Alec Baldwin Biography

Biography

through John McTiernan's action thriller, “The Hunt for Red October” (1990), as the movie soared to be a box-office hit with the income of more than 200 million U.S. dollar in international market, consequently brought him to worldwide recognition. Continued to compile his film resume, he then was cast to be a male lead in Jerry Rees' “The Marrying Man” (1991) opposite Kim Basinger, to whom he ultimately gave his heart for this raven-haired actor happily married her on August 19, 1993, the year he earned a BFA degree from NYU.

Involved in a series of fair-resulted movies, such as “Glengarry Glen Ross” (1992), “Malice” (1993), and “The Getaway” (1994) in which he starred together with Basinger, Alec joyously welcomed his daughter, Ireland Eliesse Baldwin, on October 23, 1995 while marked his return to the small screen production through a TV-movie version of “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1995) alongside Jessica Lange, John Goodman, plus Diane Lane. Received huge praise from the critics due to his brilliant portrayal as Stanley Kowalski in this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play, he gloriously gained a nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special at Emmy Awards while also scored the same ...

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honor at Golden Globe Awards in the category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV in 1996. This striking man of Irish and French descent afterwards spent the rest 1990s to explore diverse characters in various film genre as seen in “The Juror” (1996), “The Edge” (1997), “Mercury Rising” (1998), and “Notting Hill” (1999).

By the third millennium, Alec had enhanced his status to be one of the high-profile actors for he not only once again acquired the same nomination at Golden Globe Awards, but also another of Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries at Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2001 through his role as a prosecutorial attorney in the TNT's miniseries of "Nuremberg” (2000). However, this glory was marred on January 12, 2001 as Basinger suddenly filed for divorce and caused him had to fight the rumor of his abusive behavior for years after the official break-up in February 2002. In the meantime, he amazingly continued to collect more credits when garnered numerous honors at prestigious award events for his fantastic enactment of Shelly Kaplow in “The Cooler” (2003), notably an Oscar nomination in the ...