Billy Bush with Alec Baldwin (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III is a film and television actor. He has appeared in films such as Beetlejuice and The Hunt for Red October, in addition to the Martin Scorsese films The Aviator and The Departed.
Currently Baldwin appears as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, a role for which he won two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Check out the Emmy categories and description.
"30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin received an award for best actor in a comedy series with a full cast, including Tina Fey. He was seen backstage talking to "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009, in Los Angeles. Best actor in comedy series Baldwin was competing with the likes of Monk.
Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin were also seen during the 42 Below with Lorne Michaels at a Pre-Emmy Party at Sunset Tower Hotel on September 19, 2009 in Hollywood, California.
The other Baldwin brothers, Daniel (Homicide: Life on the Street), William (Backdraft), and Stephen (The Usual Suspects) all followed big brother Alec into the acting profession.
Alec Baldwin made his Broadway debut in 1986, in a revival of Joe Orton's Loot alongside theatre veterans Zoe Wanamaker, Željko Ivanek, Joseph Maher and Charles Keating. This production closed after three months.
Baldwin's other Broadway credits include Caryl Churchill's Serious Money with Kate Nelligan and a highly acclaimed revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire; his performance as Stanley Kowalski garnered him a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor. This production also featured Jessica Lange, Amy Madigan, Timothy Carhart, James Gandolfini, and Aida Turturro.
In 1998, Baldwin played the title role in Macbeth at the Public theater alongside Angela Bassett and Liev Schreiber. The production was directed by George C. Wolfe. In 2004, Baldwin starred in a revival of Twentieth Century with Anne Heche. Baldwin's first major role was as Billy Aldrich on the daytime soap opera The Doctors from 1980 to 1982.
Baldwin made his theatrical film debut with a minor role in the 1988 film She's Having a Baby. Also in 1988, he appeared in Beetlejuice and Working Girl. Fresh from those hits, his film career was firmly established with his role as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October (1990).
In film Baldwin was cast in pulp fiction-based movies with the role of the title character in The Shadow. Baldwin played in several thrillers including The Edge (with Anthony Hopkins), The Juror (with Demi Moore - "take a risk") and Heaven's Prisoners (with Bond Girl, Teri Hatcher).
Between the years of 1998 and 2002, Baldwin was the U.S. narrator for the children's show Thomas and Friends, narrating all 52 episodes of seasons 5 and 6.
Baldwin is a character and voice actor, and also was part of 2003's gambling drama The Cooler, and in the Martin Scorsese films The Aviator and The Departed, other films included The Royal Tenenbaums, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. Baldwin has hosted Saturday Night Live 14 times as of February 2009, including a 1998 episode with Kim Basinger.
Among many television shows Baldwin appeared on were two episodes of Friends as Phoebe Buffay's overly enthusiastic love interest, Parker.
Baldwin wrote an episode of Law & Order entitled "Tabloid", which aired in 1998. He played the role of Dr. Barrett Moore, a retired plastic surgeon, in the series Nip/Tuck.
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