Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American actor, director, producer, and musician, who is best known for his many roles, such as Ren McCormack in the 1984 musical drama film and Jack Swigert in the 1995 Universal Pictures space docudrama film . He also voiced the titular character of the 1995 Universal Pictures animated film .
For Disney, he played Jimmy Dolan in the 1994 Hollywood Pictures film The Air Up There. He was also mentioned in Guardians of the Galaxy and portrayed himself in the 2022 Marvel TV special The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
Bacon was born and raised in a close-knit family in Philadelphia. He is the youngest of six children. His mother, Ruth Hilda (née Holmes), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Bacon, was an urban planner who notably served as executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission and authored the seminal text Design of Cities. Bacon attended Julia R. Masterman School in the Spring Garden section for both middle and high school. At age 16 in 1975, Bacon won a full state-funded scholarship to the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, a five-week arts program where he studied theater under Glory Van Scott. The experience solidified Bacon's passion for the arts.
Bacon left home at age 17 to pursue a theater career in New York City, where he appeared in a production at the Circle in the Square Theater School. "I wanted life, man, the real thing," he later recalled to Nancy Mills of . "The message I got was 'The arts are it. Business is the devil's work. Art and creative expression are next to godliness.' Combine that with an immense ego and you wind up with an actor." Bacon's debut in the fraternity comedy (1978) did not lead to the fame he had sought, and Bacon returned to waiting tables and auditioning for small roles in theater. He briefly worked on the television soap operas (1979) and (1980–81) in New York.
==Roles==
Jimmy Dolan - The Air Up There.jpg|Jimmy Dolan(The Air Up There)
Kevin Bacon - Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.jpg|Himself(The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special)
==Gallery==
Kevin Bacon 68th Golden Globes.jpg|Kevin Bacon attending the 68th annual Golden Globes in January 2011.
Kevin Bacon Winter TCA Tour13.jpg|Kevin Bacon speaks at panel at the 2013 Winter TCA Tour.
Kevin Bacon SDCC.jpg|Kevin Bacon speaks at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con.
Kevin Bacon Sundance15 portrait.jpg|Kevin Bacon poses for a portrait at the 2015 Sundance Film Fest.
Kevin Bacon TIFF15.jpg|Kevin Bacon attending the 2015 Toronto International Film Fest.
Kevin Bacon visits Jimmy Fallon.jpg|Kevin Bacon visiting in August 2016.
Kevin Bacon Sundance19.jpg|Kevin Bacon attending the 2019 Sundance Film Fest.
Kevin Bacon WInter TCA19.jpg|Kevin Bacon speaks at the panel during the 2019 Winter TCA Tour.
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