Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon was born into a large family – there are six brothers – on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. His mother was a teacher, his father an architect. That he was interested in Fine Arts is proven by his winning a scholarship at the age of 16 to study at the Pennsylvania Governor’s School of the Arts at Bucknell University. There he received acting training. It gives an idea of ​​his ambition that he left home to move to New York a year later, where he began to take part in various theater productions. This would be followed by roles in television series of little interest. And a Broadway debut accompanied by Sean Penn and Val Kilmer in John Byrne ‘s “Slab Boys” .

Bacon’s early days aren’t exactly memorable, his first movie appearance was in the comedyAmerican rampage (1978). Her slightly childish face and as if she were “soup” or slightly stupefied, excuse me, is very characteristic, and it will facilitate her presence in some adolescent movies like the terrifyingFriday the 13th (1980) or youth transition to adult life asDiner ( Barry Levinson , 1982) and the dancing musicalFootloose ( Herbert Ross , 1984). The truth is that year after year he adds films, if not memorable, at least quite successful. In line with the fantastic and horror stand outtremors andDeadly Line , the second with actors who would make people talk – Julia Roberts , Kiefer Sutherland , William Baldwin …–, both from 1990; but it is also in the look at the stock markets ofQuicksilver (1986), and in John Hughes comedies Better alone than in bad company (1987) andThe crazy adventure of marriage (1988).

The decade of the 90s is very good for Bacon, several prestigious directors pay attention to him. Oliver Stone casts him to play a key witness in the Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory inJFK (1991). He was the prosecutor of the military trial of the very vibrantA Few Good Men , based on the play by Aaron Sorkin , with Rob Reiner behind the camera; the actor put up with the charismatic Tom Cruise , Demi Moore and Jack Nicholson . After being a villain opposite Meryl Streep inWild River (1994) , has, Houston, a problem inApollo 13 ( Ron Howard , 1995). If the Oscars have never noticed him, the same cannot be said of the Screen Actors Guild, his fellow professionals nominate him for his supporting role in the oppressiveFirst degree murder (1995). The following year he will directHidden Passion , a telefilm with two parts of actresses, Helen Mirren and his wife since 1988, Kyra Sedgwick , with whom he has two children.

He returns to work with Levison inSleepers (1996), which deals with the tricky issue of sexual abuse of minors, an issue that curiously revisits years later at the command of Clint Eastwood as a victim in the harshMystic River (2003), and, ‘again’, but as an executioner recently released from prison inThe woodcutter (2004), where he coincides again with his wife Sedgwick. In these titles Bacon exhibits the most tormented side of him. YesThe Last Step ( David Koepp , 1999) was a rigged spectral thriller, another foray into the fantastic is very disappointing,The man without a shadow (2000), the Dutchman Paul Verhoeven was going “the clamp” when it came to telling the classic story of the invisible man.

WithLoverboy (2005) not only returned to directing, but he also acted, gave Sedgwyck a leading role, and commissioned his brother Michael Bacon to write the music . But this look at the overprotection of a mother is not well curdled. He will also direct several episodes ofThe Closer , television series starring his wife. In recent years, the best interpretation of him has been done under the orders of Alison Eastwood , daughter of the great Clint, inRails and ties (2007), where he was a guy with his cancer-stricken wife who also had a part, due to his work, in a train accident. And since it is no problem for him to go from main to secondary, the following year he takes on a good minor role in the powerful dramaThe challenge. Frost vs. Nixon (2008). It is also worth noting his role in the HBO telefilmTaking Chance , based on true events, where he is a soldier who must accompany the corpse of a fallen soldier in Iraq. Although selective in his work, he is not averse to more commercial proposals such as his villain ofX-Men: First Class , one of his last films.