Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American actor. His films include the musical-drama film Footloose, the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller JFK, the legal drama A Few Good Men, the historical docudrama Apollo 13, and the mystery drama Mystic River. Bacon has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since 1988; they have two children.
Known For
Credits
Cast Credits
Sirens (2025)
Starring as Peter Kell
(4 episodes)
- Episode 1x05: Siren Song (May 22, 2025)
- Episode 1x04: Persephone (May 22, 2025)
- Episode 1x03: Monster (May 22, 2025)
- Episode 1x02: Talons (May 22, 2025)
The Bondsman (2025)
Starring as Hub Halloran
(8 episodes)
- Episode 1x08: Lilith (Apr 3, 2025)
- Episode 1x07: Pyralis (Apr 3, 2025)
- Episode 1x06: Revelations (Apr 3, 2025)
- Episode 1x05: Slypharis (Apr 3, 2025)
- Episode 1x04: Erdos (Apr 3, 2025)
- Episode 1x03: Marphos (Apr 3, 2025)
- Episode 1x02: Valacor (Apr 3, 2025)
- Episode 1x01: Pot O’Gold (Apr 3, 2025)
Marvel Studios' Special Presentation (2022)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 2022-11-25: Marvel Studios' Special Presentation: The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (Nov 25, 2022)
Ben & Jerry's: Clash of the Cones (2021)
Guest starring as Guest
- Episode 1x01: Six Flavors of Kevin Bacon (Aug 16, 2021)
The Drew Barrymore Show (2020)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 5x133: Kevin Bacon, Max Greenfield, Tess Sanchez (Apr 7, 2025)
GMA3: What You Need to Know (2020)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 3x37: Devin Dwyer, Valera Jacob Allen, Lottie Bedlow, Kevin Bacon (Nov 1, 2022)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
(4 episodes)
- Episode 6x141: Kevin Bacon, Christie Brinkley (Apr 29, 2025)
- Episode 5x29: Kevin Bacon, Ego Nwodim, Kevin Quinn (Nov 27, 2023)
- Episode 4x127: Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick, John Owen Lowe (Mar 31, 2023)
- Episode 2x124: Kevin Bacon, Bailee Madison, Hello Sunday (Apr 7, 2021)
City on a Hill (2019)
Starring as Jackie Rohr
(26 episodes)
- Episode 3x08: Whipping Post (Sep 25, 2022)
- Episode 3x07: Boston Bridges, Falling Down (Sep 18, 2022)
- Episode 3x06: Tenderness (Sep 11, 2022)
- Episode 3x05: Take Me Home (Sep 4, 2022)
- Episode 3x04: Ugly, Like I Said (Aug 28, 2022)
- Episode 3x03: Speak When You're Angry (Aug 14, 2022)
- Episode 3x02: A Program of Complete Disorder (Aug 7, 2022)
- Episode 3x01: Gods and Monsters (Jul 31, 2022)
- Episode 2x08: Pax Bostonia (May 16, 2021)
- Episode 2x07: Apophasis (May 9, 2021)
- Episode 2x06: Don't Go Sayin Last Words (May 2, 2021)
- Episode 2x05: East of Eden (Apr 25, 2021)
- Episode 2x04: Overtime White and Overtime Stupid (Apr 18, 2021)
- Episode 2x03: Is the Total Black, Being Spoken (Apr 11, 2021)
- Episode 2x02: I Need a Goat (Apr 4, 2021)
- Episode 2x01: Bill Russell's Bedsheets (Mar 28, 2021)
- Episode 1x10: Mayor Curley and the Last Hurrah (Aug 18, 2019)
- Episode 1x09: The Deaf Sage of Pompeii (Aug 11, 2019)
- Episode 1x08: High on the Looming Gallows Tree (Aug 4, 2019)
- Episode 1x07: There Are No F**king Sides (Jul 28, 2019)
- Episode 1x06: It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City (Jul 21, 2019)
- Episode 1x05: From Injustice Came the Way to Describe Justice (Jul 14, 2019)
- Episode 1x04: The Wickedness of the Wicked Shall Be upon Himself (Jul 7, 2019)
- Episode 1x03: If Only the Fool Would Persist in His Folly (Jun 30, 2019)
