94 Facts About Alec Baldwin

Alexander Rae Baldwin III was born on April 3,1958 and is an American actor and film producer.

Alec Baldwin is known for his leading and supporting roles in a variety of genres, from comedy to drama.

Alec Baldwin has received numerous accolades including three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and eight Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and Tony Award.

Alec Baldwin was Oscar-nominated for playing a casino manager in The Cooler and the BAFTA-nominated for playing a charming ex-husband in It's Complicated.

Alec Baldwin has acted in films such as Glengarry Glen Ross, The Royal Tenenbaums, Along Came Polly, The Aviator, The Departed, and Blue Jasmine as well as two Mission: Impossible films: Rogue Nation and Fallout.

Alec Baldwin voiced the titular role in The Boss Baby film franchise.

From 2006 to 2013, Alec Baldwin received critical acclaim starring alongside Tina Fey as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, winning two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor in a comedy series.

Alec Baldwin has hosted the NBC sketch series Saturday Night Live a record 17 times since 1990.

Alec Baldwin made his Broadway debut in Loot and was later nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Alec Baldwin returned to Broadway in Twentieth Century and Orphans.

Alec Baldwin hosted the Academy Awards in 2010 and the game show Match Game from 2016 to 2021.

Alexander Rae Alec Baldwin III was born on April 3,1958, in Amityville, New York, and raised in the Nassau Shores neighborhood of nearby Massapequa, the eldest son of Carol Newcomb from Syracuse, New York and Alexander Rae Alec Baldwin Jr.

Alec Baldwin has two sisters, Elizabeth "Beth" Keuchler and Jane Ann Sasso.

In New York City, Alec Baldwin worked as a busboy at the famed discotheque, Studio 54.

Alec Baldwin's first acting role was as Billy Aldrich in the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors from August 20,1980, to 1982.

Alec Baldwin went on to appear as the brother of Valene Ewing and son of Lilimae Clements in Knots Landing from 1984 to 1985.

In 1986, Alec 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 gay classmate.

Alec Baldwin made his Broadway debut in 1986 in a revival of Joe Orton's Loot alongside Zoe Wanamaker, Zeljko Ivanek, Joseph Maher, and Charles Keating.

Alec Baldwin made his feature film debut with a minor role in the 1987 comedy-mystery Forever, Lulu.

Alec Baldwin starred in Tim Burton fantasy horror comedy Beetlejuice opposite Michael Keaton and Geena Davis.

Alec Baldwin had supporting roles in the Mike Nichols romantic comedy Working Girl and Jonathan Demme's crime comedy Married to the Mob.

Alec Baldwin co-starred in Oliver Stone's drama Talk Radio opposite Eric Bogosian and in the John Hughes romantic drama She's Having a Baby with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern.

Alec Baldwin met his future wife Kim Basinger when they played lovers in the 1991 film The Marrying Man.

Alec Baldwin appeared with Basinger again in The Getaway, a 1994 remake of the 1972 Steve McQueen film of the same name.

Also, in 1994, Alec Baldwin made a foray into pulp fiction-based movies with the role of the title character in The Shadow.

Alec Baldwin 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 2002, Alec Baldwin appeared in two episodes of Friends as Phoebe's overly enthusiastic love interest, Parker.

Alec Baldwin guest-starred in the first live episode of the series.

Alec Baldwin shifted towards character acting, beginning with Pearl Harbor in 2001.

Alec Baldwin directed and starred in The Devil and Daniel Webster with Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Dan Aykroyd in 2001.

Alec Baldwin was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor for his performance in the 2003 gambling drama The Cooler.

Alec Baldwin collaborated with Martin Scorsese portraying Juan Trippe in the biographical drama The Aviator and Capt.

In 2004, Alec Baldwin starred in a revival of Broadway's Twentieth Century about a successful and egomaniacal Broadway director, who has transformed a chorus girl into a leading lady.

Charles Isherwood of Variety gave the production a mixed review writing of Alec Baldwin's performance, "Alec Baldwin is an earthy actor with a natural contemporary style, and his hoity-toity faux-British accent sounds more off-key than it should".

Alec Baldwin starred as Luther Billis, alongside Reba McEntire as Nellie and Brian Stokes Mitchell as Emile.

Alec Baldwin performed opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in Suburban Girl.

In 2006, Alec Baldwin made theater news in Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane.

In 2010, Alec Baldwin starred opposite Sam Underwood in a critically acclaimed revival of Peter Shaffer's Equus, directed by Tony Walton at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York.

Alec Baldwin displeased with the way the film had been cut in post-production, demanded that his directorial credit be changed to the pseudonym "Harry Kirkpatrick".

Alec Baldwin starred as Jack Donaghy on NBC's 30 Rock, which first aired in October 2006.

Alec Baldwin met his future co-stars Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan while appearing on Saturday Night Live.

Since season 3, Alec Baldwin was credited as one of 30 Rocks producers.

Alec Baldwin received his second Emmy nomination in 2008, marking his seventh Primetime Emmy nomination and first win.

Alec Baldwin co-authored the book A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce with Mark Tabb in 2008.

Alec Baldwin joined TCM's The Essentials Robert Osborne as co-host beginning in March 2009.

On January 12,2009, Alec Baldwin became the host of The New York Philharmonic This Week, the nationally syndicated radio series of the New York Philharmonic.

Alec Baldwin has recorded two nationally distributed public service radio announcements on behalf of the Save the Manatee Club.

Alec Baldwin co-starred in the hit romantic comedy It's Complicated with Meryl Streep and Steve Martin.

