Adam Baldwin
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Adam Baldwin

Baldwin in the AdventureCon 2006
Born February 27, 1962 (1962-02-27) (age 46)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Occupation Film and Television Actor
Years active 1980 — present

Adam Baldwin (born February 27, 1962) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Animal Mother in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Ricky Linderman in My Bodyguard, Knowle Rohrer in The X-Files, and Marcus Hamilton in Joss Whedon's Angel. He also established a cult following as Jayne Cobb in the series Firefly, and the movie Serenity. He is not a relative of the quartet of acting Baldwin brothers.

He currently stars as NSA agent John Casey on the NBC comedy-spy series Chuck.

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Biography

Early life

Baldwin was born in Chicago, Illinois. He studied at New Trier Township High School East in Winnetka, Illinois, and once worked as a truck driver.

Career

Appearing in dozens of films since 1980, Baldwin rose to prominence as the troubled outcast, Ricky Linderman, in My Bodyguard (1980), and moved on to bigger roles in D.C. Cab (1983), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Independence Day (1996), Smoke Jumpers (1996) and Serenity (2005)—in which he reprises his role as the mercenary Jayne Cobb from the television series Firefly. His other work includes the movie Radio Flyer (1992), From the Earth to the Moon (1998), The X-Files (Knowle Rohrer), Men in Black: The Series, Stargate SG-1, Angel, The Inside, NCIS and the 2005 remake of The Poseidon Adventure. He also starred in the ABC series Day Break as Chad Shelten in 2006.

Baldwin won a SyFy Genre Award in 2006 for Best Supporting Actor/Television for his role as Jayne Cobb in the television series Firefly.1

New projects

Baldwin was cast as the voice of Clark Kent/Superman in the first DC animated universe movie, Superman: Doomsday, based on DC Comics' The Death of Superman and is currently co-starring in the NBC hit, Chuck as NSA Agent John Casey. The show premiered September 24, 2007.

Baldwin has a role as a voice actor in the Xbox 360 game Halo 3. He voices a Marine in the game. He is joined in this capacity by former Firefly colleagues Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk. The personality each of these actors are given in the game match those from their characters in Firefly. At several points in the game he is heard to shout "Have a taste of Vera!", a direct reference to his gun in the show. The line "sure would be nice if we had some grenades," from the movie Serenity, also appears.

Baldwin also appears as a voice actor in Half Life 2: Episode 2 as additional voices for resistance soldiers.

Filmography

Television/voice acting

References

  1. ^ "SyfyPortal Awards". Retrieved on 2006-10-08.

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NAME Baldwin, Adam
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DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1962
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