Alec Baldwin, an American Emmy Award-winning actor, was born in Amityville, New York in 1958.
Alexander Baldwin (born April 3, 1958) is an actor, writer, comedian, film producer, and political activist from the United States. He is the eldest of the Baldwin family's four actor brothers. Baldwin rose to prominence after starring in the sixth and seventh seasons of the CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing. From 2006 to 2013, Baldwin received critical acclaim for his role as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, alongside Tina Fey, winning two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, making him the male performer with the most SAG Awards in history. In the 1992 Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, he played Stanley Kowalski.
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