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Alec Baldwin
Alexander Rae Baldwin III is an American actor and film producer. He is known for his leading and supporting roles in a variety of genres, from comedy to drama. He has received numerous accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and eight Actor Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and Tony Award.
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Born 3 April 1958 · Q170572
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2026· 3 entries
“This is a mutual parting and we wish Alec all the best.”
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The Guardian: Civil lawsuit against Alec Baldwin over 2021 Rust film set shooting to go to trial
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2025· 4 entries
The Guardian: Rust review – tragedy-marred Alec Baldwin western is a tough slog
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The Guardian: Hanks had Castaway, De Niro Raging Bull, now Alec Baldwin reveals he lost 10kg for Blue Jasmine
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The Guardian: Rust: first trailer for Alec Baldwin western appears after on-set shooting
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The Guardian: Alec Baldwin sues prosecutors in Rust trial, alleging civil rights violations
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2024· 8 entries
The Guardian: Alec Baldwin film set shooting case ends after prosecutors drop appeal
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The Guardian: Alec Baldwin plans ‘to expose what really happened’ in Rust film set shooting
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The Guardian: ‘What can we do to make this better?’ Alec Baldwin film Rust finally premieres in Poland
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The Guardian: Mother of Rust cinematographer fatally shot by Alec Baldwin refuses to attend film’s world premiere
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The Guardian: Saturday Night Live: Michael Keaton hosts and Alec Baldwin cameos in middling episode
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The Baldwin family taped a reality show, The Baldwins, which premiered on February 23, 2025, on TLC
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Returned to Saturday Night Live playing Brett Baier opposite Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris spoofing a Fox News interview in the cold open sketch, and later portrayed Robert F
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Starred in the Western film Rust, which gained media attention for a shooting incident in 2021, wherein cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed when Baldwin accidentally discharged a live round from a revo
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2023· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Actor Mark Wahlberg once said, "If you don't like the USA, please leave and take your comrades Alec Baldwin, Cher, Madonna, Rosie [O'Donnell], Jennifer Lawrence, Miley Cyrus, Mark Ruffalo, Sean Penn, Robert De Niro, Barbra Streisand, Matt Damon, Oprah [Winfrey], Colin Kaepernick and the whole lot…” Incorrect Attribution.
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New Mexico special prosecutors announced that their findings indicated that Baldwin may be guilty of involuntary manslaughter
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Snopes rated the claim “Actor Alec Baldwin posted on Instagram, “God, it felt good to shoot that bitch,” after filming ended for the movie “Rust” in May 2023, more than a year after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died on set from a gunshot wound.” Miscaptioned.
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Baldwin appeared in a cameo role in a Saturday Night Live sketch spoofing the Calm app
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2022· 3 entries
Baldwin reached an undisclosed settlement with Hutchins' family in their wrongful death lawsuit
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Alec Baldwin had been executed” Satire.
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Released album “Slatkin Conducts Slatkin”.
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2021· 11 entries
Claimed: ““Then I let go of the hammer of the gun, and the gun goes off.”” — rated Experts are skeptical by The Washington Post.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Alec Baldwin was arrested for first-degree murder and possession of child pornography” No Charges.
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Snopes rated the claim “In October 2021, former President Donald Trump published a statement in which he gloated over an on-set shooting incident involving the actor Alec Baldwin.” Unproven.
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USA Today rated the claim “Actor Alec Baldwin was fired from SNL after shooting Halyna Hutchins” Satire.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Donald Trump said, “Alec Baldwin, a total loser, has taken his impression of me to a new low by testing out this theory” by shooting someone.” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Alec Baldwin Said He Would Shoot Crew Members On The Set Of ‘Rust'” Fake Quote.
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PolitiFact rated the claim ““Alec Baldwin arrested for first-degree murder and possession of child pornography.”” Pants on Fire.
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Snopes rated the claim “Alec Baldwin said "How about i just fuckin' shoot the both of ya" before firing a prop gun that killed Halyna Hutchins.” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “A news report quoted Alec Baldwin saying, “How about I just f----- shoot the both of ya?”” False.
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Baldwin was filming on the set of the then-upcoming film Rust, of which he was also a producer, at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, when he discharged a gun being used as a prop, killing cinematographer H
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Baldwin starred opposite Jamie Dornan and Christian Slater in the miniseries Dr
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2019· 1 entry
Authored an article for CNN supporting the EAT-Lancet report and recommended a plant-based diet due to global environmental issues
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2018· 3 entries
Baldwin withdrew from the role
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It was announced that Baldwin would join the cast for Joker, playing Thomas Wayne, father of Bruce Wayne
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Following the broadcast of the 90th Academy Awards, ABC broadcast a preview episode of the talk show The Alec Baldwin Show, at the time called Sundays With Alec Baldwin, scheduled to formally debut with a nine-episode or
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Saturday Night Live (2017).
