Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor. Known for various roles, including leading-man characters, Bacon has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and two Actor Awards. Bacon made his feature film debut in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and appeared in Diner (1982) before his breakthrough role in the musical drama Footloose (1984). Since then, he has starred in critically acclaimed films such as JFK (1991), A Few Good Men (1992), Apollo 13 (1995), Mystic River (2003), and Frost/Nixon (2008). Other credits include Friday the 13th (1980), Tremors (1990), The River Wild (1994), Balto (1995), The Woodsman (2004), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), X-Men: First Class (2011), and Patriots Day (2016). Bacon has also directed the films Losing Chase (1996) and Loverboy (2005). On television, Bacon received a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role as Michael Strobl in the HBO original film Taking Chance (2009). He starred in the Fox drama series The Following from 2013 to 2015. Bacon played the title role in the Amazon Prime Video series I Love Dick from 2016 to 2017. From 2019 to 2022, he starred in the Showtime series City on a Hill. In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His prolific career in a variety of genres has led him to become associated with the concept of interconnectedness among people, as evidenced by the trivia game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". He is a brand ambassador for British mobile network operator EE and has appeared in the company's advertisements. Bacon is married to actress Kyra Sedgwick. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kevin Bacon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
123 movies · 63 shows
Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart
2026·0.0
Family Movie
2026·0.0
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
2025·6.0
The Best You Can
2025·7.0
The Bloody Plumage from Another World
2025·0.0
MaXXXine
2024·6.3
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
2024·6.6
Leave the World Behind
2023·6.4
Space Oddity
2023·5.9
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
2022·7.1
One Way
2022·5.8
They/Them
2022·4.7
Step Into… The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough
2022·6.6
North Star
2022·5.0
The Legend of Burt Gummer
2020·0.0
Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Outlaw
2020·7.5
Tremors: Making Perfection
2020·6.4
You Should Have Left
2020·6.1
Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine
2020·0.0
Find Your Groove
2020·10.0
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019·6.1
Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
2019·2.7
Tour de Pharmacy
2017·6.7
The Words That Built America
2017·6.0
Story of a Girl
2017·6.0
Patriots Day
2016·7.1
The Darkness
2016·4.8
Black Mass
2015·6.5
Cop Car
2015·6.0
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015·6.7
Skum Rocks!
2013·3.0
The Presidents' Gatekeepers
2013·8.3
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013·5.7
R.I.P.D.
2013·5.9
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013·6.1
Vanilla Ice Archive
2012·0.0
X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
2012·6.8
8
2012·5.3
"Footloose": Remembering Willard
2011·0.0
Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2011·8.0
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011·7.3
X-Men: First Class
2011·7.3
Elephant White
2011·5.0
Let’s Dance! Kevin Bacon on "Footloose"
2011·0.0
Super
2010·6.5
Beyond All Boundaries
2009·6.8
Taking Chance
2009·7.2
The Human Family Tree
2009·7.2
My One and Only
2009·6.6
These Vagabond Shoes
2009·5.3
New Orleans Animal Rescue
2009·0.0
Frost/Nixon
2008·7.3
Animal House: The Inside Story
2008·4.0
Connected: The Power of Six Degrees
2008·7.8
Saving Angelo
2007·0.0
Rails & Ties
2007·6.4
Death Sentence
2007·6.8
The Air I Breathe
2007·6.3
Where the Truth Lies
2005·6.1
Beauty Shop
2005·6.3
Loverboy
2005·4.9
The Woodsman
2004·6.8
Footloose: A Modern Musical
2004·0.0
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004·9.5
Forces of Nature
2004·8.2
Cavedweller
2004·5.8
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003·10.0
In the Cut
2003·5.1
Mystic River
2003·7.7
Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update
2003·9.0
Trapped
2002·6.2
Novocaine
2001·6.0
Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music
2001·6.5
Hollow Man
2000·6.0
We Married Margo
2000·5.3
My Dog Skip
2000·6.7
Stir of Echoes
1999·6.7
Diner: On The Flip Side
1999·10.0
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
1998·7.3
Wild Things
1998·6.4
Telling Lies in America
1997·5.8
Picture Perfect
1997·5.9
Digging to China
1997·6.4
Destination Anywhere
1997·6.9
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997·7.3
Sleepers
1996·7.6
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996·6.2
Balto
1995·7.3
Apollo 13
1995·7.5
Murder in the First
1995·7.1
The River Wild
1994·6.5
The Air Up There
1994·6.2
A Few Good Men
1992·7.6
JFK
1991·7.6
Pyrates
1991·5.3
A Little Vicious
1991·7.7
He Said, She Said
1991·5.9
Queens Logic
1991·5.8
America's Funniest Dirty Jokes
1991·5.0
Flatliners
1990·6.5
Tremors
1990·6.9
The Big Picture
1989·5.9
Criminal Law
1989·5.6
Lemon Sky
1988·7.6
She's Having a Baby
1988·5.9
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987·7.3
End of the Line
1987·5.3
White Water Summer
1987·6.1
John Hughes: Time Capsule
1986·0.0
The Tender Age
1986·6.0
Quicksilver
1986·5.6
Mister Roberts
1984·7.5
Footloose
1984·6.7
The Demon Murder Case
1983·6.2
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
1983·4.6
Forty Deuce
1982·5.1
Diner
1982·6.8
Only When I Laugh
1981·5.7
Friday the 13th
1980·6.4
Hero at Large
1980·5.9
The Gift
1979·6.5
Starting Over
1979·6.4
Animal House
1978·7.0