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Adam Baldwin Biography
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| Name : | Adam Baldwin |
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Date of birth :
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27 February 1962
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Place of birth :
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Height :
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6'' 4
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Adam Baldwin Trivia
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- No relation to the Baldwin brothers Alec, Daniel, William, and Stephen of Long Island.
- Alumnus of New Trier Township High School East, Winnetka, Illinois. Other New Trier graduates include Ralph Bellamy, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Hugh O'Brien, Ann-Margret, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Virginia Madsen and Liz Phair.
- Avid golfer
- Is good friends with Jamie Lee Curtis, and appeared in Molly & Roni's Dance Party (2005) (V) as a favor to her.
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Adam Baldwin Detailed Biography
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Originally from Chicago, Adam Baldwin began his accomplished film and television career in the title role of My Bodyguard. During that same year, he caught the attention of director Robert Redford, who cast him in the Academy Award-winning feature film Ordinary People.
Adam has appeared in the recurring roles of evil law firm liaison Marcus Hamilton in the final season of Angel and as Colonel Dave Dixon on the hit sci fi series Stargate: SG-1. Adam is also familiar to TV audiences as the FBI informant/super soldier Knowle Rohrer on The X-Files and from his roles in the Emmy Award-winning miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, the syndicated drama The Cape and the telefilms Smokejumpers and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in which he played the dual role.
His additional film roles include a soldier who truly loves war in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, an abusive stepfather in Radio Flyer, cowboy Tom McLaury in Lawrence Kasdan's Wyatt Earp, Major Mitchell in the blockbuster Independence Day and Captain Wilkins in Roland Emmerich's Revolutionary War drama The Patriot.
In Summer 2004, Adam reprised his role of mercenary Jayne Cobb for the Universal Pictures film Serenity (April 2005), which is based on the acclaimed sci fi television series Firefly.
Adam recently completed production on the remake of The Poseidon Adventure, a mini-series scheduled for 2005.
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