Is 6 Degrees Of Kevin Bacon Real? How Does The 6 Degrees Of Kevin Bacon Work?

The game, 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon, is real.

It was invented in 1994, by Craig Fass, Brian Turtle and Mike Ginelli, after they had watched two movies on television that featured Bacon back to back, Footloose and The Air Up There.

The game has led to the launch of a charity organization called SixDegrees.org, and a podcast called The Last Degree of Kevin Bacon.

How Does The 6 Degrees Of Kevin Bacon Work?

The 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a parlor game which sees players challenge each other to  choose an actor and then connect them to another actor.

The connection must be through a film that features both actors, and while the game repeats this process, the players try to find the shortest path that ultimately leads to American actor Kevin Bacon.

The idea of the game is that anyone in Hollywood can be linked to Kevin Bacon in 6 steps.

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).