Kyra Sedgwick
- Born: 19 Aug, 1965
Possessing in director Oliver Stone's words "a Barbara Stanwyck quality, a brassy intelligence and a habit of questioning everything" may have helped keep Kyra Sedgwick on the fringes of mainstream attention, despite a fistful of complimentary reviews in theater, TV and features, all noting her thoughtful focused presence and unconventional beauty. The lithe and bubbly blonde began her career at 15 on stage and then on the NBC daytime soap "Another World" but her first foray to Hollywood produced nothing but rejection. She finally made her feature debut as a Polish Jew whose romance is interrupted by World War II in "War and Love" (1985) and also starred that year opposite Pearl Bailey in the TV-movie "Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale" (ABC, 1985), a...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- mother : divorced from Sedgwick's father when Kyra was young
- father : divorced from Sedgwick's mother when Kyra was young
- step-father :
- brother Nicco Sedgwick:
- brother Rob Sedgwick:
- cousin Edie Sedgwick: part of Andy Warhol's "Factory" crowd; appeared in such Warhol films as "Beauty No. 2", "Vinyl", "Bitch" and "Kitchen" (all 1965); died of an apparent drug overdose on November 15, 1971
- son Travis Sedg Bacon: born in June 1989; father, Kevin Bacon
- daughter Sosie Ruth Bacon: born in March 1992; father Kevin Bacon
- husband Kevin Bacon: married in September 1988; met on the set of American Playhouse's production of "Lemon Sky" (1987); starred opposite each other in the feature "Pyrates" (1991); directed Sedgwick in "Losing Chase" (1996)
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