Actor, born July 8, 1958, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The youngest of six children of Edmund Bacon, a noted Philadelphia city planner and a schoolteacher mother, Kevin left home at the age of 17 to attend classes at the Manning Street Actor's Theatre and the Circle in the Square Theater School in New York City. He began his professional acting career off-Broadway in Alan Brown's Forty Deuce, receiving an Obie award for his performance. His Broadway debut came in 1983, co-starring with Sean Penn and Val Kilmer in the John Byrne play, Slab Boys.