ALEC BALDWIN WINS GOLDEN GLOBE FOR PERFORMANCE IN 30 ROCK
Alec Baldwin has won this years Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical, for his role as Jack Donaghy in the hit series 30 Rock
Alec Baldwin was born on the third of April 1958 in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA. the best known and the oldest of the Baldwin brothers. In the hit movie "Clueless" the Beverly Hills/Valley Girl slang for a hot guy was "he is an absolute Baldwin".
His movie career has included appearances in Beetlejuice, The Departed, The Aviator, The Cooler and The Shadow, The Edge and many many more. His TV work is no less impressive, he has appeared on Friends, Will & Grace, Law & Order, Nip/Tuck and Las Vegas again amongst many others. In the US he was also the narrator of Thomas The Tank Engine.
Jack Donaghy had an unhappy and impoverished childhood in South Boston when he was two, his father lured him to the edge of a swimming pool with a puppy and pushed him in the pool.His mother Colleen Murphy Donaghy has nagged him his whole life,going so far as to blame him for John F. Kennedy's deathand that, again when he was two, his father left the family. However, she would regularly trade sexual favors with Frederick August Otto Schwarz, Jr. for Christmas presents for Jack and his siblings.His mother even tried to send him to Vietnam when he was 12 to make a man out of him. He also played hockey and the flute as a child, prompting his mother to embarrass him by having him play "The Star-Spangled Banner" on said flute in front of his team. He was also the captain of the diving team. He attended Princeton University[7] to earn his undergraduate degree, working his way through college by working "the day shift at a graveyard, and the graveyard shift at a Days Inn"; Michelle Obama had been one of his classmates there.Post college, Jack worked as an intern for Senator Ted Kennedy, where Jack developed an extremely liberal political world-view. At some point, though as-yet unexplained, he underwent a complete reversal of his philosophy, and became a conservative RepublicanIn the years after working for Kennedy, Jack, in his own words from "Jack-tor," "thrived" on fear, bow hunting polar bears, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, once driving a rental car into the Hudson River to practice escaping, showering with Greta Van Susteren and, in "The Break Up," he claimed to have overcome a peanut allergy through sheer willpower.After years of market research, he finally made his "greatest triumph" in the form of the Trivection oven, a product he claims to have created at General Electric. It was on the strengths of the trivection oven that, in mid 2006, he was promoted to his current position, replacing the recently deceased Gary, apparently making his official title the "Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming".
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