Real name: Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III
Born: 3 April 1958, Massapequa, Long Island, New York
Discovered:
Baldwin made his Broadway debut in 1986, in a revival of Joe Orton's Loot alongside theater veterans Zo? Wanamaker, ?eljko Ivanek, Joseph Maher and Charles Keating. This production closed after three months. His other Broadway credits include Caryl Churchill's Serious Money with Kate Nelligan and a highly acclaimed revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. His performance as Stanley Kowalski in the latter garnered him a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor. Baldwin also received an Emmy nomination for the 1995 television version of the production, in which both he and Jessica Lange reprised their roles, alongside John Goodman and Diane Lane. In 1998, Baldwin played the title role in Macbeth at the Public theater alongside Angela Bassett and Liev Schreiber in a production directed by George C. Wolfe. In 2004, Baldwin starred in a revival of Twentieth Century with Anne Heche.
Baldwin's first major acting role was as Billy Aldrich on the daytime soap opera The Doctors from 1980 to 1982. In the fall of 1983, he starred in the short-lived television series Cutter to Houston. He then co-starred in the television series Knots Landing from 1984 to 1986. In 1986, Baldwin starred in Dress Gray, a four-hour made-for-television miniseries, as an honest cadet sergeant who tries to solve the mystery of a murdered classmate. The film was adapted by Gore Vidal from the novel by Lucian Truscott.
Baldwin made his theatrical film debut with a minor role in the 1988 film She's Having a Baby. Also in 1988, he appeared in Beetlejuice and Working Girl. He gained further recognition as a leading man with his role as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October (1990).
Romance: In 1990, he met his future wife, actress Kim Basinger, when they played lovers in the film The Marrying Man. They married in 1993 and had a daughter in October 1995. In January 2001, they filed for divorce, which was finalized in February 2002. Since then, the couple has been locked in a contentious public custody battle over their daughter. ABC News reported that according to Kim Basinger's father, Baldwin's temper was a factor in the divorce. His relationship with his daughter was thrown into the public sphere when a profanity-laced recording of Baldwin verbally abusing and threatening his daughter with violence was published by the media.
Dated Michelle Pfeiffer, Janine Turner and Ally Sheedy.
Filmography:
Forever, Lulu (1987)
Tong Tana (1989)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Miami Blues (1990)
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Malice (1993)
The Getaway (1994)
The Shadow (1994)
Two Bits (1995)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
The Juror (1996)
Heaven's Prisoners (1996)
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
The Edge (1997)
Thick as Thieves (1998)
Mercury Rising (1998)
The Confession (1999)
Outside Providence (1999)
"Scout's Honor" (1999)
The Acting Class (2000)
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)
Clerks: The Animated Series (2000)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Cats & Dogs (2001)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
The Cooler (2003)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Walking with Cavemen (2003)
"Brighter Days" (2003)
Channel Chasers (2003)
Along Came Polly (2004)
Double Dare (2004)
The Last Shot (2004)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
Elizabethtown (2005)
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
Mini's First Time (2006)
Running with Scissors (2006)
Suburban Girl (2007)
Brooklyn Rules (2007)
Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
My Best Friend's Girl (2008)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
Lymelife (2008)
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
It's Complicated (2009)
Awards:
Numerous awards for "30 Rock", "The Cooler", "State and Main", "The Departed", "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Knots Landing".
"Oscar" nomination for "The Cooler".
Trivia:
Brother-in-law of singer Chynna Phillips and Kennya Baldwin.
He and his wife Kim Basinger owned a total of eleven dogs, seven cats and a wolf.
Brother of William Baldwin, Stephen Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin, Jane Sasso, and Elizabeth Keuchler.
Loves Cuban cigars.
Is of Irish and French descent.
Good friends with actress Meryl Streep.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#80). [1995]
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