Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#227
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Alec Baldwin represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 38 years in, and Alec is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Alec Baldwin appears in 76 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alec. The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU is the clearest case: a film rated 9.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for documentary, comedy, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Morgan Neville, Santiago Segura, Rory Kennedy and others, Alec Baldwin helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU (2020) as (archive footage) · The Departed (2006) as Ellerby · On Broadway (2019) as Self
Career snapshot
Ranked #227 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
76
1988–2026
Career length
38 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.7
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.7
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
Most frequent director
Martin Scorsese
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Martin Scorsese
Most common genre
Drama
38 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.0
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
6.7 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Notting Hill, Mercury Rising, The Edge — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.7
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Great Balls of Fire!, Working Girl, Beetlejuice.
Most productive era
2010s
25 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.33 films | 6.64 films | 6.912 films | 6.514 films | 6.05 films |
| Action | — | 6.74 films | 5.33 films | 7.43 films | 4.86 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.34 films | 7.93 films | 6.71 film | 5.64 films |
| Comedy | 6.73 films | 6.72 films | 6.114 films | 6.010 films | 6.35 films |
| Crime | — | 6.34 films | 7.93 films | 7.51 film | 4.03 films |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 7.31 film | 6.34 films | 6.16 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1988Working Girl
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mick Dugan.
First Nutevio masterpiece
2006The Departed
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
9.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
76 of 76 films
as (archive footage)
Directed by Brad Lachman
as Ellerby
Directed by Martin Scorsese
as Ellerby
Directed by Martin Scorsese
as Adam
Directed by Tim Burton
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 86 titles · 97 total credits · active 1969–2026
Lorne
2026 · Self
Torrente for President
2026 · Donald Trump
Last Night in Sorrento
2026 · Actor
The Trial of Alec Baldwin
2025 · Self
The Baldwins
2025 · TV · Self · Executive Producer
Rust
2024 · Harland Rust · Story · Producer
Crescent City
2024 · Captain Howell
Clear Cut
2024 · Sam
Supercell
2023 · Zane Rogers
97 Minutes
2023 · Hawkins
TÁR
2022 · Alec Baldwin (voice)
The Boss Baby: Family Business
2021 · Boss Baby (Ted) (voice)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021 · Self
Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021 · Self
Precious Templeton: A Pony Tale
2021 · Ted Templeton
Dr. Death
2021 · TV · Dr. Robert Henderson · Executive Producer
30 Rock: A One-Time Special
2020 · Jack Donaghy
Pixie
2020 · Father Hector McGrath
Chick Fight
2020 · Murphy
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
2020 · (archive footage)
The Story of Soaps
2020 · Self
It Takes a Lunatic
2019 · Self
Arctic Dogs
2019 · PB (voice)
Motherless Brooklyn
2019 · Moses Randolph
The defining work
#1
(archive footage)
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU (2020)
Performance score9.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. (archive footage) gives Alec Baldwin a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Self
On Broadway (2019)
Performance score9.1
On Broadway asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Ellerby
The Departed (2006)
Performance score8.6
The Departed asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ellerby is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Ellerby
The Departed (2006)
Performance score8.1
The Departed asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ellerby is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as (archive footage)
Start here. The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU is the clearest statement of what Alec Baldwin does — accessible, 42 minutes, and rated 9.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alec at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Beetlejuice (1988)
A deliberate change of key after The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Departed (2006)
A deliberate change of key after Beetlejuice — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Departed (2006)
Same director as The Departed, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
On Broadway (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Departed — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Martin Scorsese
Director
3 films together
Notably The Departed
Woody Allen
Director
2 films together
Notably Blue Jasmine
Cameron Crowe
Director
2 films together
Notably Elizabethtown
Christopher McQuarrie
Director
2 films together
Notably Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Tom McGrath
Director
2 films together
Notably The Boss Baby: Family Business
John Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably She's Having a Baby
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Beetlejuice
Mike Nichols
Director
1 film together
Notably Working Girl
Jim McBride
Director
1 film together
Notably Great Balls of Fire!
