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Date of Birth

19 August 1965, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name

Kyra Minturn Sedgwick

Nickname

Kiko

Height

5' 5" (1.65 m)

Mini Biography

Kyra was born in New York and attended private schools. She made her professional acting debut at 16 on the soap opera "Another World" (1964). A graduate of USC, Kyra has pursued a career that includes stage, screen and television. Kyra's reason for becoming an actor is that it gives her the ability to be compassionate and to walk around in the shoes of others. Her first brush with stardom came in Born on the Fourth of July (1989) as "Donna", the high school sweetheart of Tom Cruise. Two of her roles led to Golden Globe nominations: Miss Rose White (1992) (TV) and Something to Talk About (1995). She met her husband, Kevin Bacon, when they played leads in the TV movie Lemon Sky (1988) (TV).

IMDb Mini Biography By: Tony Fontana

Spouse

Kevin Bacon

(4 September 1988 - present) 2 children

Trivia

Has two children, Travis Bacon and Sosie Bacon.

Second cousin of actress Edie Sedgwick.

Was a guest at Sarah Jessica Parker's 40th birthday party.

Older sister of actor Robert Sedgwick.

Sister-in-law of Michael Bacon and Betsy Bacon.

Aunt of up-and-coming Canadian singer/songwriter Justin Nozuka, George Nozuka and Philip Nozuka.

Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Received the 1988 Theatre World award for her stage portrayal of Muriel in Eugene O'Neill's "Ah Wilderness".

Graduate of the University of Southern California (Theatre).

Kyra and her husband, Kevin Bacon, lost an undisclosed amount of money in the Bernard Madoff scandal.

Aunt of Neal Bacon.

Personal Quotes

"It's an unattainable goal to be good at everything." - as quoted in Woman's World.

It was such a lovely, lovely, lovely night, and I was so happy to have my daughter and my husband there. And it does mean something. It means something in the industry, and it means something on a personal level. It was also a chance for me to get up there and thank the people I wanted to thank. It means a lot to me to say in a public way how much I love doing the show and what a great gift it has been for me and to thank the people who are a part of it. (On her Golden Globe win)

Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

Where Are They Now

(November 2005) Now lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children.

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