Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia ) is an American actor, director and producer, as well as musicians and other Golden Globe winners.
Life
After graduating from Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory Bacon left his native Philadelphia in 1975 and moved to New York City to become an actor. After a short basic training at various academies he was seventeen years old the first time in the Circle in the Square Theatre on the stage, which he left at the age of 18 years. In 1978 he was in the comedy I think, ' Animal House his big screen debut.
After appearances in Friday the 13th, Diners and the Broadway play Slab Boys ( with Sean Penn ), Bacon succeeded with the dance film Footloose 1984 breakthrough.
The Big Picture was a failure, although Bacon's work was discovered by Ron Underwood, with whom he turned Tremors (1990). After the success of this blockbuster Bacon got many film offers: Flatliners, Born in Queens, Na Typically, JFK - Tatort Dallas and pirates!.
In subsequent years, Bacon mainly played theater at various New York stages and roles in smaller productions to counteract his image as a teen idol.
1992 provided him with Oliver Stone made a comeback, taking him for his political thriller JFK - Tatort Dallas occupied. The rather small role of a homosexual witnesses in Garrison process brought Bacon much critical acclaim and the reputation of an excellent character actor a.
With A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Sleepers and Hollow Man - Invisible danger he was able to record more successes. In 1996, he was with his directorial debut Losing Chase, for which he received three Golden Globe nominations. In 2003, he was seen in Clint Eastwood's much praised drama Mystic River, a year later, he took over the role of a pedophile released from prison in The Woodsman. In 2009 he took over the lead role in the television film based on true events Taking Chance. For the part of Lieutenant Colonels who brings the corpse of a U.S. soldier from Iraq to his family, 2009 he received his first Emmy nomination in 2010 as well as the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award.
Also as a musician Bacon is active. Together with his brother Michael, he plays in the band The Bacon Brothers, with whom he has released six albums and a live CD and DVD.
Bacon lives with his wife, actress Kyra Sedgwick, and they have two children in New York City. They met in 1987 at the TV - production Lemon Sky know and have been married since 1988. Both children ( Travis and Sosie Bacon) are also an actor and musician. Bacon's nephew is the singer Justin Nozuka.
Bacon is named after the so-called Bacon number, which is calculated via its cooperation with other actors in film productions. Based on the hypothesis of Six Degrees of Separation is also called the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The number is the length of the shortest chain of actors who play together in a movie to Kevin Bacon. This Bacon is the only actor a KBZ of 0
The song Tastes like Kevin Bacon of the band Iwrestledabearonce was inspired by him.
The German dubbing voice of Kevin Bacon is, with few exceptions (Apollo 13, Thomas Petruo ) in almost all the films Udo Schenk.
Quote
" I wanted life, man, the real thing. The message I got was' The arts are it. Business is the devil 's work. Art and creative expression are next to godliness. ' Combine did with at immense ego and you wind up with an actor. "
" I wanted to live, man, true life. What I realized was that the art is. Business is the devil's work. Art and creative expression bordering on the divine. Combine that with an immense ego and you've got an actor in front of you. "
Filmography
As an actor
As a director
As a producer
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Discography
Together with his brother Michael Bacon in the band The Bacon Brothers:
Awards
In addition, Bacon was nominated yet for numerous other awards he has not won.