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
Movies
- Mystic River
2003
- A Few Good Men
1992
- Apollo 13
1995
- Wild Things
1998
- Flatliners
1990
- Sleepers
1996
- JFK
1991
- Footloose
1984
- Planes, Trains and Auto...
1987
- They/Them
2022
- Friday the 13th
1980
- Balto
1995
- Quicksilver
1986
- Novocaine
2001
- Stir of Echoes
1999
- Frost/Nixon
2008
- Death Sentence
2007
- Digging to China
1997
- Murder in the First
1995
- Animal House
1978
- Taking Chance
2009
- The River Wild
1994
- Picture Perfect
1997
- Trapped
2002
- Where the Truth Lies
2005
- Tremors
1990
- Hollow Man
2000
- She's Having a Baby
1988
- My One and Only
2009
- The Woodsman
2004
- The Air I Breathe
2007
- Diner
1982
- Beauty Shop
2005
- Criminal Law
1989
- Rails & Ties
2007
- Connected: The Power of...
2008
- MaXXXine
2024
- Super
2010
- The Big Picture
1989
- Telling Lies in America
1997
- The Air Up There
1994
- My Dog Skip
2000
- He Said, She Said
1991
- R.I.P.D.
2013
- X-Men: First Class
2011
- Queens Logic
1991
- Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011
- End of the Line
1987
- White Water Summer
1987
- Elephant White
2011
- The Demon Murder Case
1983
- Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013
- Loverboy
2005
- John Hughes: Time Capsu...
1986
- The Legend of Burt Gumm...
2020
- Pyrates
1991
- Lost Moon: The Triumph ...
1996
- Step Into… The Movies w...
2022
- Destination Anywhere
1997
- Forty Deuce
1982
- The Human Family Tree
2009
- Leave the World Behind
2023
- Forces Of Nature
2004
- Come Together: A Night ...
2001
- Enormous Changes at the...
1983
- North Star
2022
- A Little Vicious
1991
- The Darkness
2016
- Space Oddity
2023
- Paparazzi: Full Throttl...
2016
- These Vagabond Shoes
2009
- Diner: On The Flip Side
1999
- Only When I Laugh
1981
- Cop Car
2015
- Beverly Hills Cop: Axel...
2024
- Mister Roberts
1984
- The Best You Can
2025
- The Guardians of the Ga...
2022
- Black Mass
2015
- Starting Over
1979
- Clint Eastwood: Hollywo...
2020
- Eastwood Directs: The U...
2013
- Hero at Large
1980
- Lemon Sky
1988
- Drunk Stoned Brilliant ...
2015
- Patriots Day
2016
- In the Cut
2003
- Vanilla Ice Archive
2012
- Children of the Atom - ...
2011
- Happy Birthday Elizabet...
1997
- 8
2012
- A Pluma Sangrenta que C...
- Skum Rocks!
2013
- Story of a Girl
2017
- Cavedweller
2004
- The Gift
1979
- The Tender Age
1986
- Tour de Pharmacy
2017
- The Words That Built Am...
2017
- You Should Have Left
2020
- The Presidents' Gatekee...
2013
- Beyond All Boundaries
2009
- Holly Near: Singing for...
2019
- Live in Front of a Stud...
2019
- America's Funniest Dirt...
1991
- The Yearbook: An Animal...
1998
- Find Your Groove
2020
- Picture Show: A Tribute...
2020
- Animal House: The Insid...
2008
- Tremors: Making Perfect...
2020
- One Way
2022
- The Toxic Avenger
2025
- Val
2021
- X-Men: First Class 35mm...
2012
- Never Sleep Again: The ...
2010
- Family Movie
- We Married Margo
2000
- New Orleans Animal Resc...
2009
TV Shows
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
- The Tony Danza Show
2004
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
- Queer Eye for the Strai...
2003
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
- The View
1997
- The Early Show
1999
- The Tonight Show with J...
1992
- Frasier
1993
- American Idol
2002
- Finding Your Roots
2012
- The Colbert Report
2005
- Will & Grace
1998
- Late Night with Conan O...
1993
- SMILF
2017
- The Frank Skinner Show
1995
- The Late Late Show with...
1999
- The Following
2013
- Saturday Night Live
1975
- Bored to Death
2009
- Ben & Jerry's: Clash of...
2021
- Critics Choice Awards
2001
- The Tonight Show Starri...
2014
- Search for Tomorrow
1951
- RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
- Late Night with Seth Me...
2014
- The Bondsman
2025
- Comedy Bang! Bang!
2012
- I Love Dick
2016
- The Following
2013
- The Late Late Show with...
2005
- America's Game: The Sup...
2006
- The Late Late Show with...
2015
- The Graham Norton Show
2007
- The Tonight Show Starri...
2014
- Tremors
2018
- The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
- The Tonight Show Starri...
1962
- Leute heute
1997
- @midnight with Chris Ha...
2013
- City on a Hill
2019
- Hot Ones
2015
- The View
1997
- ZDF-Fernsehgarten
1986
- Carpool Karaoke: The Se...
2017
- Söndagsparty med Filip ...
2009
- On Air with Ryan Seacre...
2004
- God, the Devil and Bob
2000
- No Activity
2017
- Close Up with The Holly...
2015
- Mad About You
1992
- The Daily Show
1996
- Off Camera with Sam Jon...
2014
- Sirens
2025
- Conan
2010
- MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
- Colin from Accounts
2022
- Variety Studio: Actors ...
2014
- American Dad!
2005
- The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019