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    Alec Baldwin: Remarkable Actor
    Alec Baldwin: Remarkable Actor
    Alec Baldwin: Remarkable Actor
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    Alec Baldwin: Remarkable Actor

    By Danny Nolan

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    Alec Baldwin is an America actor and producer. Alec studied acting at the Less Strasberg Theater Institute in New York City. His stage credits include Loot, Serious Money, Macbeth, Twentieth Century, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, South Pacific, and A Streetcar named Desire, which garnered Baldwin a Tony Award nomination. Baldwin made his television debut on The Doctors, followed by a lead role on the primetime drama Knots Landing. Baldwin has appeared on many television shows, including guest spots on Will & Grace, Friends, Las Vegas, Nip/Tuck. He has also provided voice work for Clerks, The Simpsons and Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. Baldwin has hosted Saturday Night Live fourteen times. He starred in and helped produce the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, for which he earned ten awards, including two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateJun 6, 2014
    ISBN9781304940513
    Alec Baldwin: Remarkable Actor

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      Early Life

      Alec Baldwin was born Alexander Rae Baldwin III in Amityville, New York, the second of six children of a football coach and a social studies teacher. He grew up in Massapequa, a suburb of Long Island, New York. His brothers, Daniel, William and Stephen, also became actors.

      Baldwin majored in political science at George Washington University, intending to go to law school. However, his childhood love for acting resurfaced in college, resulting in a move to Manhattan. He then enrolled in New York University's drama department, under the tutelage of the venerable acting coach Lee Strasberg.

      On Stage

      Alec Baldwin's career began on television. He landed a role on the NBC soap opera, The Doctors (1980-82). He soon moved to prime-time TV as a co-star in the series Cutter to Houston, and as Joshua Rush in the nighttime soap opera, Knots Landing (1984-85).

      His Broadway debut was in Joe Orton's black comedy, Loot (1986), which won Baldwin a Theatre World Award. This was followed by a role in Caryl Churchill's hit comedy, Serious Money (1987). He starred off-Broadway in a sold-out engagement of Prelude to a Kiss, receiving an Obie Award as Best Actor in 1991. He would reprise this role on screen in 1992.

      Baldwin then appeared as Stanley Kowalski in the revival of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1992), earning a Tony nomination for Best Actor. He later appeared in the 1995 version of the play on CBS, which co-starred Jessica Lange, John Goodman and Diane Lane.

      Hollywood Success

      Baldwin's inauspicious film debut was in the movie Forever Lulu (1987) with Deborah Harry and Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Subsequent film highlights include Tim Burton's offbeat comedy Beetlejuice (1988), Jonathan Demme's Married to the Mob (1988) with Michelle Pfeiffer, Oliver

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