Released album “The Bondsman: Hell and Back”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Figure timeline
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American actor. Known for various roles, including leading man characters, Bacon has received numerous accolades such as a Golden Globe Award and two Actor Awards.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
entertainment · American actor (born 1958) · actor · film actor · musician · voice actor · character actor · television actor · film producer · director · manufacturer · stage actor · also Kevin Bacon, Kevin Norwood Bacon, Bacon
Born 8 July 1958 · Q3454165
39 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
6 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Award
- Award
2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Bondsman review – the scariest thing about Kevin Bacon’s demonic thriller? His singing
- #news
- #headline
2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: Actor Kevin Bacon on learning selflessness, the secret lives of porn addicts, and what’s it like to be a private tutor for the rich? – podcast
- #news
- #headline
The Guardian: ‘This sucks. I want to go back to being famous’: Kevin Bacon’s experiment as a ‘regular person’
- #news
- #headline
The Guardian: ‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself
- #news
- #headline
2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘Kevin Bacon’s death delighted me the most’: how we made Friday the 13th
- #news
- #headline
2022· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Actor Kevin Bacon would pay wedding DJs at events he attended to not play Kenny Loggins’ song “Footloose,” from Bacon's hit 1984 film of the same name.” True.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
- #fact-check
- #rated
- #claim-about-figure
The Guardian: Kevin Bacon: ‘I turned down dancing to Footloose dressed as an M&M. My wife doesn’t like it when food talks’
- #news
- #headline
The Guardian: Post your questions for Kevin Bacon
- #news
- #headline
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows a young Kevin Bacon getting an autograph from David Lee Roth of the rock band Van Halen.” Miscaptioned.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
- #fact-check
- #rated
- #claim-about-figure
2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Stir of Echoes: Kevin Bacon attempts to unearth dark secrets in working-class Chicago
- #news
- #headline
2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Swine of the times: why is Kevin Bacon looking for a new home?
- #news
- #headline
2018· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim ““VIDEO Kevin Bacon Saying ‘We Are Blessed To Have Donald Trump As Our President’”” Pants on Fire.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
- #fact-check
- #rated
- #claim-about-figure
2017· 1 entry
FactCheck.org rated the claim ““Kevin Bacon: ‘We are blessed to have Donald Trump as our president.'"” False.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
- #fact-check
- #rated
- #claim-about-figure
2016· 1 entry
Which was about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2015· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Actor Kevin Bacon decided to change his last name because he did not want to offend people of the Muslim faith.” Labeled Satire.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
- #fact-check
- #rated
- #claim-about-figure
Appeared in the crime film Black Mass, which starred Johnny Depp
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Became a commercial spokesperson for the U
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Said in a Huffington Post interview he would like to return to the Tremors franchise
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2013· 2 entries
Awarded Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television for The Following (2013).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Won a Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television for that role
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2012· 2 entries
Google added a feature to their search engine, whereby searching for an actor's name followed by the words "Bacon Number" would show the ways in which that actor is connected to Kevin Bacon
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bacon has appeared in a major advertising campaign for EE in the United Kingdom, based on the Six Degrees concept and his various film roles
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2011· 2 entries
Via their appearance on the PBS TV series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, that they are ninth cousins, once removed
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
The same year as the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, in which Bacon portrayed a co-worker involved in an affair
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2010· 1 entry
It was confirmed that Bacon would appear in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class as mutant villain Sebastian Shaw
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2009· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for Taking Chance (2009).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #trophy
- #achievement
2005· 1 entry
Bacon was in the comedy film Beauty Shop with Queen Latifah
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2003· 2 entries
Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Bacon acted with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins in Clint Eastwood's movie Mystic River
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2000· 1 entry
Appeared in Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1995· 2 entries
The same year that he starred in the blockbuster hit Apollo 13
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Kevin formed a band called The Bacon Brothers with his brother, Michael
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1994· 1 entry
Bacon earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in The River Wild, opposite Meryl Streep
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1990· 1 entry
Bacon had two successful roles
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1982· 1 entry
Won an Obie Award for his role in Forty Deuce, and soon afterward he made his Broadway debut in Slab Boys, with then-unknowns Sean Penn and Val Kilmer
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1980· 1 entry
Appeared in the slasher film Friday the 13th
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1975· 1 entry
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
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1958· 1 entry
Born 1958-07-08.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth