Bacon number

The Bacon number of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation (see Six degrees of separation) they have from actor Kevin Bacon, as defined by the game known as Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. It applies the Erdős number concept to the movie industry. The higher the Bacon number, the farther away from Kevin Bacon the actor is.

For example, Kevin Bacon's Bacon number is 0. If an actor works in a movie with Kevin Bacon, the actor's Bacon number is 1. If an actor works with an actor who worked with Kevin Bacon in a movie, the first actor's Bacon number is 2, and so forth.

Bacon Number Media

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  Kevin Bacon (right) with James Purefoy, who has a Bacon number of 2: Purefoy appeared in Women Talking Dirty with Helena Bonham Carter, and Bonham Carter appeared in Novocaine with Bacon.

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  A map of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Green circles, such as Kyra Sedgewick, represents a Bacon number of 1.

Other websites

• The Oracle of Bacon at the University of Virginia computes the Bacon number of any actor or actress from data scraped from Wikipedia (formerly using IMDb data).

References

2. "Modern Family", Daddy Issues (2018)