30 Rock

Baldwin stars in the Emmy Award-winning NBC sitcom 30 Rock, which won the 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. Baldwin had met series creator Tina Fey and one of his co-stars Tracy Morgan during several tapings of Saturday Night Live. He has received numerous honors for his work as TV exec Jack Donaghy, including a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award. He was again nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Comedy or Musical in 2007 for the role but lost to Ricky Gervais.

Film & television work

Baldwin’s first major role was as Billy Aldrich on the daytime soap opera The Doctors from 1980 to its cancellation in 1982. In the fall of 1983, he starred in the short lived series Cutter to Houston. He then shot to stardom co-starring on Knots Landing from 1984-86. In 1986, he made his film debut with a minor role in She’s Having a Baby. In 1988, he appeared in Beetlejuice and Working Girl. Both of these films were box office successes that raised his profile. His film career was then firmly established with his role as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October (1990).

In 1991, Baldwin met his future wife Kim Basinger on the set of the critically panned The Marrying Man. He appeared opposite Basinger again in The Getaway, a 1994 remake of the 1972 Steve McQueen film of the same name.