Kevin Bacon Highlights

  • 2009: Nominated for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie
  • 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
  • 2008: Portrayed Jack Brennan, Nixon's post-presidential Chief of Staff in Peter Morgan's feature adaption of "Frost/Nixon"
  • 2008: Co-starred in the drama, "The Air I Breathe"
  • 2007: Played a father out to avenge a gang's attack on his family in the thriller "Death Sentence"
  • 2007: Co-starred in Alison Eastwood's directorial debut, "Rails and Ties"
  • 2006: Directed and co-starred in "Loverboy" about an unsound mother who surrounds her only son with a magical world for two; premiered at Sundance (lensed 2003)
  • 2005: Co-starred with Colin Firth as a showbiz duo whose career was ended abruptly amid scandal in Atom Egoyan's "Where the Truth Lies"
  • 2004: Portrayed a pedophile, who returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life in "The Woodsman"; premiered at sundance; received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Male Lead
  • 2003: Co-starred, with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins, in the Clint Eastwood feature "Mystic River"
  • 2002: Portrayed a kidnapper in the feature "Trapped"
  • 2001: Had featured role in "Novocaine" starring Steve Martin and Helena Bonham Carter
  • 2000: Played title role in Paul Verhoeven's "Hollow Man"
  • 2000: The Bacon Brothers played their first major NYC concert at the venerable Town Hall
  • 2000: Played the father of Willie Morris (Frankie Muniz) in "My Dog Skip"
  • 1999: Lifetime's "Weddings of a Lifetime" included a musical performance of the Bacon Brothers
  • 1998: First credit as executive producer (also co-starred), "Wild Things"
  • 1997: First song credit ("Medium Rare") in "Telling Lies in America"; also co-starred as a disc jockey
  • 1997: Song performer for ABC special, "Happy Birthday Elizabeth - A Celebration of Life" honoring ELizabeth Taylor
  • 1996: Directorial debut, "Losing Chase"; premiered on Showtime before receiving a theatrical release; Sedgwick executive produced as well as starred opposite Helen Mirren
  • 1996: Reteamed with Levinson for "Sleepers" playing an abusive guard in a boys' reformatory
  • 1995: Portrayed astronaut Jack Swigart in Ron Howard's "Apollo 13"
  • 1995: Delivered a bravura performance as an Alcatraz prisoner who murdered a fellow inmate under extenuating circumstances in Marc Rocco's "Murder in the First"; third film with Oldman, who played his sadistic associate warden
  • 1994: Menaced Meryl Streep and family in "The River Wild"
  • 1992: Acted the part of a no-nonsense Marine attorney in Rob Reiner's "A Few Good Men"
  • 1991: First feature with wife Kyra Sedgwick, "Pyrates"
  • 1990: Played the voice of reason for fellow medical students taking part in a dangerous life-after-death experiment in "Flatliners"
  • 1989: First of three films with Gary Oldman, "Criminal Law"
  • 1989: Portrayed a student filmmaker swallowed into the System in "The Big Picture"
  • 1988: Appeared opposite future wife Kyra Sedwick in PBS production of "Lemon Sky"
  • 1988: Starred as overly expectant yuppie father in John Hughes' "She's Having a Baby"
  • 1984: Breakout role as Ren McCormick in "Footloose"
  • 1983: Broadway debut opposite Sean Penn in "The Slab Boys"
  • 1982: Gained attention as the confused rich kid with a drinking problem in Barry Levinson's feature directorial debut "Diner"
  • 1982: Reprised Off-Broadway role of Ricky in film version of Alan Bowne's play "Forty Deuce"
  • 1980: Appeared as cast regular Tim Werner on the daytime drama "The Guiding Light" (CBS)
  • 1980: Appeared Off-Broadway in "Album" directed by Joan Micklin Silver
  • 1979: TV-movie debut, "The Gift" (CBS)
  • 1979: Had regular role of Todd Adamson on the CBS daytime soap "Search for Tomorrow" (CBS)
  • 1978: Off-Broadway debut, "Getting Out" by Marsha Norman
  • 1978: Film acting debut in "National Lampoon's Animal House"
  • 1976: Served apprenticeship at Circle in the Square in NYC
  • Raised in the Philadelphia area

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