Birth Name: Kevin Bacon

Birth Date: July 8, 1958

Birth Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Height: 5'11''

Why he is a Golden Beau: One word: Footloose.

Movies you should see: Footloose (see above), Sleepers, Mystic River

Other Stuff:

-Married to Kyra Sedgwick (3 September 1988 - present) 2 children

-Reportedly married to an unknown women, for an unknown length of time, before his marriage to Sedgwick.

-His father is Edmund Bacon, a famous Philidelphia City Planner.

-Dated Tracy Pollan.

-Attended the prestigious Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School in Philadelphia with his brother, Michael.

-Inspired a game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, whereby people have to link any given actor to him by no more than six steps. For instance, to do Fred MacMurray, you could observe that MacMurray worked with Lee Marvin in The Caine Mutiny, which is one step; and Marvin worked with Jane Fonda in Cat Ballou, which is two steps; and Fonda worked with Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome, which is three steps; and Lemmon worked with Bacon in JFK, which completes the link in four steps. Harder versions of the game exist, limiting the player to five, four or even three steps.

-Attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts.

-Kevin's son, Travis, currently plays in the 4-member rock-punk-funk band Idiot Box.

-Is part of The Bacon Brothers, with brother Michael. The band has released 3 albums, Forosoco (1997), Getting There (1999) and Can't Complain (2001).

-Guest starred in "Will & Grace", playing himself.