Chosen
by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#61). [1995]
Dated Tracy Pollan.
Attended
the prestigious Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School in Philadelphia with his brother, Michael.
Inspired a game
called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, whereby people have to link any given actor to him by no more than six steps. For instance,
to do Fred MacMurray, you could observe that MacMurray worked with Lee Marvin in The Caine Mutiny (1954), which is one step; and Marvin worked with Jane Fonda in Cat Ballou (1965), which is two steps; and Fonda worked with Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome (1979), which is three steps; and Lemmon worked with Bacon in JFK (1991), which completes the link in four steps. Harder versions of the game exist,
limiting the player to five, four or even three steps. The original version of this game existed for numerous years and the
pivot-person was then Paul Erdos, a mathematician.
Attended
the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts.
He was the first
choice for the Charlie Sheen part in Being John Malkovich (1999).
Is part of The
Bacon Brothers, with brother Michael Bacon. The band has released three albums: "Forosoco" (1997), "Getting There" (1999)
and "Can't Complain" (2001).
He sang with
brother Michael Bacon (who played guitar) in New York
in a small club/coffee shop.
His father
was Edmund Bacon, a famous Philadelphia city planner. His
mother was Ruth Bacon, a teacher and liberal political activist.
Kevin's son,
Travis Bacon (b. 1989), currently plays in the 4-member rock-punk-funk band Idiot Box.
Daughter, Sosie Bacon, was born on March, 1992.
Has never
lived in Hollywood or Los Angeles.
The family
dog, a mutt, is called Paulie.
Met wife Kyra Sedgwick on the set of Lemon Sky (1988) (TV).
Lives in NY with
wife Kyra Sedgwick and their 2 kids.
In preparation
for his role in Telling Lies in
America (1997), he "hung out" in the radio studio with and based his on-air banter on his friend
Jerry Blavat, the celebrated oldies DJ from Philadelphia and an inductee in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame; aka the "Geator with the Heater".
Brother-in-law
of Robert Sedgwick.
His father was
a seventh cousin of President Richard Nixon.
Is a fifth cousin
of William Thomas Hamill Jr., married to Virginia Suzanne Johnson, the parents of Mark Hamill.
Canadian-born
actor Philip Nozuka, is Bacon's nephew through wife Kyra's side of the family.
His line,
"I am a G-damn genius," is quoted in both "Hollow Man" (2000) and "Trapped" (2002).
In "Quicksilver"
(1986) and "A Few Good Men" (1992) his characters are both nicknamed "Smiling Jack".
