Biography
The Talented Four of the Baldwin brothers has long conquered Hollywood, and each of the actors asserted in their genre and an amplua, having passed the creative way, full of takeoffs and falls. William Baldwin began with the amplus of the Hero-lover, who began to pursue the actor after the film "Sliver" with Sharon Stone.
However, he soon proved that his acting range is much wider, a variety of referees filmography - from the heroes of rescuers to Manyaki-psychopaths. In life, the character of William is close to the ideal - so they claim his close, for the equilibrium, which gave him a nickname Billy Light.
Childhood and youth
William Joseph Baldwin was born on February 21, 1963 in the city of Massagekva, New York. Both parents are teachers. Father Alexander Baldwin - a teacher of history, also worked as a football coach. Mom Carol Newcomb taught in high school. William is a third seniority in the famous four actor brothers after Aleka and Daniel. After him, Stephen and Jane were born. Also, the brothers have an elder sister Elizabeth.
Children grew in a big friendly family, received strict Catholic education, deeply honored Irish traditions, as a tribute to their roots. Of course, when four Rouventians grow together, it is not necessary to do without quarrels, and sometimes serious fights. William, unlike other brothers, had the best chances to get out the winner of any scuffle, as seriously fond of struggle at school and college. However, he preferred to stay aside.
"Billy has always been a peacemaker and kept neutrality as Switzerland," the older brother Alec Baldwin is already joking about him.Perhaps this is an innate sense of diplomacy and pushed a guy after graduating from High School Alfred Berner to enroll in Binghampton University at the Faculty of Political Science. Having completed education, William was even in an example in the US Congress as an assistant Congressman-Democrat Tom Dauni.
Films
However, it was not necessary to engage in William's policies. Athletic high (actor's height 187 cm) The guy was invited to earn money in an advertising photo shoot for Calvin Klein. And from the world of models in the actors, it was hand to file, especially when two older brothers had already done success in the cinema.
Baldwin's debut took place in 1989, and simultaneously on small and large screens. On television, he got the role of a real historical character - Robert Chambers, who killed in 1986 in New York 18-year-old schoolgirl Jennifer Levin. In a television film called "Murder of Graduate", William played with Laro Flynn Boyle.
On the same year, the cult film Oliver Stone "Born Fourth of July" with Tom Cruise in the lead role. In this Oscar-winning military drama, Baldwin's younger brother - Stephen played, William also got a small episodic role.
Already next year, the first major role in the film "Komatozniki" appears in the acting biography of Baldwin (1990). Partners of the novice artist were stars such as Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Baikon and Oliver Platt. All of them play the participants in a dangerous experiment on immersion in clinical death, after which they are experiencing terrible consequences. The picture with great success was held in the cinemas of the world, and Billy woke up truly famous.
At this wave, the actor receives a role for which millions of television viewers will be loved. We are talking about the film "Return Rod", where William played brawl firefighter Brian McCaffrey, alone discontinued a whole chain of crimes related to fires in his hometown.
In 1993, Baldwin was invited to a secondary role in the psychological thriller "Sliver". The role of the main character of Karly Norris was written specifically for Sharon Stone, who was at the peak of success after the premiere of the "main instinct". Carly - a successful editor in the publishing house, moves to a new apartment and meets with Zikom Hokkins (Baldwin), an passionate novel begins between them, but soon a woman suspects that Zek is a serial killer.
The film gathered a good world cashier - over $ 100 million. But critics disappointed, for which it was 7 times nominated for Golden Malina. The only one who remained at the height is William. For this role, he was awarded the title of the most desirable man according to MTV.
By the way, after the "pinch" Baldwin and Stone managed to part with the worst enemies: an ambitious actress was unbelieving a partner and in every way to him during filming. But the next partner of the artist in the film "Fair game", Cindy Crawford, was the charm itself. The role of lawyer Kate McQueen became debut for the model, and Stephen as he could supported a colleague.
Until the end of the 90s, the actor played in 2 pictures: the detective "baked blood", producer whose producer spoke by Quentin Tarantino, and in the fantastic thriller "Virus". Both films failed at the box office and did not bring Billy great popularity.
In 2000, William is removed a lot, but none of the works brings the actor to have been successful. During these years, Baldwin advantageously plays in criminal drams ("the main suspect", "one-eyed king") and militants ("control shot", "kidnappers of paintings"). However, the pleasure of fans, pronounced in the comedies ("Well, you and the moron!", Kalmar and Kit, "Blue Blood").
This period is marked by a big job on TV. William is filmed in the series "Dirty Wet Money", telling about the Darling family - the richest clan of New York. Baldwin plays one of the main characters - Patrick Darling, a successful prosecutor, the son of the head of the clan.
The actor and filming was noted in the popular TV series "Gossip", playing 2 seasons as Dr. William Van der Woodsen - Father of the main heroine of Serena (Blake Lively).
After 2010, the actor began to engage in voice: his voice of the Justice League: The Crisis of the Two Worlds "," Dinomama "says his voice. From 2017, he again actively filmed into a movie and on television. This year appeared in the joint Russian-American militant "fatal strike", a year later - in Horro "Minutes to midnight" and the TV series "Judy Night".
Personal life
The personal life of Willma Baldwin was not so violent, as the actor awarded the status of the most desirable man of Hollywood. In his youth, Billy met with actress Jennifer Gray. They have repeatedly appeared together on the red tracks of film festivals. However, before marriage, these relationships were not brought. He had an artist Roman and with Madonna himself.
In 1991, Baldwin began to meet with the singer Tea Phillips, the daughter of the famous musician John Phillips. In 1995, the couple became her husband and his wife. One after another was born three children - Daughter Jameson (2000), son Vance Alexander (2001), daughter Brooke (2004).
In 2010, Chinas wanted to give a divorce, but changed his mind and recalled documents. Now the spouses live on 2 houses: in New York and the estate in Santa Barbara. The actor does not hide the bright moments of his family life and often posts photos in "Instagram".
William is also the head of the Charitable Foundation to combat breast cancer, founded by Baldwin's brothers in honor of His mother Carol Newcomb, whose life has taken a terrible disease.
William Baldwin now
In 2019, the stars will see him in two television projects. The artist's participation in new series "Too old to die the young" and "Northern Rescue" is expected. In both, Baldwin is a leading role.
Also, the actor is working on new films: "Forsaking All others", "Youth Group", "Welcome to Acapulco", "Trunk".
Filmography
- 1989 - "Born the Fourth of July"
- 1990 - "Komatozniki"
- 1991 - "Reverse Tract"
- 1993 - "Slice"
- 1995 - "Fair game"
- 1996 - "Purchased Blood"
- 1998 - Nikita-Double Life
- 1999 - "Virus"
- 2000 - "The main suspect"
- 2001 - "One-eyed king"
- 2002 - "Well, you and the moron!"
- 2004 - "Pictures" kidnappers "
- 2005 - "Calmar and Kit"
- 2007 - "Dirty Wet Money"
- 2016 - "Chronology"
- 2010 - "Gossip"
- 2018 - "Ship Night"