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It
would be nearly impossible to find
someone that isn't familiar with
Alec Baldwin. One of Hollywood's top
actors for years, Baldwin has
starred in successful film after
successful film and has entertained
audiences all over the world. Alec
Baldwin grew up in Massapequa, Long
Island. Alec is the eldest of his
brothers, Daniel, William, and
Stephen Baldwin, all of whom are
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Alec
is an out-spoken supporter of
various causes related to public
policy, including environmentalism,
the government's support of the
arts, campaign finance reform,
animal rights and gun control. He
serves on the board of directors of
The Bay Street Theatre (Sag Harbor,
Long Island), The New York
University/Brennan Center for
Justice Program Advisory Board,
People For The American Way and the
Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer
Research Fund, dedicated in honor of
his mother. He is a vigorous
supporter of People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA) and The
Performing Animal Welfare Society
(PAWS). Alec is a dedicated
supporter of the East Hampton
Daycare Center.
Alec
attended George Washington
University and planned to attend law
school, when he auditioned for the
New York University Undergraduate
Drama Program on a dare. He was
accepted, and in 1979 began what
would become his professional
training. In 1980, he was cast in
the daytime TV series "The Doctors"
on NBC and, subsequently, has worked
in nearly every venue as a
professional actor ever since.
Whether in regional theater or
Saturday Night Live, blockbuster
movies or Broadway, literary
festivals or television mini-series,
Alec has always attempted to balance
his love of communicating with an
audience with the demands of a
motion picture career.
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On
Broadway, Baldwin recently appeared
in The Roundabout Theatre Company's
2004 revival of Hecht and
MacArthur's "The Twentieth Century",
directed by Walter Bobbie,
co-starring Anne Heche. He was
nominated for a Tony Award for his
performance in the 1992 revival of
Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar
Named Desire", was nominated for an
Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award
for the television movie of that
same production, won an Obie Award
for the 1991 off-Broadway production
of Craig Lucas' "Prelude to a Kiss"
and a Theatre World Award in 1986
for his turn in Joe Orton's "Loot"
on Broadway. He has also performed
on Broadway in Caryl Churchill's
"Serious Money". Other stage
includes David Mamet's "Life in the
Theatre", (directed by the late AJ
Antoon), the Williamstown Theatre
Festival and at the Bay Street
Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York,
where he performed in Ira Lewis's
"Gross Points".
Alec
has starred in several films,
including "The Hunt for Red
October", "Miami Blues", "Prelude to
a Kiss", "Malice", "The Shadow",
"Glengarry Glen Ross", "Heaven's
Prisoners", "Ghosts of Mississippi",
"The Edge", "Pearl Harbor" and "Cat
in the Hat", among others. In
2004,Baldwinreceived a Best
Supporting Actor Academy Award
nomination for his role in Wayne
Kramer's "The Cooler". That year,
Baldwin was awarded the National
Board of Review Best Supporting
Actor honor for "The Cooler". He
also recently appeared in "The Last
Shot" with Mathew Broderick and
Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator". In
2005, Alec can be seen in Cameron
Crowe’s film “Elizabethtown” and in
Jim Carrey’s new comedy “Fun with
Dick and Jane”, also starring Tea
Leoni and directed by Dean Parisot.
His
production company, El Dorado
Pictures, has co-produced "The
Confession" (winner of the 2000
Writers Guild Award for best adapted
screenplay by David Black) for
Cinemax Television, "Nuremberg:
Infamy on Trial" for Turner Network
Television, "State and Main", a
motion picture comedy written and
directed by David Mamet and TNT
Productions "Second Nature"
co-starring Powers Boothe.
Baldwin is a graduate of New York
University (BFA, Tisch School of the
Arts), 1994.
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