- Episode 1x02: What They Saw in Southie High (Jun 23, 2019)
- Episode 1x01: The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice (Jun 16, 2019)
Today with Hoda & Jenna (2019)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 5x251: Kevin Bacon, Sean Evans (Sep 5, 2023)
Carpool Karaoke: The Series (2017)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 5x11: The Bacon Brothers (Dec 9, 2022) [Co-Star]
Live with Kelly & Ryan (2017)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 1x07: Kevin Bacon, Josh Greenwood (May 9, 2017)
I Love Dick (2016)
Starring as Dick Jarrett
(8 episodes)
- Episode 1x08: Cowboys and Nomads (May 12, 2017)
- Episode 1x07: The Barter Economy (May 12, 2017)
- Episode 1x06: This Is Not a Love Letter (May 12, 2017)
- Episode 1x05: A Short History of Weird Girls (May 12, 2017)
- Episode 1x04: Ilinx (May 12, 2017)
- Episode 1x03: Scenes from a Marriage (May 12, 2017)
- Episode 1x02: The Conceptual Fuck (May 12, 2017)
- Episode 1x01: I Love Dick (Aug 19, 2016)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 2019-06-13: Kevin Bacon, Mark Ronson ft. Lykke Li (Jun 13, 2019)
Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter (2015)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 3x01: Comedy Actors (Jun 25, 2017)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
(5 episodes)
- Episode 2023-03-30: Kevin Bacon; Kyra Sedgwick; Dustin Nickerson (Mar 30, 2023)
- Episode 2020-12-04: Kevin Bacon, Jamie Oliver (Dec 4, 2020)
- Episode 2020-06-16: From His Garage: Todrick Hall, Kevin Bacon, Rita Wilson (Jun 16, 2020)
- Episode 2017-05-11: Goldie Hawn, Kevin Bacon, Dreamcar (May 11, 2017)
- Episode 2015-08-10: Kevin Bacon, Alison Pill & Wolf Alice (Aug 10, 2015)
Hot Ones (2015)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 18x04: Kevin Bacon Needs Six Degrees of Separation From Spicy Wings (Jun 16, 2022)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
(5 episodes)
- Episode 2024-06-04: Kevin Bacon, Chris Colfer, Sydnee Washington (Jun 4, 2024)
- Episode 2021-03-24: Kevin Bacon, Retta (Mar 24, 2021)
- Episode 2019-06-17: Kevin Bacon, Cobie Smulders, Jordan Klepper (Jun 17, 2019)
- Episode 2015-03-31: Kevin Bacon, Chris D'Elia, Eric Ripert (Mar 31, 2015)
- Episode 2014-03-31: Kevin Bacon, Kevin Millar, Sean Casey, Katherine Schwarzenegger (Mar 31, 2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
(16 episodes)
- Episode 2025-04-01: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Peet, Louis McCartney, Preacher Lawson (Apr 1, 2025)
- Episode 2023-03-29: Kevin Bacon, Jay Pharoah, Coco Jones (Mar 29, 2023)
- Episode 2022-12-02: Kevin Bacon, Theo James, Jay Jurden (Dec 2, 2022)
- Episode 2022-08-03: Kevin Bacon, Jo Koy, Katherine Blanford (Aug 3, 2022)
- Episode 2021-04-22: Kevin Bacon, Simone Biles, Ritt Momney (Apr 22, 2021)
- Episode 2020-06-12: At Home Edition: Kevin Bacon, Aunjanue Ellis, Sarah Cooper, Christine and the Queens (Jun 12, 2020)
- Episode 2020-03-03: Kevin Bacon, Tan France, Taylor Tomlinson (Mar 3, 2020)
- Episode 2019-07-30: Kevin Bacon, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk, Jonathan Van Ness, The Highwomen (Jul 30, 2019)
- Episode 2018-04-26: Kevin Bacon, Alexis Bledel, The Bacon Brothers (Apr 26, 2018)
- Episode 2017-07-21: Kevin Bacon, Jenna Dewan Tatum, Nate Bargatze (Jul 21, 2017)
- Episode 2017-05-08: Kevin Bacon, David Feherty, Chris Stapleton (May 8, 2017)
- Episode 2017-01-12: Kevin Bacon, Greta Gerwig, Nick Thune (Jan 12, 2017)
