Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon is the only Philadelphia celebrity who can accurately say he is both the son of a Philadelphia celebrity and immortalized in a trivia game.

The elder Philadelphia celebrity was Kevin’s dad Edmund Bacon, the superstar architect and urban planner who headed Philadelphia’s City Planning Commission for more than 20 years and helped create (among other places) Independence Mall, Society Hill, Penn Center, and Penn’s Landing.

The trivia game is Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which, using film roles, players try to link any named actor to Kevin Bacon in the fewest possible number of steps. (The game is based on the 1990 play Six Degrees of Separation, which popularized the idea that anyone in the world can be linked to anyone else in the world through a chain of 6 or fewer acquaintances.)

Kevin got his formal acting training as a teenager and, after a few brief off-Broadway and soap opera appearances, made his movie debut in 1977 as Omega pledge Chip in Animal House (“Thank you Sir! May I have another?”). Kevin’s film career really took off in the 1980s and 1990s, with prominent roles in such movies as Diner, JFK, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, The River Wild, and of course Footloose.

The youngest of 6 children (Six Degrees of Edmund Bacon?), Kevin is a true family man and has been happily married to lovely actress Kyra Sedgwick since 1988.

Since 1994, Kevin and his brother Michael have performed (and recorded several outstanding albums) as the R&B band The Bacon Brothers – making Michael the only celebrity who can accurately say he is both the son of a Philadelphia celebrity and the brother of a Philadelphia celebrity immortalized in a trivia game.

Kevin Bacon / Bacon Brothers Official Website

Kevin Bacon Central (Ultimate Fan Site)

Oracle of Bacon (Computer Analysis of "6 Degrees of Bacon")