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Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon was born July 8, 1958, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He 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.

He made his Hollywood debut as Chip in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). Soon afterward, he gained notice for a fine performance as the hotheaded alcoholic Fenwick in Barry Levinson's classic ensemble film Diner (1982).

Bacon was launched into mainstream stardom by his lead role in Footloose (1984), a lightweight confection about a city boy who shakes up a small, religious town by dancing. In the 1990s, he had notable roles in Oliver Stone's JFK (1991), A Few Good Men (1992) with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995), and in Barry Levinson's Sleepers (1996). Bacon received a Golden Globe nomination for his menacing role in The River Wild (1995) with Meryl Streep. In 1998, Bacon starred in Wild Things, with Neve Campbell and Matt Dillon.

After collaborating for 20 years, Bacon and his brother Michael formed a rhythm and blues band in 1994. As The Bacon Brothers.

Tom Cruise

While in high school, Tom Cruise developed an interest in acting and abandoned his plans of becoming a priest, dropped out of school, and at age 18 headed for New York and a possible acting career. The next 15 years of his life are the stuff of legends. He made his film debut with a small part in Endless Love (1981) and from the outset exhibited an undeniable box office appeal to both male and female audiences.

Though below average height and not particularly handsome in the traditional sense, within 5 years Tom Cruise was starring in some of the top grossing films of the 1980s including Top Gun (1986), Color of Money, The (1986), Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). By the 1990s he was one of the highest paid actors in the world earning an average 15 million dollars a picture in such blockbuster hits as Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996) and Jerry Maguire (1996) for which he received an Academy Award Nomination for best actor.

In 1990 he renounced his devout Catholic beliefs and embraced The Church Of Scientology claiming that Scientology teachings had cured him of the dyslexia that had plagued him all of his life. A kind and thoughful man well known for his compassion and generosity, Tom Cruise is one of the best liked members of the movie community. He was married to actress Nicole Kidman until 2001.