Name	William Baldwin
Height	6' 1½"
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	21 February 1963
Place of Birth	Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
Famous for

“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.” William Baldwin

A successful wrestler throughout high school and college, William Baldwin had a change of heart and decided to pursue an acting career after seeing the success of his older brother, actor Alec Baldwin, in acting. He then took drama lessons, and worked as a model for Calvin Klein as well as a bartender to pay the bills. By the late 1980s, one-forth of Baldwin brothers, William had kicked off his professional career by taking on the costarring role of murderer Robert Chambers in the crime/drama-made-for-television film The Preppie Murder (1989), opposite Danny Aiello and Lara Flynn Boyle. He made the leap to the big screen with a small part in Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July, that same year, playing an associate of Tom Cruise’s Marine squad.

After small roles in thriller films the Mike Figgis-helmed Internal Affairs (1990, starred Richard Gere and Andy Garcia) and the Julia Robert- Kiefer Sutherland vehicle Flatliners (1990, as hazardous, womanizing medical student Joe), William received his breakthrough role of the sweet firefighter-turned-fire-starting detective Brian McCaffery in Ron Howard’s Backdraft in 1991. He costarred with such well-known actors as Donald Sutherland, Robert De Niro and Kurt Russell. Two years later, he gained additional attention as an affluent spinster involved with Sharon Stone in Phillip Noyce’s thriller Sliver. The role brought the actor a MTV Movie for Most Desirable Male. Also in 1993, he starred as an usher caught up in a triangle with two alienated lesbian lovers (Sherilyn Fenn and Kelly Lynch) in the romantic comedy Three of Heart.

William, however, had to deal with disappointment in 1995 when he starred opposite supermodel Cindy Crawford in her film debut, Fair Game, an actioner which was a box office bomb. He joined Sadie Frost and John Leguizamo in the well-received dark comedy A Pyromaniac’s Love Story, that same year. His choice of weird small projects was further showed in the next year with the comedy Curdled, in which he costarred as sexy serial killer Paul Guell. Following an uncredited part as the title character’s lover in Bulworth (1998), he returned to film with leading role, this time portrayed Annie Parillaud’s husband in Shattered Image (1998), a thriller by Raul Ruiz. He rejoined Donald Sutherland and costarred with Jamie Lee Curtis in horror/thriller Virus (1999), as well as starred as Tom Martinez in the Showtime original Brotherhood of Murder (1999).

A major Hollywood actor, William continued starring in films like Primary Suspect (2000), Double Bang (2001, released on HBO in place of theatrical release), One Eyed King (2001, opposite Dash Mihok) and Red Rover (2003). He also supported such actors as Julie Andrews in the comedy Relative Values (2000), as Nastassja Kinski and Hart Bochner in Say Nothing (2001), Milla Jovovich in romance film You Stupid Man (2002) and Ellen Pompeo in Art Heist (2004). In 2005, William gave an amusing supporting portrayal of Laura Linney’s boyfriend in director Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale.

The strikingly handsome actor recently starred as Dennis in the comedy film Park (2006), written and directed by Kurt Voelker. He will soon be seen in the upcoming dramas Sakura: Blue-Eyed Samurai (2006), Lenexa, 1 Mile (2006, stars Josh Stewart and Austin Nichols) and Feel (2006, opposite Tom Bower). In 2007, he is set to star in 1/9 (attached to play Mark Phipps) and American Fork (as Truman Hope). On the small screen, William will star as Paul Brennan in the pilot of drama series “Waterfront” (2006).