Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 8th, 1958. Along with his brother Michael, he is the son of famous city planner Edmund Norwood Bacon and liberal activist Ruth Hilda Holmes. He attended the Pennsylvania Governors School for the Arts. His first acting role was in 1978's "National Lampoon's Animal House." Other notable early roles include "Nightmare on Elm Street," "Diner," and the film that made him a household name, "Footloose."

Bacon's film credits are so vastly wide and often part of large ensemble casts that in the 1990s a game entitled "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" (a spin-off of the play/film "Six Degrees of Separation") was created. The idea of the game is that Bacon can be linked to any actor in six steps - "degrees" - or less.

In 1995, he and his brother Michael formed a band, The Bacon Brothers. They've released three albums since. Bacon married actress Kyra Sedgwick in 1988. They have two children.