1. William Joseph Baldwin was born on February 21,1963 and is an American actor and the second-youngest of the four Baldwin brothers.
31 Facts About William Baldwin
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William Baldwin has starred in the films Flatliners, Backdraft, Sliver, Virus, The Squid and the Whale, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, in which he portrayed himself, and the Netflix show Northern Rescue.
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William Baldwin is the brother of actors Alec, Daniel, and Stephen, sometimes collectively known as the Baldwin brothers, and of sisters Beth and Jane, all together known as the Baldwin family.
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William Baldwin was raised in a Catholic family, and has Irish and French ancestry.
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William Baldwin's first starring role was in a TV movie as Robert Chambers, alongside Danny Aiello and Lara Flynn Boyle in The Preppie Murder, which aired on ABC in 1989.
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William Baldwin appeared in the 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July, starring Tom Cruise, where he had a minor role as a US Marine during the Vietnam War.
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William Baldwin's first featured film was Internal Affairs, in which he starred alongside Richard Gere and Andy Garcia.
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William Baldwin then starred in big-budget films such as Flatliners with stars such as Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon.
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William Baldwin portrayed Chicago firefighter Brian McCaffrey in Backdraft with Kurt Russell and with an ensemble cast including Donald Sutherland, Scott Glenn, Rebecca De Mornay, and Robert De Niro.
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In 1995, among other diverse characters he has played in his career, William Baldwin was on Joel Schumacher's shortlist for Batman Forever to play the title character; Schumacher's four diverse choices were Daniel Day-Lewis, Ralph Fiennes, Val Kilmer and William Baldwin.
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In 1999, William Baldwin teamed up with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland for the science fiction thriller Virus and played alongside Peter Gallagher in the Showtime original movie, Brotherhood of Murder.
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In 2001, William Baldwin played a leading role in the television film Double Bang which aired on HBO.
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Since then, William Baldwin has played in other projects such as Red Rover in 2003, Park, Feel and Lenexa, 1 Mile in 2006, and Adrift in Manhattan, A Plumm Summer, Noise, and Humble Pie in 2007.
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William Baldwin has continued to act in films and on television, but has not taken many leading roles.
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William Baldwin was well received in a supporting role in the 2005 film The Squid and the Whale alongside Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels, for which he earned the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast.
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In February 2010, William Baldwin played Batman in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, a loose adaptation of Grant Morrison's JLA: Earth 2 story.
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William Baldwin portrayed Dr Willam van der Woodsen, father of Serena and Eric van der Woodsen, on the third and fourth seasons of Gossip Girl.
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William Baldwin was featured with his brother Daniel in UniGlobe Entertainment's breast cancer docudrama, 1 a Minute.
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William Baldwin was cast in the second season of Parenthood, which aired Fall 2010.
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William Baldwin played Gordon Flint: a charismatic bachelor, the boss of Adam Braverman and a love-interest for Adam's sister, Sarah.
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In 2011, William Baldwin starred in the Lifetime Original Movie, The Craigslist Killer which aired January 3,2011.
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William Baldwin played the lead detective on the case of the killer, Philip Markoff, who connected with victims through Craigslist ads placed in Boston, Massachusetts.
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In July 2011, William Baldwin joined the CBS drama Hawaii Five-0 for a multi-episode arc.
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On March 22,2012, William Baldwin guest starred on the NBC show 30 Rock.
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William Baldwin appeared in the fourth and final season of Wilfred, replacing Dwight Yoakam in the role of Bruce.
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In 2016, William Baldwin signed on and currently has a recurring role on the 2016 reboot of the television series MacGyver as Elwood Davis, Riley's estranged father on CBS Television Studios.
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On November 21,2017, William Baldwin joined the main cast on a television series along with Miles Teller in Too Old to Die Young which was released in the summer of 2019 on Amazon Video.
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In 2021, William Baldwin starred in War of the Worlds: Annihilation.
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In 1995, William Baldwin married singer Chynna Phillips of the music group Wilson Phillips, daughter of musician John Phillips and Michelle Gilliam.
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In October 2019, William Baldwin revealed that his son Vance had been diagnosed with cancer the year prior and was now in remission.
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In 2025 in a TikTok video William Baldwin announced that he had left the Democratic Party.