John McTiernan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunt for Red October
James Foley
Director
1 film together
Notably Glengarry Glen Ross
Brian Gibson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Juror
Lee Tamahori
Director
1 film together
Notably The Edge
Roger Michell
Director
1 film together
Notably Notting Hill
David Mamet
Director
1 film together
Notably State and Main
Wes Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Royal Tenenbaums
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably Pearl Harbor
Ron Underwood
Director
1 film together
Notably The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Wayne Kramer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cooler
Bo Welch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cat in the Hat
John Hamburg
Director
1 film together
Notably Along Came Polly
Stephen Hillenburg
Director
1 film together
Notably The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Dean Parisot
Director
1 film together
Notably Fun with Dick and Jane
Ryan Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably Running with Scissors
Robert De Niro
Director
1 film together
Notably The Good Shepherd
Alec Baldwin
Director
1 film together
Notably Shortcut to Happiness
Eric Darnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Nancy Meyers
Director
1 film together
Notably It's Complicated
Casey Affleck
Director
1 film together
Notably I'm Still Here
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably Rock of Ages
Peter Ramsey
Director
1 film together
Notably Rise of the Guardians
Wash Westmoreland
Director
1 film together
Notably Still Alice
Peter Landesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Concussion
Warren Beatty
Director
1 film together
Notably Rules Don't Apply
Spike Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably BlacKkKlansman
Bradley Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably A Star Is Born
Emilio Estevez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Public
Fred Wolf
Director
1 film together
Notably Drunk Parents
Don Argott
Director
1 film together
Notably Framing John DeLorean
Edward Norton
Director
1 film together
Notably Motherless Brooklyn
Brad Lachman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
Paul Leyden
Director
1 film together
Notably Chick Fight
Barnaby Thompson
Director
1 film together
Notably Pixie
Oz Rodríguez
Director
1 film together
Notably 30 Rock: A One-Time Special
Todd Field
Director
1 film together
Notably TÁR
Rory Kennedy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Trial of Alec Baldwin
Santiago Segura
Director
1 film together
Notably Torrente for President
Morgan Neville
Director
1 film together
Notably Lorne
Matt Damon
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Departed
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Departed
Jack Nicholson
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Departed
Mark Wahlberg
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Departed
Martin Sheen
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Departed
Ray Winstone
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Departed
Vera Farmiga
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Departed
Anthony Anderson
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Departed
Kevin Corrigan
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Departed
James Badge Dale
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Departed
David O'Hara
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Departed
Mark Rolston
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Departed
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Martin Scorsese
Director
3 films together · 8.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The DepartedChristopher McQuarrie
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mission: Impossible - FalloutTom McGrath
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Boss Baby: Family BusinessWoody Allen
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Blue JasmineCameron Crowe
Director
2 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ElizabethtownBrad Lachman
Director
1 film together · 9.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVUBradley Cooper
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Star Is BornSpike Lee
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlacKkKlansmanWash Westmoreland
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Still AliceWes Anderson
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Royal TenenbaumsTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BeetlejuicePeter Ramsey
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rise of the GuardiansJohn McTiernan
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hunt for Red OctoberRoger Michell
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Notting HillJames Foley
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Glengarry Glen RossTodd Field
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TÁRPeter Landesman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ConcussionStephen Hillenburg
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SpongeBob SquarePants MovieMichael Bay
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pearl HarborLee Tamahori
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The EdgeMorgan Neville
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LorneEdward Norton
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Motherless BrooklynEric Darnell
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Madagascar: Escape 2 AfricaWayne Kramer
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CoolerMike Nichols
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Working GirlEmilio Estevez
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PublicNancy Meyers
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It's ComplicatedRobert De Niro
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Good ShepherdOz Rodríguez
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
30 Rock: A One-Time SpecialDavid Mamet
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
State and MainJim McBride
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Great Balls of Fire!Santiago Segura
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Torrente for PresidentAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rock of AgesDean Parisot
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fun with Dick and JaneDon Argott
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Framing John DeLoreanCasey Affleck
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I'm Still HereJohn Hamburg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Along Came PollyJohn Hughes
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She's Having a BabyBarnaby Thompson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PixiePaul Leyden
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chick FightWarren Beatty
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rules Don't ApplyRyan Murphy
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Running with ScissorsBrian Gibson
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The JurorAlec Baldwin
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shortcut to HappinessBo Welch
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Cat in the HatFred Wolf
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Drunk ParentsRon Underwood
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Adventures of Pluto NashRory Kennedy
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Six degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Departed
as Ellerby
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Star Is Born
as Alec Baldwin
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
as (archive footage)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Notting Hill
as Jeff King (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
as (archive footage)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Alec Baldwin has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.0 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #430 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.0 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Crime, Thriller, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Martin Scorsese | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Intensity, Quiet performance, Screen presence | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2006–2006 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Ellerby — The Departed | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | The Departed | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
The Departed
Shared directors
Martin Scorsese
Shared collections
Top 100 Crime Movies, Thriller Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Martin Scorsese · Leonardo DiCaprio · Jack Nicholson · Mark Wahlberg
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
38 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
38 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
as (archive footage)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Departed
as Ellerby
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
TÁR
as Alec Baldwin (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Glengarry Glen Ross
as Blake
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
as (archive footage)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Rust
as Harland Rust
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
BlacKkKlansman
as Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Departed
as Ellerby
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 4 Nutevio collections
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