Kevin Bacon Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Executive Producer , Director more
Birth name Kevin Norwood Bacon
Nationality American
Birth July 8, 1958 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
After a childhood spent in Philadelphia, Kevin Bacon moved to New York to begin a theatrical career. This is how we find him in the off-Broadway plays Getting Out , Forty Deuce and Slab Boys , where he then shared the spotlight with Sean Penn . The year 1978 marked his debut on the big screen. We see him in particular in the comedy American College by John Landis . Savagely killed in the horror film Friday the 13th (1980), he also appears in the credits of Barry Levinson ‘s Diner (1982) and enjoys success on the wild rocks of the musical Footloose (1984). Married to actress Kyra Sedgwick , Kevin Bacon found his best roles in fantasy cinema, lending his disturbing and angular face to the films Tremors (1990), The Forbidden Experiment (1991), Hypnosis (1999) and The Man Without a Shadow (2000). He also plays his magnetism in JFK (1992) and the thrillers Wild River (1995), Sleepers (1996), where he plays a sadistic prison guard and child rapist, Sexcrimes (1998), Bad Trap (2002) and Death Sentence (2007), a detective film in which he plays the role of vigilante. Bold in his cinematographic choices, he plays a former pedophile in The Woodsman (2006), Kevin Bacon also works under the direction of such talented directors as Clint Eastwood ( Mystic River ), Jane Campion ( In the Cut ) and Atom Egoyan ( The Truth) . naked ). It is with this experience in front of the camera that in 2005 he directed an intimate work entitled Loverboy , in which he notably directed his wife Kyra Sedgwick . He then made a detour to television by playing a recurring role with his wife in The Closer , a series for which he also directed a few episodes, before being President Nixon’s advisor in Frost / Nixon, the hour of truth . After a stint in the collective film New York, I Love You (directed by Scarlett Johansson

), he played on his capital of unhealthy seduction in 2011 by playing an everyday villain facing a false superhero in Super and a real Machiavellian villain facing mutant superheroes in X-Men The Beginning .

The same year, Kevin Bacon returned to romantic comedy by having a relationship with Steve Carell ‘s wife in Crazy Stupid Love . In 2013, the actor found himself starring in RIPD Ghost Squad alongside Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges . At the same time, he was chosen to lead the thriller series Following created by Kevin Williamson and in which he plays a former FBI agent who tries to stop a fearsome serial killer.

The program was canceled after three seasons. Kevin Bacon therefore returns to filming and is starring in two feature films in 2015: Strictly Criminal , centered on the famous gangster Whitey Bulger ( Johnny Depp ), and Cop Car where he plays a crooked sheriff.