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Alec Baldwin

Milestones

  • Birthplace: Amityville, New York
  • Birthday: April 3, 1958
  • 2007

    Starred in (also produced) Shortcut to Happiness as a struggling writer who sells his soul to the devil for fame and fortune

  • 2006

    Cast as an alcoholic father in the ensemble drama-comedy Running with Scissors

  • 2006 to 0000

    Cast as Jack Donaghy, the network boss of a New York based sketch comedy show in 30 Rock (NBC); earned Emmy (2007, 2008) and Golden Globe (2008) nominations for Best Actor

  • 2006

    Cast in Robert De Niro s The Good Shepherd, as a CIA operative

  • 2006

    Performed on stage in Entertaining Mr. Sloane ; co-star Jan Maxwell left the production after complaining about the behavior of her co-star and was replaced by an understudy; this was denied by Baldwin and the theatre

  • 2006

    Played a macho police official in Martin Scorsese s The Departed

  • 2005

    Cast in Fun with Dick and Jane an update of the 1977 comedy, where a married couple turn to robbery to pay the bills

  • 2005

    Earned an Emmy nominations in 2005 and 2006 for his guest-starring role on Will & Grace (NBC) as Will s new boss

  • 2004

    Cast in Martin Scorsese s The Aviator a biopic of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio)

  • 2004

    Guest starred on the season finale of Nip/Tuck (F/X) playing Dr. Barrett Moore, the ex-husband of life coach Ava Moore (Famke Janssen)

  • 2003

    Cast as Quinn in the film adaptation of Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat

  • 2003

    Co-starred with William H. Macy in The Cooler as a casino tycoon; received Golden Globe, SAG and Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor

  • 2002

    Cast as Robert McNamara in the HBO drama Path To War ; received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor

  • 2002

    Feature directorial debut (also co-starred), the remake of The Devil and Daniel Webster

  • 2001

    Starred in Gross Points at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY; role reportedly based on actor Al Pacino

  • 2000

    Cast (also executive produced) as the lead prosecutorial attorney in the TNT miniseries Nuremberg ; received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Miniseries

  • 2000

    Played (also executive producerd) a self-centered actor in David Mamet s State and Main

  • 2000

    Produced City Center Voices! of American Theater, a series of one-night only staged readings of American plays; appeared with Joanne Woodward in the inaugural production of Arsenic and Old Lace

  • 1999

    Had supporting role as the father of a troubled teen in Outside Providence

  • 1999

    Made cameo appearance in Notting Hill

  • 1998

    Offered a villainous turn in Mercury Rising

  • 1998

    Returned to the stage to play Macbeth opposite Angela Bassett

  • 1997

    Starred opposite Anthony Hopkins in the David Mamet scripted, The Edge

  • 1996

    Appeared in Rob Reiner s Ghosts of Mississippi

  • 1995

    Played Stanley Kowalski opposite Jessica Lange in the Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire ; earned a Tony nomination; reprised role for TV-movie that year for which he netted an Emmy nomination

  • 1994

    Acted opposite wife Kim Bassinger in Roger Donaldson s remake of The Getaway

  • 1994

    Founded El Dorado Productions

  • 1994

    Had title role in The Shadow

  • 1992

    Reprised stage role opposite Meg Ryan in Norman Rene s film version of Prelude to a Kiss

  • 1991

    First teamed on screen with future wife Kim Basinger in The Marrying Man

  • 1990

    Cast as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October; passed on reprising his role in the sequels

  • 1990

    First received top billing in Miami Blues

  • 1990

    Starred opposite Mary-Louise Parker in Craig Lucas play Prelude to a Kiss at Circle Repertory Theatre

  • 1989

    Portrayed Jimmy Swaggart, cousin to rock singer Jerry Lee Lewis (Dennis Quaid) in the biopic Great Balls of Fire

  • 1988

    Had pivotal supporting roles in Working Girl and Married to the Mob

  • 1988

    Played first romantic lead in the supernatural farce, Beetlejuice

  • 1988

    Returned to Broadway as a slick corporate raider in Caryl Churchill s play Serious Money

  • 1986

    Film acting debut in Forever, Lulu

  • 1986

    Made Broadway debut as a bumbling thief in Joe Orton s Loot

  • 1986

    Starred as a West Point cadet implicated in a murder in the NBC miniseries Dress Gray

  • 1984

    Featured role in the primetime soap, Knots Landing (CBS) as Julie Harris son Joshua Rush

  • 1983

    Played Dr. Hal Wexler on the short-lived CBS primetime medical drama, Cutter to Houston

  • 1980 to 1982

    Began career in NBC daytime TV series, The Doctors playing Billy Aldrich

  • Was a waiter at the famed disco Studio 54

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