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Alec Baldwin is known for his appearances in not only numerous movies but also in TV shows like 30 Rock and has also hosted Saturday Night Live for 13 times. Alec Baldwin academically had enrolled as a political science major at George Washington University and in future planed to got to the law school but somehow he decided other wise and took to acting. Baldwin had a special attachment towards suspense and supernatural elements in movies and he had starred in his homemade movie of 'Frankenstein'.
He even grew up to be a compulsive filmgoer and by 12 he had seen movies from Hitchcock, Capra to Truffaut. Baldwin, who was mostly disillusioned with politics and wanted to pursue theater now moved to Manhattan, after 3 years of studying at George Washington University he enrolled himself at the New York University's drama department. While continuing with his theater in Moscow Art Theatre's Mira Rostova, Baldwin got a recurring role on the popular NBC daytime soap opera 'The Doctors' which also landed him with the series like 'Cutter to Houston' and the CBS drama 'Knots Landing'.
He followed with the production of Caryl Churchill's hit comedy 'Serious Money' on Broadway, before making his screen bow in 'Forever Lulu'. In between various movie assignments he continued working on stage. Baldwin starred as Peter in the show of 'Prelude to a Kiss' and the show sold-out six week run before it moved to Broadway. Alec Baldwin was also was awarded an Obie Award as Best Actor in 1991. In the 1992 revival of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire he has appeared and he received a Best Actor Tony nomination.
He also appeared in movies like She's Having a Baby, Beetle juice, Married to the Mob, Talk Radio, Working Girl, Miami Blues, Great Balls of Fire, The Hunt For Red October, Alice, Glengarry Glen Ross, Malice, The Getaway, The Shadow and the upcoming Heaven's Prisoners. He's on the board of directors of The Creative Coalitio, People for the American Way, City Centre of New York and The Drama League of New York other than being associated with theaters and being a benefactor of the Bay Street Theatre Festival in Sag Harbor and the Circle Rep Theatre in New York.
Lastly he's also an ardent supporter of the Hudson Riverkeeper of Garrison, New York and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. He completed his undergraduate studies, and received a BFA degree in Drama in 1993. He was married to actress Kim Basinger on 23rd October 1995 and their first child was born in Los Angeles and Alec and Kim officially got divorced in Feb. 2002. Find out more about the interesting facts from Alec Baldwin biography as theydeserveit keeps you informed about the same.
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