Kyra Sedgwick has spent decades in Hollywood, but there's still a lot that people don't know about her.
From Not Having Any Hollywood Friends to Working With Her Husband Kevin Bacon: 5 Things You Don't Know About Kyra Sedgwick
1. Sedgwick Has Always Wanted to Be an Actress
“I somehow always knew — even when I was incredibly young — that this was it for me,” Sedgwick, 59, who most recently starred in the off-Broadway production All of Me, said. “I really wanted to do this acting thing, and I wasn’t going to stop until I was able to do it.”
2. Sedgwick Has Fallen in Love With Directing
“It feels so much better than acting,” Sedgwick, who has helmed episodes of TV’s Grace and Frankie and Ray Donovan and made her feature directing debut with 2022’s Space Oddity, said. “I’m much less vulnerable. And I feel like I know what I’m doing more. I have so much confidence.”
3. Sedgwick Is From a Distinguished Family
"One of our progenitors signed the Declaration of Independence, and another was a general in the Civil War,” Sedgwick, whose cousin was model and Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick, said. “I think the greatest claim to fame is Judge Theodore Sedgwick, who, as a lawyer, won the freedom of the first slave in North America. Her name was Elizabeth Freeman, and she’s buried in the Sedgwick family plot in Stockbridge, Mass.”
4. Sedgwick Is Making a Movie With Her Husband Kevin Bacon
"It’s a rom-com — it’s far from coming out, so don’t go looking for it yet,” Sedgwick said of Connescence, her first film with her husband, Kevin Bacon, since 2004’s films Cavedweller and The Woodsman.
5. Sedgwick Does Not Have Hollywood Friends
“No, Kevin and I don’t have a Rolodex of famous people,” Sedgwick said with a laugh. “Most of my friends I’ve had since I was a teenager.”