Alec Baldwin is an Academy Award-nominated, Screen Actors Guild Award-winning, and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. The eldest of the Baldwin brothers. Alec Baldwin has starred in many movies and TV shows such as “30 Rock”.
Baldwin’s first major role was as Billy Aldrich on the daytime soap “The Doctors” from 1980 to its cancellation in 1982. In the fall of 1983, he starred in the short lived series “Cutter to Houston”. He shot to stardom co-starring on “Knots Landing” as the preacher son of Julie Harris and spent most of the 1980s appearing in television series, before turning to film in 1986, making his film debut with a minor role in “She’s Having a Baby”. In 1987, he appeared in “Beetlejuice” and, in 1988, “Working Girl”. Both of these films were box office successes that raised his profile.
After appearing in several other supporting roles, Baldwin starred as Jack Ryan in The “Hunt for Red October”, which grossed over $100 million after its release in March 1990. However, he turned down reprising the role in subsequent Tom Clancy movies. Instead, the Jack Ryan character was portrayed by Harrison Ford in Patriot Games and “Clear and Present Danger”, and has since been played by Ben Affleck in “The Sum of All Fears”.
Baldwin subsequently had several notable roles in early 1990s films. His role in the beginning of “Glengarry Glen Ross” is considered by many to be the best performance of an ensemble cast that included Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino.
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