Adam Baldwin

Early life

Baldwin was born on February 27, 1962, in Winnetka, Illinois, and studied at New Trier Township High School in east Winnetka.

Career

Appearing in a large number 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), Next of Kin (1989), Predator 2 (1990), Deadbolt (1992), Independence Day (1996), The Patriot (2000), and Serenity (2005)—in which he reprises his role as the mercenary Jayne Cobb from the television series Firefly. His other work includes Radio Flyer (1992), From the Earth to the Moon (1998), The X-Files (Knowle Rohrer), The Cape, 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 parodied Ricky Linderman in the 2008 film Drillbit Taylor. He is also known for NBC's Chuck, in which he played John Casey, a hard-nosed Marine colonel working for the NSA. In season four of Castle, Baldwin was reunited with former Firefly castmate Nathan Fillion. He played Detective Ethan Slaughter in the 21st episode called "Headhunters" which aired April 16, 2012. He returned to Castle in the eighth-season episode "Cool Boys".

Baldwin won a SyFy Genre Award in 2006 for Best Supporting Actor/Television for his role as Jayne Cobb in the television series Firefly. Baldwin was cast as Superman in Superman: Doomsday, which is based on DC Comics' The Death of Superman. He also voices the character in the massively multiplayer online game DC Universe Online. Baldwin has a role as a voice actor in the Xbox 360 games Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST. The latter put him in the role of Corporal Taylor "Dutch" Miles, and re-united him with his Firefly/Serenity castmates Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion. Baldwin also appears as a voice actor in Half-Life 2: Episode Two for various resistance soldiers and citizens. Along with his Chuck co-star, Yvonne Strahovski, he also appeared in Mass Effect 2 as Marine squad leader Kal'Reegar.

Personal life

Baldwin has three children with his wife, Ami Julius. He is a supporter of Ride 2 Recovery, a bike-riding organization set up for the rehabilitation of wounded veterans. He participated in the 2009 "Don't Mess With Texas Challenge" bike ride.

In late 2015, Baldwin endorsed Ted Cruz for the 2016 United States presidential election via Twitter. Baldwin has sometimes been credited with originating the hashtag #GamerGate near the end of August 2014 by posting the hashtag on Twitter alongside a pair of videos that, as part of wider criticisms, repeated earlier false allegations against Zoë Quinn and Nathan Grayson. He later told an interviewer that "leftists" were imposing "political crap" on gamers.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

References

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3. "Castle, Season 4, Episode 21".
4. [[Halo 3: ODST#Audio]]
5. Babineau, Jeff. (December 15, 1996). "Faces of the Game". [[Orlando Sentinel]].
6. Baldwin, Adam. (May 20, 2009). "Ride 2 Recovery: An Amazing Journey". [[The Huffington Post]].
7. (April 7, 2009). "Road 2 Recovery Don't Mess with Texas Challenge".
8. (February 29, 2016). "#NeverHillary Just Brought Back Conservative Actor Adam Baldwin to Twitter -".
9. Kaplan, Sarah. (September 12, 2014). "With #GamerGate, the video-game industry's growing pains go viral". [[The Washington Post]].
10. Salter, Michael. (2017). "Crime, Justice and Social Media". Routledge.
11. "Adam Baldwin (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors.
12. Swift, Andy. (April 27, 2023). "9-1-1: Lone Star Staging Firefly Reunion With Adam Baldwin and Gina Torres". TVLine.