- Episode 2016-08-29: Kevin Bacon, Meghan Trainor, Yo Gotti (Aug 29, 2016)
- Episode 2015-07-31: Kevin Bacon, Mel B, Russell Howard (Jul 31, 2015)
- Episode 2015-02-20: Kevin Bacon, Amy Sedaris, Nick Jonas (Feb 20, 2015)
- Episode 2014-03-21: Kevin Bacon, Jeff Musial, Ty Dolla $ign, Ann Wilson (Mar 21, 2014)
The Following (2013)
Starring as Ryan Hardy
(46 episodes)
- Episode 3x15: The Reckoning (May 18, 2015)
- Episode 3x14: Dead or Alive (May 18, 2015)
- Episode 3x13: A Simple Trade (May 11, 2015)
- Episode 3x12: The Edge (May 11, 2015)
- Episode 3x11: Demons (May 4, 2015)
- Episode 3x10: Evermore (Apr 27, 2015)
- Episode 3x09: Kill the Messenger (Apr 20, 2015)
- Episode 3x08: Flesh & Blood (Apr 13, 2015)
- Episode 3x07: The Hunt (Apr 6, 2015)
- Episode 3x06: Reunion (Mar 30, 2015)
- Episode 3x05: A Hostile Witness (Mar 23, 2015)
- Episode 3x04: Home (Mar 23, 2015)
- Episode 3x03: Exposed (Mar 16, 2015)
- Episode 3x02: Boxed In (Mar 9, 2015)
- Episode 3x01: New Blood (Mar 2, 2015)
- Episode 2x15: Forgive (Apr 28, 2014)
- Episode 2x14: Silence (Apr 21, 2014)
- Episode 2x13: The Reaping (Apr 14, 2014)
- Episode 2x12: Betrayal (Apr 7, 2014)
- Episode 2x11: Freedom (Mar 31, 2014)
- Episode 2x10: Teacher's Pet (Mar 24, 2014)
- Episode 2x09: Unmasked (Mar 17, 2014)
- Episode 2x08: The Messenger (Mar 10, 2014)
- Episode 2x07: Sacrifice (Mar 3, 2014)
- Episode 2x06: Fly Away (Feb 24, 2014)
- Episode 2x05: Reflection (Feb 17, 2014)
- Episode 2x04: Family Affair (Feb 10, 2014)
- Episode 2x03: Trust Me (Feb 3, 2014)
- Episode 2x02: For Joe (Jan 27, 2014)
- Episode 2x01: Resurrection (Jan 19, 2014)
- Episode 1x15: The Final Chapter (Apr 29, 2013)
- Episode 1x14: The End is Near (Apr 22, 2013)
- Episode 1x13: Havenport (Apr 15, 2013)
- Episode 1x12: The Curse (Apr 8, 2013)
- Episode 1x11: Whips & Regret (Apr 1, 2013)
- Episode 1x10: Guilt (Mar 25, 2013)
- Episode 1x09: Love Hurts (Mar 18, 2013)
- Episode 1x08: Welcome Home (Mar 11, 2013)
- Episode 1x07: Let Me Go (Mar 4, 2013)
- Episode 1x06: The Fall (Feb 25, 2013)
- Episode 1x05: The Siege (Feb 18, 2013)
- Episode 1x04: Mad Love (Feb 11, 2013)
- Episode 1x03: The Poet's Fire (Feb 4, 2013)
- Episode 1x02: Chapter Two (Jan 28, 2013)
- Episode 1x01: Pilot (Jan 21, 2013)
- Episode S02 Special: The Following Revisited (Jan 4, 2014)
The Rosie Show (2011)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 1x05: Valerie Harper & Kevin Bacon (Oct 14, 2011)
Conan (2010)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
(4 episodes)
- Episode 2020-04-08: Kevin Bacon (Apr 8, 2020)
- Episode 2019-07-17: Comic-Con 2019: The Cast of It Chapter Two (Jul 17, 2019)
- Episode 2019-07-08: Kevin Bacon (Jul 8, 2019)
- Episode 2013-07-10: My Friend Went to the Ed Hardy Outlet and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt (Jul 10, 2013)
The Talk (2010)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 2017-06-01: Kevin Bacon, Cristela Alonzo (Jun 1, 2017)
Bored to Death (2009)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 2x05: Forty-Two Down! (Oct 24, 2010) [Special Guest Star]
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 21x05: Diane Keaton, Jessica Chastain, Kevin Bacon, Michael Fassbender, Gorillaz (May 5, 2017)
America's Game: The Superbowl Champions (2006)
Guest starring as Narrator
(2 episodes)
- Episode 1x09: 1998 Denver Broncos (Jan 26, 2007)
- Episode 1x05: 1996 Green Bay Packers (Dec 22, 2006)
Morning Joe (2006)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
(2 episodes)
