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Deep raspy voice



Sometimes plays deeply narcissistic though inherently moral characters



Deadpan comic delivery



Thick, dark hair



Dimpled chin



Trivia (84)

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#80). [1995]



Education: George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (majored in political science), New York University, New York, New York (majored in drama; B.A., 1994).





As part of his preparation for The Hunt for Red October (1990), he was trained to drive a Los Angeles-class attack submarine at the New London Submarine Base in Connecticut.

Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1990]



Reportedly, Baldwin originally wanted to be a lawyer before he was bit by the acting bug.





A huge fan of novelist James Lee Burke , he owns the rights to a number of books featuring his character Dave Robiceaux. One of these, Heaven's Prisoners (1996), was released in 1996.



Baldwin wrote " Law & Order: Tabloid (1998)", which was based on his own experiences with tabloid reporters.



Turned down the chance to reprise the role of Jack Ryan in Patriot Games (1992) in order to play Stanley Kowalski in a revival of Tennessee Williams 's "A Streetcar Named Desire" on Broadway.



Told brother Stephen Baldwin that doing Bio-Dome (1996) could be the single most career-ending decision he could possibly make.

At George Washington University, Baldwin ran for president but lost by two votes.





Taught "Master Theater Workshop" in summer 2002 at Southampton College, New York, where friend James LaRocca is Dean.



Is only the third person in history to be nominated for both Best Supporting Actor from the Oscars, for The Cooler (2003), and Worst Supporting Actor from the Razzies, for The Cat in the Hat (2003), in the same year.



Replaced Alan Rickman as the voice of Leonardo Leonardo in the 2000 cartoon based on Kevin Smith 's film Clerks (1994).



He and ex-wife, actress Kim Basinger , are vegetarians. He has said Basinger convinced him to adopt that dietary lifestyle. Both remain advocates for animal rights. The couple owned a total of eleven dogs, seven cats and a wolf during their marriage.

Received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree (Litt.D) from Montclair State University at their 2004 graduation ceremony.



Has done voice-over work in television ads for both General Electric and Subaru.





Was nominated for Broadway's 1992 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for playing Stanley Kowalski in a revival of Tennessee Williams 's "A Streetcar Named Desire", a performance he recreated in a television version of the same title, A Streetcar Named Desire (1995).



Is one of only two people with a standing invitation to host Saturday Night Live (1975) every year (schedules allowing). The other is Christopher Walken



No relation to actor Adam Baldwin



Was considered for the role of Dr. Curtis McCabe in Vanilla Sky (2001), which went to Kurt Russell



Declined two roles that later went to fellow actor Harrison Ford . First, he declined to reprise the role of Jack Ryan in Patriot Games (1992), then he turned down the lead role in The Fugitive (1993).



Was considered for the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in Batman (1989), which went to Michael Keaton



Did a skit on Saturday Night Live (1975) in December of 2005 in which he spoofed himself delivering the same speech he did in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) 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.

On April 11, 2007, he caused a scandal by leaving an expletive-filled voicemail for his daughter, Ireland, calling her a "thoughtless little pig," which later was revealed to the media.





Revealed during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) that he suffers from OCD.



Wrote the episode Law & Order: Tabloid (1998), which was part of the 1998 season, because of his own experience with tabloid reporters.

Caused a major uproar in the Philippines when he made a joke that he was interested in buying a Filipina wife. As a result, Philippine senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla, Jr., (also an actor) blasted Baldwin and even swore to personally beat him up if he ever visits the Philippines. Despite apologizing for the joke, Baldwin was effectively banned from visiting the Philippines.





Good friends with actress Meryl Streep



In 1979, he auditioned for the New York University Undergraduate Drama Program on a dare (and was accepted). Studied at New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. Trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Teaches a theater class at The Ross School in New York.



On December 12, 1998, Alec Baldwin hosted Saturday Night Live (1975) and appeared in the double entendre-filled "Schweddy Balls" edition of the recurring skit "The Delicious Dish", which spoofed National Public Radio (NPR). In 2009, Baldwin became the on-air radio host of "The New York Philharmonic This Week" on the real NPR. In 2011, Baldwin became the host of his own public radio interview podcast show on WNYC, "Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin".



