Who is Alec Baldwin? The actor who accidentally killed a cinematographer on a set

After years collecting controversies and incidents due to his angry and fiery character, Alec Baldwin had achieved stability in recent times, with solid projects and a married couple with a large family, a tranquility that has now been tarnished by the incident that has ended the life of a photography director.

Actor Alec Baldwin accidentally kills cinematographer while filming Rust

While filming the 'western' Rust, in which Baldwin is a producer as well as a leading man, the actor accidentally killed Halyna Hutchins, by firing a pistol. Prop that was supposed to be blanks and that I didn't know was loaded.

What is known at the time of the accident in which Alec Baldwin killed and injured two members of the set

Actor Alec Baldwin accidentally kills a cinematographer while filming the movie Rust

In addition, the shots also wounded the film's director, Joel Souza, who was taken to the hospital in Santa Fe (New Mexico), in an incident that is being investigated.

After years of flirting with drugs and alcohol and being involved in violent incidents with the press, the police or with his own ex-wife, Kim Basinger, Baldwin was enjoying stability at 63 years of age.

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He has been married since 2012 to yoga instructor Hilaria Baldwin (25 years his junior), whom he met at a restaurant in Manhattan. With her he had six children, the last one at the beginning of the year by surrogacy.

Alexander Rae Baldwin was born on April 3, 1958 in the New York town of Massapequa, into an Irish Catholic family, and belongs to a saga of actors, although he was the first of his brothers -and the most successful - to dedicate himself to interpretation. He was then followed by William, Stephen and Daniel.

The son of cancer activist Carol Baldwin, he studied political science for three years (he's a fervent Democratic voter) and took some law courses, but his dream of becoming an actor took him to enroll in Dramatic Arts at New York University and also at the Lee Strasberg Institute.

He started working at the Moscow Art Theatre's Mira Rostrova and was soon cast in a role in the popular TV serial The Doctors and others such as Cutter to Houston or the drama Knots landing.

In the eighties Baldwin moved to Los Angeles, where he made his film debut with Sweet Revenge (1984) by David Greene, a film that was followed by < b>Forever, Lulu (1987), by Amos Kollek. During these years Baldwin flirted with drugs and even suffered an overdose from which he almost lost his life in the eighties.

After various supporting roles, his professional recognition came from Jim McTiernan in The hunt for Red October (1990), where he shared the lead with Sean Connery.

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From the 90s are Miami Blues by George Armitage, Alice by Woody Allen and The Marrying Man (1991) by Jerry Rees, a filming in which he met Kim Basinger, an actress with whom he was married for a decade and had a daughter.

Their relationship was always surrounded by controversy, with high-profile public fights on set, and the separation turned into a war of accusations between Baldwin and the actress by denying her contact with her daughter.

His role as a Las Vegas casino manager in Wayne Kramer's independent film The Cooler (2003) earned him his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Then came Scorsese's films The Aviator (2005) and The Departed (2006), as well as The Good Shepherd (2007) , by Robert de Niro, among others, and the series 30 Rock, which in its seven seasons has earned him three Golden Globes and two Emmys for Best Comedy Actor.

He also worked under the orders of Woody Allen in To Rome with Love (2012) and Blue Jasmine (2013) and in 2014 he took part in the fifth installment of Torrente del Spanish filmmaker Santiago Segura: Operation Eurovegas.

This was not a good time for the actor, since at that time he was involved in several incidents in New York. He was denounced in 2013 for racist insults to a photographer and threats to a reporter and was arrested by the police for riding a bicycle in the wrong direction.

In recent years he has participated in the films of the saga Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015) and Mission Impossible: Fallout, as well as in successful television projects such as Saturday Night Live, with which he managed to win another Emmy Award, or the recently released series Dr Death. (I)