A rare shot of Sedgwick in 1948 when she donned a French maid uniform working as a cigarette girl, just prior to scoring her role in the movie Singles. Perhaps you only know her as Kevin Bacon’s better half, or you may be completely unawares, but Sedgwick is descended from serious stock.
On her father’s side, she is a descendant of Judge Theodore Sedgwick, Endicott Peabody (the founder of the Groton School), William Ellery (a signer of the Declaration of Independence), John Lathrop (American minister) and is the great-granddaughter of Henry Dwight Sedgwick III, and thus the corresponding niece to his brother Ellery Sedgwick, owner/editor (1908-1938) of The Atlantic Monthly. Sedgwick is also a sister of actor Robert Sedgwick, half-sister of jazz guitarist Mike Stern, the first cousin once removed of actress Edie Sedgwick, and a niece of the writer John Sedgwick (wikipedia). Bet you didn’t know any of that.
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If the top pic was taken before 1948, then she would be over 80 in the bottom pic. Which is amazing. To say she’s had some work done would be an understatement. It must have beem some quailty work though because you can’t see the usual deformations – the puffed lips, the stretched forehead lifting the eybrows into that constantly surpirsed look, etc.
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Yes, I would really like the name of her surgeon. Only 3 yrs ago, in my 30s, I was happy, but now I feel 115, so I desperately need her surgeon. Perhaps it is her love for Bacon that keeps her young?
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Many people say that Bacon is bad for you, but it seems to agree with her. Ha! Maybe she has it in a BLT?
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Mmmmm….bacon!
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Yeah, her bloodline is pretty highbrow, but she still seems like a pretty cool woman to me, Kerbey. Must be that Dorian Gray gene alongside the Sedgwick blood.
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An Oscar Wilde reference!
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I know nothing about her. Except she played in “The Closer”. That is quite a pedigree. I had no idea she was married to Kevin Bacon. As for the picture that is a pretty swanky affair isn’t it? And how about those bare shoulders? I thought only starlets wore gowns like that. Shows how much I know.
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you are preluding for BoFN? Lots of meat (ha, bacon pun) here. I like Kyra if only because she and Mr. Bacon have been married forever, which doesn’t happen in Hollywood. So I assume she is a good person. Fair assumption?
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I think so, but I love sweeping generalizations and cat stereotyping. If you can stay with one person for that long, you must be a good person.
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It’s probably more comforting to know your relatives were able to hold high positions than to be the child of Charles Manson.
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Hmmm. But what if you started believing crazy ran in the family and then you drove yourself crazy?
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