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Image:Alecbaldwin.jpg|frame|right|Alec Baldwin Image:Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger were married from 1993 to 2002. Alexander Rae Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958, in Massapequa, New York|Massapequa, Long Island, New York, United States|USA) is an Irish-American actor who is the oldest and best known of the "Baldwin brothers", with brothers Daniel Baldwin|Daniel, Stephen Baldwin|Stephen and William Baldwin|William. Baldwin has appeared in movies such as The Cooler, The Hunt for Red October, Beetlejuice, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (voice), The Cat in the Hat, Pearl Harbor (movie)|Pearl Harbor, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Along Came Polly, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, and The Aviator. He has also made notable appearances on television. In particular, Baldwin is one of the most frequent hosts of Saturday Night Live, leading the show eleven times and also making Cameo appearance|cameo appearances regularly. He played William Barrett Travis in a movie about the Alamo called Thirteen Days of Glory. In 1998 in television|1998, he began narrating the American version of the children's series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. He left the series in 2003 in television|2003. When Baldwin was young, he had a job as a busboy at famous New York City disco Studio 54. He claims he had to quit the job because seeing all of the sex going on around him "was making me too horny." He was married to actress Kim Basinger from 1993 to 2002. They were the subject of much media attention for the bitter divorce and custody fight for their daughter. Baldwin, a liberalism|liberal United States Democratic Party|Democrat, has always had an active interest in politics and is frequently rumored to be a candidate for public office. He recently revealed in a British magazine interview that he plans to leave acting in a few years to pursue a career in politics. ==Partial filmography== * The Aviator (2004) - Juan Trippe * The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) - Dennis * Along Came Polly (2004) - Stan Indursky * The Cat in the Hat (2003) - Quinn * The Cooler (2003) - Shelly Kaplow * The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - Narrator (voice) * Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) - Capt. Gray Edwards (voice) * Cats & Dogs (2001) - Butch (voice) * Pearl Harbor (movie)|Pearl Harbor (2001) - Jimmy Doolittle|Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle * State and Main (2000) - Bob Barrenger * Clerks.|Clerks (TV) (2000) - Leonardo Leonardo (voice) * Notting Hill (film)|Notting Hill (1999) * Outside Providence (1999) - Old Man Dumphy * Mercury Rising (1998) - Lt. Col. Nicholas Kudrow * The Edge (1997) * Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) - Bobby DeLaughter * The Juror (1996) - Teacher * The Shadow (1994) - The Shadow/Lamont Cranston * Malice (movie)|Malice (1993) - Dr. Jed Hill * Glengarry Glen Ross (film)|Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - Blake * The Hunt for Red October (1990) - Jack Ryan (fictional character)|Jack Ryan * Married to the Mob (1988) - "Cucumber" Frank de Marco * Beetlejuice (1988) - Adam ==TV appearances== * Las Vegas (TV series)|Las Vegas - Jack Keller, fictional character who is an ex-CIA employee, episodes 12 and 32. * Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Narrator/Voices. ==External links== * imdb name|id=0000285|name=Alec Baldwin * voice actor|id=2575|name=Alec Baldwin bg:Алек Болдуин de:Alec Baldwin es:Alec Baldwin fr:Alec Baldwin ja:アレック・ボ ;ールドウィン nb:Alec Baldwin sv:Alec Baldwin

