Trivia

Was on the genealogy show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012) with wife Kyra Sedgwick. She was scared to find out if they were related. When doing the part where Gates introduced her to some cousins she never knew the first one to pop up was Kevin. They are ninth cousins.

Is part of The Bacon Brothers, with his older brother Michael Bacon. The band has released three albums: "Forosoco" (1997), "Getting There" (1999) and "Can't Complain" (2001).

Has never lived in Hollywood or Los Angeles, except when working.

Lost an undisclosed amount of money in the Bernie Madoff scandal. Without revealing the sum, he has stated in interviews that it was most of his life savings.

Distant cousin of Robert Redford, through their connection to Bacons in the 1500s, and Valerie Bertinelli, through their common descent from Claypools in England.

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 Erdös, a mathematician (one's Erdös number measures the number of people a scientist is away from having authored a paper with Dr. Erdös). A very few people, mostly scientists who have appeared in documentaries (such as Carl Sagan), or actors who have also co-authored scientific papers (such as Danica McKellar and Natalie Portman), have both Erdös AND Bacon numbers.

Met wife Kyra Sedgwick on the set of Lemon Sky (1988).

He is always surprised that, for a guy from Philadelphia who has lived most of his life in New York City, he keeps landing roles where he plays Bostonian characters in productions such as, Mystic River (2003), Black Mass (2015), Patriots Day (2016), City on a Hill (2019), etc.

Daughter,Sosie Bacon (b. 3/15/1992) with wife Kyra Sedgwick.

Played the real-life head of the FBI's Boston, MA, field office in Black Mass (2015) and Patriots Day (2016).

Has a vacation farmhouse in Litchfield Hills, CT.

He has appeared in five films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: JFK (1991), A Few Good Men (1992), Apollo 13 (1995), Mystic River (2003) and Frost/Nixon (2008).

Has resided in New York City since he was 17.

Son Travis Bacon (b. 6/23/1989) with wife Kyra Sedgwick.

His father, Edmund Bacon, a famous Philadelphia city planner, was featured on the 11/6/964 cover of "Time" magazine. His mother was Ruth (Holmes) Bacon, a teacher and liberal political activist.

His father was a seventh cousin of President Richard Nixon.

Was the first choice for the Charlie Sheen part in Being John Malkovich (1999).

Attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts.

Attended the prestigious Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School in Philadelphia with his brother, Michael.

In Quicksilver (1986) and A Few Good Men (1992), his characters are both nicknamed "Smiling Jack".

He is of English, and smaller amounts of German and Irish, ancestry.

His line, "I am a Goddamn genius", is quoted in both Hollow Man (2000) and Trapped (2002).

Is a fifth cousin of William Thomas Hamill Jr., married to Virginia Suzanne Johnson, the parents of Mark Hamill.

Was the last interviewee of "Parade" magazine's "In Step With..." columnist James Brady, who passed away on 1/26/2009. The interview appeared in the 2/15/2009 edition of the magazine.

The family dog, a mutt, is called Paulie.

During his early years as an actor in New York he drew initial acclaim co-starring with Keith Gordon in the off-Broadway play "Album" at the legendary Cherry Lane Theatre.

Has worked with four directors who have won a Best Director Oscar: Barry Levinson, Oliver Stone, Ron Howard, and Clint Eastwood.

In 1995) he was chosen by "Empire" magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#61).

He sang with brother Michael Bacon (who played guitar) in Pawling, New York in the small restaurant/club The Towne Cryer.

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".

Kevin bacon and Johnny Depp both featured in the dawn of arguably the two most well known horror franchises in history. Depp appears in the "The nightmare on elm street" (1984) and bacon stars in "Friday the 13th" (1980) They both also co-star in Black mass (2015).

He has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant": National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and Apollo 13 (1995).

Both he and wife Kyra Sedgwick have starred in historical movies set in, and primarily filmed in and around, Baltimore, MD. He starred in Diner (1982) and she starred in Something the Lord Made (2004).

American-born Canadian actor Philip Nozuka, George Nozuka and Justin Nozuka, are his nephews through his wife, Kyra Sedgwick's side of the family.

Kevin bacon plays a character named Jack/Jackie in six movies plus a TV show- Friday the 13th (1980) Quicksilver (1986) A Few Good Men (1992) Apollo 13 (1995) My dog skip (2000) Frost/Nixon (2008) and City on a Hill (2019-2022).

Kevin was a singer in the group The Bacon Brothers.

His family tree also includes Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626) and Lord Chancellor of England during the reign of King James I.

Brother-in-law of Robert Sedgwick and Betsy Bacon.

Girard Swan worked as his stand-in on the Ron Howard film Frost/Nixon (2008).

Uncle of Neal Bacon.