William Baldwin currently stars in a bevy of new films. Adrift in Manhattan, Plumm Summer, Park, American Fork and Feel are all due for release in 2007.
Baldwin will also partner with Chazz Palminteri to write, produce, and star in a new television series, Guard Hill.
In 2007, Adrift in Manhattan was an official selection in the Sundance Film Festival. American Fork was an official selection into the Slamdance festival. And, both Park and American Fork were both official selections into the HBO Aspen Comedy Arts Festival.
William Baldwin also starred with Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels in The Squid & The Whale, the critically acclaimed drama directed by Noah Baumbach and produced by director Wes Anderson, which was recognized on over 200 “Top 10 Lists”.
Baldwin, who has a penchant for choosing original and eclectic projects, has starred in the screen adaptation of Noel Coward’s Relative Values with Steven Fry, Colin Firth and Julie Andrews; One Eyed King, an Irish Hell’s Kitchen drama with Chazz Palminteri and Armand Assante; The Brotherhood of Murder, a drama about a breakaway faction of the Aryan Nation with Peter Gallagher and Kelly Lynch as well as Universal’s techno-thriller Virus with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland. His other films include Shattered Image; Curdled; Pyromaniacs: A Love Story; Double Bang, Fair Game; Sliver; Three of Hearts; Backdraft; Flatliners; Internal Affairs; and The Preppy Murder.
A native of Massapequa, New York, Baldwin graduated from State University of New York at Binghamton with a degree in Political Science. After studying acting for several years in New York, Baldwin launched his film career with Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July.
Baldwin serves on the boards of: Project ALS, which raises funds to find a cure for Lou Gehrig’s Disease; The Massapequa Community Fund, an endowment providing grants to local non-profits and scholarships to graduating seniors in Billy’s childhood hometown, Massapequa, Long Island; Mercy Corps, an international relief organization; and The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund.
Baldwin presently lives in New York with his wife Chynna Phillips, and his three children Jameson, Vance, and Brooke.