Together Streep and Alec Baldwin received positive reviews for their on-screen chemistry.

Kirk Honeycut of The Associated Press wrote, "Alec Baldwin has developed a second career in films and television by more or less spoofing his macho image".

Alec Baldwin went on to receive a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

That same year, Alec Baldwin co-hosted the 82nd Academy Awards with Steve Martin in 2010.

Between 2011 and 2020, Alec Baldwin completed more than 150 interviews, with guests who included musician Wynton Marsalis, filmmaker Edward Norton, comedian David Letterman, violinist Itzhak Perlman, and pianist Lang Lang, among many others.

Alec Baldwin later hosted the second show on February 2,2013.

Alec Baldwin denied that he used the word "fag", and later cited this incident as a major turning point in his public life.

In 2016, Alec Baldwin began hosting a reboot of the game show Match Game on ABC.

That same year Alec Baldwin gained acclaim and notoriety for his portrayal of Republican nominee Donald Trump during SNL coverage of the 2016 presidential election, to critical acclaim.

Alec Baldwin continued in the role until Trump's defeat in the 2020 election.

On March 3,2018, following the broadcast of the 90th Academy Awards, ABC broadcast a preview episode of the talk show The Alec Baldwin Show, at the time called Sundays With Alec Baldwin, scheduled to formally debut with a nine-episode order that fall.

Later, on August 29,2018, Alec Baldwin withdrew from the role.

Alec Baldwin was the subject of the 2019 edition of the Comedy Central Roast, which included a surprise appearance by his daughter Ireland among the roastees.

In 2021, Alec Baldwin starred opposite Jamie Dornan and Christian Slater in the miniseries Dr Death on Peacock.

Alec Baldwin has a voice cameo as himself interviewing Lydia Tar played by Cate Blanchett in Tar, directed by Todd Field.

In 2023, Alec Baldwin appeared in a cameo role in a Saturday Night Live sketch spoofing the Calm app.

Alec Baldwin has received a number of awards and nominations throughout his career for stage, television, and film roles.

Alec Baldwin has been nominated for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Tony Award and has received three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and eight Screen Actors Guild Awards.

On May 12,2010, Alec Baldwin gave a commencement address at New York University and was awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree, honoris causa.

Alec Baldwin was named Esteemed Faculty by Stony Brook University after teaching a master class in acting at Stony Brook Southampton.

Alec Baldwin was briefly engaged in 1983 to actress Janine Turner.

Alec Baldwin dated Lori Loughlin, Lori Singer, Holly Gagnier and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

In 1990, Alec Baldwin met actress Kim Basinger when they played lovers in the film The Marrying Man.

Alec Baldwin has called the attorneys in the case "opportunists", and characterized Basinger's psychologists as part of the "divorce industry".

Alec Baldwin wrote that he had to spend over a million dollars, put time aside from his career, travel extensively, and find a house in California, having previously lived in New York, in order to stay in his daughter's life.

Alec Baldwin described the incident as a mistake that did not make him a bad parent.

Alec Baldwin stated that he felt Basinger would have considered it "a victory" if he committed suicide and that it was her "avowed goal" to destroy him.

In late 2008, Alec Baldwin toured in support of his book on fatherhood and divorce, speaking about his experiences related in it.

In May 2023, Alec Baldwin became a grandfather when Ireland had a baby girl with musician RAC.

Alec Baldwin gave up eating beef in 1991 and is a supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

On October 21,2021, Alec Baldwin was filming on the set of the upcoming film Rust, of which he was a producer, at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, when he discharged a gun being used as a prop, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.

On October 5,2022, Alec Baldwin reached an undisclosed settlement with Hutchins' family in their wrongful death lawsuit.

On January 19,2023, Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies announced that Alec Baldwin would be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter by the end of the month.

In 2023, Alec Baldwin has been associated with four other film projects including Supercell, 97 Minutes, Atrabilious and Billie's Magic World.

Alec Baldwin appeared in a cameo on Saturday Night Live in October 2023, in an episode hosted by Timothee Chalamet, making it one of his first live appearances since the Rust incident and first appearance on the show since 2020.

On October 25,2024, Judge Sommer upheld her dismissal of the involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin, ruling that the prosecution failed to raise any factual or legal arguments which would've justified reversing her decision.

Alec Baldwin is a Democrat and endorsed Barack Obama in his two presidential campaigns.

Alec Baldwin serves on the board of People for the American Way.

Alec Baldwin is an animal rights activist and a staunch supporter of PETA, for which he has done work that includes narrating the video entitled Meet Your Meat.

Alec Baldwin lent his support to the Save the Manatee Club by donating his time to record several public service announcements for the group, which had contacted him following his role in "The Bonfire of the Manatees", an episode of The Simpsons in which he was the voice of a biologist working to save the endangered mammals.

Alec Baldwin later apologized to Hyde for any misunderstanding, and the network explained that it was meant as a joke and promised not to re-run it.

Alec Baldwin said in a 2006 interview with The New York Times that if he did become involved in electoral politics, he would prefer to run for Governor of New York.

On December 21,2011, Alec Baldwin, addressing speculation, said he was abandoning plans to run for mayor of New York City and would instead continue in his role on 30 Rock.

In February 2009, Alec Baldwin spoke out to encourage state leaders to renew New York's tax break for the film and television industry, stating that if the "tax breaks are not reinstated into the budget, film production in this town is going to collapse and television production is going to collapse and it's all going to go to California".

Alec Baldwin subsequently boycotted the Emmy Awards and requested that his entire appearance be removed from the broadcast.