Kevin Bacon Parents: Meet Edmund Bacon And Ruth Hilda Holmes

Publish date: 2020-10-13

American actor Kevin Bacon was born on July 8, 1958, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, to Edmund Bacon and Ruth Hilda Holmes.

Edmund Bacon

Bacon’s father, Edmund, passed away on October 14, 2005.

He was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author.

He was a former executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission and was often referred to as “The Father of Modern Philadelphia”.

Ruth Hilda Holmes

Bacon’s mother, Ruth, was an elementary school teacher and liberal political activist.

She passed on in 1991.

Bacon grew up amongst his six siblings in Philadelphia.

He was schooled at Julia R. Masterman High School and later attended the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts at Bucknell University.

Who Is Kevin Bacon?

Kevin Bacon is an American actor born July 8, 1958.

Bacon has starred in several movies including Footloose (1984), JFK (1991),  A Few Good Men (1992), Apollo 13 (1995), and Mystic River (2003).

Bacon is the voice behind the title character in Balto (1995). He has won several awards including a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Kevin Bacon Movies

Other movies Bacon appeared include Sleepers (1996), The Woodsman (2004),  Animal House (1978), Diner (1982), Tremors (1990), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), Friday the 13th (1980), Flatliners (1990), The River Wild (1994), Wild Things (1998), Stir of Echoes (1999), Hollow Man (2000), Frost/Nixon (2008), X-Men: First Class (2011), Black Mass (2015) and Patriots Day (2016).

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