Kyra Sedgwick isn't just a Hollywood icon with more than 40 years in entertainment — she's a direct descendant of American high society. In fact, historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr called her family "one of the most prominent and most chronicled in all of New England".

The star of Born on the Fourth of July and Singles has been married to fellow actor Kevin Bacon since 1988, and has sparked her own Hollywood dynasty now that daughter Sosie Bacon is also an actress.

But, born to venture capitalist Henry Dwight Sedgwick V and educational therapist Patricia Rosenwald in 1965, Kyra also sits atop one of the oldest lineages in the United States…

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