Who Is Alec Baldwin? Check-Out Real Name, Net-Worth, Awards And Quotes

Birth Name: Alexander Rae Baldwin III

Nickname/Stage Name: Alec Baldwin

Birth Date: April 3, 1958

Genres: Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama

Occupation: Actor, Writer, Comedian, Film Producer, Political Activist

Years Active: 1980 till Present

Net Worth: $60 million

Latest Film: The Boss Baby: Family Business

 

Personal Life

Alec Baldwin was born in New York. He has three brothers and two sisters. In May 1990, he met actress Kim Basinger on the set of the film The Marrying Man, and they got married in August 1993. Their daughter Ireland was born in October 1995.

Baldwin and Basinger separated in December 2000 and finalized their divorce on September 3, 2002.

In August 2011, the actor started dating Hillary Thomas, a yoga instructor and they became engaged in April 2012. They married in June of that same year and have six children together.

Education

Baldwin attended Alfred G. Berner High School, Massapequa, and proceeded to the George Washington University. He later transferred to the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at NYU in 1994.

Career

He began acting on Broadway in 1986 and was cast as Billy Aldrich in the NBC soap opera The Doctors. His film debut came in 1987 with a minor role in Forever, Lulu. He earned a leading man status playing the character of Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October (1990).

Between 1994 and 1997, the actor starred in films like The Shadow, The Edge, The Juror, and Heaven’s Prisoners. He made a shift towards character acting in 2001 with Pearl Habor.

Baldwin appeared in the Martin Scorcese films The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006). He starred alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), reprising the role in Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018).

He has also lent his voice to the following animated films Cats & Dogs (2001), The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie (2004), Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), Rise of the Guardians (2012), The Boss Baby (2017), and The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021).

Awards

Theatre World Award (1986)

Obie Award (1990)

National Board of Review Award (2000. 2003, 2009)

Online Film Critics Society Award (2000)

Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award (2003)

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award (2003)

Screen Actors Guild Award (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)

Emmy Award (2008, 2009, 2017)

Golden Globe Award (2009, 2010)

Quotes

“Acting in the theatre is fun, acting in film is work.”

“Men are literally lying in bed with their wives when the marriage is essentially overthinking, “I’ve got to get the hell out of here”, and have a fantasy woman in mind. Then you get divorced, meet a woman, marry her, and, by the time all that goes by, you’ve aged a few years and are ready to go back to your ex-wife. You want a woman who is sane and normal. A woman who is more like you. You’ve gotten older.”

“There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.”

Trivia

His three younger brothers are all actors.

He was picked by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History in 1995.

He ran for president when he was at George Washington University, losing by two votes.

Movies

Forever, Lulu (1987)

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Malice (1993)

Heaven’s Prisoners (1996)

Notting Hill (1999)

The Cooler (2003)

The Departed (2006)

Hick (2011)

Still Alice (2014)

The Boss Baby (2017)

Pixie (2020)

The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)

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