Alec Baldwin

Age: 51
Height: 6'

Birth Place: Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
Born: Apr. 3rd, 1958

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Alec Baldwin's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
30 Rock	Jack Donaghy
Clerks	Leonardo Le…
Knots Landing	Joshua Rush
Hollywood Squares	Center Square
The Sharon Osbourne Show	Alec Baldwin

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Raven haired, suavely handsome and prolific New York-born actor Alec Baldwin is easily the best known of the four Baldwin brothers appearing in the cinema (for the record, the others are Stephen Baldwin (I), William Baldwin (I) and Daniel Baldwin (I)).

Alec burst onto the TV scene in the early 1980s with appearances in several series, including "The Doctors" (1963) and "Knots Landing" (1979), before scoring several decent feature film roles in Forever Lulu (1987), Beetle Juice (1988), Married to the Mob (1988) and Talk Radio (1988). In 1990 Baldwin appeared in the first on-screen adaption of the Jack Ryan character created by mega-selling espionage author Tom Clancy (I). The film, The Hunt for Red October (1990), was a tremendous success, with Baldwin appearing alongside icy Sean Connery (the world's first Russian sub commander with a thick Scots accent!), Unfortunately, Baldwin fell out with Paramount Studios over future scripts for Jack Ryan, and subsequent Ryan roles went to Harrison Ford (I). It was a minor blip on Baldwin's horizon, and he then contributed interesting performances as a lowlife thief pursued by dogged cop Fred Ward (I) in Miami Blues (1990), in the Neil Simon (I) comedy The Marrying Man (1991) and an absolutely dynamite ten-minute cameo as a hard-nosed real estate executive laying down the law to Ed Harris (I), Jack Lemmon (I) and Alan Arkin in the punishing Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).

Further demand for Baldwin's talents saw more strong scripts swiftly come his way, and he starred alongside his then wife Kim Basinger in a remake of the Steve McQueen (I) action flick The Getaway (1994), brought to life the famous comic strip character The Shadow (1994) and was superb as an assistant district attorney in the civil rights drama Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Baldwin's distinctive vocal talents then saw him voice US-aired episodes of the highly popular UK children's show "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" (1984), plus later voice-only contributions to other animated/children's shows including "Clerks" (2000), Cats & Dogs (2001), Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004). The versatile and enigmatic Baldwin has remained consistently busy over the past decade with appearances in a mixed bag of movies: as Capt. Jimmy Doolittle in the mammoth love story of Pearl Harbor (2001) and a violent casino boss intimidating luckless William H. Macy in The Cooler (2003). He picked up scathing reviews (as did the entire cast) for the box-office disaster The Cat in the Hat (2003) and he starred in the quirky Along Came Polly (2004) alongside Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston. With audience demand for his talents, and his now recognized box office clout, it remains obvious to all the Alec Baldwin will keep very busy in front of the camera for many years to come.

TRIVIA:

A fan of novelist 'James Lee Burke' (qv), he owns the rights to a number of books featuring his character Dave Robiceaux. One of these, _Heaven's Prisoners (1996)_ (qv), was released in 1996.
Is only the third person in history to be nominated for both Best Supporting Actor from the Oscars, for _The Cooler (2003)_ (qv), and Worst Supporting Actor from the Razzies, for _The Cat in the Hat (2003)_ (qv), in the same year.
(1995) Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#80).
Daughter, Ireland Eliesse (aka Addie Baldwin), born on October 23, 1995.
Alec's daughter is often called "Addie" by family members.
Did a skit on _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv) in December of 2005 in which he spoofed himself delivering the same speech he did in _Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)_ (qv) to a couple of Santa's elves. Only some of the words were changed to apply to the elves rather than salesmen. He slipped though when saying the line, "Always Be Cobbling" instead he said the original line, "Always Be Closing". This made the other cast members break out in laughter on the live show.
Caused a scandal by leaving an expletive filled voice mail for his daughter Ireland, calling her a "thoughtless little pig", which later was revealed to the media (11 April 2007).
(1990) Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world.