The eldest of six children, Baldwin grew up in Massapequa, New York. His father was a high school history teacher and football coach, and his mother was a homemaker. He studied at George Washington University before transferring to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he completed a BFA in drama. He began professional acting in the early 1980s with television work on The Doctors and Knots Landing.
Baldwin's film breakthrough came in 1988 with Beetlejuice and Working Girl. He starred as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October (1990) and delivered a memorable performance as the abrasive salesman Blake in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). He earned an Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in The Cooler (2003) and later appeared in The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), and Blue Jasmine (2013).
From 2006 to 2013, Baldwin played network executive Jack Donaghy on NBC's 30 Rock, a role that won him a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe. He also became a frequent host of Saturday Night Live, and his impression of Donald Trump, introduced during the 2016 election, won him a second Emmy in 2017.
Baldwin was married to actress Kim Basinger from 1993 to 2002; their daughter is Ireland Baldwin. In 2012 he married Hilaria Thomas, and the couple have seven children. He has also hosted the interview podcast Here's the Thing and been active in Democratic politics. In 2021, a prop gun Baldwin was holding discharged on the New Mexico set of the film Rust, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin was charged with involuntary manslaughter; the case was dismissed in 2024.
Alec Baldwin was born on April 3, 1958 in Amityville, New York, United States. In Cardology (Destiny Cards), April 3, 1958 corresponds to the Five of Spades, making the Five of Spades his Birth Card.
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