Alec Baldwin Height, Weight, Age, Wife, Children, Biography & More

Some Lesser Known Facts About Alec Baldwin
- Does Alec Baldwin smoke?: Not Known
- Alec and his 5 siblings were raised in a Catholic family.
- His father was a social studies teacher and a football coach in a high school.
- Growing up, Alec became an efficient football player just like his father and played football there under Coach Bob Reifsnyder in his high school.
- While he was in New York, he worked as a busboy at the discoStudio 54.
- He later attended George Washington University and also stood up for student body president election, which unfortunately he lost.
- Soon after, he transferred to Tisch School of the Arts (New York University) where he got a chance to study with Geoffrey Horne and Mira Rostova at Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
- He was later accepted as a member of the Actors Studio (organization for professional actors).
- He also impersonated US President- Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential election, to widespread critical acclaim.
- He started off his acting career with the stage shows/theatre plays. In 1986, he made his Broadway theatre debut in the revival of Joe Orton’s Loot.
- He debuted in the TV series as Billy Aldrich for ‘The Doctors’ (1980 to 1982).
- In 2010, he made a five-second cameo with comedian Andy Samberg in a musical video-‘Great Day.’
- The same year, Alec co-hosted the 82nd Academy Awards with Steve Martin. He has hosted- ‘Saturday Night Live’ 17 times, making him hold the record for hosting the show the maximum times.
- In 2013, he started his own weekly show in MSNBC’s primetime line-up, though the program was canceled after only five episodes, due in part to a street tirade captured on video.
- He shot to fame with his role as Jack Ryan in ‘The Hunt for Red October’ (1990).
- He met his ex-wife, Kim Basinger when they played lovers in the 1991 film- ‘The Marrying Man’.
- In 2001, he directed and starred ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster,’ but the film release got stuck with some federal bank fraud trial as the film investor- Jed Barron was convicted of bank fraud while the movie was in production. That film was acquired by ‘The Yari Group’ and they released the film, changing its title to ‘Shortcut to Happiness,’ without Alec’s involvement.
- In 2009, he began hosting the radio show- The New York Philharmonic- This Week.
- In 2011, WNYC public radio released the first episode of Alec’s new podcast- ‘Here’s the Thing,’ a series of interviews celebrities including artists, policy-makers, and performers.
- He is a democrat and has always supported ‘Barack Obama’ in his two presidential campaigns.
- He serves ‘People for the American Way’ and is an animal rights activist and a strong supporter of PETA.
- He also supports Farm Sanctuary’s- ‘Adopt A Turkey Project’ and states that “At least 46 million turkeys suffer heartbreaking fear and pain before being killed each and every ‘Thanksgiving’ festival.
- Alec was expected to appear in a taped skit during the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, the producers of the show cut a portion of the skit which contained a reference to News International phone hacking scandal. Consequently, Alec boycotted the Emmy Awards and requested the producers to remove his entire appearance from the broadcast.
- In 2008, he co-authored the book- ‘A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce’ with Mark Tabb.
- Alec’s memoir- Nevertheless (2017) was at #5 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-seller list.
- In 2017, he was in the news for buying a luxurious house worth $11.7 million.
One Response
Did you really mean list Alec Baldwin’s professions as: “Actor, Writer, Pomedian, Producer?” Is a “Pomedian” some sort of cross between a comedian and a Pomeranian? Hahaha!