Alex Baldwin

alec_book-1Alexander Rae “Alec” Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American film and television actor. Baldwin was born in Amityville, New York. He has appeared in prominent films such as Beetlejuice, The Hunt for Red October, in addition to the Martin Scorsese films, The Aviator and The Departed.
He was nominated for the Academy Award, Golden Globe,baldwin and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the 2003 film, The Cooler. Currently, he appears as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, a role for which he won an Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
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. He was starring in 43 films.
alec-baldwin3In 1990, he met his former wife, actress Kim Basinger, when they played lovers in the film The Marrying Man. They married in 1993. Basinger and Baldwin have a daughter, Ireland Eliesse “Addie” Baldwin (born October 23, 1995). They filed for divorce in January 2001; it was finalized in February 2002. Since then, the couple has been locked in a contentious public custody battle.