- Episode 2024-01-25: Episode 18 (Jan 25, 2024)
- Episode 2023-11-28: Episode 237 (Nov 28, 2023)
Made in Hollywood (2005)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 17x46: Bullet Train; Easter Sunday; Prey (Aug 6, 2022)
American Dad! (2005)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 20x12: The Legend of Mike Madonia, the Rototiller Man (Jan 13, 2025)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 2014-09-15: Kevin Bacon, the Bacon Brothers (Sep 15, 2014)
NY Graham Norton (2004)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 1x02: Kevin Bacon, LL Cool J (Feb 6, 2004)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
(2 episodes)
- Episode 2005-10-13: Kevin Bacon/Sara Rue (Oct 13, 2005)
- Episode 2003-10-08: Kevin Bacon/Phyllis Diller (Oct 8, 2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live (2003)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
(6 episodes)
- Episode 2023-03-02: Kevin Bacon, Paul Mescal, Kali Uchis (Mar 2, 2023)
- Episode 2022-06-13: Kevin Bacon, Mike Epps, Ben Harper (Jun 13, 2022)
- Episode 2021-03-10: Kevin Bacon, Travon Free, Daya (Mar 10, 2021)
- Episode 2020-05-06: Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick (May 6, 2020)
- Episode 2013-07-09: Kevin Bacon, Diane Kruger, the Bacon Brothers (Jul 9, 2013)
- Episode 2007-01-31: Kevin Bacon, Sofia Vergara, Robin Thicke with Pharrell (Jan 31, 2007)
American Idol (2002)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
(2 episodes)
- Episode 13x29: Results Show (Apr 17, 2014)
- Episode 12x27: Results Show (Apr 11, 2013)
Will & Grace (1998)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
(2 episodes)
- Episode 8x23: The Finale (1) (May 18, 2006) [Uncredited]
- Episode 5x02: Bacon and Eggs (Oct 3, 2002) [Special Guest Star]
The Frank Skinner Show (1995)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 9x07: Tommy Lee, Ozzy Osbourne, Kevin Bacon (Nov 10, 2005)
The Late Show with David Letterman (1993)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
(2 episodes)
- Episode 1995-07-13: Kevin Bacon, Pete Sampras, Phish (Jul 13, 1995)
- Episode 1994-10-12: Kevin Bacon, Al Michaels, Clint Black (Oct 12, 1994)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 2014-02-06: Billy Crystal & Garth Brooks (Feb 6, 2014)
Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist (1987)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 2022-07-31: Kevin Bacon (Jul 31, 2022)
Jeopardy! (1984)
Guest starring as Clue Presenter
- Episode 41x148: Bryce Wargin Vs. Lee Henry Vs. Brina Ratangee, Show # 9238. (Apr 2, 2025) [Special Guest Star]
Saturday Night Live (1975)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 16x12: Kevin Bacon / INXS (Feb 9, 1991)
Oscars (1953)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 1984-04-09: The 56th Annual Academy Awards (Apr 9, 1984)
Today (1952)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
(3 episodes)
- Episode 2025-04-03: Olivia Munn, Kevin Bacon (Apr 3, 2025)
- Episode 2024-04-22: Kevin Bacon, Jonathan Groff (Apr 22, 2024)
- Episode 2023-09-05: Kevin Bacon (Sep 5, 2023)
Golden Globe Awards (1944)
Guest starring as Kevin Bacon
- Episode 2021-02-28: The 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2021 (Feb 28, 2021)
Crew Credits
City on a Hill (2019)
Show crew as Co-Executive Producer
- Episode 1x06: It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City (Jul 21, 2019)
Episode crew as Director
- Episode 2x01: Bill Russell's Bedsheets (Mar 28, 2021)