Sosie Bacon

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| birth_name = Sosie Ruth Bacon

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1992|03|15}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.{{Cite web |title=All About Sosie Bacon's Relationship with Famous Parents Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick |url=https://people.com/all-about-sosie-bacon-parents-kevin-bacon-kyra-sedgwick-8350365 |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=Peoplemag |language=en}}

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| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 2005–present

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Edmund Bacon (grandfather)
Michael Bacon (uncle)
Sedgwick family
Robert Sedgwick (uncle)
Mike Stern (half-uncle)}}

| alma_mater = Brown University

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Sosie Ruth Bacon (born March 15, 1992) is an American actress. The daughter of actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, her first role was playing 10-year-old Emily in the film Loverboy (2005). While her parents did not push for her to continue acting, she was encouraged by producer James Duff to appear in The Closer (2009).

As an adult, Bacon appeared in the films Wishin' and Hopin' (2014), Ana Maria in Novela Land (2015), Charlie Says (2018), The Last Summer (2019), and Wyrm (2019), and the television series Scream (2016), Story of a Girl (2017), 13 Reasons Why (2017–2018), Narcos: Mexico (2020), Mare of Easttown (2021), and As We See It (2022), and the horror film Smile (2022).

Early life

Sosie Bacon was born in 1992 to actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, who tried to provide her with as ordinary an upbringing as was possible in the circumstances and did not want to push her into acting.{{cite news |last=Duff |first=James |title=The Closer Creator James Duff: "Identity Theft" |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrity-blogs/duff-identity-theft-1008721.aspx |accessdate=March 13, 2012 |newspaper=TV Guide |date=August 6, 2009|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090811181008/https://www.tvguide.com/celebrity-blogs/duff-identity-theft-1008721.aspx|archive-date=August 11, 2009}}{{cite AV media |date=September 29, 2022 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0eJiuaPPNk |title="She's Cheap, She's Pretty, She's Mine" - Sosie Bacon On Buying Her Horse, Diamond |publisher=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |via=YouTube |access-date=December 3, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221126103533/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0eJiuaPPNk |archive-date=November 26, 2022 |url-status=live}} Bacon studied at Brown University{{Cite news|last=Heyman|first=Marshall|date=2014-01-10|title=Sosie Bacon Steps Out for the Globes |language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url= https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303848104579309223478319300.html|access-date=2021-06-03|issn=0099-9660}} and has studied at musical theatre company CAP21.

Career

In 2005, she starred in Loverboy. While directing Loverboy, Kevin Bacon decided to cast Sosie in the film. Asked about the choice, he said that he made the decision as a director, not as a father, because he believed his daughter was perfect for the role, and "Sosie was cool. She kind of got it out of her system. She said 'Oh, that was fun—now I'm going back to school'." Sosie portrayed the main character Emily in a flashback, while the adult Emily was portrayed by Sosie's mother Kyra Sedgwick.{{cite news |last=Hill |first=Logan |title=Family Man: Kevin Bacon |url=http://nymag.com/movies/profiles/17248/ |accessdate=March 13, 2012 |newspaper=New York |date=June 11, 2006}}{{cite news |last=Roman |first=Julian |title=Kevin Bacon Talks Loverboy |url=http://www.movieweb.com/news/kevin-bacon-talks-loverboy |accessdate=March 13, 2012 |newspaper=MovieWeb |date=June 14, 2006}} As Emily, Sosie sang an a cappella version of the David Bowie song "Life on Mars?", that was described in a review from The New York Times as "grotesquely funny".{{cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |title=A Motherly Love So Strong It Delights, Then Frightens, in 'Loverboy' |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/movies/16love.html |accessdate=March 13, 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 16, 2006}}{{cite news |last=Westal |first=Bob |title=Loverboy |url=http://www.filmthreat.com/reviews/6869/ |accessdate=March 13, 2012 |newspaper=Film Threat |date=June 19, 2006}} Her brother, Travis Bacon, was cast in a smaller role in the film.{{cite news |last=Rhea |first=Steven |title=Bacon film explores a dark side of family |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6TEzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0ggGAAAAIBAJ&pg=6810,8597513&dq&hl=en |accessdate=March 13, 2012 |newspaper=The Free Lance–Star |date=June 27, 2006}} Kevin praised Sosie's work on Loverboy, but said that he would not be encouraging her to pursue acting further.{{cite news |last=Bacon |first=Kevin |title=Bacon Wrecks Daughter's Acting Dreams By Putting Her In Movie |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/bacon-wrecks-daughter.s-acting-dreams-by-putting-her-in-movie |accessdate=March 18, 2012 |date=December 29, 2012}}

In 2009, she starred in The Closer. She joined the cast of Fiction in Photographs in 2012, an off-Broadway musical by Dan Mills and Randy Redd.{{cite web |title=Cast – Fiction in Photographs – The Musical |url= http://www.fictioninphotographs.com/cast/ |access-date=October 26, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140113130238/http://www.fictioninphotographs.com/cast/ |archive-date=January 13, 2014}}{{cite news |title=Fiction in Photographs to Offer 3 Free Presentations at New World Stages |url= http://w.broadwayworld.com/read.cfm?id=411705 |accessdate=October 26, 2012 |newspaper=Broadway World |date=October 3, 2012}}

On November 21, 2013, Bacon was crowned Miss Golden Globe 2014. Chosen each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Miss Golden Globe assists with the Globes ceremony and is typically the daughter of Hollywood celebrities.{{cite news |title=Sosie Bacon, Kevin Bacon's Daughter, Is Miss Golden Globe 2014 |url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/22/sosie-bacon-miss-golden-globe_n_4322906.html?ir=Entertainment |work= Huffington Post |date=November 22, 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131122235743/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/22/sosie-bacon-miss-golden-globe_n_4322906.html?ir=Entertainment |url-status=dead |archive-date= November 22, 2013}}

In 2014, Bacon was cast in the leading female role of the independent film Off Season, opposite Chance Kelly, which was released in 2017.{{cite news |last1=Saltzberg |first1=Rich |title=Thriller 'Off Season' mixes Vineyard talent with Hollywood |url=http://www.mvtimes.com/2014/02/03/almost-a-wrap-thriller-off-season-mixes-vineyard-talent-with-hollywood/ |accessdate=June 27, 2014 |work=The Martha's Vineyard Times |date=February 3, 2014}} Following up her role in 13 Reasons Why, Bacon was cast in Here and Now, a 2018-debuting HBO family drama series from award-winning writer-producer Alan Ball, as Kristen, the youngest daughter of a couple played by Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter.{{cite news |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |title=Alan Ball HBO Series Casts Sosie Bacon, Daniel Zovatto, Raymond Lee & Jerrika Hinton|url=https://deadline.com/2017/01/alan-ball-hbo-series-jerrika-hinton-sosie-bacon-daniel-zovatto-raymond-lee-cast-1201879698/ |accessdate=May 22, 2017 |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=January 6, 2017}} She appeared in HBO's 2021 limited series Mare of Easttown, as Carrie Layden. She starred in the 2022 horror film Smile as Dr. Rose Cotter, and received praise for her performance.{{cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=September 22, 2021 |title='Mare of Easttown' Actor Sosie Bacon to Star in 'Something's Wrong With Rose' for Paramount Players (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/sosie-bacon-somethings-wrong-with-rose-paramount-1235070324/ |accessdate=September 22, 2021 |website=Variety}}