Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon in Wild Things

Biography

Born 07/08/1958

Thanks to the sudden celebrity born from his electrifying performance in “Footloose” (1984), actor Kevin Bacon was transformed from a virtual unknown into an unlikely heartthrob who graced the covers of magazines like Teen Beat – something he struggled in vain to live down for the rest...
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Awards

  • In 2003, received Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Ensemble Cast
  • In 1996, received Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
  • In 1995, received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Highlights

  • In 2009, Nominated for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie
  • In 2009, Portrayed 'Desert Storm' war veteran Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strob in the HBO Film "Taking Chance"; earned an Emmy nomination for Best Actor in a Television Movie
  • In 2008, Portrayed Jack Brennan, Nixon's post-presidential Chief of Staff in Peter Morgan's feature adaption of "Frost/Nixon"

Family & Companions

  • Tracy Pollan: involved in the early 1980s
  • Ruth Holmes: mother (Park Avenue debutante)

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