William "Billy" Joseph Baldwin (born February 21, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and writer known for his starring roles in such films as Flatliners (1990), Backdraft (1991), Sliver (1993), Fair Game (1995), Virus (1999), Double Bang (2001), as Johnny 13 in Danny Phantom (2004–2007), Art Heist (2004), The Squid and the Whale (2005), as himself in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, as Senator Patrick Darling in the TV drama Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2009) on ABC, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010), was a regular guest on Gossip Girl as William van der Woodsen until December 2012, and Parenthood as Gordon Flint. Baldwin appeared as lead detective Brian Albert in the Lifetime Original Movie The Craigslist Killer. In 2011, Baldwin was cast in a recurring role on Hawaii Five-0 as a dirty cop, former homicide detective Frank Delano, appearing over the show's second season as well as the season premiere episode of the third season. In 2013, Baldwin joined the cast of BBC America's Copper for two episodes of season 2, prior to the series being cancelled.
Berner High School, Binghamton University, Berner High School, Binghamton University
Nationality
American, American
Spouse
Chynna Phillips (m. 1995)
Children
Brooke Baldwin, Vance Baldwin, Jamison Baldwin
Parents
Alexander Baldwin, Carol M. Baldwin, Alexander Baldwin, Carol M. Baldwin
Siblings
Alec Baldwin, Stephen Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin, Jane Sasso, Elizabeth Keuchler
Awards
MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Male, Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance, MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Male, Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance
Movies
Sliver, Backdraft, Flatliners, Fair Game, Three of Hearts, The Squid and the Whale, The Stranger Within, Curdled, Internal Affairs, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Shattered Image, Born on the Fourth of July, A Pyromaniac's Love Story, Relative Values, Be My Valentine, Adrift in Manhattan, Art Heist, A P...
I'm fascinated by each individual story. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill? And this is what I wanted to know about Tom. How could this have happened? (on real Tom Martinez, the character in which he portrays in the Showtime original movie, Brotherhood of Murder (1999)).
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I've been involved with the Creative Coalition since shortly after the founding by (actor) Ron Oliver and (actress) Susan Sarandon and (actor) Christopher Reeve. I love to really roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty on any level when it comes to these sorts of issues, (i.e. gun control, freedom of speech) on a grass roots level or a clerical level. I love to educate myself and others and help raise awareness on important issues. I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op".
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I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships.
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I see myself much more so as an actor. Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
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I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.
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Fact
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He is of Irish, English, Scottish, French-Canadian, and German descent.
William worked as an aide on Capitol Hill for U.S. Representive Thomas J. Downey ( New York/ Democrat).
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William, who trained for three weeks at the Chicago Fire Academy, rode along with the Chicago Fire Department's Squad 5 while preparing for his role as Brian McCaffrey in Backdraft (1991).
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William likes jazz, the Count Basie Band (swing), and Van Morrison, but has no favorite genre of music.
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William and his brothers were all wrestlers in high school, and he even wrestled in college. Aside from being a wrestler in high school, William also played on the high school football team.
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The Creative Coalition ( TCC ) elected William its their new president.
Acccording to most biographies on the Baldwin Brothers, William and his brothers, Alec Baldwin, Stephen Baldwin and Daniel Baldwin, attended Massapequa High School, but they actually went to Alfred G. Berner High School, two miles from Massapequa High School. But their father, Alexander Jr., was a highly respected history teacher and football coach at Massapequa High. In 1998/1999 he was honored by the school, and the auditorium was renamed for him. (One of Al Baldwin's former students is Brian Kilmeade).
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Four years after they got together, William and Chynna were married on September 9th, 1995 at the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Roman Catholic Church in South Hampton, New York.
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