Alec Baldwin adds a series of controversies in his past. He had achieved stability in recent times, with solid projects and a happy marriage.
After years collecting controversies and incidents due to his irate and fiery character, Alec Baldwin had achieved the stability in the last times, with solid projects and a marriage with a large family, a tranquility that has now been clouded by the incident that has ended the life of a cinematographer.
Actor Alec Baldwin accidentally kills cinematographer while filming movie Rust
In the middle of filming the ‘western’ Rust, in which Baldwin serves as producer as well as protagonist, the actor accidentally killed Halyna Hutchins, firing a prop pistol that was supposedly a blank and that I didn’t know it was loaded.
Also, the shots They have also injured the director of the film, Joel Souza, that he was transferred to the hospital in Santa Fe (New Mexico), in an incident that is being investigated.
After years of flirting with drugs and alcohol and starring in violent incidents with the press, the police or with his own ex-wife, Kim Basinger, Baldwin was enjoying stability at age 63.
He has been married to yoga instructor Hilaria Baldwin since 2012. (25 years his junior), whom he met at a Manhattan restaurant. With her he had six children, the last at the beginning of the year by surrogacy.
Alexander Rae Baldwin was born on April 3, 1958 in the New York town of Massapequa, into an Irish Catholic family, and belongs to a saga of actors, although he was the first of his brothers -and the most successful- to dedicate himself to interpretation. Then William, Stephen, and Daniel followed.
Son of cancer activist Carol BaldwinHe studied Political Science for three years (he is a fervent voter in the Democratic Party) and did some law courses, but his dream of becoming an actor led him to enroll in Dramatic Arts at New York University and also at the Lee Strasberg Institute.
He started working on the Moscow Art Theatre’s Mira Rostrova and was soon cast in a role in the popular television serial The doctors and others like Cutter to Houston or the drama Knots landing.
In the eighties Baldwin moved to Los Angeles, where he made his film debut with the Sweet Revenge (1984) from David Greene, tape that followed Forever, Lulu (1987), from Amos Kollek. During these years Baldwin flirted with drugs and even suffered an overdose for which he almost lost his life in the eighties.
After several secondary roles, his professional recognition came from the hand of Jim McTiernan on The hunt for Red October (1990), where he shared the limelight with Sean Connery.
From the nineties are Miami Blues from George Armitage, Alice from Woody Allen and The Marrying Man (1991) from Jerry Rees, filming in which he met Kim Basinger, an actress with whom he was married for a decade and had a daughter.
Their relationship was always surrounded by controversy, with public fights in the filming, and the separation turned into a war of accusations between Baldwin and the actress by denying him contact with his daughter.
His role as a Las Vegas casino manager in Wayne Kramer’s indie film The Cooler (2003), earned him his first Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.
Then came two Scorsese films The aviator (2005) e The Departed (2006), in addition to The Good Shepherd (2007), of Robert de Niro, among others, and the series 30 Rock which in its seven seasons has earned him three Golden Globes and two Emmy for Best Actor in a Comedy.
He also worked under Woody Allen in To Rome with Love (2012) and Blue Jasmine (2013) and in 2014 he appeared in the fifth installment of Torrente by Spanish filmmaker Santiago Segura: Operation Eurovegas.
This was not a good time for the actor, because at that time he was involved in several incidents in New York. He was denounced in 2013 for racist insults to a photographer and threats to a reporter and was arrested by the police for cycling in the opposite direction.
In recent years he has participated in the films of the saga Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015) and Mission Impossible: Fallout, as well as in successful television projects such as Saturday Night Live, with which he managed to win another Emmy award, or the recently released series Dr Death. (I)
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