Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin is an American film and television actor born on April 3, 1958. He was raised in Massapequa, Long Island and is the oldest of the Baldwin brothers, Daniel, William, and Stephen Baldwin.http://www.alecbaldwin.com/website/bio/ He won an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2009 for his role as high-powered executive Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock.http://www.alecbaldwin.com/website/bio/ He hosted the 2010 Academy Awards alongside Steve Martin, with whom he co-stared in the film It's Complicated.http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/awards/2009/11/steve-martin-alec-baldwin-will-cohost-the-oscars.html

On February 11, 2010, Baldwin was rushed to Lenox Hill Hospital after a 911 call indicated that he was unresponsive. The call was reportedly made by his daughter Ireland, and the call itself indicated that he was unresponsive due to possibly taking a bad combination of pills.http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20343432,00.html

Baldwin studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City.http://www.strasberg.com/lstfi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&Itemid=55 After appearing on Knots Landing in the mid-1980s, he starred in a string of successful films including Beetlejuice, Working Girl and The Hunt for Red October. In 1992, Baldwin joined an all-star cast in the film adaptation of the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross, performing a monologue written specifically for the film. Other films Baldwin was in include The Shadow, Malice, The Coole, (a role for which Baldwin was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar) and back-to-back collaborations with director Martin Scorsese in The Aviator and The Departed.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000285/

Baldwin met his ex-wife, actress Kim Basinger, in 1991 on the set of the film The Marrying Man. The two divorced in 2000.http://www.lewrockwell.com/callahan/callahan37.html On April 19, 2007, the website TMZ published an angry phone message left by Baldwin for his 12-year-old daughter with Basinger, Ireland Eliesse. Basinger denied that she had any involvement with leaking the tape and Baldwin publicly apologized for losing his temper, claiming that he's suffering from parental alienation.http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/18220258/ns/today-entertainment/

Baldwin appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman in May 2009. When asked about expanding his family, he said, "I'm thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point...or a Russian one." Philippino Sen. Ramon Ravilla reacted to the comment by stating that it was "arrogant" and "insensitive and uncalled for."http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b124443_alec_baldwin_cracks_wise_starts.html On May 20, 2009, Baldwin apologized for his mail-order bride remarks, which he characterized as an "obvious joke".

In December 2009, Baldwin told the magazine, Men's Journal, that he planned to retire from acting in 2012, or whenever the 30 Rock run ends. He also told the magazine that he considers his film career "a complete failure," as the goal of a film actor is to have his or her performance at the center of a movie that goes on to critical and commercial success.http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5AT59S20091130

• 1980-1982: The Doctors

• 1984-1985: Knots Landing

• 1988: Beetle Juice

• 1990: The Hunt for Red October

• 1992: Glengarry Glen Ross

• 1993: Malice

• 1994: The Shadow

• 1996: Heaven's Prisoners

• 1996: Ghosts of Mississippi

• 1999: Outside Providence

• 2000-2001: Clerks

• 2001: Pearl Harbor

• 2001: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

• 2002: Friends

• 2003: The Cooler

• 2003: The Cat in the Hat

• 2004: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

• 2004: Las Vegas

• 2004: The Aviator

• 2005: Will & Grace

• 2006: The Good Shepherd

• 2007: Saturday Night Live

• 2008: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

• 2009: It's Complicated

• 2006-2011: 30 Rock http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000285/