Alec Baldwin

Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III 

3 April 1958

 An American actor, producer, and comedian. Baldwin attended George Washington University, afterward transferring to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. There he studied with, among others, Geoffrey Horne and Mira Rostova at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Later, he was accepted as a member of the Actors Studio. Baldwin eventually returned to NYU in 1994, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree that year.

Baldwin made his Broadway debut in 1986 in a revival of Joe Orton's "Loot" alongside Zoë Wanamaker, Željko 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 revival of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire", for which his performance as Stanley Kowalski garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor. 

Baldwin made his film debut with a minor role in the 1987 film "Forever, Lulu". 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).

Baldwin was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the 2003 gambling drama "The Cooler". He appeared in Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" (2004) and "The Departed" (2006). In 2006, he starred in the film "Mini's First Time". He performed opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in "Suburban Girl" (2007). Two years later, he co-starred in the hit romantic comedy "It's Complicated" with Meryl Streep and Steve Martin.

As actor

• The Doctors (1980-1982)
• Cutter to Houston (1983)
• Knots Landing (1984-1986)
• Sweet Revenge (1984)
• Hotel (1985)
• Love on the Run (1985)
• Dress Grey (1986)
• Dress Gray (1986)
• Forever, Lulu (1987)
• The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987)
• She's Having a Baby (1998)
• Beetlejuice (1988)
• Married to the Mob (1988)
• Working Girl (1988)
• Talk Radio (1988)
• Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
• Tong Tana (1989)
• The Hunt for Red October (1990)
• Miami Blues (1990)
• Alice (1990)
• The Marrying Man (1991)
• Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
• Malice (1993)
• The Getaway (1994)
• The Shadow (1994)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
• Two Bits (1995)
• Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
• The Juror (1996)
• Heaven's Prisoners (1996)
• Looking for Richard (1996)
• Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
• The Edge (1997)
• Thick as Thieves (1998)
• Mercury Rising (1998)
• The Simpsons (1998, 2005)
• Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1998-2003)
• The Confession (1999)
• Notting Hill (1999)
• Outside Providence (1999)
• Scout's Honor (1999)
• Storytime with Thomas (1999)
• The Acting Class (2000)
• Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)
• Nuremberg (2000)
• State and Main (2000)
• Clerks: The Animated Series (2000-2001)
• Pearl Harbor (2001)
• Cats & Dogs (2001)
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
• The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
• Friends (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)
• Walking with Cavemen (2003)
• Brighter Days (2003)
• Second Nature (2003)
• Along Came Polly (2004)
• Double Dare (2004)
• The Last Shot (2004)
• The Fairly OddParents (2004)
• The Aviator (2004)
• Nip/Tuck (2004)
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
• Las Vegas (2004)
• Elizabethtown (2005)
• Will & Grace (2005)
• Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
• Mini's First Time (2006)
• The Departed (2006)
• Running with Scissors (2006)
• The Good Shepherd (2006)
• Great Performances (2006)
• 30 Rock (2006-2013)
• Suburban Girl (2007)
• Brooklyn Rules (2007)
• Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
• My Best Friend's Girl (2008)
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
• Lymelife (2008)
• Journey to the Edge of the Universe (2008)
• My Sister's Keeper (2009)
• It's Complicated (2009)
• Hick (2011)
• Frozen Planet (2011)
• Rock of Ages (2012)
• To Rome with Love (2012)
• Rise of the Guardians (2012)
• Blue Jasmine (2013)
• Seduced and Abandoned (2013)
• Torrente 5: Operación Eurovegas (2014)
• Still Alice (2014)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2014)
• Aloha (2015)
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
• Concussion (2015)
• Back in the Day (2016)
• Andron (2016)
• Paris Can Wait (2016)
• Rules Don't Apply (2016)
• The Boss Baby (2017)
• Blind (2017)
• Downsizing (2017)
• Drunk Parents (2017)

Quotataions

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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: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.

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Getting older is hard.

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I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

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In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

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I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.

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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.

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To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

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You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

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I'm a pretty loyal person.

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Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

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When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

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When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

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I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.

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In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

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Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

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