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Alec Baldwin (born April 3, 1958, in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USAAlec Baldwin is an American actor who is the oldest and best known of the "Baldwin brothers," with brothers Daniel, Stephen and William. He is of three quarters Irish and one quarter French descent.

Baldwin has appeared in movies such as .

He has also made notable appearances on television. In particular, Baldwin is one of the most frequent hosts of , leading the show twelve times and also making cameo appearances regularly. He played William Barrett Travis in a movie about the Battle of the Alamo called . He left the series in 2003.

When Baldwin was young, he had a job as a busboy at famous New York City disco . 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 and accusations that Baldwin was an abusive husband, which many believed hurt his career in addition to allegations of him having anger management problems.

Baldwin was widely criticized for his appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on December 11th, 1998, eight days before President Bill Clinton was impeached. In a skit that Baldwin later referred to as a "parody", he said that "if we were in another country, ... We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families." [1] Baldwin later apologized to Hyde for his remarks. NBC has promised never to re-air the show. [2]

Baldwin, a liberal 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.

Voices. He narrated the Amerecan Thomas episodes in 1998 and 2003, after Ringo Starr left and Alec Baldwin was replaced by Michael Angelis in 2003. (2004: 2.16) - Dr. Barrett Moore (plastic surgeon), husband of Ava Moore, a MTF transexual who formally went by Avery Tanner.

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