Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American actor and musician whose films include musical-drama film Footloose , the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller JFK , the legal drama A Few Good Men , the historical docudrama Apollo 13 and the mystery drama Mystic River . He currently stars on the Fox television series The Following. Bacon has won a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. He was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.