as Sergeant Ray Duquette
Will & Grace as Kevin Bacon

1997

Digging to China as Ricky Schroth
The View as Self
Leute heute as Self
The View as Self - Guest

1996

Sleepers as Sean Nokes

1995

Apollo 13 as Jack Swigert
Balto as Balto (voice)
Murder in the First as Henri Young

1994

The Air Up There as Jimmy Dolan

1993

Frasier as Vic (voice)

1992

A Few Good Men as Capt. Jack Ross
Mad About You as Kevin Bacon

1991

JFK as Willie O'Keefe
He Said, She Said as Dan Hanson
Queens Logic as Dennis
Pyrates as Ari
A Little Vicious as Narrator

1990

Flatliners as David Labraccio
Tremors as Valentine McKee

1989

Criminal Law as Martin Thiel
The Big Picture as Nick Chapman

1988

She's Having a Baby as Jake Briggs
Lemon Sky as Alan

1987

End of the Line as Everett

1986

Quicksilver as Jack Casey
The Tender Age as Probation Officer (uncredited)

1984

Footloose as Ren
Mister Roberts as Ens. Frank Pulver

1983

The Demon Murder Case as Kenny Miller

1982

Diner as Timothy Fenwick Jr.
Forty Deuce as Ricky

1981

1980

Hero at Large as 2nd Teenager

1979

Starting Over as Husband - Young Couple
The Gift as Teddy

1978

Animal House as Chip Diller

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1962

1951

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Production

2025

The Bondsman as Executive Producer

2022

They/Them as Executive Producer

2019

City on a Hill as Co-Executive Producer

2015

Cop Car as Executive Producer

2013

The Following as Producer

2004

The Woodsman as Executive Producer

1998

Wild Things as Executive Producer

-

Family Movie as Producer

Directing

2019

City on a Hill as Director

2005

Loverboy as Director
The Closer as Director

1996

Losing Chase as Director

-

Family Movie as Director

Creator

2016

I Love Dick as Creator

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Zapata, Texas as Creator