Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He won a full scholarship at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts at Bucknell University, and moved to New York since he was seventeen years old in pursuit of a career in the theater. Since the eighties, he appeared in dozens of films films, including: Friday the 13th, Apollo 13, The River Wild, Mystic River, X-Men: First Class.