Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

176

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-07-08 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known As

Kevin Norwood Bacon
كيفين بيكن
케빈 베이컨
ケヴィン・ベーコン
เควิน เบคอน
凯文·贝肯
Кевін Бейкон
کوین بیکن

Kevin Bacon

Biography

Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors and Frost/Nixon.

Bacon has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, was nominated for an Emmy Award, and was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Known For

7.3%

X-Men: First Class

Jun 1, 2011

7.3%

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Jul 29, 2011

7.7%

Mystic River

Oct 7, 2003

7.5%

Apollo 13

Jun 30, 1995

5.8%

R.I.P.D.

Jul 18, 2013

7.5%

A Few Good Men

Dec 11, 1992

7.6%

Sleepers

Oct 18, 1996

6.5%

Black Mass

Sep 17, 2015

6.9%

Tremors

Jan 19, 1990

6.4%

Friday the 13th

May 9, 1980

6.4%

Leave the World Behind

Nov 22, 2023

7.1%

Patriots Day

Dec 12, 2016

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Acting

—		The Bloody Plumage from Another World as Evil Chicken
—		Family Movie

2025		The Toxic Avenger as Bob Garbinger
2025		The Best You Can as Stan Olszewski
2025		Sirens as Peter Kell
2025		The Bondsman as Hub Halloran

2024		MaXXXine as John Labat
2024		Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F as Captain Cade Grant

2023		Leave the World Behind as Danny
2023		Space Oddity as Jeff McAllister

2022		Colin from Accounts as Kevin Bacon
2022		The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special as Kevin Bacon
2022		One Way as Fred Sr.
2022		They/Them as Owen Whistler
2022		Step Into… The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough as Self
2022		North Star

2021		Ben & Jerry's: Clash of the Cones as Self
2021		Val as Self (archive footage)

2020		The Legend of Burt Gummer as self
2020		Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Outlaw as Self
2020		Tremors: Making Perfection as Himself
2020		You Should Have Left as Theo Conroy
2020		Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine as Self
2020		Find Your Groove as Self

2019		Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" as Pinky Peterson
2019		The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019		City on a Hill as Jackie Rohr
2019		Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives as Self

2018

Tremors as Valentine 'Val' McKee

2017		No Activity as Kevin Bacon (voice)
2017		SMILF as Kevin Bacon
2017		Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
2017		Tour de Pharmacy as Ditmer Klerken
2017		The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2017		Story of a Girl as Michael

2016		Patriots Day as Richard DesLauriers
2016		Paparazzi: Full Throttle LA as Self (archive footage)
2016		I Love Dick as Dick
2016		The Darkness as Peter Taylor

2015		Black Mass as FBI Agent Charles McGuire
2015		Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2015		Cop Car as Sheriff Kretzer
2015		The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
2015		Hot Ones as Self
2015		Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon as Self - Actor

2014		Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014		Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014		The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014		The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2014		Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self

2013		@midnight with Chris Hardwick as Self
2013		Skum Rocks! as Self
2013		The Presidents' Gatekeepers as Self - Narrator (voice)
2013		Jayne Mansfield's Car as Carroll Caldwell
2013		R.I.P.D. as Bobby Hayes
2013		Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
2013		The Following as Ryan Hardy
2013		The Following as Himself

2012		Vanilla Ice Archive as Self (archive footage)
2012		Comedy Bang! Bang! as Self
2012		X-Men: First Class 35mm Special as Self - Sebastian Shaw
2012		Finding Your Roots as Self
2012		8 as Charles J. Cooper

2011		Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2011		Crazy, Stupid, Love. as David Lindhagen
2011		X-Men: First Class as Sebastian Shaw
2011		Elephant White as Jimmy the Brit

2010		Super as Jacques
2010		Conan as Self
2010		Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self (archive footage)

2009		Beyond All Boundaries as Robert Sherrod
2009		Taking Chance as LtCol Mike Strobl
2009		Bored to Death as Himself
2009		The Human Family Tree as Himself - Narrator
2009		My One and Only as Dan Devereaux
2009		These Vagabond Shoes as Tom
2009		Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
2009		RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Video Message

2008		Frost/Nixon as Jack Brennan
2008		Animal House: The Inside Story as Self
2008		Connected: The Power of Six Degrees as Kevin Bacon

2007		Rails & Ties as Tom Stark
2007		Death Sentence as Nick Hume
2007		The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007		The Air I Breathe as Love

2006

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Self - Narrator (voice)

2005		The Colbert Report
2005		Where the Truth Lies as Lanny
2005		Beauty Shop as Jorge
2005		American Dad! as Kevin Bacon (voice)
2005		Loverboy as Marty
2005		The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self

2004		The Woodsman as Walter
2004		The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
2004		Cavedweller as Randall Pritchard
2004		Forces Of Nature as Himself - Narrator
2004		On Air with Ryan Seacrest as The Bacon Brothers (performance)

2003		In the Cut as John Graham (uncredited)
2003		Mystic River as Sean Devine
2003		The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003		Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
2003		Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self

2002		Trapped as Joe Hickey
2002		American Idol as Self

2001		Novocaine as Actor Lance Phelps
2001		Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music
2001		Critics Choice Awards as Self - Presenter

2000		Hollow Man as Sebastian Caine
2000		God, the Devil and Bob as Kevin Bacon (voice)
2000		We Married Margo as Kevin Bacon
2000		My Dog Skip as Jack Morris

1999		The Early Show as Self
1999		Stir of Echoes as Tom Witzky
1999		Diner: On The Flip Side as Self
1999		The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn as Self - Guest

1998		The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion as Self - Chip Diller
1998		Will & Grace as Kevin Bacon
1998		Wild Things as Sergeant Ray Duquette

1997		The View as Self
1997		The View as Self - Guest
1997		Telling Lies in America as Billy Magic
1997		Picture Perfect as Sam
1997		Leute heute as Self
1997		Digging to China as Ricky Schroth
1997		Destination Anywhere as Mike
1997		Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life as Self

1996		Sleepers as Sean Nokes
1996		The Daily Show as Self
1996		Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 as Self

1995		Balto as Balto (voice)
1995		The Frank Skinner Show as Self
1995		Apollo 13 as Jack Swigert
1995		Murder in the First as Henri Young

1994		The River Wild as Wade
1994		The Air Up There as Jimmy Dolan

1993		Frasier as Vic (voice)
1993		Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest

1992		A Few Good Men as Capt. Jack Ross
1992		Mad About You as Kevin Bacon
1992		MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self
1992		The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self

1991		JFK as Willie O'Keefe
1991		Pyrates as Ari
1991		A Little Vicious as Narrator
1991		He Said, She Said as Dan Hanson
1991		Queens Logic as Dennis
1991		America's Funniest Dirty Jokes as Himself

1990		Flatliners as David Labraccio
1990		Tremors as Valentine McKee

1989		The Big Picture as Nick Chapman
1989		Criminal Law as Martin Thiel

1988		LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self
1988		Lemon Sky as Alan
1988		She's Having a Baby as Jake Briggs

1987		Planes, Trains and Automobiles as Taxi Racer
1987		End of the Line as Everett
1987		White Water Summer as Vic

1986		John Hughes: Time Capsule as Himself
1986		ZDF-Fernsehgarten as Self
1986		The Tender Age as Probation Officer (uncredited)
1986		Quicksilver as Jack Casey