Alec Baldwin

He also has two sisters, Elizabeth "Beth" Baldwin Keuchler (b. 1955) and Jane Ann Baldwin Sasso (b. 1965).

Alec and his siblings were raised as Roman Catholics.

They are of Irish, French, and English ancestry.

Alexander Rae Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, and producer.

He is known for his leading and supporting roles in a variety of genres, from comedy to drama, and has received numerous accolades including three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for a Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and Tony Award.

Alexander Rae 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 (née Martineau; December 15, 1929 – May 26, 2022) from Syracuse, New York and Alexander Rae Baldwin Jr. (October 26, 1927 – April 15, 1983), a high school history/social studies teacher and football coach from Brooklyn.

He has three younger brothers, Daniel (b. 1960), William (b. 1963), and Stephen (b. 1966), who also became actors.

From 1976 to 1979, he attended George Washington University.

In 1979, he lost the election for student body president and received a personal letter from former U.S. president Richard Nixon (with whom he had a common friend) encouraging him to use the loss as a learning experience.

Afterward, he transferred to the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University (NYU) where 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's first acting role was as Billy Aldrich in the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors from August 20, 1980 to 1982.

In the fall of 1983, he starred in the short-lived television series Cutter to Houston.

Baldwin first gained recognition by appearing on the sixth and seventh seasons of primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1984–1985).

The actor made his TV movie debut playing the titular Sheriff Ed Cassaday in The Sheriff and the Astronaut (1984).

He went on to appear as the brother of Valene Ewing and son of Lilimae Clements (played by Joan Van Ark and Julie Harris, respectively) in Knots Landing from 1984 to 1985.

Baldwin made his Broadway debut in Loot (1986).

In 1986, 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.

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.

In the early part of his film career he played both leading and supporting roles in Beetlejuice (1988), Working Girl (1988), Married to the Mob (1988) and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).

He played Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October (1990).

He portrayed Stanley Kowalski in the 1992 production of A Streetcar Named Desire for which he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination.

In 1994, he completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at NYU.

He has acted in the films The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Along Came Polly (2004), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), To Rome with Love (2012), Blue Jasmine (2013), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) and Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018).

He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Cooler (2003) and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for It's Complicated (2010).

He returned to Broadway in Twentieth Century (2004) and Orphans (2013).

From 2006 to 2013, 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, making him the male performer with the most SAG Awards in history.

He hosted the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010.

He is also a columnist for The Huffington Post.

Through his father, Baldwin is descended from Mayflower passenger John Howland, and through this line, is the 13th generation of his family born in North America and the 14th generation to live in North America.

Baldwin attended Alfred G. Berner High School in Massapequa and played football there under Coach Bob Reifsnyder.

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

He was the host of Match Game from 2016 until 2021.

In 2021, while on the Rust film set, Baldwin discharged a revolver used as a prop, which killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza.

Baldwin was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in Santa Fe County, New Mexico in January 2023, but the charges were dropped in April 2023 pending further investigation.

He was indicted again for the charge on January 19, 2024.

He voiced the titular role in The Boss Baby film franchise (2017–2022).

Baldwin has received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Donald Trump on the NBC sketch series Saturday Night Live, a role that won him his third Primetime Emmy in 2017.

He was nominated again in 2018 and 2021.