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Won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his portrayal of Trump
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Took over as sole host of TCM's The Essentials following the death of his co-host, Robert Osborne
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2016· 1 entry
Baldwin began hosting a reboot of the game show Match Game on ABC
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2015· 1 entry
And reprised the role in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, released on July 27, 2018
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2013· 2 entries
The program was cancelled after only five episodes, due in part to a street tirade captured on video, in which he allegedly called the videographer a "cocksucking fag"
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock (2013).
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock (2012).
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Hosted the 2011 NFL Honors awards show
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2011· 3 entries
WNYC public radio released the first episode of Baldwin's podcast Here's the Thing, a series of interviews with public figures including artists, policy-makers, and performers
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (2011).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock (2011).
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2010· 7 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for 30 Rock (2010).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock (2010).
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Baldwin gave a commencement address at New York University and was awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree, honoris causa
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And the game show Match Game from 2016 to 2021
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Baldwin starred opposite Sam Underwood in a critically acclaimed revival of Peter Shaffer's Equus, directed by Tony Walton at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York
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Made a five-second cameo appearance with comedian Andy Samberg in a musical video titled "Great Day" featured on the bonus DVD as part of Lonely Island's album Turtleneck & Chain
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Baldwin appeared in a television campaign for Capital One as their spokesperson
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2009· 6 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock (2009).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock (2009).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock (2009).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for 30 Rock (2009).
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Baldwin became the host of The New York Philharmonic This Week, the nationally syndicated radio series of the New York Philharmonic
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Appeared in a series of commercials for Hulu that premiered during the Super Bowl broadcast
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2008· 4 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock (2008).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock (2008).
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Had a voice role as the main antagonist in the DreamWorks Animated film Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
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Marking his seventh Primetime Emmy nomination and first win
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2007· 5 entries
Won Golden Globe Awards (2007).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for 30 Rock (2007).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock (2007).
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Left a voicemail message in response to an unanswered arranged call, in which he called his 11-year-old daughter a "rude, thoughtless little pig"
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The Yari Film Group announced that it would give the film, now titled Shortcut to Happiness, a theatrical release in the spring, and cable film network Starz
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2006· 2 entries
Baldwin made theater news in Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr
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Starred in the film Mini's First Time
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2005· 1 entry
Appeared in a concert version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific at Carnegie Hall
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2004· 1 entry
Baldwin starred in a revival of Broadway's Twentieth Century about a successful and egomaniacal Broadway director (Baldwin), who has transformed a chorus girl (Anne Heche) into a leading lady
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2002· 1 entry
Baldwin appeared in two episodes of Friends as Phoebe's overly enthusiastic love interest, Parker
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1998· 6 entries
Eight days before President Bill Clinton was to be impeached, Baldwin gave a staged rant, meant as satire, "If we were in another country
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“Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for the animals. Do it for the environment, and do it for your health.”
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“I was in love when I was married to Kim Basinger, I’m not ashamed to say. I used to wake up in the morning and just look at her and say 'What do you want for breakfast, baby? Special K with blueberries? Let me go get some.”
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“Democrats of the seventies and eighties are too tolerant, too open-minded, not feral enough. I want to be a ferocious liberal.”
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Baldwin played the title role in Macbeth at The Public Theater alongside Angela Bassett and Liev Schreiber in a production directed by George C
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Called New York Governor George Pataki either a liar or incredibly stupid and asked whether Kenneth Star was a psychopath
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1996· 1 entry
And 1997, he starred in several more thrillers, including The Edge, The Juror, and Ghosts of Mississippi
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1994· 2 entries
Completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at NYU
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Baldwin made a foray into pulp fiction-based movies with the role of the title character in The Shadow
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1993· 1 entry
And had a daughter, Ireland (born October 23, 1995)
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1991· 1 entry
And is a supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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1990· 1 entry
Baldwin met actress Kim Basinger when they played lovers in the film The Marrying Man
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1988· 2 entries
In films such as Beetlejuice, Working Girl and Married to the Mob before playing Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October (1990)
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Rose to prominence acting in five major films
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1986· 3 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1986).
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In a revival of Joe Orton's Loot alongside Zoë Wanamaker, Željko Ivanek, Joseph Maher, and Charles Keating
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Baldwin starred in Dress Gray, a four-hour made-for-television miniseries, as an honest cadet sergeant who tries to solve the mystery of a murdered gay classmate
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1979· 1 entry
Lost the election for student body president and received a personal letter from former U
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1967· 1 entry
“My dad turned 40 in October 1967 … in April '68 Martin Luther King was killed. In June '68 Robert Kennedy was killed. And in the fall of '68, my dad's mother died. He was left, on an existential level, saying, "This is what I am. I've got the love of my students and I've got nothing else. My country is going to hell." After 1968, he was never the same again. All the air went out of him.”
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1958· 2 entries
Born 1958-04-03.
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In Amityville, New York, and raised in the Nassau Shores neighborhood of nearby Massapequa, the eldest son of Carol Newcomb (née Martineau; December 15, 1929 – May 26, 2022) from Syracuse, New York and Alexander Rae Bald
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