A longtime outspoken liberal Democrat, he was rumored in 2011 to be weighing a run for mayor of New York City based on his announcement that he was retiring from acting. He later issued a denial on Late Show with David Letterman (1993) and explained that his intention had been to enter politics, but he decided against it and he would be renewing his contract for 30 Rock (2006).



(September 11, 2011) For his role on 30 Rock (2006), he was named one of the "Eight Actors Who Turn Television into Art", in cover story of The New York Times Magazine.

Removed from an American Airlines flight on December 6, 2011, at Los Angeles International Airport, reportedly for not turning off his cellphone.



On April 3, 2012, became engaged to yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas.





(February 12, 2013) Alec and his wife, Hilaria Baldwin , are expecting their first child in summer 2013.



His acting mentor was the late Julie Harris



Became a father for the 1st time at age 37 when his 1st wife [now ex-wife] Kim Basinger gave birth to their daughter Ireland Eliesse Baldwin, aka Ireland Baldwin , on October 23, 1995.



Became a father for the 2nd time at age 55 when his 2nd wife Hilaria Baldwin gave birth to their daughter Carmen Gabriella Baldwin on August 23, 2013.

Claimed in a 2013 interview that he donates all the money he makes from his Capital One commercials to charity and even 'got addicted to giving the money away'.





In September 2013, Baldwin officially announced he would be hosting his own television talk show on MSNBC, Up Late with Alec Baldwin (2013), starting in October 2013 (on Fridays at 10 pm). However, after only one month on the air, the show was canceled in November 2013 after Baldwin angrily uttered a "gay slur" during his latest confrontation with photographers staked outside his Manhattan apartment building.



Alec Baldwin appeared in two titles that contain the painting 'Horse Attacked by a Lion' by George Stubbs - 30 Rock (2006) (2nd season, Auction house) and Working Girl (1988) (Katherine Parker's office).



The first film he ever saw was How the West Was Won (1962).



Became a father for the 3rd time at age 57 when his wife Hilaria Baldwin gave birth to their son Rafael Thomas Baldwin on June 17, 2015.



Named Last Tango in Paris (1972) as his all-time favorite film in a poll taken by the AFI.

Worked at Studio 54 in the '70s.





One of his least favorite films of all time is Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975).



Auditioned for the role of Bobby Grady in Crimes of Passion (1984).



Became a father for the 4th time at age 58 when his wife Hilaria Baldwin gave birth to their son Leonardo Ángel Charles Baldwin on September 12, 2016.

Is a teetotaler, having entered AA at the age of 26.





In his 2017 memoir, he wrote that he was the inspiration for the role of the primadonna actor in What Just Happened (2008). He wasn't pleased about it and was even more annoyed when Robert De Niro offered him the role. After he declined, Bruce Willis got the role.

In 1996, he was acquitted of criminal battery against a paparazzi photographer. He is not the first Alexander Baldwin in the family who was acquitted of a criminal offense. In 1938, his grandfather Alexander Baldwin I, an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, NY, was acquitted of bribery. but nonetheless he was disbarred and was never to practice law again.



In 1991, owing to his disdain of publicity and the press, Baldwin received the Hollywood Women's Press Club's Sour Apple Award.





Was once engaged to Janine Turner



Withdrew from Henry & June (1990) two weeks before filming began.



Was considered for the Patrick Swayze role in Ghost (1990).

Baldwin and wife Hilaria had their fourth child, a boy, in the spring of 2018.





He was considered by Tim Burton and Warner Brothers Studios for the titular role in Batman (1989).

On February 11, 2010, he got into an argument on the phone with his daughter Ireland and threatened to take pills. When Ireland tried to call him back and couldn't reach him, she dialed 911. That same day Alec was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital before being released just hours later.





Nominated for the 2018 Emmy Award in the Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category for his role as Donald Trump in Saturday Night Live (1975), but lost to Henry Winkler from Barry (2018).



In his memoir, Baldwin estimates that ex-wife Kim Basinger spent about $1.5 million over a seven-year period in her efforts to deny him parental access.



His wife Hilaria Baldwin became pregnant by him a fifth time, but suffered a miscarriage whilst still in her first trimester in April 2019.



His numerous impressions of fellow actor Robert De Niro are among De Niro's favorites.



Former student of acting teacher, David Gideon



Susan Sarandon once described Baldwin as "fucking brilliant" and suggested he run for President.



