Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III (born
April 3,
1958) is an
Academy Award-nominated, and
Emmy- and
Golden Globe Award-winning,
American actor. He is the oldest and most famous of the
Baldwin brothers, and has starred in many movies and TV shows. He is also noted for having hosted
Saturday Night Live multiple times. He is currently playing television executive
Jack Donaghy in the NBC situation-comedy
30 Rock.
Biography
Early life
Baldwin was born in
Massapequa, New York, USA, the son of Carolyn Newcomb (née Martineau) and Alexander Rae Baldwin, Jr., a
high school history/social studies teacher and
football coach.
[Alec Baldwin Biography (1958-), filmreference.com] Baldwin was raised in a
Catholic family of
Irish and
French descent.
[Helen's Alec Baldwin site-Interview, 1989][Newsday] He attended
Alfred G. Berner High School in Massapequa, Long Island, and played football there under Coach
Bob Reifsnyder, who is in the
College Football Hall of Fame. Baldwin worked as a
busboy at the famous
New York City disco Studio 54. He attended
George Washington University from 1976 to 1979, where he was known as "Alex." After losing a student body president election, he transferred to
New York University to study acting at the
Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute under Elaine Aiken and Geoffrey Horne. He returned to NYU in 1994 and graduated with a
BFA that year.
