What You Should Know About Actor Alec Baldwin

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These are the facts you should know about actor Alec Baldwin.

Personal information

• His full name is Alexander Rae Baldwin III

• He was born on April 3, 1958, in Massapequa, Long Island, New York.

• He has been married to Hilaria Baldwin since 2012, and has six children with her.

  His ex-wife is actress Kim Basinger;

  they were married between 1993 and 2002. They have a daughter in common.

• According to IMDb, Alec Baldwin is the oldest and best known of the four Baldwin brothers in the acting business (the others are Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin, and Daniel Baldwin).

• Alec Baldwin accidentally kills a woman and wounds a man by firing a prop gun on the set of "Rust"

Data on his career, according to IMDb

• He began his television career in the 1980s, participating in series such as "The Doctors" and "California".

• He earned a Tony nomination for his portrayal of "Stanley Kowalski" in "A Streetcar Named Desire" on Broadway.

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• He met Kim Basinger, who would later become his wife, while filming Neil Simon's comedy, "The Marrying man" (1991).

• After his high-profile divorce, he participated in the film "The Cooler" (2003), for which he received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.

• He also acted in "The Aviator" (2004), "Along Came Polly" (2004) and "The Departed" (2006).

• On television he also had a guest role in "Will & Grace" in 2005. Then he assumed his role as Jack Donaghy, television executive, along with Tina Fey, in the comedy "30 Rock" (2006).

  For this role, he won two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and an unprecedented six Screen Actors Guild Awards.

• He played Donald Trump on "Saturday Night Live."

  That role earned him an Emmy, in 2017. In 2019, when he announced that he would be leaving the role, he said: "I had a lot of fun with [the cast], and when Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider wrote [Trump's sketches in 2016 and 2017. ], that was new, fresh and the grades were good. But I feel like I'm done with it now. "

  However, in October 2020, SNL opened with a segment on the presidential debate between President Donald Trump, played by Alec Baldwin, and former Vice President Joe Biden, played by Jim Carrey.

Some anecdotes about the actor, according to IMDb

• He was trained to drive an attack submarine at the New London Submarine Base, Connecticut, for his role in "The Hunt for Red October" (1990).

• People magazine chose him as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world, in 1990.

• He wanted to be a lawyer before taking an interest in acting.

• He wrote the chapter for "Law & Order: Tabloid (1998)", which was based on his own experiences with tabloid journalists.

• He is a vegetarian and a defender of animal rights

• He was considered for the role of Batman / Bruce Wayne in "Batman" (1989), which was eventually won by actor Michael Keaton.

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• He confessed that he suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in an appearance in "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993).

• He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, seven blocks from his ex-wife Kim Basinger's star.

• He's a liberal democrat

• In 2007, a voicemail message was leaked in which the actor ranted and called his daughter, who was then 11 years old, a "rude and thoughtless little pig."

• He said he donates all the money he makes from his Capital One commercials to charities

• He was considered for the role of Patrick Swayze in "Ghost" (1990).

This Thursday, on the set of the film "Rust", in New Mexico, the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, died and the film director, Joel Souza, was injured after the actor Alec Baldwin fired a firearm of props, according to a law enforcement statement provided to CNN.

The incident is the subject of an ongoing investigation.

"There are no words to convey my shock and sadness over the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, our deeply admired wife, mother and colleague of ours," Baldwin tweeted on Friday.

"I am fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and I am in contact with her husband, offering my support to him and his family. My heart is broken for her husband, her son and everyone who knew and loved Halyna. "added the American actor.

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