Who is Kevin Bacon?
A: Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American actor.
His films include what?
A: Footloose (1984), JFK (1991), A Few Good Men (1992 Apollo 13 (1995), and
Mystic River (2003).
Bacon is also known for voicing the title character in
what?
A: Balto (1995).
He has taken on darker roles, such as that of what?
A: A sadistic guard in Sleepers (1996).
He played a troubled former child abuser in what?
A: The Woodsman (2004).
He is further known for what hit comedies?
A: National Lampoon's
Animal House (1978), Diner (1982), Tremors (1990) and
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011).
What are his other well-known films?
A: Friday the 13th (1980), Flatliners (1990), The River Wild (1994), Wild
Things (1998), Stir of Echoes (1999), Hollow Man (2000), Frost/Nixon (2008),
X-Men: First Class (2011), Black Mass (2015) and Patriots Day (2016).
He starred in what Fox drama series?
A: The Following (2013–2015).
For the HBO original film Taking Chance (2009), Bacon
won what?
A: A Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, also receiving a
Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
More recently, Bacon portrayed the title character, and
was the series lead, of what?
A: The Amazon Prime streaming television series I Love Dick, for which he
was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
The Guardian named him one of the best actors to never
what?
A: To never have received an Academy Award nomination.
In 2003, Bacon received a what?
A: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion
picture industry.
Bacon has become associated with the concept of
interconnectedness among people, having been popularized by what?
A: The game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon".
In 2007, he created what?
A: SixDegrees.org, a charitable foundation.
He is a brand ambassador for what?
A: British mobile network operator EE and has been featured in several ads
for the company.
Bacon was the youngest of how many children?
A: Six.
He was born and raised in a what?
A: A close-knit family in Philadelphia.
His mother, Ruth Hilda Holmes, taught at an elementary
school and was a what?
A: A liberal activist.
His father, Edmund Norwood Bacon was a what?
A: An architect who served for many years as executive director of the
Philadelphia City Planning Commission.
Bacon attended what high school?
A: Julia R. Masterman High School for both middle and high school.
At age 16, in 1975, Bacon won what?
A: A full scholarship to and attended the
Pennsylvania Governor's School for
the Arts at Bucknell University.
Bacon left home at age 17 to pursue what?
A: A theater career in New York City, where he appeared in a production at
the Circle in the Square Theater School.
Bacon's debut in the fraternity comedy National
Lampoon's Animal House (1978) did not lead to what?
A: The fame he had sought, and Bacon returned to waiting tables and
auditioning for small roles in theater.
He briefly worked on what television soap operas?
A: Search for Tomorrow (1979) and Guiding Light (1980–81) in New York.
In 1980, he appeared in what?
A: The slasher film Friday the 13th.