Was replaced by Harrison Ford for the role of Jack Trainer in Working Girl (1988) and relegated to the smaller role of Mick Dugan. Since Melanie Griffith wasn't a big enough name to carry a film back then (she ended up getting third billing despite having the main role), Fox demanded that the male lead be played by a box office star or they wouldn't green-light the project. "So, Mike Nichols had to call Alec and say, 'Look, I'm really sorry. The circumstances have changed. Would you do this other part?' Alec understood and was so lovely about it. He came in and really nailed that character. It was an awkward adjustment," recalled producer Douglas Wick



Counts Gary Oldman as one of his favorite actors.

Personal Quotes (43)

Acting in the theatre is fun, acting in film is work.



I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.



[1997] I'm starting to feel I have to cure my addiction to Hollywood money, because while it's delightful, it's also insidious.



Some guys smoke good Dominicans, other guys smoke great Jamaicans. I only smoke the best - Havanas!





[on Tina Fey ] Tina is smart, funny, beautiful... Devoted, tough, respected... Now if she'd only work on her posture.

(on Ramon "Bong" Revilla, Jr.) The comments of some Philippine government officials come as no surprise to me, either. Even the one by a former action film star-turned-Senator who beckoned me to come to the Philippines so he could "beat" me over my comment.





[on Meryl Streep ] I have worshiped Meryl for so long that I would have played her driver or her chiropractor.

Men are literally lying in bed with their wives when the marriage is essentially over thinking, "I've got to get the hell out of here", and have a fantasy woman in mind. Then you get divorced, meet a woman, marry her and, by the time all that goes by, you've aged a few years and are ready to go back to your ex-wife. You want a woman who is sane and normal. A woman who is more like you. You've gotten older.





[on Charlie Sheen 's 2011 public meltdown] I think Charlie just needs a good night's sleep. He seems wound a little tight.

Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.



[on why he named his daughter Ireland] Because she's beautiful but can't manage her finances.



There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.



I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get the less preposterous the idea seems.





[on Chris Farley ] Whenever I was watching Chris perform I would think, "How do I get where he's at? How do I get to be as funny and as honest and as warm?".

You know, Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them.





[on William Holden , the star he most admires] There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role. In some people there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other. With Holden it was always the perfect mix.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will. You have to stop and ask a lot of whys. Run for the glory? Run to complete some missing piece of myself? I can keep doing what I'm doing for a living now and be perfectly happy.



I just want to say: The worst cases you never hear about. Hollywood studios bury that stuff - actors who punch directors in the face and try to run producers over with cars - insanity, criminal behavior. But the studios are invested in that star, they can't have that person's name dirtied up.





I'm at the age where, in the Tennessee Williams canon, all that's available is Shannon [in "The Night of the Iguana"]. After that it's Big Daddy.

[on stage acting, as in "Orphans" on Broadway] Rehearsal is painful. Not knowing the lines, not having a mastery of the text is painful, because until you have it you can't play the scenes. When we're up onstage now I kind of dig it. It's fun. Though I know half the audience is going to like it for the wrong reason, half of them are not going to like it for the wrong reason. You just do the show.



[after being arrested for cycling his bike the wrong way down Fifth Avenue] New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.



[after being arrested for a traffic infraction] New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.





[on The Godfather (1972)] It's like a drug. It takes away your free will. You're going to watch this movie, whether you planned on it or not.



Before 30 Rock (2006) I had always given a percentage of my income to charity. I'm not blowing my horn about it. Most people give, I think. But when I learned that "30 Rock" was going into syndication, I entered into a very lucrative agreement with Capital One, and I gave nearly every dime to charity. That's why I did the commercials. I got addicted to giving the money away.

[2012] I've had a very average film career. The average career is that 25 per cent of the films you do are good, or very good. Twenty-five percent of the films you do are disgusting and horrible. And the 50 per cent in the middle is 'eh'.





[on The Hunt for Red October (1990)] I'm glad that people like the film, but it was studio moviemaking at its most self-conscious. They told me right to my face that Kevin Costner was the person they wanted to play my part, and they couldn't afford him. Most of the people you worked with back then were numbingly frank in that way.



[on Demi Moore ] She's one of the smartest women I've ever met in my life.



[on Kim Basinger ] My ex-wife reaches an almost sexual level of satisfaction when she's in a room full of high-priced lawyers.



