Alec Baldwin is a graduate of New York University (BFA-Tisch, 94) and was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from NYU in 2010.
He last appeared on stage in the 2010 Guild Hall (East Hampton) production of Peter Shaffer’s EQUUS, directed by Tony Walton. Other stage includes the Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2006 production of Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane, directed by Scott Ellis. Loot (Broadway-1986; Theatre World Award), Caryl Churchill's Serious Money (Broadway-1988), Prelude to a Kiss (Circle Rep.- 1990; Obie Award), A Street Car Named Desire (Broadway-1992; Tony nomination), Macbeth (NYSF-1998), The Twentieth Century (Roundabout-2004). (Also The Hartman in Stamford, Williamstown, Bay Street)
Baldwin has appeared in over forty films, including Beetle Juice, Working Girl, Miami Blues, The Hunt for Red October, Glengarry Glen Ross, Malice, The Juror, The Edge, Ghosts of Mississippi, State and Main, The Cat in the Hat, The Cooler (National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor, Oscar nomination), The Aviator, The Departed, and It’s Complicated, among many others.
On television Baldwin currently stars with Tina Fey on NBC’s “30 Rock”, winner of the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. Baldwin has received five SAG Awards, three Golden Globes, the Television Critics Award and two Emmy awards as Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance on the show.
In 2011, Alec received his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His company, El Dorado Pictures, has produced several projects including NUREMBERG: INFAMY ON TRIAL for TNT television (Emmy nomination), The Confession for Showtime (WGA award for best adapted screenplay) and David Mamet’s film, State and Main.
Alec Baldwin is also a dedicated supporter of numerous causes related to public policy and the arts. He serves on the boards of People For The American Way, The Hamptons International Film Festival and Guild Hall of East Hampton. He is an active supporter of The Radiation and Public Health Project, East Hampton Day Care Center, The Actors Fund, The Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival, The Roundabout Theatre, People for the Ethical treatment of Animals and The Water Keeper Alliance, among many others.
Baldwin’s book, A PROMISE TO OURSELVES (St. Martin’s Press) was published in paperback in the Fall of 2009.
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Alec Baldwin appears in the following:
Here's The Thing: Elaine Stritch
Monday, May 13, 2013
"I was the funny kind of offbeat girl. I was never the romantic lead," the actor says.
Here's The Thing: Martin Horn
Monday, April 29, 2013
"It was a fascinating career. I am absolutely glad I’m done," says the former New York City Commissioner of Correction and Probation.
Here's The Thing: Debbie Reynolds
Monday, April 15, 2013
“I slept in my dressing room.” The legendary actor on her first big film, Singin' in the Rain.
Here's The Thing: Thom Yorke
Monday, April 01, 2013
"I stand on my head for a bit." Radiohead and Atoms for Peace frontman, on his pre-show rituals.
Here's The Thing: Andrew Luck
Monday, March 18, 2013
"You try sitting in a lecture after you've been drafted by a team." - NFL QB on his start.
Here's The Thing: Brian Williams
Monday, March 04, 2013
"No one needs another blowhard yelling at them. No one gives a rat’s patootie about my opinion." The 30 Rock anchor talks to Alec Baldwin in the latest episode of Here's the Thing.
Here's The Thing: Patti LuPone
Monday, February 18, 2013
“I love what I do,” LuPone tells Alec, “I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it. ... I love our craft very, very, much, and it’s a noble craft.”
Here's The Thing: Jill Abramson
Monday, February 04, 2013
Alec talks with the Executive Editor of The New York Times, Jill Abramson on this episode of Here's The Thing. Abramson grew up in a family that was steeped in The New York Times: two copies were delivered to her house. Her mother wanted her own for the crossword.
Here's The Thing: Lena Dunham
Monday, January 21, 2013
This week, Alec Baldwin talks with Lena Dunham, whose hit show on HBO, "Girls," just started its second season. Three years ago, Dunham made a low-budget art house film called "Tiny Furniture."
Here's The Thing: Judd Apatow
Monday, January 07, 2013
This week Alec talks with filmmaker Judd Apatow, whose most recent film, “This is 40”, may be his most personal. For Apatow, each movie he makes is “a letter to myself telling me something that I need to know about how to live my life."
Here's The Thing: Alex and Jamie Bernstein
Monday, December 24, 2012
This week Alec sits down with Jamie and Alex Bernstein, to hear about growing up with the maestro, Leonard Bernstein. And while they knew him in the tux and tails, they also knew him as the dad who loved games.
Here's The Thing: Lewis Lapham
Monday, December 10, 2012
Talking with Lewis Lapham gives you the sensation you’ve stumbled onto the set of a 1940’s film noir -- his stories evoke another era. This week he tells Alec Baldwin about being a rookie reporter at The Examiner and what it was like to go to India with the Beatles.
Here's The Thing: Paula Pell
Monday, November 26, 2012
This week on Here’s The Thing, Alec talks with writer Paula Pell – whose been making people laugh at Saturday Night Live for the last 17 years. Pell landed her dream job as a writer at SNL after working at a Florida theme park. Her agent told her that Lorne Michaels wanted to meet her – “it is not an audition, but he wants to fly you up and talk to you.” Pell wasn’t sure what she was headed up for, but she got a job writing for the show.
Here's The Thing: Andrew McCarthy
Monday, November 05, 2012
This week Alec talks with Andrew McCarthy – about making movies, directing and what it’s like to reinvent oneself as a travel writer. Most people know McCarthy for his roles in "St. Elmo’s Fire" and "Pretty in Pink" – as a member of the “Brat Pack" -- but those movies were only one stop on Andrew McCarthy’s journey.
Here's The Thing: Peter Beard and Richard Ruggiero
Monday, October 22, 2012
This week on Here’s the Thing, Alec talks with two men who have spent much of their lives living and working in Africa. Photographer Peter Beard first set foot on the continent in 1955. Richard Ruggiero, of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, began his Peace Corps stint in 1981 in the northern Central African Republic.
Here's The Thing: David Brooks
Monday, October 08, 2012
This week on Here’s The Thing, Alec talks with David Brooks on stage at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in Manhattan as part of the Public Forum series. David Brooks has been a New York Times op-ed columnist since 2003. He is known as a Conservative voice -- he was a senior editor at The Weekly Standard -- but former Obama advisor David Axelrod described him as a “true public thinker.”
Here's The Thing: One Hour Specials
Monday, October 01, 2012
In a series of one-hour specials, award-winning actor Alec Baldwin gives listeners unique entrée into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers, taking them inside the dressing rooms, apartments, and offices of people including Chris Rock and Michael Douglas.
Here's The Thing: George Will
Monday, September 24, 2012
This week, Alec talks with Pulitzer-prize winner George Will, whose passion for politics began early: he remembers Truman’s election when he was seven years old.
Here's The Thing: Fred Armisen
Monday, September 10, 2012
This week, Alec talks with Fred Armisen. Armisen has been a punk rock drummer, currently he’s a cast member on Saturday Night Live and is also the co-creator and co-star of IFC’s Portlandia. Armisen has always been ambitious; when he was a drummer, he recalls, he always "wanted much more."
Here's The Thing: Zarin Mehta
Monday, August 27, 2012
This week, Alec talks with Zarin Mehta who retired as president and executive director of the New York Philharmonic at the end of this past season. Mehta, an accountant by trade, grew up in 1940’s Bombay before it became the booming city of Mumbai. In Mehta’s memory, Bombay was more like a colonial fishing village.