[in 2017, on the sexual harassment scandal in Hollywood involving his friend James Toback and many others] I certainly have treated women in a very sexist way. I've bullied women. I've overlooked women. I've underestimated women. Not as a rule. From time to time, I've done what a lot of men do, which is...when you don't treat women the same way you treat men. You don't. I'm from a generation where you really don't and I'd like that to change. I really would like that to change. (...) I think it's important for us to try to make the workplace and beyond not only comfortable and right and fair and appropriate but as productive, as well. I think a lot of what we're dealing with within this issue is hurting our business. It's making it less productive. (...) I knew of certain things, that there were rumors of things happening to people, but I didn't necessarily know the scope, when you hear the hundreds and hundreds of women who are complaining about this. It's been a very eye-opening experience for me personally. We've got to be vigilant in a new way to make sure that everybody is comfortable and that we get the job done together that we're there to do.

I've walked away from some films knowing we've given the director the ingredients to make a good movie, and then I've seen it and it isn't so good. That's why I don't get involved much in the movies I'm in. With about half of them, I've never gone to a screening. I show up at the opening, wave, sign autographs, take pictures, talk to the press and then sneak out the side door with my wife and leave. Because watching my own movies reached a level of frustration where all I see is what might have been, and I must add, that's my shortcoming.



All along, I think there were things I could have done to make things easier for me in the industry sense. I suppose, deep down inside, that really wasn't important to me because ultimately, if it WAS important to me, I would have acted differently, made different decisions. What I wanted seven years ago was to give the best performance possible in the best possible film, but then I realized I wasn't willing to make certain sacrifices in order to cement that. I was really, really down after a bunch of movies that were really, really frustrating.



I was not willing to do the things to make more money. But I am taken more seriously as an actor as a result of the things I did and the choices I made. I make less, but I can't complain. I am happy. If I did better, maybe I would be happier.



Am I ever going to give up acting? Yes. I almost can't wait to give up acting, in one sense. I'm never going to get it right. I've resolved this with myself. I've made tons of money and seen the world and worked with all these great people, and still feel like a failure out there.



To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.



[on being dumped by Basinger] The loss of my family was the most catastrophic and painful thing I ever had to go through. It was so awful. I am not looking for sympathy, but I was really, really down. There was a period when I didn't want to live. I'd go to bed at night and say, 'Just please let me die in my sleep.' I didn't want to live anymore without my daughter.



Nothing is worse than the movie business. Washington is just like the Boy Scouts compared to the movies.



I was reared in a very diehard, left-leaning home: Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. I grew up with that philosophy.





[on what made him accept the role of Marshall in Torrente 5: Operación Eurovegas (2014)] I remember talking to the Spanish consul in New York, 'Tell me about Torrente, please'. And he told me, 'He's the most disgusting guy in the world: racist, perverted, corrupt. Everything you can hate, that's Torrente. But people love it'. And I said, 'Great! Give me my visa, quick!'

[on how his wife, Hilaria, keeps him grounded] I whine about living in New York, and I try to live my life like a normal guy and walk down the streets. And I don't want to have all the security guards. [I want to] live like a normal guy. And I'll complain about how people will interrupt your meal, and my wife will look at me and go, "Nobody feels sorry for Alec Baldwin. Nobody." She'll turn to people in the restaurant and go, "Anybody here feel sorry for Alec Baldwin?" She does this to me in public. She's very clever, my wife.





[on Natalie Wood 's death at 43] She didn't die very young, but she died too young.



[in 2013, when Arpad Busson refused to fund one of his film projects because he's "only a TV star"] He's a pockmarked toady who hops from yacht to yacht and bed to bed. So when some bloated little toad like Busson labels me a certain way, I say to myself, 'Consider the source.' If movie stardom meant being trapped on a yacht with Busson, I'd rather be a weatherman for Channel 4 in New York.



[in 1998, on Ron Snyder 's tell-all book about Kim Basinger ] He was nothing but a makeup artist and now, with no career in sight, he hopes to make some money off cheap, scurrilous gossip about my wife. He's a gutter rat -- and if he ever comes into my home territory, he better be prepared for a confrontation!



If my defense of Woody Allen offends you, it's real simple. Unfollow. Condemn. Move on.

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